Fabric conditioner draw not draining?

Just had the same problem and found it to be the spray nozzles above the drawing being blocked with black gunk - yuk... poked them out with wire and all seems OK again - I just wish I could get to the other side of those nozzles and give the system a good clean out.

Chris Nutt
October 2010

As above, look particularly at the pipe the syphon cap sits on. It may look clear, but if you run water from the tap at pressure back up the tray it will probably chuck out a load of gunk. Have just saved an engineer visit by reading the above tips!

Pete
April 2010

Afer cleaning the removable siphon cap from within the drawer I still had a problem with the draw not completely emptying. I then diluted the fabric softner to the recommended strength and all now works well. Its a case of clear gunk but use 'thin' enough conditioner to allow correct siphoning action.

Theo Blackadder
July 2007

Another thing you might be looking into is the holes from witch the water is sprayed into the softener compartment. They can fill up with gunk. Strange thing is tho (and I'm talking from my own experience) when two holes plug up water will stay behind in the compartmant. Shouldnt happen logically, but it doas. You can clean them siply by taking a piece of wire and poke through the gunk.

Ales Trcek
August 2006

The way these fabric conditioner drawers work is that they are actually a syphon. Inside of the drawer you can see a cylinder that goes almost to the bottom of the drawer. This iss actually a cap that covers a tube that is as high as a max fill level mark inside the compartment. Once the level of the fluid goes above that line the water will overflow into that pipe under the cap and out the bottom of the drawer. It wil continue to flow because of the syphon effect untill all liquid is sucked out. The reason you have clear water in it at the end is, that the syphon is pluged up, so when your washing machine goes into the cycle where it's suposed to ad softener, it starts flowing water into that compartment and because of the blockage, the water together with the conditioner doasnt go out the bottom opening in the drawer instead it overflows the compartment. It still goes down into the washing machine it's just that the drawer never drains the water.
You can usually simply pull off that "cylinder/cap" and clean all the buildup gunk and push it back into position when you're done.

storci
July 2006

There will be a pipe which the conditioner syphons up they look clean but it you run your tap down it usuallly loads of gunk comes out. Hope this helps.

bentley brush
June 2006