The plight of the homeowner. Drain pump in the washer died.

Now that I have the washer and drier pulled out I might as well paint the walls. And fix the grout. And run a new outlet for the wall mounted cordless vacuum. And I should take this opportunity to build some pedestals for the washer and dryer since we decided we didn't like them stacked.

Guess my next 2 days off are booked

>>2918384 (OP)
kek, that was me 2 weeks ago, and it was a LG too
enjoy the ride Anon

>>2918394
Smh hoping the whole swap out takes me less than 2 hours

Got it disassembled. Took about 45 minutes. Followed a YouTube video. Waiting for the new motor to come tomorrow from Amazon. $30. Wish they just have us an easy access panel to reach this instead of disassembling the whole shit

>>2918475
They want you to buy a new one, not fix it.

>>2918496
I too wanted to buy a new one but ALL of them suck
there's not a single washing machine in the market that's not filled with stupid bullshit nobody asked for
and when the default program is "AI wash"... I want humanity to go extinct already

>>2918475
Jesus.
I’ve replaced my lg drain pump 5 times so far.
All you do is tilt it up on a 45 deg angle from the side, and go under it and swap out the pump. Make sure you support it with something, those fuckers are heavy.
I can do it 30 minutes now.

There’s other options, too. You can just keep draining it manually through that tube, or even run the pump wires out externally and use an external pump. You could probably use a garden or fountain pump.

I believe it’s 60 W or so.

The first pump lasted the longest, all subsequent pumps only last a year or two. Made in italy.

They typically break due to a software bug where they don’t slow-start the pump sufficiently (or at all, sometimes) and the impeller breaks from the shaft.

I largely solved the breakage problem by putting some beefy resistors in series with the motor bolted to a heatsink to tone down the current a bit.

>>2918394
>>2918384 (OP)
Thanks for the heads-up. I'm about to buy a new washing machine and now it's certainly not going to be an LG.

>>2918645
I would buy another LG tbf, just because of the direct drive motor

My 30 year old washer is about to shit the bed and when it does im buying a SPEED QUEEN

>>2918645
Except for the pump, everything has been pretty good.
Don’t let your wife goad you into paying extra for a stainless steel finish, mine is white, and it’s still mint after 15 years. Some of the stainless and chrome trim have pitted and/or turned green though.
Don’t use fabric softener.
Another problem is spinsense doesn’t do anything and if your wife tries to was a single unbalanced pillow the washer will try and walk across the floor, shake your hommade platform apart and damage other things in the area like the washbasin sink in a photonic induction kind of scene.

>>2918384 (OP)
I hate this - been replacing hardwood planks since of termites, and it just highlights all the other shit that needs done.

I've also found I need to budget 3x my time estimate on every house project. I wish that eren't true, but even when I try and incorporate some extra padding.. that 3x rule seems to hold true.

>>2918649
>>2918647

What is a decent simple washing machine to get? I'm using some old ass one I got used, and it's great. I'm afraid when it breaks I'm afriad only thing available will be some dumb thing with an App and forced lo-water use.

>>2918527
Lmao at front loaders let alone an LG
Get a speed queen next time pal

>>2918475
Man I wish my time was worth so little. So much free time you can just disassemble washers and wait for parts n shit man I’m so jelly right now holy fuck

>>2918530
My heart flutters a bit when I read posts like this
Like
>look at this nigga
>I hate him
>actually he’s my hero
>look at that fuckin guy go

>>2919151
What’s your ethnicity? I bet it isn’t mexican

Wtf
I have replaced so many drain pumps over the years (never this model) and none will ever take longer than 10 minutes

>>2919151
>What is a decent simple washing machine to get?
The oldest one you can find, 1990-2010 era Miele ere god tier
If you need new, the cheapest one you can find, Bosch Series 4 or the Siemens equivalent are what I was looking at
>>2919156
>speed queen
No such thing in yurop as far as I know

>>2919156
>Get a speed queen
got plenty of those under the bridge 2 blocks down

Condo chad here, I don't know those feeings. If I have an issue, I have someone take care of it. Anything outside of my inner wall is the association's concern not mine.

