Comment on Is my laundry machine broken?

Mormegil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also, clothes washers don’t normally contain heating elements. They rely on your external water heater (though I have known dishwashers to have heating elements, despite being connected to hot water).

  If you’re concerned, feel the water as the washer is filling up. It should feel warm. It may even burn you on the hottest setting.

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  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s either totally wrong or depends on where you live (and the model you have). Where I’m from, that’s not a thing. Washers are connected to a cold water supply and heat the water themselves.

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    • Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Probably varies by area then. Around here, every washer I’ve ever owned (or used at an apartment complex) had two water lines going into it.

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      • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I don’t think I’ve seen that anywhere in Europe at least

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      • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Interesting. I actually wonder why we don’t have that here (Israel), since the majority of homes have sun-heated water. In the summer, the hot tap can reach scalding steaming temperatures (I’m not joking). It’s a shame to let all that free energy go to waste.

        Though to be fair, I’ve lived in apartments where the cold tap is scalding hot in the summer too, because the pipe is exposed to the sun. In that case, the washer gets a free ride, whether it needs it or not!

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    • TheWilliamist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m fairly certain that Japanese apartments (at least micro ones) only have a cold water hookup for washing machines.

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  • VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is not true in large parts of the world.

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  • chris@l.roofo.cc ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s mostly a thing in 110V regions. Same for dishwashers. 230V gives you enough watts to heat your water fast.

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  • Mormegil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    every single washing mashine I ever owned has internal heating - maybe that’s different in the US, don’t know about that, but here in europa that’s completly normal.

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    • seathru@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Opposite in the US. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a base consumer model with internal heating.

      If you look up the hardware for installing a washing machine https://www.lowes.com/search?searchTerm=washing+machine+outlet+box they all have spigots for hot and cold water.

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  • Zier@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I use an Electrolux front loader and it will heat water based on the setting you choose, as well as being connected to hot & cold lines.

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  • Melonpoly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I haven’t seen a separate hot water inlet in a machine in decades…

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