All you need is a screwdriver, a sense of adventure and a little luck
Posted on January 28th, 2009 by jeremy in houseofdixon general
In this case, a phillips screwdriver was the weapon of choice as I did battle with the broken (not draining) washing machine last night. During this process I found out a few things that are worth passing along regarding your basic home appliance repair work…
A little back story…It started acting weird a little while ago and got to the point where a call to our local appliance repair person was imminent due to the overflowing water and seemingly non-functional drain pump. Tiff looked through the user manual (which is useless by the way) and found nothing. Due mostly to procrastination we didn’t make that phone call in futile hopes that it would magically start working again. Well, it didn’t…So I got my trusty phillips screwdriver and went to work on the 6 screws preventing me from washer’s innards, and what did I find when I got the top cover off?…Another manual in a nice little plastic sleeve.
What!?
Yes, there is another manual inside the washer. On the cover it even says something like “for Service Technicians only…” or some such pretentious garbage. Well, I’m not a service technician and I am going to read this thing because I am the man of this house and it’s my prerogative. Lo and Behold, what did I find? A guide on how to run all of the washer’s systems individually and return error codes on anything not working properly…exactly what one would need to determine precisely what is wrong with said piece of equipment. And better yet, the detailed step by step instructions were not only easy to follow, but the instructions were written in a way that wasn’t complicated or confusing…no these instructions were simple and well layed out…So, I started going through the tests.
low speed spin- high speed spin
- door lock
- detergent fill
- fabric softener fill
- main tub fill
- and finally drain/ pump test…
E31 it said after this test when I ran the error codes test, which when compared to the handy “technicians only” manual told me that this was a drain error most likely either a drain filter clog or a broken impeller on the pump itself. A little searching on the internet and I found a great how-to on getting at and then cleaning the drain filter on a GE model Adora Washing machine…
GE Adora Lint Filter Cleanout – More DIY How To Projects
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