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[wickedangel]

Oh I so need to do this. Not only the computer but also the washing machine. Well it has worked well for us for the last two years. It is a really simple thing. One side has the washing machine part and the other side has the spinner. Now I am used to the all in one model but heh, I have to do with what I got. This means waiting for the water to fill up. Put the powder in, turn the knob for 'x' minutes. When it has finished I have to drain it manually.... you get the picture. And then at the end of the last drain I have to put the clothes in the spinner. Phew! A wash that would normally take me 45 minutes with my old 'all in one' model takes about an hour and a half with this 'newer' one, LOL!

Anyway, the spinner died on me. It took me two weeks to find someone who could mend it. There are so many people who tell you they can but can't really. They came late on Saturday fiddled around with it and finally got it to spin. Great!

I did my first wash yesterday and it doesn't DRAIN any more!!!!! I now have to manoeuvre the machine and tip it towards the drain pipe so that it will drain. Oh for goodness sake. I might as well wash and spin the darn things myself.

Gnash teeth. Has anyone out there experienced anything like this? Someone came to mend something and actually made things worse?
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[jimbo45]

Ah, the joys of a twin tub,
Sounds like the drive for the spinner went first, and it not draining suggests a pump or something is goosed
Buy an automatic and rid yourself of the stress, until it goes wrong as well,
I havent used a twin tub for over 20 years, and the one I had was my grandmothers, an old Hotpoint which she had had for 20 years
They dont make them like they used to, lol

[kshenz]

I'm probably gonna date myself (and sound like an idiot in the process) but I have no idea what kind of washing machine you're talking about. The washing machines here in the US are connected to the utilities they require. So you just turn the knob - and walllahhh, the water is on! What i typically do is while the water is running, I put my clothes in the machine and close it. Then it does it's thing - til' the dryer! I like washing machines - makes it so much easier.
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[wickedangel]

Yep Jimbo it is a twin tub. Darn thing I hate it so much but here in the DR electronics are so incredibly expensive. There is no going to the local Comet store and buying a cheap one! They probably cost a third more here than in the UK. I know they are cheap in the USA which isn't too far away but customs charge you an arm and a leg to bring it into the country. We are a captive audience to say the least.

I totally agree with you, chuck it and get another one but we have just paid our annual health insurance (eeeeekkkkkk) and we are going to the UK in November and so far I have been out of work since July. So money is a little on the tight side. However, as the other half helps me once in a while to do the washing he is also getting a little frustrated with the whole way of doing things a la twin tub.

And you are right, the motor for the spinner went - it seems that water entered inside the unit, guy couldn't figure out how/why, so no doubt that will happen again. All he did was put a lot of DWD40 on it, dried the motor out and voila, it worked again but now no drain. So as he and his mate were man-handling the poor washing machine all over the place they probably disconnected the draining pump or some such and as neither of us are that brilliant about mending these silly little things, it will have to stay that way because I don't want anyone else near it and it breaks even further!!!

kshenz - how I envy you being able to just turn a knob and there you have water and it does its little cycle.... oh I dream of those days. We have gone back into the dark ages here but as it is cheap and a lot of people here don't have a lot of money, then the twin tub is the only cheap option. I suppose it is better than washing things by hand, which I have done before! As it came with the house when we bought it I will have to admit that 'beggars can't be chosers'. But it is still frustrating nonetheless.
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[jimbo45]

Is there no laundrette near you, like the place Dot Cotton runs in Eastenders
If they disconnected the draining pump by mistake it would indeed mean no water was drained out, but they would have to be quite dumb to miss that. I mean thats so obvious, the first thing they should be looking at is why no water is being evacuated from the machine when it spins, and that can only be because the pump isnt working
It could be as simple as a stuck ball bearing,
Bet I could have it running in about 5 minutes, and I say that because the motor has burned out, but it will if the pump isnt fixed.

[piya84]

wow its great isnt it wikedangel.We had that kind of washing machines ones.We mean our parents.They had those kind of washing machine where one has to put clothes from one tub to other by hand.Pure headache.Anyway enjoy your headache.
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[jimbo45]

Piya, my grandparents had one which washed the clothes but didnt rinse them, and you had to take the washing out from it,. and put it in a seperate spinner to rinse the clothes etc
That was a real pain to use,
My grandmother said her mother used to wash everything by hand and then use a manual wringer to wring the water out of the stuff just washed and rinsed by hand
Compared to thiose scenarios a twin tub is a luxury, isnt it WA

[piya84]

We dont have same system in India as you guys have there.We use washing machine on weekly basis to wash bedsheets and stuff like that which is heavy and big in size.Sometime my jean pants.
Other stuff like clothes we wear at home like gowns,sleeps,towels our maid wash daily.Expensive clothes go to laundry.
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[wickedangel]

[wickedangel]

Forgot to add, piya, yes I remember those twin tubs, that is the sort I am using and did you know that when I was around 11-15 I had to wash all our things by hand, that meant not only our clothes but sheets too and we didn't have a wringer - we were so poor then.

So yes, Jimbo, piya, this twin tub is a luxury compared to what life was like it is just that I have been spoiled for the last 20 years and had a washer/dryer and now I realise that it is such a luxury. Do you know the first time I bought one, I quite sadly, sat in front of it to watch the first wash, I was so happy.

Yes, I had visited laundrettes before but never had a washing machine in my home before. To answer your question Jimbo, yes there is a laundrette here but they don't do DIY you have to give it to them and they hand it back several days later and if it has been a windy dusty day, they are not always that clean! Plus they are expensive.

So as I can't invite you here Jimbo, well I can but it is rather a long way for you to come for a quick service - and I do mean the washing machine, of course! - then I am now putting up with the spinner working as I need that bit and just pushing the machine on its side so that it drains out. I don't even think it has a pump Jimbo as it drains most of it, just not the last bit. Mind you that might be gravity working and then the pump draining the last bit. But as you can see I am not mechanically minded. Oh well. Did a wash today, the sheets and they came out nice and white and not too wet, great. They are already dry (within 2 hrs of being in the sun - not quite like the UK, heh, Jimbo?!)
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[wickedangel]

Just thought of something else that drives me mad with the washing machine... the drainage pipe is 12 inches (1 foot) up from the floor. The external drainage pipe from the washing machine is 7 inches off the floor. So just tell me folks since when has water been able to go upwards without the aid of a pump.... now we have always had problems with the smell of bad water sitting in this pipe and to tell the truth neither I nor my other half have ever wanted to get down on our knees and move the pipe so that all the water drains away. But honestly - Italian constructors and Dominican builders, well between them what more can one say. No wonder I now have to tilt the darn washing machine so that the water can drain away. Even I know that water doesn't go uphill.
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[jimbo45]

Heve you tried spinning the machine when you drain the main tub. Just something you said interests me, the uphill bit,

[wickedangel]

oh yes we tried that once, draining water whilst spin drying and the sucking motion of the spinner caused dirt to get sucked on to lovely clean sheets - my white ones I did just after the men came to 'fix' it, well they were full of dirty spots so I ended up having to wash them again. Not repeating that error!
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[jhakjaq]

oh no.. my mom does the washing and Im glad she has had no problems with the twin tub so far... i believe she does not use the dryer much anyway except if there is going to be rain that she needs to unload the clothes quick and could not afford to wait for the sun to come out...
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[jimbo45]

Just as well your mum does not live here in Bonnie Scotland, she would wait long enough for the sun to come out, lol