Hi,

I read through all the washing machine posts, but didn't see this question (sorry if I missed it and am being redundant!).

We recently purchased a 14 yr old 2 story home with the laundry room on the second floor. When I run the machine, we are getting water leaking on to the opposite side of the wall (in the family room, not the laundry room) and down into the garage through the ceiling. There is no water coming into the laundry room at all.

My husband has sawed through the sheet rock at the back of the washer and we can't seem to find the leak. Any thoughts?

Thanks!
Susan

Check to make sure the water isn't running down the outside of the drain pipe. If it is, you probably have a plug in the drain pipe.

The water has to be coming from somewhere. Since you opened the drywall already, you need to look a bit harder. Maybe it only happens when you aren't looking ;^)

Hi Susan,

Does the leak starts when the machine is filling water or during the drain cycle?

Next time when do your laundries have a flash light ready and look for the leak when machine starts filling and also during the draining cycle, Thanks.

John

Thanks so much for helping us out! Here's what we have noticed:

It seems to happen during the drain & spin cycle... we watched the machine a few times during this process and didn't see anything obvious. We also have noticed that it seems to happen on the "large" and "super" load capacity settings and not on the "small" or "medium" settings.

I wonder if maybe there is some sort of hose inside the machine itself that could be clogged? Maybe the water is coming out of the bottom of the machine and leaking into the wall. There is not anything coming from any pipes in the wall that we can find. There also isn't any water in the laundry room, which seems weird...

Thanks!

The large and super load settings use more water. More water, to me, implies a plug in the pipe and an overflow somewhere.

It should be possible to see this somehow.

As your washing machine drains it slowly overflows over the top of stand pipe. Watch the cycle again and see if my assumption is correct.