Washing Machine Won't Rinse
Hi there,
I'm hoping you can solve my problem. Since last week, the washing machine won't rinse. It needs to manually be advanced to spin to reach the end of the cycle. I also noticed today that no cold water is filling into the main wash tray (tray 2), i.e. a 30 degree wash was scalding hot and a cold wash doesn't work at all - no water.
This led me to believe it could be the cold water valve. However, the machine does a cold pre-wash... We have hot and cold feeds to the washing machine and it has a two way cold water valve.
Is it possible that the valve could work for the prewash (tray 1), but not the main wash (tray 2) or could the pipe to tray 2 simply be blocked? When I took the plastic tube thing (from the valves to the soap drawer) off and poured water into this, it came out of both cold water holes so this seems fine.
Thanks in advance for the help!
Cheers,
Mark
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Washing machine not rinsing due to one side of double cold water valve likely failed
- The problem
- The washing machine would not complete the rinse stage and had to be manually advanced to spin. The user also reported that no cold water was entering the main wash tray (tray 2): a 30 degree wash ran very hot and a cold wash would not fill, although a cold pre-wash still worked.
- Likely cause
- Most likely failure of one side of the double cold water inlet valve on a hot and cold fill machine, allowing pre-wash fill to work while main wash/rinse fill does not. A blocked route to tray 2 was considered by the user but not supported by the checks described.
- What fixed it
- The accepted advice was that on hot and cold fill machines the cold valve is often a double valve, and one side can fail while the other still operates. The thread does not document the exact repair being carried out or confirmed.
- Checks to try
- Observed that cold pre-wash still worked
- Observed that no cold water entered the main wash tray (tray 2)
- Poured water through the valve-to-drawer tube and found it came out of both cold water holes
- Parts or tools mentioned
- double cold water valve
Safety: Further diagnosis should be carried out by a suitably qualified appliance engineer.
1 Answer
I have some advice on washing machine not taking in water which may be helpful if all or just one water valve isn't letting water in. The cold water valve on hot and cold fill machines is often a double valve so one side can fail leaving the other working.
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