It ain't first of May, but someone was moving house!
Walking home on a beautiful night spied usual tell tale signs of someone having moved house; appliances out for rubbish collection.
Nothing terribly interesting caught my eye at first, just a Bissel stick vac. Then spied a little Haier washer. Unusually hoses were attached and power cord not clipped.
At first was just going to take inlet hose (can never have too many), then saw how light and rather puny unit was and, oh well; when the cat's away this mouse will play.
Hailed a taxi, chucked thing into back (it was an SUV) so here I am with this:
https://www.haierappliances.com/appliance/1-0-Cu-Ft-Portable-Washer-HLP21N
Got her indoors and figured since next day was rubbish day if thing didn't work out it would go.
Plugged unit in and all proper lights came on. Poured kettle of water in tub; no leaks, so far so good. Poured another kettle full of water into machine and set it to "drain", which it did.
Today after wiping thing down with disinfectant (well you never know where things have been do you?) rolled it up to sink, connected hoses and did a maiden clean out wash. Unit worked perfectly. My hunch was correct then, someone was moving house and just binned things they no longer needed.
First real was was two pairs of jeans on "Normal". Am not totally keen on impeller washers of this sort, but have to say the Haier did manage decent roll over which always gets points in my book.
Came time for spinning after main wash and trouble began. Unit would do short spins, stop, start to spin again, stop.. Finally stopped and began flashing lights.
Figured at once load was unbalanced so opened up washer and took jeans out. Sure enough they were a tangled mess and that as causing unbalanced load. Untangled, put things back in, lowered lid and machine completed spin and rest of cycle (rinse, final spin) without issue.
All and all things seemed to come out clean. Will no more after things are dry; they're on clothes horse now so won't be until later.
Minor things; unit won't wash, rinse or spin with lid open. Fill or drain yes, but otherwise it just sits there beeping until lid is shut.
No lint filter. Not really a huge issue as bunged a few of those Asian net things recommended by another member.
Will hang onto unit for a few weeks before deciding to perhaps move it on to someone in need.
Walking home on a beautiful night spied usual tell tale signs of someone having moved house; appliances out for rubbish collection.
Nothing terribly interesting caught my eye at first, just a Bissel stick vac. Then spied a little Haier washer. Unusually hoses were attached and power cord not clipped.
At first was just going to take inlet hose (can never have too many), then saw how light and rather puny unit was and, oh well; when the cat's away this mouse will play.
Hailed a taxi, chucked thing into back (it was an SUV) so here I am with this:
https://www.haierappliances.com/appliance/1-0-Cu-Ft-Portable-Washer-HLP21N
Got her indoors and figured since next day was rubbish day if thing didn't work out it would go.
Plugged unit in and all proper lights came on. Poured kettle of water in tub; no leaks, so far so good. Poured another kettle full of water into machine and set it to "drain", which it did.
Today after wiping thing down with disinfectant (well you never know where things have been do you?) rolled it up to sink, connected hoses and did a maiden clean out wash. Unit worked perfectly. My hunch was correct then, someone was moving house and just binned things they no longer needed.
First real was was two pairs of jeans on "Normal". Am not totally keen on impeller washers of this sort, but have to say the Haier did manage decent roll over which always gets points in my book.
Came time for spinning after main wash and trouble began. Unit would do short spins, stop, start to spin again, stop.. Finally stopped and began flashing lights.
Figured at once load was unbalanced so opened up washer and took jeans out. Sure enough they were a tangled mess and that as causing unbalanced load. Untangled, put things back in, lowered lid and machine completed spin and rest of cycle (rinse, final spin) without issue.
All and all things seemed to come out clean. Will no more after things are dry; they're on clothes horse now so won't be until later.
Minor things; unit won't wash, rinse or spin with lid open. Fill or drain yes, but otherwise it just sits there beeping until lid is shut.
No lint filter. Not really a huge issue as bunged a few of those Asian net things recommended by another member.
Will hang onto unit for a few weeks before deciding to perhaps move it on to someone in need.
