Sep. 1, 2008 - Washers In Space!
(Cue Muppet “Pigs in Space” music…add announcer voice: And now for the continuing STOooory of WASHERS IN SPAAAAACE….)
Our washer is not really in space, but it is making me believe that it should be. I put a blanket in this morning – a blanket that can NOT be used until it has been thoroughly washed – and pretty soon the washing machine displayed the F20 error message. I stopped the machine and tried again. Four times I tried to wash this blanket and four times it stopped with the error message.
Having no idea how far into the wash cycle it got, but knowing it never made it to rinse (because the fabric softener was still waiting in its receptacle, yet un-dispensed) I decided to put it in the dryer anyway. Surely after four tries it’s been washed enough to be clean.
But, no. The odor from the blanket on its way to the dryer was enough for me to know with certainty that it had not been washed to a useable cleanliness. Sigh.
Well, let’s try a different load anyway. Maybe the blanket it just too big. So I put a load of essentials in the washing machine. This was neither whites nor colours, or more accurately, it was both. It was anything that we really need washed before tomorrow. I started the machine. A short while later, the F20 message displayed.
On about the third try this load seemed to be going through. It was down to where it should have changed over to the rinse cycle very soon…and then it happened.
The drum was spinning, when all of a sudden there was a noise. It was a sort of a cu-lunk noise. The drum continued to spin. The clunk repeated. At regular intervals the washing machine clunked, never stopping its spin. It sounded like a water intake valve was opening and closing, but no water was entering. I called my engineer so he could hear it too.
“That doesn’t sound good.” I needed an engineer to determine that?
I suggested that I stop the cycle and put it on a rinse. I knew it had been washed sufficiently, although the cycle wasn’t quite finished, but it would need a rinse since it hadn’t yet reached the rinse cycle. The rinse/spin cycle, I am pleased to report, completed without incident.
Apparently there was still soap in the machine from the first (unfinished) load, because after a full rinse there were still suds in the machine. So I put the cycle on again and now that load is happily tumbling in the dryer.
One load done; three or four on the laundry room floor. The progress in this affair is rather like climbing a sand dune!
Comments
Sep. 3, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by molytail
Oh my goodness LOL ...I read the backposts with this...I think I'd have gotten fed up by now and dragged everything to the laundromat - or the bathtub. *grin*
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Sep. 10, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by 3rsandahug
So I'm finally catching up on friends' blogs after at least a month out of touch, and I'm getting a sort of deja vu feeling here. Weren't you having washer troubles sometime in the last year and couldn't get any laundry done? Egads!
I hope your dear engineer (hee hee, can we call our hubbies DE's?) can get the whole thing resolved for you soon. I guess I'm thankful we have nothing like that going on at home since my DE is working a lot of overtime these days.
Karen
