Washing Machine Bits fell off - this is safe to use??

spendingmad

Hi All

Need some help! I have just taken a load of washing out of the machine and with it came one of the plastic toberone shaped things that are inside in the drum that mixes the washing up? If I put another load in will it still work or do you think it will die completely?

Thanks for your help

latecomer

Have you looked to see why its come off. Maybe you could put it back on?

moonrakerz

It will make no difference at all.

spendingmad

Thanks! I have put a load on and it seems ok. I thnk i will just hand wash the delicate stuff as the edges are abit sharp!

yorkie_lad_2

Be careful as this happened to our washer/dryer, it clicked and put holes in some of the stuff we washed.In the end the wife got some replacement paddles off ebay for hardly nothing.

kwatt

It's drum paddles you're after and it will rip clothes if they're not replaced.

Usually smashed when people wash trainers or kids in the machine, which you shouldn't do or you'll break it.

HTH

K.

yorkie_lad_2

kwatt you wash kids in your machine!!lol I think the wife broke ours by putting too many towels in at once,it must have been too much weight.

kwatt

Sorry I meant kids shoes. :?

If I put the kids in the machine I think Social Services may have an issue.

Yeah, too much in it can do it as well as some of the paddles on the cheaper machines are just rubbish, they break all the time especially on Hotpoints and Indesit machines. LG suffers from it as well.

K.

yorkie_lad_2

Yeah ours is a Hotpoint washer/dryer one of those with a digital display,i think it is probably the worst appliance we have bought and it was fairly expensive i don't think we'll be buying one again.