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. It’s a GE Adora, and has a small, circular GE symbol on the top left.
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.
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.
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 : )
Thankyou, The job was exactly as you said.
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!
Thank you very much for sharing your experience. Your directions were easy to follow.Now we know where our kids’ missing socks end up!
your son of a gun. thanks
This is perhaps the most poorly engineered machine ever. Whats really surprising is that GE allowed its name to be attached to it. We have had our adora for four years. The clothes smelll like mildew from the first attempt to use it. The drain that you just learned how to fix. Will become stopped up again withing three loads after cleaning. Shame on you folks at GE. Your continuted marketing of this product constitutes theft as far as im concerned.
I looked in my instruction manual and found nothing about this. This was very useful and solved my problem. Plus I found like 7 dollars worth of change, really nasty change that needs to be cleaned. I was hoping to find some extra money, not quite what I had in mind…
Your online tutorial was right on the money. My washer and dryer are on a platform about 20 inches off the floor and I was able to finally persuade my washer filter out and drained the sand and muck. I flushed the inner tubing by pouring water into the washer tub area and had to use a tablespoon to scoop put some sand but I finally got it cleaned out and put back together. I found $5 worth of change, some lost keys and a lot of trash. No wonder my Mother used to check our pockets before washing our clothes as a kid.
Now my washer works like new, clothes come out of it almost dry.
You saved me a lot of worries and money. Thank you so much for posting this very helpful tutorial!
Wow! You are awesome. My washer has had trouble draining for years and finally stopped altogether. Now, it’s FIXED! And for free!!
Man, that was some stinky stuff in there….gross.
Thank you for taking the time to list this valuable tip. It worked, now my clothes are almost dry after the cycle.