Washing machine dilemma
 

Our hotpoint washer is 8 years old and works fine
But the tray where the soap goes has broken off at the side and has to be replaced
But you can't just buy the drawer you have to buy the full front panel
This costs £116 from hotpoint
Now with the washer being 8 years old do I just replace the panel and risk the machine not breaking down anytime soon or do I buy a new washer?:confused:

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Try a quiet word with the guys at the local dump/recycling centre.

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Just use tablets e.g. Ariel Liqui Tabs that go in the drum with the washing, then you don`t need the drawer, or have a look on ebay some on there for a few quid.

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Mick, the water feeds into the soap tray so you need it in place.
Get one of the two part adhesives(Aroldite?) , two tubes in a pack, they set like rock when you mix them.£3 or £4.
Give the tray and the side a thorough clean,stick the side on with them, put plenty of glue on the inside then it doesn't interfere with the drawer fit in the washer. Don't put too much setting agent in, it thins the adhesive down, you want it nice and thick. So let it set for a full day to be sure.
I've repaired all sorts of things with that stuff, it's really strong and sticks to anything.
Then use tablets or capsules as gpick 24 suggests so you don't need to move the drawer again.

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I use Washing liquid. But put it in a dispenser in the drum......They come on the screw top of Surf liquid.
I think Gordon's solution is top drawer:D......sorry couldn't resist that.

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The bit of plastic only has a very thin edge to stick onto the door then the soap dispenser sits in another very thin bit of plastic" _| "like this poor design molded out of one bit once it snaps very hard to grip until it sets

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It's hard to say without seeing the bits.
Don't use it as an edge to edge glue like Loctite. If you can build up a layer between the two bits where it won't catch on other parts.
Another solution is to leave the drawer out and seal the hole or seal the remains of the drawer in place with silicone rubber.
I never use the drawer, I just use tablets.

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Try some "Hard Plastic Glue" from Wilkinsons Mick to stick the edges, use masking tape to support the assembly until it sets. Then use the new wonder moldable glue Sugru to reinforce the inner wall. Sugru has a short shelf life so check before you buy (Wilkinsons again) and go for the pack with the longest shelf life because that does affect its properties. As GB suggests give it a good clean first, acetone or nail polish remover. Good luck.

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Oh dear, you've just suffered loose slates and things wetting everything. Now you can't wet anything because of this. Perhaps it's time you did the lottery it's a roll over, your luck has got to improve.

If not you can bring your smellies over here I'll bung them in for you.

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Now then Mick...that's an offer you can't refuse...someone else doing the washing!

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I think the wife will have a say on this
Just found out she also has a say on the washing machine repair too :eek:

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I know what I would do.....it would be a trip to a certain white goods shop....or better still AO.
At least that way you know that you are not going to be faced with further expensive breakdowns.
My current washer is 15 at the end of this month.....I keep waiting for it to go on the fritz.....then I would get a quieter model with a larger load capacity and a faster spin speed.
I really do hope I haven't jinxed it by saying that(she said, rubbing her hands and smiling)

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If you use normal PVC insulation tape with araldite the tape peels off the araldite when it's gone hard. You can use it to hold the glue where it would normally run off and to make fillets with the glue to give more strength to 2 glued pieces

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That's the problem using Araldite Neil, it is runny for want of a better word. Hard plastic glue melts and fuses the pieces with less drips. Remember Airfix kits and that glue?

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Washing machines – tell me about them! So frustrating. My machine works brilliantly – that is when it wants to! When it’s not in the right mood it will do a cycle or two and then stop, refusing to budge no matter how much I plead with it.

Switched off and given a break, on being restarted it will then come to the party and perform like a trouper. This is usually after I have threatened to throw it and given it a few kicks at the risk of breaking a toe or two.

I decide I will have to replace it but then it goes well so I change my mind – that is until it has the sulks again. It has become a battle between woman and machine and this woman does not like to be beaten – when I win I savour the victory as I hang out the spoils.

In the meantime I find myself talking to a bleeding machine……

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There is nothing unusual in talking to machines. I do it all the time Dotti.

