It’s hard to characterize in a single sentence, so I’ll just break it down into its constituent parts.
The Beep
When the laundry cycle finishes it does the following:
- It beeps super loudly for 5 seconds
- If you don’t run to switch it off, it will wait 30 more seconds and then continue to beep super loudly for 5 seconds
- If you switch it off whilst it’s beeping, it will continue to finish its beeping
- There is no volume setting nor any way to switch this off.
The Door
When it’s finished. It does not release. That beeping sound from earlier to tell you to come get your laundry? No no no, that was just the “come and watch me drain” alarm.
- Switching it off has no effect on the door release.
- It releases whenever it wants. It could be 5 minutes, it could be 20.
- When it does release, all you will get is a <clunk> sound, so you better be around to hear it.
- If you miss this sound, it will lock itself again 10-15 minutes later and rotate your clothes.
- It will then repeat the release process.
HELP ME. HE-ELP ME.
My old washer died about two weeks ago. It was a 30 year old Frigidaire that shorted something and made magic smoke. That was a pretty asshole move.
We replaced it with a Speed Queen and it’s been great so far.
Washer is showing age, dryer is not. The worst issue is my hard water. Even copious amounts of bleach don’t get my whites beyond gray dinge with it
Grey whites are a sure sign of mixing detergent with bleach in the laundry.
I’d suggest any whites gone grey are a loss. There is a great laundry product for whites called bluo here in Australia that I recommend and use for my chef whites.
https://033.drakes.com.au/lines/bluo-liquid-blue-laundry-brightener-250ml
I use white vinegar cca. 1dl. I pour it after first water intake and I put detergent between first and second water intake.
I noticed better stain removal, color retention and smell improvement.
I may be under the influenece of placebo effect, but to me laundry seem to be washed better with addition of vinegar.Have tried that too with no luck.
Vinegar should help, here we sometimes use a splash of lemon for our chef whites in a hot pot of water.
I had a washing machine that made audible chirps as you dialed through the programs and an irritating ditty whenever you engaged a program. It couldn’t be turned off. That was on a physical dial. But it also had flat touch buttons with no bevel or edge or tactile feedback - and these were always silent - so most of the time you didn’t know if you’d really pressed it or not. God. The first time I used it I was like… “what the fuck”. It was brand new in 2023. I cannot comprehend how someone can design, make, and program something so stupid.
I learned my lesson the hard way too. After suffering, I bought the cheapest washer and dryer at the local appliance store, it has an end of cycle alarm that was a simple unplug in the back panel.
If its at the end forever it might be because you are putting too much soap in.
My AEG has been running steadily for 15 years in my possession. It was used already when I got it. It’s a very simple one with no alarm, no display, not even a tiny one with a timer. Just a dial and a start button. The door sometimes needs an extra push to lock fully.
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You might can adjust the feet on it
Why don’t they have proper ball-bearing bearings on the drum instead of just a bushing?
I had to replace mine last week. Okay, it’s been a decade of zero maintenance, and the part only cost a tenner, but still - if this was a decent bearing it would be fine.
Assumptions: For the size a bearing can handle load better, and can be a self lubricating material. Ball bearings are small contact points, and a lot of off center vibration of the machine might wreck the ball bearing. Especially if it gets warm and grease runs out. So they would need to have a much larger ballbearing race like you see on industrial machinery, and the cost probably doesn’t justify it.
My dryer seals broke this year, in replacing them I could see why they wore through. The back of drum wheels are just bearings (no balls), the weight of drum had the wheel bearings wear a wide groove in the support shafts so it shifted everything. And front has no bearings it just rides on the seal. I rotated/swapped them all around so they start with a fresh wear face and replaced a wheel. It should support itself better. Maybe we will get 5 more years out of it.
I personally think it’s down to cost and planned obsolescence. The bearing is so soft, it’s clearly sacrificial. There’s a lot of dust from the eroded part, and the spindle was still as new. Even though the part is cheap and fitting it is quick, most people wouldn’t know how - and calling someone out to do it would cost more than half the price of a replacement dryer.
Can’t be heat - ball bearings, even just steel ones, are fitted to engines and car wheels. A dryer gets hot, but not that hot - and even if it did, ceramics are available. Same with diameter - if it’s too small you just increase the spinder size.
Yeah, main bearings on car, like crankshaft and cam are solid bearings and journals. Wheelbearings are a timpkin flat roller, I think, to support a lot of load and thrust. They are packed and sealed. But if it isn’t heat, then I would say the part size just gets big when you need an inner race (around shaft), bearings , then outer race, housed in a bracket. Lot cheaper for just the sacrificial part, till the wear like you show starts affecting other parts.
Name and shame my guy
Bosch Serie 4
Hey bud does this video help? https://youtu.be/fkJ4VU6ldLk
Yes it does! That handled the beep volume (albeit it’s still loud on its lowest setting, but a marked improvement)
The door is still an issue, but this is already a huge QoL upgradeThank you good sir!
Namaste my guy. I too have a modern washer that has pissed me off
Lol my old Maytag is probably the most polite and introverted appliance in my house.
Mine just throws a fit every decade or so, and stops generating heat.
Also, it’s the most famous appliance in my house because a video on YouTube of me opening my dryer door has almost 500k views
My dryer, my sister and I star in a video on PornHub that has fifteen views.
Stepsister. Or people will think you’re weird.
Roll tide
I might have put in too much softener. I need a fluffer.
Funny story our parents are siblings too.
We’ve kept our bloodline as pure as the driven snow for eleven generations now.
This you?
That’s James William Bottomtooth III obviously.
Obviously.
Where have you been?
Damn Ptolemies, won’t share.
Jaherys? Is that you?
almost 500k views
we could get you there if you post the link :)
That sounds like a “sell it and make it someone else’s problem” situation.
Mine opens with the long press of a button.
But my beep gives me a different problem, I never hear it. Imagine a shy introvert whispering, “Excuse me, if it isn’t any trouble, would you please kindly move your laundry?” From across the apartment behind several closed doors.
The end result is me nerotically checking it, and sometimes it just refused to end. Like the timer says some amount of time and nothing is happening. If I open it, the display sheepishly flashes CL, which I assume means clean and not clear.
Check youtube for any hidden volume settings for your specific model - mine turned out to have volume controls!
Thanks, I figured it out. Seems silly, but helpful advice from a stranger brightened my day.
Had an apartment with a washer that could wake up the dead. And of course, no alarm setting. Turns out, it was pretty easy to open the front plate and rip out the buzzer.
mine is a few blocks away, and requires sacrifice of an always-increasing amount of coinage (literally every other trip costs more).
the dryer half does the same but also now takes twice as long to do its job–requiring even more coinage sacrifice.
they’re also now scared of the dark (it isn’t 24/7 like it used to be), meaning i can’t go there at odd hours to avoid people.