As a writer for Forbes Home since 2021, Emily specializes in writing about home warranties, solar installations, car transportation and moving companies. With a background in journalism and experience ...

Walking up to your washing machine and finding the drum full of standing water is one of the frustrating experiences of doing laundry. That heavy load of clothes is now trapped in the machine, and ...

Q: I threw a load of clothes in the washer a while ago, and when I came back to put them in the dryer they were still submerged in water! It looks like the washing machine never drained. The machine ...

Sopping wet clothes at the end of a wash signals that your washer won’t spin. Depending on the model and age of your machine, there are likely a number of reasons why the washer won’t spin: You might ...

While tech advances have given us all some impressive washing machine features, the core of the machine remains simple: Water is pumped in a big drum with cloths, the big drum spins around, and water ...

When there are too many clothes stuffed into the drum, your washer won't be able to spin as fast, and in some cases, it may stop spinning altogether. The weight of all this laundry can unbalance your ...

I have a 1990s Maytag A209 top loading washing machine that came with the house. It's the model with Small, Medium, and Large loads, not Extra-Large. Recently it began continuing on to the next wash ...