The whole wash was estimated 72 minutes when it started.
It weighs the clothes by inertia in the beginning, I didn’t overload, and the water (hot and cold) comes in fast through thick pipes, so there’s no excuse for this.
How dumb must the program be to estimate one minute left in the beginning of the rinse cycle with two rinses and a spin cycle to go?
The building and presumably the machine were made 2018, and the maintenance log on the side says many repairs have been made since, so the software must have been updated many times already.
Maybe it’s not the water intake but the drainage pump taking longer than expected, prolonging the last cycles? I have a machine that does that, coincidentally
That pump is inside the machine – I shall observe whether the water comes out (to an open drain) as fast as usual, and if not, report to maintenance.
This is something I always loved about macOS: the file copy dialogue was always very accurate.
Clearly you use different Macs than the ones I’m familiar with (although to be fair, it’s not as bad as it used to be). But I’ve heard them called “Apple minutes” due to the same thing.
Usually this indicates that the drainage cycle is repeated again and again as the wash is still “too wet”.
Could have all kinds of reasons, check the drain sieve in particular, mine had this silver “sheen” clogging everything that was packed and hardened bits of plastic and fibre mushed together.
I know that modern dryers often use a humidity sensor, and I can imagine that it’s maybe hard to project that.
But I don’t know what sort of sensors or dynamic wash time a washer would use. I thought that they were just timer-based.
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Oh. Sounds like they use water level sensors and time to drain is a factor, so if the draining is really slow, that it’ll do that.
My clothes washer has had one minute left for the past 7 minutes. (i.redd.it)
Funny… Someone else had a similar issue a few days ago. This was my reply to them:
This sounds like a drainage issue. Not uncommon. I first learned of this on my previous washer several years ago.
The machine took a lot longer to drain than it should have, so what should’ve taken a minute or two, took 15.
A potential cause is that your drainage filter is clogged. Most people don’t even know they have one, much less how to clean it.
In MOST modern washers, it’s behind a small hatch on the front of the machine. (It may be located elsewhere, depending on your model.). Open the hatch, pull out a short hose, unplug the stopper on the hose to drain any excess water (into a small container of some sort). Then remove the filter…
The filter itself is typically a cylindrical piece that resides next to the hose. The filter may need to be unlocked somehow to remove it, but either way, once you slide it out you can clear it off of any buildup of hair, lint, and other gunk that’s collected on it.
Check your user manual (or Google) for your specific model.
If they have a display capable of it, might be a good idea for washers to suggest to the user that it’s draining slowly and that checking the filter might be in order.
A clogged drainage filter will make it take longer than anticipated. It’s usually lack of maintenance when these timers get THIS bad.
But even different materials hold water differently, it’s all an estimate based off of averages. Washing bedding or wool items? Probably gonna be 15% longer.
