Who turns off their water valves??

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Bryan

Honey bunnie, *cough*

I DID turn the valve back on. For some reason I have NEVER been able to get hot water into the machine. As it is now, Cold water valve is on, the HOT button has to be engaged in order for the COLD to come out. Cold water will not come out with the cold button pushed in. Hot water will not come out unless it is hooked up to the Cold inlet on the machine.
It's strange. Oh well, I am fine with this.

If I ever need a really hot wash, I can just fill it up from the hot water hose. LOL

I think I might have posted something on this before.
And the hoses are hooked up to the right faucets.
So no one better give me any lip. ;-)

I know who I can call...hehe
 
WOW!

You guy's are so skittish. I don't turn anything off. ( Boy I'm I gonna hear it for that!)If it leaks, blows up, I just fix it. Do any of you turn off the water to the hot water tank too? Guess I'm just lazy!
 
Believe it or not, my gran used to turn off her oil fired boiler when it was not being "used". That is if one wanted to take a bath, do laundry, wash dishes etc, one had to go down the cellar stairs and flick the switch to the boiler. If you forgot to turn off the boiler after whatever you needed hot water for, there was heck to pay. Usually in the form of a switch.

Gran also turned off her oil boiler/steam heat at night when she went to bed. It was turned on again when she woke up (if she deemed it cold enough). Getting up winter mornings while staying there was pure sadism. One didn't wish to leave the warmth of all those bed covers for the ice house conditions beyond! *LOL*

L.
 
Of course, now I have to figure out why I can't get hot

It's possible that some sediment was stirred up and has clogged a screen before the machine's inlet valve.

ALSO:
Unsolicited Toggle tid-bit.
If your cut-offs are valves, do not open them all the way; back off a quarter of a turn. If they become frozen *open* you can turn them in either/both directions to get them unstuck.
 
Ok

Steve, the sediment thingy is what I was thinking. BUT...
Not a drop of hot will fill this machine. It's like its froze up in there or something.

Like I said before, it's cold water, with the hot button engaged. Nada when the cold water button is pushed in.
Everything is hooked up to where it is suppose to be hooked up, and everything is turned on where it is suppose to be turned on.

I'm not a complete idiot, blonde, yes, idiot, sometimes, but not completely. :-)

And please, no smart @$$ remarks, I'm in a really good mood today. Don't ruin it.

XO-C
 
Let me try to

Plump up your good mood, mom.
what happens with both supplies on and the warm button
pressed? If it has one that is, of course. Maybe you need to replace the whole inlet valve assy. I probably should shut my pie hole since I haven't paid close attention to all of the details! So much for good mood plumping!!
 
Maytagmom,

If you leave the taps turned off and start the machine filling, do you hear a humming if you switch between hot and cold?

Are you able to select your rinse temps seperately? I thought a lot of the maytags had cold rinses by default? Could it be that the valve assembly has been wired up wrong?
 
Darrell...when both faucets are ON, if I press in the warm or the hot...NADA.
Nathan....if I turn the taps off, I won't get any water in there dear! LOL
BUT...You made a good point...when I was standing there messing with this 2 wkends ago, there is a higher pitched "hum" when the Hot button is engaged. (no water coming out, with hot or warm button pressed in)
No I am not able to select rinse temps. This is a MaytagA606.
Pretty basic.
Thanks guys for your help. Looks like you both came up with the valve ass'y. I will look for one next wk, when I go back to my newfound appliance graveyard!
I'm still not sure if that is what it is, trying to contact another member by phone, who has the 411 on these old Maytags

C-still in a good mood cuz it's TGIF!!!!!
 
