Washing machine keeps humming after cycle finishes
The washing machine gets stuck making a continuous humming or draining noise during or after the drain and spin phase, regardless of load size. While unplugging the machine stops the sound temporarily, the humming immediately resumes as soon as it is plugged back in. This prevents the cycle from finishing and leaves the washer stuck making the noise for extended periods.
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Washing machine keeps humming after cycle finishes
- 1Unplugging the washing machine between usesDid this help you?
- 2Replacing the main control boardDid this help you?
- 3cleaned the drain pipe, replaced the sensorDid this help you?
- 4taking the drain pump apart to find what is caught in itDid this help you?
In their words
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“It does it after every cycle regardless of load size. It has no issues other than this. We can unplug it and as soon as we plug it back in it starts making the noises again.”source ↗
“Had this error - cleaned the drain pipe, replaced the sensor. I get this noise on the drain and spin.”source ↗
“I was able to drain and spin and it stopped in the middle of it. Now it’s just stuck on this humming sound for like 20 minutes”source ↗
Where this came up
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