The time to REALLY get worried is if you find that they answer you back!
If that happens, then you need serious help :D

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Careful here, they are called telephones..... ????

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It's been a longtime since you bought a washing machine then Margaret
They now have wifi machines that you can download new programs on your IPad for them they play music at the end of the programme and also some that speak to tell you when the programme has finished:D:D

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Nowt wrong wi a posser an a tub!
And they don't break down or talk back.

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Now that the River Stink has been all cleaned up, send the old lady ... and the laundry of course ... down to the river. All that exercise will keep her in shape for some serious housework. Admittedly, it will kill off most of the fish and drive the rest away; but soon the old Stink will be back to that un-pristine state we knew and loved when we were nippers.:mosher:

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no....really......well the phone isn't talking is it..it is the person on the other end of the line.......and please don't cite the talking clock.

No Mick....I'm not buying it. Who on earth would want their washer playing music to them.......all I want mine to do is....the washing.
Mine beeps when the cycle is finsihed, but I amususally there hovering waiting for the time lapse on the door so that i can get the clean stuff out.

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no....really......well the phone isn't talking is it..it is the person on the other end of the line.......and please don't cite the talking clock.

No Mick....I'm not buying it. Who on earth would want their washer playing music to them.......all I want mine to do is....the washing.

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Samsung WF12F9E6P4W 12kg Wi-Fi Washing Machine

This one is wifi....can't see if it plays music......but cheap it aint.

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Don't you just love it?

Easy trouble shooting, if I'd paid that much for a washer I would expect a lifetime of trouble free use.

Are they trying to say their machine is unreliable?

As for starting it from anywhere, why? Once I've filled it I would find that to be the most convenient time to press the start button, not wait until I'm somewhere else.

Unless It gives you the added thrill of not knowing if it's started until you get home?

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yes as surprises go, finding that your washer has decided to ignore you doesn't cut it for me.
As for controlling things from my phone....No, I don't want to do that. All I want my phone to do is make calls and very occasionally text.......I do not have a smart phone......I do not want a smart phone...well not unless it can do the hoovering, the washing, the ironing, the shopping and put it all away once done.
When they bring one out that does all that I will be ........DEAD!

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Does this look like it might do, it`s next to a skip opposite from my works.

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Letting us know the exact model will enable us to look out for one being dumped.

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Knowing Anne she'll already be ordering up a replacement or else Mick will be dumped.

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Sorry never thought it's a graphite colour hotpoint WMAL661 AQUARIUS

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So is it this one - HOTPOINT WMAL661 WASHING MACHINE FACIA AND BOARD | eBay

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I'm with you, Margaret, re phones. Mine is used for making and receiving calls and messages. Full stop.

However, talking about machines well I’m sure I wasn’t put on this earth to dust, and in a dusty house like ours dusting is the scourge of my life. So I would like someone to invent a machine that will do the dusting all by itself without disturbing anything on the shelves.

In the meantime if I don’t look up I won’t see the cobwebs and if I don’t put my glasses on I won’t see the dust…..

…problem solved.

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Yes but needs to be dark gray or graphite in colour
And I don't use eBay or have a PayPal account
But thanks

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Jeez you`re hard work aren`t you - Hotpoint WMAL641GUK Soap Dispenser Drawer (rotary) Margh 2 C00283629 by Indesit

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The soap dispenser is fine just need that front facia in graphite
The one in the first pic it the one we need
If you look at the second photo on the eBay link you put on of the back of the facia you can see a little grill the little strip of plastic above that grill is the bit that has snapped off it supports the drawer in a small grove

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Pm'd you Mick

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What about aralditing the soap dispenser to the door so it won't matter the supporting piece is broken off?
It will get it working again for you until she decides she's having a new one anyway. You must know that a new one is in your very near future :)

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She'll need the wooden tongs too.

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After a long consultation with the wife I er we er she decided we are getting a new washing machine my poor head
thanks for all your help
just going for a lie down in a dark room now

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It seems a sensible option to me.
Just think that you could have paid over a hundred quid for a repair and something else could fail next month.....so if you knock the cost of the repair off the price of whatever machine you get......It will seem like a real bargain.
Check out AO for their deals......Nicola got a washer from them and it was a real deal....they delivered it quickly too.

