Cause I Like Rock and Stuff

We purchased a GE Adora Washer/Dryer when we bought the house. I like to call them my 4.2 cubic feet of heaven. You wouldn’t believe how much laundry you can cram into the washer at once, which for me that’s a good thing, because, well, if you’ve never heard me bitch about it before… I do A LOT of laundry. But the washing machine stopped draining. And my clothes were left sitting in a murky mess of water. It was happening every now and again, just often enough for me to start to panic and then calm back down again, but when I washed the last load of sheets the other day, I couldn’t get the water to drain. I didn’t want to call a repair man, mostly because I washed my screen cleaner shammie mouse in it and it exploded filling the washing machine and our clothes with thousands of little white plastic beads… (Because we don’t have enough other crazy stuff lying around on the floors). I knew that it wouldn’t be covered under warranty because there is no way that the repair man wouldn’t see any beads, since they seem to multiply like Gremlins when exposed to water. So I ran the rinse and spin cycle 5 different times and rewashed twice with hot water, hoping that something would free up. It didn’t. So… I Googled it. I read several reviews of people having the same problem and then found one guy that had called a repair man, only to have the repair man, open the front cover and dump the trap. Although when I pulled out the trap, it was so clogged that I had to put a trashcan under it to catch the gallon of water it released, it wasn’t clogged with the 5 million plastic beads I found inside. Instead it was clogged with three baby socks, two bolts, a washer and a drill bit and now, it works like a champ again. The guy that wrote the post mentioned that the trap cleaning isn’t listed in the owners manual, (it’s not) which means there could be thousands of people having this problem because GE didn’t add this to the manual. I hope those people find this post.

So if you have one of these washers and you want to save yourself a hundred bucks or so here’s how you do it.

Remove front panel > Unscrew the large white plastic core on the front to pull out the trap. Clean out trap > Go spend the $100.00 that you saved on not calling a repair man at the mall on Starbucks, Cinnabon and new shoes, (I skipped this step and it’s still working just fine, so it can be optional).
And those sheets that got rinse and spun and then washed two other times in an attempt to drain?
Man, those are some clean sheets.