My Mom never turns her water faucets off, and it would always drive my Dad and I nuts. I swore once I had my own home the faucets would and are turned off after each time. My wife was already in the habit of turning off the water, so that was one less thing to disagree about.
 
turning off valves

Did I ever turn off my water valves? No. Did my mother ever turn them off? No. I first read this thread last night. Just went back to the washer area in the far corner of the basement. The floor was wet. The water was warm. Checked the water tank. Nothing. Guess what???? The hose on the Dependable Care had ruptured at the washer, not the valve. Sure glad I found it tonight, was just about ready to turn in for the night. Will I turn off the valves from here on????? You had better believe I will.....good thing there is a floor drain near the washer(s).....
 
When I moved from my rental home to a newly purchased home in '97, I had to move the '83 Whirlpool washer. To my surprise the hot water hose was just about to burst. It had an ping pong ball sized bulge in the rubber casing right at the washer... a bit scary. Luckily it hadn't burst, and the washer sat on a small enclosed landing that was a step down from the kitchen. So it wouldn't have caused damage to the rest of the home, but it still would have looked bad to the landlady. Those hoses were probably original in '83 (previous tenant), so they lasted about 15 years before showing imminent signs of failure.

As I said before, the laundry closet for my Neptune pair is smack dab in the center of the new home (well, new in 1941), on the same level. So if it flooded, it could cause a lot of collateral damage. Early on I decided on stainless braided hoses and shutting off the water whenever I am finished with the laundry for the day. So far, so good.

If I'm going to be away from home for more than a week or so, I'll shut off the main water to the home, the water heater, and unplug anything not needed to ward off intruders. Things look a little different when you own instead of rent... 'cause any repairs come out of my pocket - don't want to even call the insurance company about it unless it's a major disaster.
 
When my house was built in 1978, I installed a new GE washer with rubber hoses. In the 27 years it was in service I only had to shut off the water one time, when the pump froze up and I had to replace it. Last year I replaced the GE with a Kenmore 44092 frontloader on a pedestal. It is so much taller that I couldn't reach the valves behind it without climbing on something. After reading a number of alarmist posts both here and on THS bemoaning the low quality of equipment (both hoses and washer inlet valves) available today, I used stainless steel hoses and had a plumber replace the original valves with quarter-turn ball valves with long levers. I can open and close them by reaching over the machine with a specially-designed implement (actually a carpenter's level) and now I leave them closed when not doing laundry. Ironically, the drywall in the laundry closet looks like it is waterlogged anyway. The water softener backwash drain empties into the washer standpipe, and the plastic line that carries it had split. Since the softener recharge occurred at night and every other week or so, it leaked for a long time until the day I walked into the room without shoes and my feet got wet.
 
Speed Queen Washer

Hello Panthera!
Sorry, haven't been here for quite a while......
Yes, got my machine from EBAY. As the Americans left here their barracs, mostely a few years ago, many laundretts were closed and emptied. So some people in these areas picked them machines up and sold them at EBAYs...
It's my second SpeedQueen and I'm very content with it!
But nevertheless the best machine I've ever had - and still have - is my HOTPOINT TwinTub!!!
Other possibility to get american washers might be just to order them in America....
Ralf from Leverkusen/Germany
 
Tap Dance

I dont think the English turn there taps off - I never do, my mum never does, nor my brother or anyone elses house I have been in. Mostly our machines are built in, so the power and water stays on 24/7 , never ever had any problems, and over here we only have the plastic hoses, never seen a metal braid in use at all. There have been times where my mums machine has been leaking, due to a bad connection, and i have known her put a little tyb under it to catch the leak rather than turn off the water!!! Its just wasy too much much fuss to do that all the timel, I like my appliances powered up and with water to be used whenever needed.

I know all manafacturers put in instruction books to turn off power and water after each use but this is NOT a sign of bad workmanship, but a sign of the SUE culture we have. Its just an unbrella clause, so they can turn around and say "we told u to turn off the water" if the thing floods. Look in all modern manuals and you should be unplugging everything even the microwave with a clock!!! there so scared of law suits.

However this being said if I go on holiday then Ill turn off the water to the machine, even the house / flat, but not normally, its always on and always watered up! i think thats pretty much the same thought here in the UK everyone leaves there taps open.
 

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