Early in my day my daughter complained about the washing machine. It had given us a error code of F02 the evening before and now it was fairly consistent. Washing one load of closes was not working. Knowing that with the right search I could find an answer I searched “Whirlpool Duet F02 error code” and came up with several hits.
The first one was a YouTube video so I watched it. It gave me my answer, pull the lower front off the washer and unscrew the cover on the water pump housing where there was a filter. I went to the washer and followed the instructions. Stinky water drained as I pulled out the filter which was a fairly solid mass of black spongy stinky grossness. The guy in the video said he found a sock. I found three, how could that be?
Three baby socks is about all the filter will hold. The small holes in the filter also had a few air-soft BB’s in them. Of course there was what was left of a few pens, and shredded paper. There was the imagination flowering with the thought that this washer is used to wash baby diapers as well. Realistically, that thought stunk.
I cleaned the filter out in the laundry sink, which was not draining well at all. Cleaning out the trap became the next Saturday morning job. Much to my surprise, there was more in the trap than I thought. In fact, as I lowered the trap, the slimy stretched out fibrous mass of hair, string and who knows what all snaked through the trap.
I had to cut a few hairs and a piece of string at the drain of the sink and the black snake fell to the ground. I handled it with care as this is the sink that the baby diapers get washed out in before they make their way to the diaper pail to be cued up for laundering. The thought of baby diapers decorated with what they are decorated with being rinsed off above. I guess it gives a new meaning to dingle-berry . . .
After the mass fell to the floor I picked it up with my slip joint pliers and put it on the back stoop so I could get a trash can. Can you say green toothbrush? And yes you can click on the pictures to make them bigger. However, I do not think scratching your monitor will allow you to get a whiff. You will have to use your imagination there.
I was glad to put the trap back together and be done. The day went better as I did not go anywhere where a diaper or its contents had gone before me. All because of the F02 error on the washing machine. Those darn computerized washers . . .
As for the socks, I text-ed the picture of the filter to Emily and she replied that she was missing some socks. When I was a kid I thought socks left the house because they were not happy. They always left as a single sock and never in a pair. Silly me, all these years and the socks may have been falling victim to some other problem. I will let her clean up the sock filters from the filter . . .
