Often a sign of a growing clog. The door doesn’t unlock until the water sensor says there is no water. If the last bit of water is draining slowly, it can delay unlock.
Three places to check a front loader:
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The rubber gasket for the door has small holes in the folds that get clogged.
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The lint/large item trap is getting full. Most washers have a little door you can open and pull that out for cleaning.
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Worst is there’s a ball in the drain hose at the bottom of the tub where the tub connects to the drain pump. It works as a check valve. It can get clogged. You need to get access to the motor area of the washer. Often massaging that ball in the hose is enough to let it drain. I’m fully aware of what this sounds like.
Literally had to take my parents washer apart recently and remove the impediment that was blocking the recirculation pump which caused it to be very loud and not recirculating.
The fun part was the service manual inside the washer that explained how to put it into service mode and test each function. Quality machine.
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The older I get the more I appreciate usability over a cheap price tag.
Our current washing machine demands the gathering of an audience by loudly singing the song of its people a full minute or more before it will let you open the damn door. It also has no respect for human arms, requiring a traversal from far left (soap dispenser ), to far right (power on), to centre (program select), then back to the far right for temperature and spin adjust and finally cycle start. Put the damn controls in a logical order across the top of the machine for fuck’s sake!
It’s a growing clog. See my other post here on how to fix.
The machine beeps when the software cycle completes but often the mechanical process termination lags behind this due most commonly to sunspots. Happy now.
You can open top loaders while they’re running to add something you forgot. They’re simpler and so more reliable machines, also easier to repair.
But, if your cat likes the front loader, then you’re stuck with that.
Not the new ones. (Not that one I use anyway.)
That’s funny. Our washer sings as little song when it’s done but I can honestly say in many years of ownership, I’ve never gotten up immediately to empty it. I wonder how long mine takes to unlock.
I definitely read that a women was keeping the door locked to the laundry room until the machine stopped… The internet has ruined me
