Laundry Day

I'm a single male living with another single male. I do my own laundry. As luck would have it, my apartment has an in-unit washer/dryer, which makes life very convenient. Except when the washer unit malfunctions and refuses to drain the water after a spin cycle. Like today.

Uh Oh... How do I fix this?!

Like any enterprising engineer, I decided to google the problem, and I came up with an article on how to troubleshoot.

In particular, it said...

Check the tab on the lid that strikes the lid switch; if it is broken, the washer may stop during the drain cycle. Press and release the lid switch...

I tried it, hit the switch (it looks like a little indentation on the washer body, and a little spike poking out from the washer lid) a couple of times, and the washer started draining again!

Life is back to normal.