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title: "Washer inlet and hose service"
description: "Nothing about this visit is interesting, and it heads off the costliest thing that can happen in a laundry closet. Inlet hoses perish, valves stick part-open, and screens silt up"
url: "https://askomiami.support/services/washer-inlet-valve-and-hose-service/"
date_modified: "2026-09-13"
Appliance type: "Washers"
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# Asko washer inlet and hose service

### The least interesting visit, and the one with the largest downside

Inlet hoses are under mains pressure whenever the taps are open, and they perish out of sight behind a machine nobody moves. Everything else on a washer fails and stops working; a hose fails and keeps delivering water until somebody turns a tap. So they are replaced on age rather than on failure, the inlet screens are cleaned, and the valve is tested both opening and — the one that gets missed — holding closed. A valve seeping while the machine is off fills the drum overnight, and there is a dedicated message for it on this make.

What this involves

Perished hoses are a building's risk, not just a machine's

Inlet screens silt up on this water and are a five-minute clean

A valve that seeps while off is a different failure from one that will not open

Inspect both hoses along their whole length

Bulges, crazing at the unions, and the date on the hose where it is printed. Behind a machine in a closet is the one place nobody looks.

Clean the screens and test the valve

Inlet screens out and rinsed, then the valve checked both opening and holding shut. Seepage while off is what fills a machine overnight.

Leave it safe rather than just working

Hoses renewed where they are aged, unions torqued properly, and the service valve left somewhere a person can actually reach in a hurry.

### How old is too old for a hose?

Ten years is a reasonable ceiling, five where the machine is doing building duty. Braided stainless costs very little more and fails far more gracefully.

### Is there anything free I can do?

Close both taps when you travel. It takes ten seconds and for the period an apartment is empty — which is exactly when this failure is most expensive — it makes the problem impossible.

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