Ok i have a sq awn432sp top loading washing machine. This problem comes and goes. Now with a baby it is a problem. I go to start a load and it makes a humming noise but does not fill with water. When i disconnect the water lines from the back of the unit with the valves open there is no positive pressure or flow. Is this a plumbing or washing machine problem. My home is equipped with ips valves with mini water hammer arrestors. Help
speed queen awn432sp humms but won't fill with water
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I'm not sure what ips valves are, but if they are like flood safe hose valves ypu probably need to reset the valves by turning off the angle stops where the hoses connect to the water supplym then SLOWLY TURN the water back on. This resets the shut off safety feature. The reason that the safety feature was activated is due to some change in the water pressure. This used to happen to me whenever the main water supply to the house was turned off, then back on again. See if this works.
I was going to ask when the hoses are disconnected, can you turn on the faucets and flush water out of them?....
but true too, these could be the anti flood valved hoses....they also only allow a certain amount of water to pass through at a time.....can make for a slightly longer fill time...
but true too, these could be the anti flood valved hoses....they also only allow a certain amount of water to pass through at a time.....can make for a slightly longer fill time...
Flood Safe Hoses?
This is a Hose or plumbing problem, if the inlet hoses have a valve built-in on one end, TAKE THEM back to the store and get your money back for these USELESS hoses, you will have nothing but problems with them. If the shut-off is being caused by the devices above the hand shut off valves, call your plumber and get rid of them, these type of flood shut-off devices will NEVER WORK and will NEVER SAVE anyone any water damage, Inlet hoses almost never fail suddenly, so these devices can not work as designed.
As an appliance technician we have made a few thousand dollars on service calls to diagnose problems caused by these ineffective devices, hopefully the problems you are having is covered by a warranty.
This is a Hose or plumbing problem, if the inlet hoses have a valve built-in on one end, TAKE THEM back to the store and get your money back for these USELESS hoses, you will have nothing but problems with them. If the shut-off is being caused by the devices above the hand shut off valves, call your plumber and get rid of them, these type of flood shut-off devices will NEVER WORK and will NEVER SAVE anyone any water damage, Inlet hoses almost never fail suddenly, so these devices can not work as designed.
As an appliance technician we have made a few thousand dollars on service calls to diagnose problems caused by these ineffective devices, hopefully the problems you are having is covered by a warranty.
mrb627
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Original Hoses?
Do you still have the original hoses? I would swap the original hoses back in place of the braided ones and run it for a while to see if the problem remains or went with the braided hoses.
Malcolm
Do you still have the original hoses? I would swap the original hoses back in place of the braided ones and run it for a while to see if the problem remains or went with the braided hoses.
Malcolm
A friend had these flood stop hoses on a washer because he did not want a leak to destroy his house. Well, every time he went to use the machine, there was all of the fiddling around with those damn hoses to get the machine to fill. We finally told him to take the hoses back to Home Depot and just use regular hoses and put a note on the wall to remind himself to turn them off after each use. These hoses are the stupidest waste of time and money I can think of and I work in Washington, DC.
Can you adjust those things for the amount of water they let pass through? They might block the water flow because the max. amount of water passed through and these things "think" a flood is happening. Good is to check the max. amount, but better is to get rid of them.
I also got rid of my flood safe hoses about 3 years ago because of the hassle with resetting them every time there had been a change in the incoming water pressure. I placed a note next to the faucets to turn off the water when finished using the washer. Since my laundry is on the 2nd floor I believe that this ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure should a hose ever rupture.