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I did warn you :)

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Neil, I think he knew this, but was clinging onto faint hope....Which in the end turned out to be no hope!

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True
Now to find a good deal and a reliable make
Also they must recycle the old washer:confused:

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A wise man knows when he's beaten! Mate, you were rounded up, backed into a corner & thoroughly trounced! :D

It happens to the best of us, I'd now be skulking & sulking in me "Man Den" licking my wounds, muttering curses & imprecations about the "Owd Baggage" while slurping a consolatory sherbet. ;)

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Glad I did not send for replacement part
The washer has totally given up so new one on order will be delivered on Tuesday at least it will keep the wife quiet:hidewall:

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dump the old one at the back alley behind Less's gate


like i did with my old microwave :D:D:D

j/k

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An even wiser man lives alone ... well, with at least one dog and a bunch of cats. Sometimes, even tho' I have a perfectly good washer and dryer in my basement, I'll do laundry at the coin wash next to Rhea's bar.:alright: I'm a decent cook; I don't make much of a mess; so, cleaning is a snap. I watch whatever I like on TV ... no chick flicks for me: hockey, baseball, and anything with a violence, coarse language, nudity, and mature themes warning. And for those "romantic benefits" that a wife supplies ... whenever she damn well feels like it, and at exorbitant cost ... why not a friend, or two, with benefits.;)

If my washer breaks down ... no problem ... I'll buy a new one when I damn well feel like it, or spend more time at Rhea's.:D

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No dilemma anymore Mick.
If a man wants a happy life, he needs to have a happy wife.
Eric, some men are mentally equipped to live alone.....they can develop strategies which cover all eventualities(as you seem to have done).
Some men(my husband is in this group) would fail miserably. He would not starve. He can clean after a fashion.(he can't manage the washing machine......he still has a dog eared set of instructions that I wrote for him when I went out to Oz for five weeks)
Emotionally he would shrivel up, if left on his own. These are his words. It is a 'mind' thing.

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A lethal combination that! In my younger & carefree days myself & other young Squaddies, used to head off to the wash house in Osnabruck to do our dobie Saturday afternoons. To while away the boring wait we'd be off over the road into the "Big Ben" a Brit pub, unfortunately this had the effect that the dobie was forgotten & the Troops would be on a bit of a session.

End result, some time Sunday evening, hordes of Troops rummaging through heaps of crumpled (but clean & usually still damp) Army clobber for something appropriate, that could be ironed & worn for Monday mornings C.O's inspection. :D

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New washing machine arrived I thought I could plumb it in myself as I did the last one but having COPD and a fractured lower spine I can't manage it
So I was wondering if any of our good members who live local could pop round and help me won't take too much of your time and would be much appreciated
I live in Persia street
PM me and I will give you full address thanks

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Help on the way thanks

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I'll bring the bag wash round later Mick:)
Glad you are sorted.
The wonder of Accyweb strikes again!

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Margaret
I ordered the washer I paid for the washer and me and a friend fitted the washer
That's the end of my responsibility
It's upto Anne now to use it so if you want to bring your washing over you better have a word with her:D

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You mean to tell me ........you aren't even going to have a little go with it?
I bought a GTech Air ram.....the Dyson died after being used to suck up builders rubble(who could blame it?)
Himself is always getting the GTech out.....something he never did with the dyson.
In fact, I think he spills crumbs on purpose.....just so that he can pick them up with this
lightweight kit.

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I do all the cooking and baking (cakes and bread) and I do the hoovering that's my lot
And just incase less asks NO I am not hoovering your house or cleaning your microwave:D

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My house doesn't need hoovering, so long as you take the precaution of walking slowly past the dust making sure not to disturb it.

As for the microwave, that won't need cleaning again for somewhere around 5 years It's had it's lifetime treat it won't get another.

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Less, after 3 years dust is sterile.

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I must be in a similar state then.

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I would not go trying to test that theory Less....you could get into an awful pickle(much worse than cleaning the inside of a microwave.....it would be something that steam would not shift:)).