Thread Number: 59141
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
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Post# 817071 , Reply# 1   4/2/2015 at 10:43 (3,309 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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while its usually best to keep the feet as close to the machine as possible, not always the case, but if you have that much of a tilt to unscrew the legs that far, it may be time to consider a platform, even if only 2 inches tall, cut and shimmed to make that area level, and then place the machines on it.....
personally I rather cut the board at an angle than place tiny shims underneath, you want as much platform sitting on the floor as possible.... |
Post# 817076 , Reply# 3   4/2/2015 at 12:11 (3,309 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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its funny sometimes, and your just going to have to go through a bunch of testing to figure out what works best for your exact machine.....
one advantage I find with a Fler, is you don't have to exactly separate everything, I wash towels with jeans, and for the most part, doing a mixed load, something you would not do in a typical TLer.... I separate more along the lines of dark colors, light colors, and whites.....and as you being a single person, yeah, you can wait quite a while to build up enough to create one load of a certain fabric/color.... some machines do best with something like all jeans, and all towels......other work better for a mixed load of large and small.... when it was just the two of us, I would wash one load a day, and rotate around, whites, lights, darks, towels, bed linens......so every fifth day there was enough for a load from each category....miss a day, and it will screw you up a bit, especially with only one set of machines.....but normally start the load before work, and place in dryer when I got home, after dinner, they were ready to put away.... I too am not one to like clothes to sit around, stains set, and odors occur..... you will just find a system that adapts to your setup and machines....no different for many of us to find what works best for any given machine we have ever encountered, each one has their own particular way to load and wash |
Post# 817099 , Reply# 5   4/2/2015 at 14:27 (3,309 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)   |   | |
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The first thing you need to do is establish whether the problem is with the machine or the floor. I suggest you bring it out to a position where you can be sure its perfectly level and see if the problem recurs. If it does then its the machine and you can either get them to change it for another one or get a different brand altogether.
If it does not happen then the problem is the floor. What sort of covering is on the floor under the washer? And what sort of floor is it? If concrete or tiles then the answer is to get some levelling compound (you will not need much), frame the area with pieces of wood on each side (to stop the compound running everywhere), pour in the compound (its like a thick liquid) and leave it to set. It should find its own level as it sets - just make sure you only use enough to bring up the level at the back. If you have a wooden floor then cut a panel of think MDF or (ideally) waterproof ply to the space where the washer sits (so its going to approx. 60cm x 60cm), pack it up at the back underneath the panel as Martin suggests and when you are sure its all perfectly level, screw it down to the floor - there should be no risk of the machine falling off the panel and it will be easier to get it back into place Al |