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title: "The Cheapest Thing You Can Do for an Asko Washer in an Apartment"
description: "An Asko washer hose perishes behind a machine nobody moves. Check for bulges and crazing, replace at ten years, and close the taps when you travel."
url: "https://askomiami.support/blog/asko-washer-hoses-in-a-condominium/"
date_modified: "2026-09-13"
Category: "Maintenance & Prevention"
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# The Cheapest Thing You Can Do for an Asko Washer in an Apartment

Two rubber tubes behind a machine that nobody has moved since it was installed. They are the largest single risk in an apartment laundry closet, and the smallest thing to put right.

## Why they matter more than the machine does

An inlet hose is under mains pressure the whole time the taps are open — not only during a wash. Everything else in the machine fails and stops working. A hose fails and keeps delivering water until somebody turns a tap.

In a house that is a bad afternoon. In a condominium it is the floor slab, the apartment below, and a conversation with a building manager.

## The once-a-year look

With both taps shut, draw the machine out until the back of it is visible.

- **Bulges.** A hose that has swollen anywhere along its length is already failing internally.- **Crazing at the unions.** The rubber closest to the fittings goes first; fine cracks there are the warning.- **A date stamp.** Most hoses carry one. Older than a decade, replace it whether or not it looks tired.- **Folds.** Where the appliance was shoved back onto a hose, the crush point slows the fill and in time splits open.

While the machine is out, look at the floor under it. A stain nobody has seen before is worth understanding now.

## Replace on age, not on failure

This is the whole argument. A hose that has not failed yet is not evidence of anything, because the failure mode is sudden. Ten years is a reasonable ceiling, five if the machine is doing building duty, and braided stainless is worth the small extra.

## The free habit

Close both taps when you travel. It takes ten seconds, it costs nothing, and for the period an apartment is empty — which is exactly when this failure is most expensive — it makes the problem impossible.

Plenty of people close them after every wash. That is fine too, though it puts wear on the tap.

## The other end of the same circuit

While we are behind the machine: a valve that seeps while the machine is switched off is a related and more urgent problem. It fills the drum overnight and, on a machine with a marginal door seal, puts that water on the floor. There is a specific message for it on this make, and if you have seen water in the drum before starting a wash, that is what you are looking at.

## What we do on this visit

Both hoses inspected along their whole length and renewed where they are aged, the inlet screens cleaned, the valve tested both opening and holding shut, and the unions torqued properly. And the service valve left somewhere a person can actually reach in a hurry, which on more installations than you would expect it is not.

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