90% of "broken" washers are actually just choked with lint. Roll up your sleeves, grab the shop vac, and save yourself a $200 service call. Your wallet—and your dry socks—will thank you.
There is a special kind of frustration that comes with doing laundry. You wait 45 minutes for the cycle to finish, only to open the door and find your clothes sitting in a pool of murky, grey water. Or worse, you walk into the laundry room to find a soapy flood creeping across the floor.
It could be the . If the pump is broken or jammed with a bobby pin or toothpick, no amount of snaking will fix it. At this point, the repair requires opening the machine chassis. Depending on the age of your washer, a pump replacement ($150-$250) is worth it, but a new machine might be cheaper.