Avanti Washer Repair in Philadelphia

Opening up an Avanti washer, the design shows where to look: Avanti offers small compact and portable washers, twin-tub models among them, for apartments that lack laundry hookups.

A broken Avanti washer usually turns out to have drain pump, control board or timer, lid switch, or motor or drive belt. Put simply, the complaints are won't drain, won't spin, and leak at the base. If a portable Avanti washer won't drain, check that the hose sits below the tub and isn't kinked beneath the machine. Slow filling usually means the inlet screens are clogged with scale or grit.

Depending on the model, a portable Avanti washer drains by gravity or by pump, and many drain complaints trace to a kinked hose or one set too high rather than a bad pump. Twin-tub machines have separate timers and motors for spin and wash, so one side can quit while the other keeps going. Parts are cheap, but because the washer itself costs little, bigger repairs often aren't sensible.

Philadelphia's moderately hard water builds scale slowly on inlet screens, and on an older washer slow fills and fill errors often trace back to them. We run a test cycle first to see whether fill, agitation, drain and spin each do their job.

For the lid switch, as for every repair, the price is agreed in writing first.

Run a washer-cleaner cycle once a month. We handle timer stuck on Avanti washers all over Philadelphia, from rowhouse basements to Center City condos.