Help! - Too Much Washing Liquid In Machine

Hello Cris. It's certainly an unusual problem and I must admit I can empathise with your dilemma. As a man of integrity I have to advise that you should come clean to your girlfriend ;-)

The problem you have is that each time the water pump is energised the pump impeller will just whip up the bubbles. It can even whip them up so much that no water gets pumped out at all. What you need to do is to keep diluting the soapsuds but stop creating suds with the water pump.

First let the bubbles settle down by leaving it a while. If your washing machine has a pump filter you could try draining it through the filter but unless there is drain hose built in this can be very messy. The best way to deal with it is to remove the drain hose and lay it down outside the back door or maybe into a bowl and just let the water drain away. Depending on how it is plumbed in though this could be a fair bit of messing about. I have some instructions regarding draining the washing machine on this section, which you might find useful - Washing machine won't empty water

Once the water has drained away let it fill up with water again and do a few turns of the drum. Then stop it, and manually drain the water again. You may have to repeat this several times. Eventually you should dilute the soapsuds down enough to allow the water pump to drain the water. It may kick up a few soapsuds again but after a certain amount of diluting the pump should still be able to cope.

Once you have got rid of most of it try putting the washing machine on a full rinse programme with no detergent inside or even a full wash programme with no detergent or laundry to get rid of the last dregs. If you do disturb the plumbing to take the drain hose out, or remove the filter, make sure you check carefully for leaks afterwards.