One summer the water connection to the washing machine started to leak.
The hot and cold water hoses are connect to a blue plastic component inside the washing machine. It had cracked right where the hoses connect. No problem, a replacement part is located, purchased and installed. Washing machine fixed, or so I thought.
The machine is pretty basic. There are two settings, a normal wash and a “super” wash. I always use the “normal” setting which is a warm water wash. My sister always uses the “super” setting, a hot only water wash. The blue part that I replaced controls the water mix for these two settings.
Later in the summer my sister says that the hoses must be connected wrong as the wash water was always full cold! I checked and no, I’d connected the hot water line to the connection marked “hot” which is stamped into the sheet metal next to the appropriate connector. I try it out and it seems fine to me. My sister trys it and nope, still cold water wash. They reverse the hoses and are happy that the wash is now hot. I’m still puzzled as to what is going on.
It now seems likely that I installed the blue part up side down. This would reverse the hot and cold water line inputs. For my “normal” wash it’s a mix of hot and cold so no real problem if the inputs are reversed. However, the “super” wash is hot only and if that hot is really the cold water line it really doesn’t work so well.
The solution is the green tape with the word “hot” which overrides the machine’s cold input indicator. If the blue part ever breaks againI’ll install it the right way up. 🤣