Washer's busted

[conuly]

The money comes in and then it falls back out again.

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Comments

[moxie_man]

Depends on how its busted and the make/model and year. Sometimes, it's an easy fix. On mine, we lost the pump 6 years back. It was a "plug and play" model and if I had known that in advance, I could have swapped it out myself rather than pay the $150 fee (on top of the cost of the part) to have a repairman come out to do it. HE leaned the washer machine back 45 degrees, asked me to hold it in place. He reached down, quarter-twist to pop the old unit off (and one small wire plug). Then did that in reverse with the new unit. All fixed in under 10 minutes. The pump was $180, so, $330 total. You look at what a new washer costs and that was the better option in our case. There are enough step-by-step do-it-yourself videos out there that I'm surprised there are any repair people left.

[conuly]

I'm 95% sure I know what the problem is, but when I looked up a repair guide the difficulty was three wrenches, and I'm not a three wrench kinda person. I'm a one wrench person!

[moxie_man]

Ugh. That's too bad.