It could have been a lot of water on the floor, but the washing machine decided to fail in two modes at once.
In truth, the machine has had some minor glitches in it’s 13 or so year existence. But it has continued to provide service without major interruption.
It lost a bit of its rubber o-ring type seal that keeps the water in and the area outside the door dry. And the bit that is gone is at the low point, don’t ya know it would be at the place where it could actually leak. So we have been pushing the door shut with a laundry detergent bucket for a few years. The water leak is minimal, and it all works fine.
Very early on in the machines tenure in our house a bit of the door latch broke off. The latch is a two part affair, with an upper part for the on-off switch and the lower part for the door latch/lock. The lower part was broken, but the previously described laundry bucket did the trick for this as well.
We recently had a friend attempt a home repair.
This actually resulted in us looking for a replacement latch, finally.
Which we found, and installed this AM.
It should work now, with maybe a little leak. But no such luck.
And the laundry bucket that should be keeping the floor dry was not enough to make the machine go either.
A broom handle wedged between the laundry chute and machine was finally enough force to make it think it was OK to run.
Guess we will have to call in a pro this time.
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