It’s hard to characterize in a single sentence, so I’ll just break it down into its constituent parts.
The Beep
When the laundry cycle finishes it does the following:
- It beeps super loudly for 5 seconds
- If you don’t run to switch it off, it will wait 30 more seconds and then continue to beep super loudly for 5 seconds
- If you switch it off whilst it’s beeping, it will continue to finish its beeping
- There is no volume setting nor any way to switch this off.
The Door
When it’s finished. It does not release. That beeping sound from earlier to tell you to come get your laundry? No no no, that was just the “come and watch me drain” alarm.
- Switching it off has no effect on the door release.
- It releases whenever it wants. It could be 5 minutes, it could be 20.
- When it does release, all you will get is a <clunk> sound, so you better be around to hear it.
- If you miss this sound, it will lock itself again 10-15 minutes later and rotate your clothes.
- It will then repeat the release process.
HELP ME. HE-ELP ME.
The door locks are often wax motors, which extend pretty quick when heated but have to cool off to release. The re-lock sounds like a huge wtf. Couldn’t they just limit the tumble rpm so they don’t have to lock?
I ditched my front load petri dish for a 10 year old Speed Queen top loader off marketplace. No regerts.
Not very annoying at all. Does a little jingle when it’s turned on. Door unlocks when finished, no beeps. Instantly unlocks when paused too. Even can integrate into Home Assistant, but the manufacturer (Fuck you Haier) made it worse for no real reason.
We have/had a combination machine from Whirlpool which we got in 2019. It was fairly cheap, I don’t remember exactly, but somewhere €600 on a sale.
I’ve replaced the heater element twice. The shock absorbers twice, because as I was installing a new one the threads stripped immediately. I’ve replaced the drain pump once. Now it’s been sitting unused for a month, rusting because the heater element has broken once again.
Good thing we’ve got a shared laundry room in our apartment complex!
If you miss this sound, it will lock itself again 10-15 minutes later and rotate your clothes.
LOL, WTF. That machine is too “helpful” for its own good.
My previous washing machine, a Samsung front-loader, did not operate in an annoying way but was much more of an asshole by the fact that it was designed with blatant planned obsolescence. Shortly out of warranty, it failed catastrophically and I decided to take it apart to figure out why. Every metal part inside was in pristine condition, including all the ones exposed to water, except one. The “spider arm,” which was what connected the rotating drum to its bearing, was so severely corroded that it literally broke into pieces:
(Note: not my picture, but mine looked the same.)
Samsung 100% used a corrosion-prone metal on that part on purpose.
Unfortunately, I had already replaced the machine at that point and I didn’t take particular care when disassembling, so I wasn’t prepared to replace the spider arm and scrapped it instead. At least I’ve still got the drive motor to use for some project, eventually. I sure as Hell won’t buy a Samsung again, though!
(In fact, considering the DRM on their phones, ads on their smart TVs, and other enshittification of the rest of their products, I will never buy anything from Samsung ever again in my life, and I recommend that nobody else does either.)
My current washing machine is a Bosch front-loader that I bought used for very cheap. No idea how old it is in total, but I think I’ve probably had it for longer than the Samsung at this point and it has continued to work without problems.
Wow, my parents had a Samsung and it also broke on the exact same part. No replacement parts available except from a third party seller and it was way too expensive to justify fixing.
Name and shame!
Friends don’t let other people suffer the same fate.
Mine just throws a fit every decade or so, and stops generating heat.
Also, it’s the most famous appliance in my house because a video on YouTube of me opening my dryer door has almost 500k views
My dryer, my sister and I star in a video on PornHub that has fifteen views.
Stepsister. Or people will think you’re weird.
Roll tide
I might have put in too much softener. I need a fluffer.
Jergens is industry standard
Funny story our parents are siblings too.
We’ve kept our bloodline as pure as the driven snow for eleven generations now.
Damn Ptolemies, won’t share.
This you?
That’s James William Bottomtooth III obviously.
Obviously.
Where have you been?
