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Influence of restoration spirit: Fixing a 19 year old washing machine

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Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: Level42 on October 18, 2009, 12:42:54 pm ---but my kitchen has all appliances integrated.

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Uh oh, another thread headed for P&R...

Level42:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 18, 2009, 06:09:47 pm ---
Sounds to me like he means hidden as in your dishwasher has the same front as the rest of the cabinets.

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Exactly.

See this picture. This is not my kitchen (don't like the black oven and microwave) but it's similar in concept.

My dishwasher is actually completely hidden. This one still has a control panel on top that you can see. Mine has a fake drawer there (by which you open the door). The controls are on top of the door in the edge of the lid.

The oven and microwave are separate here, mine is a combined oven/microwave.

(Mmmm, the fridge could be under the microwave as well, not sure :D)


A lot of homes have "open" kitchens here, which means that the living room has an open connection to the kitchen, so you can see the kitchen from (part of) the living room. Maybe that's one of the reasons to want the kitchen as "tidy" as possible.

Here's a "typical" American kitchen set-up as I've often noticed:

Level42:
Heh, I had to dig up this old thread again.

Couple of days ago my wife said the machine had some trouble again, like it wasn't pumping off the water. So I checked and when I selected the P (for Pumping off) I could a pretty loud hum but didn't hear the sound of gulping water being pumped away. The sound of the hum reminded me somewhat of a blocked electric motor.
I thought that now I would have to replace the pump (didn't open the machine, it was WAY too hot a couple of days ago).

Looked up the price of the pump, would be another 85 Euro incl. shipping.

I thought this time it was time to write the machine off. So we already were looking at new machines (which do have very nice new features) but I _still_ had that feeling that I had to check it out a bit more. Luckily today it was a lot cooler so I went upstairs and did the most simple thing that I could think of: open the filter cap that is on the lower front of the machine. Of course the water came gulping out (it was still in the machine, not a nice smell !) and I quickly closed it again. Then, for the sake of it, I tried Pumping again and this time I could hear the pump running and the water being pumped away !

So after everything was pumped away, I again opened the filter cap and sure enough there was the cause of the trouble: A cut-off ty-rap end that I had put in one of my trouser pockets during work.... This had been blocking the pump I'm sure, and once I opened the filter and the water was gulping out it had been dragged along with the water.....

Took me 10 minutes from start to end, and I was glad that I hadn't placed the order for a new machine....so bring on the next 5 years for this baby :D

Plus I saved at least 350 Euro's for a new machine, said to my wife I could now spend that money on the hobby :D

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