Washer estimated "1 minute left", took 13 minutes to finish

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• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Usually this indicates that the drainage cycle is repeated again and again as the wash is still “too wet”.

  Could have all kinds of reasons, check the drain sieve in particular, mine had this silver “sheen” clogging everything that was packed and hardened bits of plastic and fibre mushed together.

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• SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A clogged drainage filter will make it take longer than anticipated. It’s usually lack of maintenance when these timers get THIS bad.

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• baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You know what that means - sounds like your washer needs some good old fashioned Generative AI!

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  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Imagine you can set a theme of your choice like “Star Trek technobabble” for little explanations for the delay.

    “Recalibrating chirality of phase discriminating amplifier for positronic brain…”

    Might literally be one of the best use cases I’ve seen so far!

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “Reconfiguring the primary power coupling” is my explanation when people ask of how I’m fixing something when I’m just unplugging it, waiting 10 seconds, and plugging it back in.

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• donuts@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe it’s not the water intake but the drainage pump taking longer than expected, prolonging the last cycles? I have a machine that does that, coincidentally

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  • Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That pump is inside the machine – I shall observe whether the water comes out (to an open drain) as fast as usual, and if not, report to maintenance.

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    • Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or if you use too much detergent it builds foam that needs more time to dissolve.

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• DevastatedBunghole@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Check the water filtering bit on the waste, it’s not draining as quickly as it thinks it should be

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• jafffacakelemmy@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  check the waste pipes carrying water away from the machine because there’s a blockage somewhere.

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• TehWorld@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This happens once in a while with my washer as well. My determination is that it starts to spin and is so far out of balance that it has to refill and swirl the clothes around a bit, then drain it to hopefully get a more even balance of mass so that it can properly spin. It’s much worse when there are large items, like a blanket that tend to lump on one side.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I know that modern driers often use a humidity sensor, and I can imagine that it’s maybe hard to project that.

  But I don’t know what sort of sensors or dynamic wash time a washer would use. I thought that they were just timer-based.

  kagis

  Oh. Sounds like they use water level sensors and time to drain is a factor, so if the draining is really slow, that it’ll do that.

  old.reddit.com/…/my_clothes_washer_has_had_one_mi…

  My clothes washer has had one minute left for the past 7 minutes. (i.redd.it)

  Funny… Someone else had a similar issue a few days ago. This was my reply to them:

  This sounds like a drainage issue. Not uncommon. I first learned of this on my previous washer several years ago.

  The machine took a lot longer to drain than it should have, so what should’ve taken a minute or two, took 15.

  A potential cause is that your drainage filter is clogged. Most people don’t even know they have one, much less how to clean it.

  In MOST modern washers, it’s behind a small hatch on the front of the machine. (It may be located elsewhere, depending on your model.). Open the hatch, pull out a short hose, unplug the stopper on the hose to drain any excess water (into a small container of some sort). Then remove the filter…

  The filter itself is typically a cylindrical piece that resides next to the hose. The filter may need to be unlocked somehow to remove it, but either way, once you slide it out you can clear it off of any buildup of hair, lint, and other gunk that’s collected on it.

  Check your user manual (or Google) for your specific model.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Mine has a filter light that comes on after a couple months or when it detects slow draining. Techs expensive and people buy cheap appliances. Than bitch that they aren’t fancy.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have the same problem with the machines at my apartment. Actually, I think it’s worse because it’s not supposed to be an estimate; you pay based on time and you set the time yourself. I set the dryer to 45 minutes and it sometimes takes up to an hour and a half. At least it isn’t charging me for the extra time.

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  • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I lived in an apartment complex like this. Management didn’t bother to ever clean the dryer vents, so it would take for. ev. er. to dry. It’s a wonder the laundry building didn’t catch on fire.

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• finestnothing@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If it helps, the dryer in our apartment makes a super loud buzzing for 10 seconds twice whenever it finishes unless you twist the dial to stop it early. And by loud, I mean you hear it from your neighboring apartments too. And it’s not a bug, we checked. It’s a feature.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Whenever my wife and I are talking about our washer and drier we joke that it has “13 left” (instead of “13 minutes left”) because the UI only says 13 and it often goes up again lol.

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• zante@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Microsoft Washer ?

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  • thepreciousboar@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wash 1% complete… 2% complete… 5% complete… 15% complete… 15% complete… 15% complete… 15% complete… 15% complete… 15% complete… 99% complete… 99% complete… 99% complete… 99% complete…

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ITT: OP just wants to vent, now he has a home improvement project instead.

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• boaratio@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  To co-sign on the stupidity of embedded washing machine firmware, if we lose power, the next time you start the washing machine you’re presented with an error message saying the power has failed. Like, no duh. You have to acknowledge the error message before you can start a new load.

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• user1234@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Must run Windows 95

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• RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Mine has no idea what the fuck time even is. 1 minute almost never shows up, normally it stops at 4 minutes left. But 4 minutes doesnt mean it’s nearly done, it might be about to pop this very second but also half an hour seems like a good time.

  I’ll put the fucker on for a 30 minute cycle, have a shower, get dressed and come back to 29 minutes. Idk why it even bothers with a timer if it’s literally never accurate.

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• Potatisen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is this Finnish dryer?

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  • DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Finnish late dryer.

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• frosty@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Reminds me of our Palo Alto Panorama server. Commit jumps up to 99% after 30 seconds and sits there for the next 4-6 minutes, sometimes more.

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  • lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    PA-220s be like that.

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