Personal Consumer Issues • Best Washing Machine

We have a 13 year old LG set. It worked beautifully in our old house, then again in the apartment we moved into for a few months. Then we moved here and began having the same trouble you are describing. It turns out that this home had significantly less water pressure and apparently the machine doesn’t really sense how much water goes in, it just opens the valve and lets in water for a set amount of time. We had a plumber come out and adjust something (a regulator that controls the pressure in the house) or maybe he replaced it, I don’t remember. Anyway, with the proper water pressure, the machine works fine. Perhaps this is your problem as well?

Interesting idea. There are water pressure gauges at most big box hardware stores that OP could buy to test this theory. Most are designed to fit on a 3/4" garden hose bibb, which means they should also fit on a 3/4" washing hose bibb. Such a gauge probably should only be attached to the cold water bibb, as I don't think they're meant to take in hot water. The OP could remember how many turns of the bibb valve it took to turn it off the cold water, attach the gauge, then turn the water back on by the same number of turns to get a good approximate measure of the water pressure.

Or even more simply, OP could see if the hot and cold valves on the bibbs can be opened further without leaks, and see if that allows better water depth in the washer. That's an experiment that wouldn't require a trip to the hardware store to buy a water pressure gauge.

That's super interesting, my LG here washes fine but even with the extra water has a ridiculously small amount of water in the machine. We are on a well and our water pressure is pretty average. That it is only time and not volume dependent is hilarious. What is the fix if there is no fix for the house water pressure? Do other machines detect actual volume?

Statistics: Posted by Alfonsia — Sun Sep 15, 2024 11:10 pm — Replies 58 — Views 13520