Thread Number: 85395
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
Why you should NEVER add water to a TL washer |
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Post# 1099393 , Reply# 1   12/5/2020 at 14:02 (1,208 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Days of top loading automatic washing machines with good to generous gap between inner and outer tubs is long gone. Thus by adding more water than inner tub was supposed to hold you may have sent water down into cabinet or other places where it shouldn't go.
Easy way to tell is pull washer out and take off the back panel (assuming this is possible), and see if there is still water at bottom of cabinet. If so get some towels or whatever and carefully start mopping up excess water. Remember water will always seek its own level. So whatever splashed at top of machine is going to work its way down to bottom. Once there it will "leak" or whatever out until either removed (wiped up) or evaporates. How to prevent this from happening again? Don't pour buckets of water or otherwise fill washer with more than it does on its own. |
Post# 1099401 , Reply# 2   12/5/2020 at 14:36 (1,208 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Adding more water would reasonably cause leaking only on that one load, if you overfilled it to the point it splashed out or ran over the top of the tub. There's nowhere in the mechanism it can retain excess water for leaking on a later run. Spilling water over the the top and around the tub when pouring it in, would run on the floor immediately ... although the lower edge of the cabinet is possibly formed into a channel for structural strength which could hold some small amount of water that may drip out. Water weighs ~8.3 lbs per gallon ... 5 gallons in a bucket is 41 lbs of sloshing to handle. Agitator toploaders suck for handling pillows. Calypso works much better. :-) Frigidaire FFTW1001PW Parts Diagrams @ AppliancePartsPros.com Frigidaire FFTW1001PW Parts Diagrams @ SearsPartsDirect.com |
Post# 1099585 , Reply# 4   12/6/2020 at 15:35 (1,207 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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The fact that I added water to the machine exacerbated this problem, just as I suspected.Stop beating yourself up. :-) Adding water didn't dislodge the pump or cause a tear in the drain hose. All that had already occurred. Consider it as a positive event for revealing the problems, the leak from the drain hose would have gotten worse anyway. |
Post# 1099608 , Reply# 5   12/6/2020 at 17:37 (1,207 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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Post# 1099680 , Reply# 8   12/7/2020 at 09:05 (1,206 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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My AquaSmart can handle one pillow sorta reasonably OK. Delicate cycle, which operates in non-HE mode but the item still has some contact with the impeller. It won't turn over for both sides to get some action but can be manually turned over a few times. I washed a couple pillows once in the Neptune TL ... they were mangled to the point I never could get the stuffing back into reasonable distribution. |