We have a Maytag Atlantis washer, 8 years old. Recently the cold water periodically stopped working. It either works or doesn't-- there's no trickle or partial pressure. When it is not working, when drawing cold, we will hear a hum, but no water. The warm water works fine and the Hot works fine. If I reverse the hoses to the faucets, setting the washer on hot will properly draw cold and setting the washer on cold will draw nothing (even though attached to the hot faucet). Warm will draw warm with the hoses reversed. I replaced the solenoid and it did not solve the problem; I'm wondering if it is the temperature control switch, the board, or something else. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help! I'm certain at 8 years this washer isn't worth putting to much more money into!
Check the solenoid valves. If it's connected to hard water, the minerals build up inside and won't let the internal plunger move.
SOURCE: the cold water won't fill the washer. When I
I just had this exact same issue on mine. There is a small screen on the inside of where the cold water hose attaches. Mine was plugged almost solid with small pieces of rock and minerals, I have hard water. You can access the screen very easily by shutting of the hot and cold valves that supply water to the washer, remove both hoses from the back of the washer, and just inside where the hoses attach there are small screens. You can pry them out with a small screw driver and flush them out in the sink. Then simply bend them back into shape and re-install them, hook up the hoses and turn the water back on.
SOURCE: Water drip into washer, used to gush in. Now water pipes bang, whine
The problem is the 10 cent rubber washer in a shut off valve in your plumbing. The brass screw that holds this washer has corroded and the washer has come loose. It now floats around inside the valve and the water flow can be blocked at one time, whistle, howel and make bangs at another. It could be any valve including the main shut off. You can listen to the pipes but the sound travels, so you are looking for the loudest spot. A new washer and screw could fix it, but sometimes the screw is broken off requiring a new valve stem. Be prepared to replace the whole valve.
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