With the tips below, you can easily fix technical errors when your washing machine makes loud noises and shakes strongly without having to spend money to ask a technician for help.

1. Balance the feet of your washing machine

Before you do any sort of maintenance on your washing machine, please turn it off and unplug it.

In case your machine is mid cycle when it starts to play up, follow the advice in your washing machine’s instruction manual for stopping and draining it.

Now check the feet: they should be in firm contact with the floor.

To adjust the feet you’ll need to undo the locking nuts first, then unscrew the feet. The washing machine should be completely level so use a spirit level and keep adjusting the feet until you’re satisfied.

When finished, you must remember to screw the locking nuts back into place, firmly against the machine’s housing, before doing your next wash.

2. Avoid unbalanced loads

Washing a heavy item, such as a cotton towel by itself, or only with light garments may cause problems.

The towel will absorb water and gain weight; if this then sticks to the side of the drum, it will create an unbalanced load.

Some modern washing machines can detect this and will attempt to re-balance the load or choose not to enter the spin cycle.

If your washing machine does enter the spin with an unbalanced load, it could shake around in a noisy and violent fashion – possibly doing damage to itself or cutting out halfway through the spin cycle.

You can avoid unbalanced loads by washing heavy items, such as towels or dressing gowns, together to try and balance out the load in the drum.

3. Check around the drum for coins or bra wires