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Bloomin washing machine is playing up. Its flooding out of the soap dispenser compartment. I've taken the soap dispenser tray out and started a wash cycle and when the water is sprayed into the compartment it doesn't drain quick enough out of the drain pipe and floods. I guess there is a blockage in this pipe. Is there an easy way to unblock it?
Its not a hoover nextra is it? they are famous for this. Id try a brake cable or outer. failing that youll have to go inside. Then once I fixed it id use liquid rather than powder.
Usual caveats apply tho, not an expert etc
if you look on the back of the machine, there might be waste trap that you can remove and clear. If you wash items that have a lot of hair on them, like pet blankets and stuff, this can get be caught in the trap and cause flooding.
Hair would stop it draining, wouldnt stop water getting from the detergent drawer to the drum tho IMO. Not a bad idea to clean it tho.
It's a bosch logix. Cable outer, I'll give that a go.
Could be the waste trap. If there is one then it hasn't been cleaned since we've had it (4 years!)
When ours plays up it is [b]always [/b]the waste trap. Fortunately for us it is dead easy to get to on the front of the machine because it needs doing every few months (especially when using the condenser dryer function).
My mate, who's a washing machine repairer, says his holidays are paid for by all the calls he gets where all he needs to do is take bra wires or pads out of the waste trap.
I think the waste trap is after the drum tho, so it stops it emptying rather than filling
If the water is backing up in the soap tray then the waste trap is probably not the cause. Try having a poke with cable outer or maybe pour some proper hot water into the tray and allow it time to disolve what could well be a build up of soap residue above the drum.
last time ours did this it was because we'd used those liquitab things and the 'plastic' bits hadn't dissolved properly, a good poke with some brake outer and a few kettles of boiling water seems to have sorted it now.
They did the same thing to the dishwasher as well but caused the pump to burn out, the engineer who changed it said not to use them as they were rubbish, ironic really as they were the ones supplied with the dishwasher.
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