Laundry HELPPPPPP!!!! It's driving me mad!

cdodd

anyone with a hotpoint any idea where the filter might be? i have looked in the instruction manual and under maintenance their is no mention of a filter just the monthly hot wash previously mentioned

Thanks for your help

Angua2

according to a forum, it's "hidden inside the sump hose"

have a look at http://www.washerhelp.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=81

cdodd

Angua2 wrote: »

according to a forum, it's "hidden inside the sump hose"

have a look at http://www.washerhelp.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=81

thanks for that, seems a little difficult though if you have to get to the back of the machine, far more sensible for it to be at the front

Angua2

cdodd wrote: »

thanks for that, seems a little difficult though if you have to get to the back of the machine, far more sensible for it to be at the front

i so agree! zactly why my indesit has not has its filter done in nearly 6 years :eek:

dubgirl

Aside from the filter dont forget the drawer, mine gets yucky quickly and then the crud will get onto your clothes. I put my machine on a short v hot wash about once a month with a load of vinegar. Also put washing soda crystals in every wash, originally did it as an alternative to vanish - too expensive and it appears to work as a stain remover and I think it helps to keeps tubes etc clear.

the_gorgeous_one

Do you add the soda crystals in with the wash load or into the drawer. Also I bought Sainsburys own brand of washing powder at 1.61 for a large box, it cleans well and doesn't clog as much as some of the more expensive brands

jackieb

cdodd wrote: »

anyone with a hotpoint any idea where the filter might be? i have looked in the instruction manual and under maintenance their is no mention of a filter just the monthly hot wash previously mentioned

Thanks for your help

I've always had Hotpoint washing machines. I'm pretty certain they don't have filters. Not the most recent ones anyway. If they have i've never cleaned them out.:eek: I clean the filter regularly on my Hotpoint condenser drier, and I always keep the drawer in the washer clean.

I know a Hotpoint repairman and he never mantioned a filter when he came to fix my machines. He did advise me not to use fabric softener sheets in the drier though. He says it took the drier a lot longer to dry the clothes if you used them. I'm pretty sure he would have told me to clean out the washing machine filter if there'd been one.

I found this online.

Examples of washing machines that sometimes have a hidden filter are Indesit, Candy and Hoover. Most washing machines do not hide the pump filter. Hotpoint and Creda often have a pump filter hidden in the sump hose (leading to the pump from the tub), which is not meant to be customer accessible. This is a stupid place to put a pump filter because when it gets blocked, most people are forced to call out an engineer.

pigpen

Hotpoint and Creda often have a pump filter hidden in the sump hose (leading to the pump from the tub), which is not meant to be customer accessible. This is a stupid place to put a pump filter because when it gets blocked, most people are forced to call out an engineer.

Most people are forced to call out an engineer at £70+ an hour and a £150+ callout fee!!! Unless they are clever enough to have a warranty.. Hence I stick with Zanussi after a nightmare time with hotpoints.

jackieb

The only reason I bought Hotpoint was because I knew someone who worked for them and i'd get it fixed dirt cheap. He's retired now but I have an insurance plan for all my kitchen appliances with Scottish Gas (worth if for me because when my drier died I got £150 from SG towards a a new one). When this Hotpoint dies I think I may go for something different. I'd love, love a Meile. I saw one with a 10yr parts and labour warranty. Cost an arm and a leg but at the rate I go through washing machines it'd probably be worth my while.

Sorry, going off on a bit of a tangent there.

As you were.

piggybankrupt

I've been using Vanish oxiclean with my whites & the pink one with colours but it costs a fortune & doesn't seem to make much difference!. Those of you who use soda crystals instead where do you put them, how much & can you use them with colours???