Hi, I'm Mat from eSpares.
In this video I'll show you how to replace a door handle on a
Hotpoint washing machine.
If you're struggling to operate the door handle or you cannot
open the door, then it may well be that the door handle has
broken and it needs to be replaced.
Safety first always disconnect an appliance before carrying out any work.
With the door open I'm just going to show you the
movement of the handle.
Now if your handle is broken it can cause the pin to move
forward because it is no longer supported by the
handle.
Meaning that you cannot open the door.
Now to remove the door itself, its held in place by these four nuts.
So I'm just going to use a nut spinner to remove them
and lift off the door.
Now I need to put the door down on a flat surface so I've just put
a carpet tile onto the top of the washing machine.
Now to access the door handle inside, the first thing I need to
do is to remove the six screws around the inside of the door.
With all the screws removed, now we need to separate the inner
door from the outer door.
Now to do that I've got an array of flat headed screwdriver's,
you could use butter knives or if you have a non serrated knife.
But do be very careful as you don't want to damage
the plastic of the door.
Now there are certain ridges around the outside where
you can fit your first screwdriver in and then simply use the other
ones to gently separate the two pieces of plastic.
With the two pieces of the door separated, I'm just going to
flip the door over very gently so they don't close again and
then I can lift off the front
and take the glass out and away.
Now here we have our door handle, the spring
and the pin is inside.
What I'm going to do is turn it over and just take
a quick photograph of how the spring and the pin looks
in the correct position, so that when I reassemble the handle,
the pin and the spring I know exactly how they go together.
Now to remove the handle from the outer door what I
need to do is pull the central pin out using a pair of pliers.
Just pull and gently ease it out.
With the pin removed you can lift off the handle and here we see
our door pin and spring.
To fit I'm just going to use my photo as a reference
and fit the spring first and the spring ends have two little
grooves that they fit in there.
Then I'm going to grab our door pin, this just fits in there
and then underneath my hand just hold it in place while I fit
the main pin just enough inside to hold that spring in place.
Then I can put the handle over the top of our door pin and then
feed the pin, the central pin through the lot of it.
Now the pin is in place and the handle mechanism is working
nicely I can refit the glass.
Now the glass only fits one way.
We have a little recess in the glass there which fits into this
part of the door here.
Then we can put the outer door into place.
Now we have to lift the handle slightly
just to fit this.
This is quite a fiddly operation, so you may need an extra pair of hands.
But once the door inner and outer are in position, you can
then simply clip it into place
before re screwing.
Now that the door pieces and the glass are screwed
in together I can now refit the door to the machine.
Once the door is screwed onto the machine remember to check
that your handle opens and closes the door effectively.
So there we have it one brand new door handle fitted to this
Hotpoint washing machine.
Remember spares and accessories for all the appliances around your
home can be found on the eSpares website.
Thanks for watching.