Plumbing help needed washing machine
 

Hi all

I have a hotpoint aquarius 1000 and a pile of nappies to wash !!!

The machine seems to work until the rinse stage and then moves no further forward !

Any ideas gratefully received,

Many thanks

Mike

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check the filter

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have you overloaded it maybe - bear in mind wet nappies will be heavier than dry ones... I think our machine has a cut out if you overload it so it won't spin out properly...

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rinse or spin?

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At what point does it stop? it clicks to rinse,feeds fresh water into the drum,when the drum is full it churns it round for a while,pump then operates and dumps it to drain. Where is yours stopping?

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i just tired it on a empty wash and it stopped at the same place....icon like a shower !

I have posted a picture of it..............

Oh how do I change a filter did not know it had one :dunce:

Thanks for all the quick help

Regards

Mike

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There should be a small trapdoor on the front of the machine at the bottom, behind this is your filter, you would need to take this out & clean the gunk out of it(normally they just unscrew & pull out).

Not 100% sure where on your machine this would be, but mostly the filter is on the front, at the bottom.

Make sure that the machine is not full of water when you take the filter out, or you will have a flood.

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What programme cycle are you using? on my machine there is one cycle that holds the washing in the final rinse, and will only continue when you manually turn the dial to spin...................just a thought

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A quick Google search brought up this site, which may be of help.
http://www.washerhelp.co.uk/site-map.html#cl_q1

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Inside your washer are 2-3 electronic taps. (maybe more on higher spec machines)

These taps can control water input into your washer from the 1 source and divert it off to different parts.

1 tap will be connected to a tube that flushe's out your powder.

Another tap will connect to a tap that flush's out your conditioner.

Washing machines operate on a cycle thus:
30 cycle
1. Open tap that wash's out powder then fill to level 1.
2. Tumble a few times.
3. Open tap to fill to level 2.
4. Heat till reached 30 degrees.
5. Tumble for x minutes.
6. Drain.
7. Fill to level 1 from the same one that the powder came from.
8. Tumble
9. Fill from conditioner tap to level 1.
10. Tumble.
11. Fill tumble drain a few times to rinse.
12. Spin at low speed for a few minutes.
13. Spin at medium speed for a few minutes.
14. Spin at high speed for a minute or so.
Stop

At any point if the machine stops its waiting for order to go on. If the machine does not reach level one then it will stop at filling, if it cannot detect that the water has drained out it will stop. Knowing what point the machine has stopped will most of the time point to the faulty component.

On your machine it's likely going to be the cold fill valve that has jammed or become electrically faulty. They cost between £5 - £15. They are very reliable and you might be able to get a 2nd hand one from a washer reconditioner. There are 2 terminal connections for power and 2 screws holding it to the machine. Make sure you turn off the water and remove the water pipes from it using pliers or better expandable pliers. (i'm assuming you dont have the pump clips pliers).

Time to change 2 mins.

I should point out that the red one is the hot one and you can tell if that's faulty by selecting a cycle that would fill with only hot water such as a 60 deg or 90 deg, if it did not fill then it would be a busted fill valve.

I should also point out that there are other things that could be causing it but that's the first place that I would look.

HM (ex washer repair guy) Handy by name handy by nature ;)

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This would be a 'out of balance detector' Some machines will stop the spin and perform a tumble cycle to re distribute the weight.

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Oh how do I change a filter did not know it had one :dunce:
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On your machine there is a filter just before the pump on the inside. It's not easy to get to and will dump residue water all over the place to get to it. Its black and T shaped. Will probably contain the remnants of a bra underwire, and at least £2 in change.

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Not on hotpoints or older hoovers.

Those trapdoors are on the likes of bendix, indesit, candy and zanussi.

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A problem I have come across on the dial type of programmers is the contactors burning out because people have turned the dial before switching it off This causes arcing across it (this is a bad thing:) ) It is usually the the heater contact that burns out tho not the spin/rinse

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Not come across that problem at all and it was my job, plus I learned my trade from a guy that's very respected in his trade as an expert. He taught me skills to be able to dismantle hotpoint and hoover timers (what you call programmers) and rebuild them.

When testing machines that we had brought into the shop to repair or machines that we had reconditioned for sale we put them trough an extensive test program which would involve testing only parts of programs at times so we would turn the knob to a part and start it off. Inside the timer is like an old fasioned music box, it revolves slowly and is shaped to trip switchs and turn things on and off. turning it when its on will cause not problems.

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Well.......it was a long time ago (12 years) and it was my friend who told me what was wrong with it because he was working for hotpont at the time.
I also remember it because I had won £70 and my wife bought something with the winnings, Then I had to buy a new timer/programmer which was £68.99 :dozey:

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Hmm never heard of that and 50% of the washers we fixed where Hotpoints. Also you would imagine that Hotpoint engineers would be experienced at fixing most bits but in practice they would always swap out parts for new rather than repair.

The timer would more than likely go due to a fault with another component causing it to get hot and burn out the connector.

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Just a silly thought....you haven't got the "Rinse Hold" button pressed?