Washing machine broken!

Mine tends to wait until holiday times to cause the most inconvenience it is under a repair contract and usually they come quite quickly. Fortunately if it goes totally kaput we have a local electrical goods supplier who can have a new machine with me in hours.

Have you tried taking the filter out first, or fuse?
Sometimes it won’t spin, or drain if the filter is blocked.

it makes me wonder how our grandmothers, managed especially with those large families
Because they couldn’t afford the time or money to put something in the wash that’s only been worn once or twice.

It is not only our grandmothers who hand washed. I didn't have a machine until both my daughters were out of nappies. I stood at the kitchen sink every morning scrubbing away at our clothes, with the nappies in the Baby Burco boiler beside me. More often than not it boiled over, taking the colour out of the red Marley floor tiles. However, I was lucky enough to own a spin dryer, which spun faster than automatic washers do.
I hope you soon get a your machine repaired or replaced.