Bush Auto Washing Machine

One product we always have 3rd party insurance on is the washer. We use ours minimum 4x a day. We can’t afford to be out of one. And new washers are terrible.

If the cleaned filter doesn’t fix it, it may be the pump. In my experiance it’s always the motherboard. Our old (2008 so not that old) had its mobo replaced 3 or 4 times a year. By the time we ditched it, 2012 it was literally ‘triggers broom’ I recon the chassis was the only original bit.

Our current washer went down on Xmas eve 2016. domestic and general, couldn’t get a fix out until jan, so they sent us a new replacement the day after boxing day.

Xmas eve the prior year the oven packed in. One year before we lived here, 2003, the boiler packed in. Me and Christmas don’t get on.

The only washer that we had that held up was some unknown brand we got second hand for free. We had that about 8 years, with zero issues. We got a £3-400 hotpoint job that just failed a often, so we took out insurance before the 24 month garantee ran out. And when we replaced that, just swapped the old HP washer on for the new.

The new one goes down probably once a year. So £8pm is worth it, as I’m not good with time sensitive job (lol understatement), and tbf we have defo got our monies worth.

If we never had the kids, it would be different. If I lived alone I’d do my washing in the bath each night, and Swap washer for a dish washer. Two dish washers in fact, One for clean dishes and the other for dirty ones.

The most common pump that I have encountered is a synchronous type with a coil on the outside and a driven shaft with an iron mass on it to move the impeller sealed in a water proof container. They are fractional horse power devices so can be quite easily stalled, though once they are running the iron mass helps them to keep running, though inertia could slow down their initial spooling up. So a rusty shaft, a few bits of crud and a stall can be the result.

One thing that has always annoyed me about washers is the placement of filters and the manual water release placements. They should be higher up, and have some form of manual pump. I’d rather stand there an hour pumping water out, than it’s dumping a load of water on my wooden floor! Then me usually emptying a full dirty washing basket to soak it up quick, then mop then attack it with a hairdryer for 30 mins.

I said the dirty washing as that’s always the first thing on hand, when the things leak.