I haven’t made an entry recently because my attention has been on some of the website problems that have been happening since the migration. Now that those are taken care of, I can once again turn my eyes to my much maligned washing machine.
Last week, I stood in front of it with my camera and took a couple of pictures to show exactly what I see when it quits working. When it begins its first rest, this is what I see:
When the machine has waited what it considers a sufficient amount of time, it restarts where it left off. And when the problem continues, it starts up this most annoying chirp or beep, that does not stop until I hit the damned thing with a big hammer…no, wait, that’s just what I do in my head, in reality, I push the button below readout area.
This is supposed to stop the machine. Most of the time, it does. It then resumes its cycle. But it can go on this way for hours and hours.
What I started doing yesterday, for the trial/clean out laundries is I run the sanitary cycle, where the water is hot, hot, hot (this machine actually has a heater to superheat the water). When it’s finished the wash cycle, I stop the cycle altogether, run the drain/spin cycle, then restart it with the sanitary cycle. I’m hoping repeated attacks of hot water where the detergent has built up over the years, will help clear it out faster.
Yesterday, I actually considered pointing the occasional cam at the washer.
Wouldn’t that be fun?
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