Hello everybody it's 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel I'm here to save you time and
money and today I'll take you through a few steps of what to do if your washing
machine is not draining water properly, so you're doing a wash and all the
clothes are coming out sopping wet or the washing machine has actually
stopped mid-cycle and it's full of water, before we get
started there's a link above now about how to install a brand new washing
machine, now what should be happening is when you do a wash your clothes get all
nice and clean and then at the end of the cycle it does a spin and it drains
all the water out of the washing machine and if you've got an outside space where
it drains it's worth going out and having a look to see if it's draining properly,
but if you live in a flat this might not be possible, so what's happened on ours
is it stopped mid cycle and it won't drain and it's just full of water, I'll
take you through a few simple steps to try and figure out why your washing
machine isn't draining, right let's get cracking, now the first thing you need to
do is turn off the power at the switch and also unplug it just so you don't get
any power surges, then hopefully you can open the door and empty out all your
clothes into a washing basket as you can see with this one there's lots of
standing water inside the drum, now if you can't get the front door open
there's a link above now about how to open a front door on a washing machine
when it's stuck, then you need to pull the washing machine out so you've got
access to the rear but just be careful when you're pulling it out don't pull it
out too far because you've got all the pipework on the back, now the first
thing you need to do is turn off the mains cold water feed and the next thing
is to check the drainage hose, now this is the drainage pipe which comes out of
the back of the washing machine where all the water drains out so just take an
old washing bowl and just empty the water into there and this pipe is
actually looking quite good with no blockages in there so the next thing is
to check the u-bend on your drainage pipe work, now a
U Bend is designed so that any blockages sit in that U Bend and you can just
remove it easily and clear out any blockages, before we do that it's worth
having a look down the drainage pipe work just to see if you can see any
blockages and I can see right down the bottom there I can see some water so
that is good, it doesn't there's any blockages in there but let's
just double-check to just get an old tray put that underneath the U Bend
and just unscrew these plastic nuts here now this shouldn't be done up very
tightly unless somebody's glued them, now what we're hoping to see here is just fresh
water you'll soon find out pretty easily if this is all blocked up with gunge and
gunk and actually this one's looking pretty good it's meant to have obviously
water in there because it will sit in the U-bend, so I'm happy with that no
blockages there so let's just tighten it all back up again remember don't be
tempted to use any pliers on here just hand tighten it because it's only a
plastic thread you don't want to damage it and then put the drainage hose back
in from the washing machine, whilst I'm doing that there's a link above now
about various how-to guides on all sorts of makes and models of washing
machines, the next thing that you can try on your washing machine is to remove the
drainage pump filter because you might have a blockage in here, normally it
could be coins or hair clips or anything like that, now obviously they all vary
depending on what type of washing machine you've got so here's just a
generic one, this one is actually from a Hotpoint washing machine and there's a
link above now about how to remove the drainage filter on a Hotpoint washing
machine, and this one here is on a Bosch washing machine again this one is in the
bottom right hand corner so what you're doing is you're just removing that and
just making sure there's no blockages so I'm just going to remove one here and as
you can see a coin has just dropped out
so that is not good and if I delve in a bit deeper it's definitely something
stuck in here and that is why this washing machine is not draining because
we've got a hair clip stuck on the drainage propeller! So I'll just let you
go off for a 5 or 10 minutes and remove your pump filter and check that out and
then come back to the video. And welcome back I hope you got that sorted, next
thing to do is remember to turn the mains water back on otherwise you won't
get any washing done
then you can put your wet washing back in the washing machine get it all loaded
up you can see how much water there was
and then you need to plug the washing machine back in and turn it back on, make
sure you don't do that with wet hands or fingers and then you can just start the
wash again and then hopefully you've cured the drainage problem on your
washing machine and the drainage water is coming out nice and fast, it's also
definitely worth doing a super hot wash with no clothes in, on the hottest setting
it'll go just to flush out all the pipework and the washing machine, if you
think there's a blockage further out down the system outside of the property
then you can test the washing machine drainage by just taking the drainage
hose and putting it in the sink or a large washing up Bowl and then when you
run a washing cycle you'll see if it's draining correctly. I'll tell you what
after all that hard work it's definitely time for a lovely cup of tea oh oh. If you
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