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Thank you Andy that make sense, much appreciated.

My daughter has inherited Indesit IWC71452 washing machine in her flat which appears to be working, washes the clothes okay but she keeps finding a pool of water in the drum afterwards which smells bad. We've tried the following Taken out and cleaned the filter - smells disgusting but nothing blocking it and it seems to be clear inside Ran a hot service wash It's plumbed into the kitchen sink, checked the U bend which was clean and water seems to be draining fine from the machine. The conditioner drawer collects water also despite being cleaned If anyone can offer any further things to try before calling and engineer or buying a new machine we would be very grateful. Thanks

Thanks very much for the reply - now I understand!

I was relieved to find this site earlier in the year - even though I've been using washing machines for decades, making a choice is something of a minefield. The site is excellent, really helpful and helped me to decide on the John Lewis JLWM 1202. I'm happy with it though initially was a bit overwhelmed with the programmes. I tend to avoid the synthetics cycle because that gives a lower spin speed, I don't think you can override that. Can anyone explain to me how it is that the 'Economy' cycles take twice as long as the regular wash. How is that economical, I would have thought that would use more electricity? Forgive me if this is obvious, I just don't understand!