GE Adora Washing Machine Is Not Draining

January 13 3 Comments Category: Friendly Encounters, The House

You know how they say things happen in threes? Well apparently when you buy your appliances from Home Depot this holds true – we bought them together and they broke together. The first to go was our stainless Maytag refrigerator with the french doors, the next to go was the matching Maytag stainless dishwasher, and now after returning from a long trip with piles of dirty clothes, our GE Adora decided to stop draining its water after the wash cycle. Luckily, I found some great resources on the web and am fully prepared to walk you through the repair process, step by step – do not worry, there are not many steps, in the likely instance that the same thing happens to another Adora owner. If the drain is the problem this should end up saving you at least $125, and you may even make a little extra money depending on what you can find in the lint filter.

When the geniuses at GE decided to try their hand at the front loading washing machine market with the Adora they constructed a washer with a lint filter located under the tub at the beginning of the drainage hose. Despite the poor judgment exhibited during the brainstorming process, the people at GE did, at the very least, make sure that the lint filtering mechanism was easily accessible via the front of the machine.

Step One – Make sure you actually have a GE Adora

This is what my washing machine looks like:

GE Adora

Step Two – Locate the three screws holding the lower front panel in place.

Mine were in pretty tight and I did need to use a drill to get them out, so you may want to do the same instead of bothering with a Phillips head screwdriver. They are all the way on the bottom of the machine very close to floor level.

GE Adora Panel Screws

Ge Adora Panel Off

Step Three – Locate the filter and drain out any water that may be in your machine.

You should have a shallow bucket or large bowl ready when draining out the washing machine – I used a large baking pan and slowly untwisted the filter to let a little bit out at a time. The nasty water that was stored in here was full of all kinds of lint, loose change, receipts, dog hair, and it wreaked of rotten eggs so you may not want to use a baking pan your grandmother passed on to you in her will, just a warning.

This is what the filter looks like, remember: lefty loosy, righty tighty.

Ge Adora Lint Filter

Step Four – Clean out the filter, put it back into the machine, make sure no lint or other funk has gotten into your hose, and try your first load!

This easy process was all it took for my clothes to go from wring them out soaked to almost totally dry after a wash cycle. It also has cut down on my wash cycle time considerably, which tells me that if you are an Adora owner experiencing incredibly long wash times that you may be dealing with a clogged filter. Hope this helps someone : )

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  1. Thankyou, The job was exactly as you said.

    Lynn Sdanowich 21 February 2008 at 8:46 pm Permalink

  2. thank you, thank you, thank you. You saved this single mom a major headache and some money! I love you! It was exactly as you outlined. My filter was tough to remove though. Had to persuade it a bit!

    laurie 30 May 2008 at 8:18 pm Permalink

  3. Thank you very much for sharing your experience. Your directions were easy to follow.Now we know where our kids’ missing socks end up!

    Dani 17 July 2010 at 3:39 pm Permalink

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