I've completely turned off the hot water valve, and even disconnected the hose entirely. Regardless of which intake valve I attach the cold water hose to, and which water temperature setting I use, the washing machine still fills up with hot water. Anyone able to point me in the right direction?
2006-10-26 04:51:52 · 5 answers · asked by reggie1155 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Your hoses under the house are connected some how to the hot water, both hoses. Get someone to go under the house and take a peek.
2006-10-26 05:00:01 · answer #1 · answered by dmgoldsbo7 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ho boy, OK, lets start at the top.
1. you've dixconnected the hot water hose?
2. remove the cold water hose from the washer-turn the water on (GENTLY) and see if hot water comes out of the hose. you will want to put a pan under the hose for this-run enough to insure that you get hot water. or you can put hose into the washer and run until it gets hot 5-10 seconds. my guess is you'll get hot water
3. the hoses are reversed.
4. check the HOT water -the one you disconnected-is it cold?
5. behind where the hoses hook into the washer there are two solenoids (a solenoid is nothing but a valve) if you are not getting cold water and you have gone through the hose thing above you either have a bad switch (this is on the front and controls opening and closing the solenoids) or you have a bad solenoid--but this may be above your technical abalities to check the switch and the solenoid+++you will need wireing diagrams to determine which lead (wire) controls the solenoids(there will be several wires coming out of the switch.
NOW, ONE THING IN YOUR FAVOR. when you turn the switch to cold water if you put your ear close to the solenoid (back by where the hose hooks up to the washer) you will hear a clunk when the solenoid opens--and same if you instruct hot water-you can hear the solenoid clunk (technical term)
6. BIGGIE! you should be able to buy a service manual (less than $20) at most appliance parts suppliers. it may be generic but should be for your brand of washer.
OH, and have fun.
PS: all the tools you need for this is screwdriver, maybe a nut driver, a putty knife and a multimeter.
2006-10-26 05:10:24 · answer #2 · answered by dulcrayon 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Typically your house should be set up with both a hot and a cold water spicket near where the washing machine is intended to be installed. It sounds like you have one of two problems, either someone only hooked up a hot water hose and potentially split that hose in order to go into both the hot and cold water intake, or they made a mistake when they built your house and gave you two hot water lines where they should have put one of each. I'd take a look a the hoses on the back of the machine, make sure there are two different hoses going into the machine and both are going into different spicket's. The hoses themselves should feel both hot and cold. Worse case, run a garden hose from any other spicket and hook it up to the cold water intake and test that to see if you're machine is running correctly. Hope this helps!
2016-05-21 22:20:20 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the thermostat on the washer itself. It sounds defective. If you are even setting it on a cold water setting with a cold water hose then that can be the only thing. You need a repair man from the company that makes your washer and hopefully its under warranty
2006-10-26 04:57:32 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dulcrayon is correct. Kat is way off base. There is no thermostat, aquastat or any other temperature sensing device in a washer. Except for the thermal protector for the motor, but I digress.
2006-10-29 14:44:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