Washing machine sizes

Look for 'compact' washing machines. That produced lots of hits in Google Shopping.

Take the lid off.

Thanks, that was useful. But sadly it seems that 'compact' means less wide and deep, which is OK, but not any shorter.

The problem is that the floor slopes up a little at the back, making the machine tip forward a little - and this makes the current machine leak.

Daniele

Yes.

Bosch do some that are only 44cm deep, e.g. WLX24164GB but it's only

I saw one in Costco the other day that had a 6kg capacity and was about 40cm deep, but I can't remember the make/model.

Possibly this one:

I don't think I am going to have much luck with the height issue. I guess I need one with particularly adjustable feet.

Daniele

alt.diy.gynecology is thater-way>>> Daniele ;-)

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

Daniele ... He?

But, as Skipweasel said, take the lid off.

That should give around 25mm extra clearance.

What's the floor, and who owns the house?

Might not be too hard to make the floor a little lower at the back.

In message , Terry Casey writes

Yes

I wouldn't know about that, but the OP would seem to lack the balls to hack away at his floor.

Ah, you have crystal balls I suppose...?

Thanks for all the advice and suggestions.

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).

Daniele

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.

Thanks, just the information I needed.

Daniele