>>2919156
>Lmao at front loaders
front loaders are superior in literally ever way
educate yourself

>>2919151
>when it breaks
Just fix it retard
i put new dogs in my gfs washer last week because im a BOSS NIGGA

front loaders are gay

>>2919672
>Anything outside of my inner wall is the association's concern not mine.
If you have your washer/dryer outside your unit you are POOR AS FUCK.

>>2919672
That’s fucking gross.
Imagine what people have been washing in there, and paying $12 in quarters to do a sterilization cycle.

>>2919684
Sure sure, whatever helps you sleep at night

>>2918651
>photonic induction
Hope homey is doing well I miss his vids

>>2919156
Go to bed, Cameron

The access panel is at the back side. If you have long hands

>>2919684
>front loaders are superior in literally ever way
Not if you include longevity as a factor.

>>2920260
Do front loaders make your clothes cleaner? because I feel like the top loader actually works better as a washing machine

>>2918651
Spinsense on my LGs has been working; the time to run spinny cycles extends if it starts to wobble, it seems like it stops, slowly rotates the clothes around, and starts again. This must usually fix it; I am aware of the process from a time when it was stuck in an infinite loop, constantly trying to rebalance an extremely unbalanced load that it couldn't fix. It just kept trying for at least an hour before I went in and rearranged the balled up blanket.

I got a second set of these LGs for another property because they've worked great for the last 6ish years.

>>2920264
With a good detergent and cycle yes, I've had nothing but problems for life with agitators, be it stuff getting caught in them and getting destroyed or messing up the machine, socks sucked into pumps, etc. I can't imagine clothes being so dirty that they need the agitator, and a front load just spins things and drops them to shake them around.

>>2920264
There’s a reason rock tumblers work where the cylinder is on it’s side like the drum in a front loading washer.

The debate was ended years ago, front loaders = cleaner

>>2918384 (OP)
It pisses me off that these machines can't be drained by gravity. Not even as a failsafe.

>>2919684
The problem i have with front loaders, other than i have no room to front load in my home, is that you can't stop it midway to toss a new piece of clothing or whatever you may want to do.
Modern washing machines are all electronic dials and you have little control over them.
I miss my oooold machine that had dias and i could make if go faster or slower and change modes.
New one there is NO way to make it just spit the water, refill and cycle, it WILL centrifuge before refilling and fuck you

>>2919684
Best of both worlds.

>>2920554
How so? There's a hose from the drum just for that

>>2920560
not on mine. And some models don't drain completely so the water rots inside them if you don't use them for too long.

Model? The drain pump will have a filter before it that can be used to drain the tub when removed. Normally accessible through a door on the front. Electrolux hides theirs requiring removing the front panel, because they hate consumers I guess, but it's there. Most other manufacturers are more sane and give easy-ish access.

>>2920796 is meant for >>2920565

3 weeks ago I was you. Didnt really require much disassembly other than removing the filter housing from the front bottom.

My faggot dryer needs replacing due to this plastic trim being NLA. I've had it for years, replaced the belt and bearing twice. A new dryer is cheap, but not really repairable like this common model was.

>>2920858
It’s not metal?

>>2920890

>>2918384 (OP)
Should have bought a good washer. Buy once, cry once.

>>2922979
>a good washer
No such thing in 2025

>>2922983
>No such thing in 2025
I didn't say buy one in 2025.

>>2919672
Yeah it's nice and terrifying to use common laundry units. The former because you don't have to worry about it breaking and leaking and the latter of knowing people will use it to clean some nasty shit.

>>2920808
That's funny. Looks like a car having the oil changed.

>>2918384 (OP)
LG washing machines suck ass. Those pumps go bad ALL the time. Enjoy tearing it apart 3-4 times over it's normal life span.