{"id":4738,"date":"2020-07-22T00:43:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T00:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=4738"},"modified":"2020-07-22T00:43:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T00:43:32","slug":"washing-machine-hot-water-stuck-open-not-stopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/washing-machine-hot-water-stuck-open-not-stopping","title":{"rendered":"Washing machine &#8211; Hot water stuck open ( not stopping )"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently got a second-hand washing machine, upon running through a test wash, the Hot water ran , but never shut off which could have flooded the area.<\/p><p>A washing machine has two inlet valves, one for the hot water and one for cold water. The water inlets on this obviously fails to closed position when shut off ( or it would of started to fill up when I turned the tap on ) but the electronics could not shut the valve to off when needed to only let a certain amount of water in.\u00a0<\/p><p>You can swap inlet valves yourself with a screwdriver and pliers and they cost around 20USD delivered, you can find them on eBay for the right model Make sure you get the right one , hot and cold water inlets are different<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently got a second-hand washing machine, upon running through a test wash, the Hot water ran , but never shut off which could have flooded the area.A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3323,3319,3316,3322,3318,3320,1747,3321,3317],"class_list":["post-4738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-cold","tag-cold-water-not-stopping","tag-fails-open","tag-hot","tag-hot-water-not-stopping","tag-inlet","tag-replace","tag-valve","tag-washing-machine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4740,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions\/4740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}