How Do You Drain A Broken Washing Machine?
The advent of the automatic clothes washing machine eliminated most of the manual labor involved in washing clothes. Nowadays, we just fill the washer with clothes, add detergent, and switch it on and the washer does the rest automatically. When the washer is turned on, the tub fills up with the correct amount of water. When the wash cycle is over, the clothes are rinsed with fresh water and then spun dry. Unfortunately, mechanical things eventually wear and break. In this case, the washer’s pump could quit working and leave you with a washer full of water and clothes. In order to service the washer, the water must be drained out. Unplug the power to the washer. Turn the hot and cold water supply valves off by turning the handles in a clockwise direction. (The valves are usually mounted on the wall behind the washer.) Use a pair of pliers and remove the flexible hot and cold water supply hoses from the back of the washing machine near the top by turning the fittings in a counter-clockw
