Is it possible to buy a washing machine that's a little smaller (shorter and narrower) than the usual size?
I ask because I have a space that's a very tight fit, and in particular doesn't offer adequate headroom to get a machine properly level beneath the worktop.
Are you sure it's the tipping which makes it leak? Maybe it just leaks.
I'm guessing that if the rear feet are screwed all the way in (made as short as possible), this is not enough to correct the tipping when the front feet are made as long as headroom will allow. If so, would it be possible to remove the rear feet altogether? This should gain you another few mm of headroom, which may well be enough.
Levelling the floor by cutting away the too-high bits at the back is unlikely to be feasible, or he would have done it.
Building a plinth (or even just placing a batten under the front feet) may cause the floor to be more level, but you haven't been paying attention, have you? His problem is that the front won't go high enough, but that's not because the front feet are too short, it's because the top of the machine hits the bottom of the worktop.
Could one not wither level the floor - or build a plinth to take out the slope?
Bosch do a top loading automatic which is 400mm wide (the drum axis is side to side rather than front to back - and there is a trap door in the side that allows access to the content.
If it's a solid floor, levelling it to the front might be the best bet. A messy job but not difficult. If you can still get it under the worktop with longer front feet, the bolts they use are a standard diameter
I've considered cutting the floor (wooden floor tiles) away at the back, but it's not sensible; just imagine the rear feet of the machine getting jammed under them.
The worktop can't be raised.
Since it's a rented house, I don't want to leave the tenants with a washing machine without its top cover.
One way or another, I've had quite enough of the current machine and its leaky ways (apparently, it's feature of these Baumatics that the incoming watertakes every opportunity to trickle forwards along the underside of the soap tray, then down the inside of the front panel onto the floor).
The Bosch machines (including the 44cm deep one) have an optional thinner metal top cover - look in the instructions for fitting under a worktop. That makes it 800mm total height I think, but I don't know what they cost.
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