In order for your home assistant to serve as long as possible, you need to know its "weak points".
Therefore, it will be better to carry out preventive repairs of your washing machine, than to spend a lot of money and time on expensive repairs and listen to the reproaches of your loved ones.
How to fight with limescale
Lime scale and water hardness. Since tap water is quite hard, and also with impurities of various suspended particles (rust), it can have a bad effect on the service life of your washing machine.
In such water, when heated, carbon dioxide is released and an insoluble mineral precipitate is formed. Over time, the heating element (tubular electric heating device) will scalewhich reduces the thermal conductivity of the metal. As a result, it overheats.
If you want, you can from time to time, check what state it is in. Through the holes in the drum you can illuminate the bottom of the tank, which is located where the heating element and see how much it is "encrusted
1.Chemicals. To combat the scale in washing machines is often used chemical methods: treat the heating element and the inside of the tank with agents for descaling, such as "Antikipin-M", "" Kron Star "and so on.
For it will be suitable only for those meanswhich only inhibits the formation of limescale, but does not dissolve it. For example, a water hardness reducing agent "Calgon", which is added to the machine with each wash. In some kinds of powders, such as "Ariel", "Persil" "softeners" are added at the factory.
The imperfection of this method is that it has a negative effect on the operation of the automatic system, on the rubber seals and the fact that you yourself breathe these vapors.
2.Technological method. When you heat water up to 50 degrees, the rate of scale formation is less than at higher temperatures.
Try to choose wash modes that are below 50 degrees.
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Also be aware that when washing heavily worn laundry, THE HEATING ELEMENT Also be aware that in the case of heavily worn laundry the heating element becomes limescale more quickly because fabric particles become separated from the laundry and cause additional limescale buildup. If you have to use very hard water, it would be better to buy magnetic converters or softener filters.
The solenoid valve is very sensitive to mechanical particles in the water. They provoke its accelerated wear and tear, when they get jammed between the gate gaskets.
Other malfunctions and remedies
Drain pump. since it is in the water most of the time, after a few years of use, it will need to be replaced. Sometimes pumps break down because small objects (paper clips, buttons, and so on) get in there. This problem can be eliminated with the pump, which has an anti-blocking.
It is present in Asko, Aeg washing machines. Thanks to it, it can pump water in the opposite direction and release the pump from the object caught in it. Some machines have an auto-drain monitoring function. It displays information about pump malfunction on the display.
The hatch door. One of the weaknesses of front-loading washing machines is rubber seal on the hatch door. If you load laundry into the machine carelessly, it can lead to a defect in the seal and its premature failure.
You should also leave the door of the machine open to dry the rubber seals and the inside of the tank (especially the enameled one).
Electronics. The most common thing that goes out of service is the handle-programmer. Occasionally, the entire electronic control system breaks down. Mainly due to oxidation of the terminals caused by high humidity.
But the most important danger is a power surge. The machine begins to malfunction (may not spin or rinse the laundry). Its service life becomes shorter, and the quality of its work becomes worse. There is only one way out: a stabilizer.
The tank. A leaking tank can lead to serious problems. When buying a machine, you need to pay special attention to the material of which it is made.
The tank can be enameled or stainless steel, as well as synthetic polymer materials (Carboran, Silitek ). It is clear to everyone that stainless steel tanks are a good thing.
In the enameled tanks, the surface in the process of operation begins to deteriorate quickly, it is worth a single crack.
It is noticed that the plastic tank can last as long as stainless steel. But the advantage of plastic is that it is less noisy and lighter. And finally, the main advantage of non-metal tanks is that they absolutely do not corrode. Also the cost of the unit with such a tank will be lower.
Vibration.
Without it at the stage squeezing stage The machine can't do without it, because due to the uneven distribution of things in the drum, it increases.
In this case, the machine begins to "bounce", which, in principle, is the cause of most failures.
To dampen the vibration, the design of the machine provides spring suspensions, anti-inertia weights of concrete or cast iron, as well as hydraulic shock absorbers of the tank. Most of the machines use concrete weights rather than cast iron.
Also, the greater mass of the machine itself helps reduce vibration. The larger the volume of the drum, the more evenly the laundry is distributed inside the drum.
In the design of the ASKO washing machine, the moving assembly is not in contact with the body. It is tightly fixed to the frame with a strong base through shock absorbers.
In general, you can overcome the vibration yourself. To do this, you need a perfectly flat floor or a specially installed foundation. Then it is desirable to fix the machine well on it.
