Currently washing clothes in our washing machine in the garage:tantrum:
Getting ready to leave this morning and as I am finishing up loading our 2 boys in the truck, my wife yells that the washer is leaking. Sure shit enough, as I walk into the utility room there is an 1/8" of water covering 75% of the floor. Thankfully she shut it off as soon as she saw the water. Definitely not how I wanted to start my weekend. The weather isn't cooperating for the things I need/want to get done and now everything is going to have to be put aside until this is resolved. My wife does most of the laundry on the weekend, so 4 loads are waiting.....
I was able to put my immediate anger aside and just unplugged the machine and we cleaned up the water. We finished our trip and when we came back I moved the washer to the garage. Removed the back panel while it was standing up, started looking for the leak source. After drying everything off, I was able to narrow it to the drain pump. The impeller housing where 2 outlet tubes attached was cracked.
A couple of hose clamps and a few bolts and the pumps easily removes. A few screws to separate the pump from the black housing and I had my broken piece. Inside I found something I thought was pretty funny given my last name and the phrase "nickel and dime ya to death". This machine is 7yrs old and this is the first issue, but it was our fault.
Next focus was how do I fix quickly so we can get some laundry done and not bother with going to a laundry mat lol. 2 layers of silicone later and we are back in business until a new housing or pump arrives. Until then, we're washing clothes in the garage.
Getting ready to leave this morning and as I am finishing up loading our 2 boys in the truck, my wife yells that the washer is leaking. Sure shit enough, as I walk into the utility room there is an 1/8" of water covering 75% of the floor. Thankfully she shut it off as soon as she saw the water. Definitely not how I wanted to start my weekend. The weather isn't cooperating for the things I need/want to get done and now everything is going to have to be put aside until this is resolved. My wife does most of the laundry on the weekend, so 4 loads are waiting.....
I was able to put my immediate anger aside and just unplugged the machine and we cleaned up the water. We finished our trip and when we came back I moved the washer to the garage. Removed the back panel while it was standing up, started looking for the leak source. After drying everything off, I was able to narrow it to the drain pump. The impeller housing where 2 outlet tubes attached was cracked.
A couple of hose clamps and a few bolts and the pumps easily removes. A few screws to separate the pump from the black housing and I had my broken piece. Inside I found something I thought was pretty funny given my last name and the phrase "nickel and dime ya to death". This machine is 7yrs old and this is the first issue, but it was our fault.
Next focus was how do I fix quickly so we can get some laundry done and not bother with going to a laundry mat lol. 2 layers of silicone later and we are back in business until a new housing or pump arrives. Until then, we're washing clothes in the garage.
