O wise interwebs...

[strange_complex]

...what manner of thing might be wrong with one's washing-machine if it performs the spin cycle in an apparently normal fashion, making all the usual judders and space-ship-about-to-take-off noises that washing-machines make, but the clothes still need wringing out by hand before you can hang them up to dry?

If it makes any difference, this is definitely A Change - it was fine a month ago, but has developed this problem over the last few weeks.

Edit: I've now cleaned the filter by opening a little panel at the front, which yielded quite a lot of water, a few bits of fluff, and one of those ivory-coloured plastic toothpicks which slots into the end of a Swiss Army knife. If anyone wants the latter, I'll gladly post it to them - I'm the kind of person who never lost mine, but I know a lot of people do.

Comments

[captainlucy.livejournal.com]

From what you've said here, it definitely sounds like it was the filter. It doesn't take that much to block them (I've managed it with a single tissue in a pocket before!) but thankfully it's normally not that difficult to undo the damage, as you seem to have done already. :)

I would put the washing machine through a short wash cycle with nothing in it, just to make sure it's worked. If it was just a blocked filter, it should drain quite easily (plus being on an empty cycle it should help flush out any stray gunk you didn't get when you cleared the filter out).

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I've left it doing an experimental cycle this morning - actually with stuff in it, since the problem isn't so bad I expect to come home and find the floor awash, or the drum still full of undrained water. We'll see what happens when I get back...