Jaherys? Is that you?
almost 500k views
we could get you there if you post the link :)
I had a washing machine that made audible chirps as you dialed through the programs and an irritating ditty whenever you engaged a program. It couldn’t be turned off. That was on a physical dial. But it also had flat touch buttons with no bevel or edge or tactile feedback - and these were always silent - so most of the time you didn’t know if you’d really pressed it or not. God. The first time I used it I was like… “what the fuck”. It was brand new in 2023. I cannot comprehend how someone can design, make, and program something so stupid.
I have a Kenmore 80 Series washer and dryer set. There’s a knob on the control panels to turn the buzzer off. It runs until it’s finished. There is no lid lock, the washer is top-loading. The drum brake is a bit loud these days, should probably look into that. And it’s probably about time to clean out the dryer’s vent, the dull men’s club will enjoy that.
Why don’t they have proper ball-bearing bearings on the drum instead of just a bushing?
I had to replace mine last week. Okay, it’s been a decade of zero maintenance, and the part only cost a tenner, but still - if this was a decent bearing it would be fine.
Assumptions: For the size a bearing can handle load better, and can be a self lubricating material. Ball bearings are small contact points, and a lot of off center vibration of the machine might wreck the ball bearing. Especially if it gets warm and grease runs out. So they would need to have a much larger ballbearing race like you see on industrial machinery, and the cost probably doesn’t justify it.
My dryer seals broke this year, in replacing them I could see why they wore through. The back of drum wheels are just bearings (no balls), the weight of drum had the wheel bearings wear a wide groove in the support shafts so it shifted everything. And front has no bearings it just rides on the seal. I rotated/swapped them all around so they start with a fresh wear face and replaced a wheel. It should support itself better. Maybe we will get 5 more years out of it.
I personally think it’s down to cost and planned obsolescence. The bearing is so soft, it’s clearly sacrificial. There’s a lot of dust from the eroded part, and the spindle was still as new. Even though the part is cheap and fitting it is quick, most people wouldn’t know how - and calling someone out to do it would cost more than half the price of a replacement dryer.
Can’t be heat - ball bearings, even just steel ones, are fitted to engines and car wheels. A dryer gets hot, but not that hot - and even if it did, ceramics are available. Same with diameter - if it’s too small you just increase the spinder size.
Yeah, main bearings on car, like crankshaft and cam are solid bearings and journals. Wheelbearings are a timpkin flat roller, I think, to support a lot of load and thrust. They are packed and sealed. But if it isn’t heat, then I would say the part size just gets big when you need an inner race (around shaft), bearings , then outer race, housed in a bracket. Lot cheaper for just the sacrificial part, till the wear like you show starts affecting other parts.
That sounds like a “sell it and make it someone else’s problem” situation.
ours is im the basement (rental apartment), quiet but likes to eat socks, the damn thing. I think electric plug is just carmouflage, it runs on socks
~WHERE DO THEY GO?~
Lol my old Maytag is probably the most polite and introverted appliance in my house.
My old washer died about two weeks ago. It was a 30 year old Frigidaire that shorted something and made magic smoke. That was a pretty asshole move.
We replaced it with a Speed Queen and it’s been great so far.
Washer is showing age, dryer is not. The worst issue is my hard water. Even copious amounts of bleach don’t get my whites beyond gray dinge with it
Grey whites are a sure sign of mixing detergent with bleach in the laundry.
I’d suggest any whites gone grey are a loss. There is a great laundry product for whites called bluo here in Australia that I recommend and use for my chef whites.
https://033.drakes.com.au/lines/bluo-liquid-blue-laundry-brightener-250ml
I use white vinegar cca. 1dl. I pour it after first water intake and I put detergent between first and second water intake.
I noticed better stain removal, color retention and smell improvement.
I may be under the influenece of placebo effect, but to me laundry seem to be washed better with addition of vinegar.Have tried that too with no luck.
Vinegar should help, here we sometimes use a splash of lemon for our chef whites in a hot pot of water.
mine is a few blocks away, and requires sacrifice of an always-increasing amount of coinage (literally every other trip costs more).
the dryer half does the same but also now takes twice as long to do its job–requiring even more coinage sacrifice.
they’re also now scared of the dark (it isn’t 24/7 like it used to be), meaning i can’t go there at odd hours to avoid people.
