This problem may be something as simple a broken door latch assembly. This topic in the washer repair forum will help you determine whether or not this is what’s going on with your Duet or Kenmmore HE3t/4t washing machine and describes a professional-style repair.

This is a $200 piece of garbage that no self-respecting appliance repair tech on the planet would even think about servicing. These dump-fillers are literally made to be disposable. Oh, but don’t take my word for it; read this topic in the kitchen appliance repair forum.

This topic in the laundry repair forum is an excellent illustration of how to troubleshoot this particular washer problem along with general troubleshooting discipline and strategy.
Study this topic carefully and pay particular attention to the pearls of wisdom from Master Appliantologists Trying to Help and Stumpowitz. Note how they make skillful use of […]

Read the heroic saga of one Grasshopper’s struggle and ultimate triumph over a stuck agitator in her GE washer.

Some insight and cures for this problem and more in LG washers from some Master Appliantologists in this topic at the laundry repair forum.

Those braided door gaskets in Dacor oven doors are nice and fluffy and springy when they’re new. As you use the oven and spill grease on the door, the gasket will begin to compress allowing heat to escape. At some point, it will bother you enough that you’re gonna need to replace the […]

I have actually been on a service call where the customer had hired another servicer to repair this problem. The other servicer, obviously merely a parts-changing monkey and not a real technician, simply slapped in a new heating element, didn’t bother to check his work, collected his money, and left. I asked the […]

You know the story: you load up your Maytag dishwasher, start the cycle and it fills ok, but it just doesn’t sound like it’s doing any serious dishwashing. In fact, when you open the door at the end of the cycle, all your dishes still have chunks of spam and bits of spinach […]

If you’re preparing for a repair on this dishwasher or doing some troubleshooting on one, this illustrated, annotated photo of the underside will help get you familiar with the terrain. Go ahead and click the picture for the much bally-hooed annotated view. You’ll be glad you did.
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Contemplating this repair? Big job, almost a complete teardown of the washer. This slideshow will give you a peek at what you’re in for.
Have fun, Homer!

After you’ve been kicking around the Web a while, you find that you’ve scattered your photo albums among several photo-sharing websites. As newer, slicker photo storing websites come available, you start using them; I never bother to transfer my photos from the older sites, waaay too tedious and, besides, I have important things […]

Before the Great Washer Flood. Click for a larger view.

Stainless steel hoses installed after the great washer flood that cost you over $20,000 in structural repairs to your house. Click for a larger view.

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Diana opined:

I can’t find anything on a fridgidaire [sic] dryer. The drum thumps when it is running but heats up and drys [sic] clohes [sic].It is level and I’ve triied [sic] one piece at a time and still it thumps

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Well, for starters, you’re misspelling Frigidaire, among other words. Since I […]

This is usually a bad touchpad. The way to tell for sure is to kill power to the unit, take the control panel down and unplug the ribbon connector that connects touchpanel to the clock. Put it back together and reapply power. The clock will just sit there blinking and, obviously, the buttons won’t […]