Washing Machine Drain

When you wash clothes in your washing machine, you are bringing gallons of water into that machine to use. You depend on the washing machine to be able to pump that water back out of that drum when the job is done efficiently, without a mess and without needing any additional attention from you. When you open that washing machine to take the cloths out and put them in the dryer, you expect all of the water to be long gone out the drain and out to wherever it goes from your house.

It is when your washing machine has trouble with its draining mechanisms that you are in for some trouble. The problem is particularly troublesome because if the water won't drain out, then you have a washing machine full of very wet clothes and no way to get the water out except for buckets. If the problem is that the water drains out but there are leaks, the problem is not contained in the washer but could spill out all over the floor and even into the house depending on how much water gets away from the drainage system of the washer.

It is clear to see that the ability of a washing machine to drain is critical to its ability to be a productive member of your household. Many times when you keep finding that the washer is not fully drained, you may find the washer becoming "unbalanced" which causes the mechanism to stop spinning out the water. This may be no more than an adjustment to the mechanisms that sense that a load is unbalanced. Other problems with draining out the washer tub might be a failure of the washer motor that spins the drum or a problem with the sensor just under the lip at the top of the tub that senses when the washer is done draining.

In all of these situations, a call to your washing machine repairman is in order. If you have a home handyman in the family, sometimes it is possible to replace these parts of your washer yourself. But you must be able to diagnose which of the units is failing. If you don’t have that kind of diagnostic equipment, you could end up replacing units that were not bad, which is costly in time and money. Moreover, unless you are experienced in dealing with these kinds of mechanisms, home repair could lead to injury to the machine and/or the repairmen, which nobody wants.

So calling in the professionals is often the prudent approach when the problem is clearly in the washing machine mechanics. There will be a cost to this repair but it is a fairly simple repair that he should be able to do in under an hour. And compared to replacing your washing machine, it’s worth getting it fixed and getting many more years of good service from your washing machine.