My water suddenly has a very pungent chemical smell to it. What's going on? (They're doing construction on water pipes down the street).?

The drain hose in the back of your machine can be slowly lowered to drain the water out. Take the drain hose out of where ever it is but keep it as high as it was. Pull the machine out if you have to, the hot & cold water connections may have to be disconnected too.

Then get a bucket and lower the hose into it. Once the hose is lower than the top of the water in the machine, it will come out. Fill the bucket, raise the drain hose, dump the bucket out.

Do this till it's empty. Reconnect everything and let the machine continue to run through it's cycle, with you manually draining the water as need be until the wash cycle is done and the door opens. Most front loaders have a separate discharge pump, which is not too hard to replace.

Get your model # and go to repairclinic.com. They have the parts and how to videos so you can fix this washer up.

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