How to set the level of the washing machine

To ensure safe washing process should be set at the level of the washing machine. Few people know how to properly adjust the appliance if the floor in a room with an uneven surface. Understand this article will help.

Install the machine-Machine must be in a specific order not to create problems themselves in the future. Planning to align the washing machine, ensure that the correct height of the feet. Depending on the model, the manufacturers make it possible to regulate all legs or just two of them.

How to put stiralku using a builder's level

  1. Select the location of the future location of the device and check the evenness of the floor. If there are large differences in height, the projections or pits, to set the washing machine will not be able to it. The surface will have to align.
    stiralki legs
  2. Correcting the field, move to connect to the communications device.
  3. Using a wrench, loosen the lock nut on the legs. Thanks to them, you can adjust the correct position of the household appliance.
  4. Put the car on the proposed site, and put on her building level. Exposing the device to see an air bubble in the middle level. Depending on the position in which it is located, it will be clear which way to level the machine.
  5. If stiralku need to lift one leg or multiple twisting and increase in length. When the machine is to be lowered, feet screwed in.
  6. Alternately, place the level on the top cover of the machine up and down it. To level the machine will have to as long as two positions level bubble will not be strictly in the middle.
  7. Do not forget to check the position of the machine by applying to the level of one of its vertical side walls. As a result, it is able to understand whether the unit is not filled up in some way. Any air bubbles at the level must be horizontal.
  8. Lock nut, they will maintain the selected position.
    stiralki legs tighten up

First time putting stiralku on the floor, just check its position relative to the floor and walls. Perhaps serious alignment issues can be avoided. Maybe you need to move a little device left or right by a few centimeters.

Periodic vibration machine leading to its movement and possibly re-alignment.

What is it for

Install the washing machine on a level - a mandatory rule, without which the device would not work qualitatively. Uneven position of the device will cause it to vibrate or even jump. This will lead to a rapid deterioration of parts.

To reduce vibration, it is recommended to install the machine correctly and to put under her feet, rubber pads. Gum will reduce the vibrational motion of the device and does not allow him to move.

We check in

When the machine is level, you can check the quality of the work performed. The machine is loaded laundry and start the program. Illustrative become centrifuge mode when stiralku usually shakes the most. If during this appliance is firmly in place, and does not bounce does not go around the room, the installation was successful.

If you can see a small movement of the machine, use anti-vibration pads made of rubber. After podkladyvaniem under their feet, do not forget to check the position of the device relative to the level of the walls and floor.

Loading the laundry

helpful hints

Recommendations that will help to put the washing machine.

  1. To work, use a bubble level. Its length must not be less than 30-40 cm.
  2. Other types of levels (laser, water) for leveling machines are not suitable. They are needed for large facilities.
  3. If the level at hand was not, it is replaced with a plate, which collect water almost to the brim. By adjusting the height of the feet, watching to see in what direction will change the slope of the liquid. If the distance of the container will be identical to the edge of the water, the appliance is level.
  4. You can not put appliance close to walls and furniture.
  5. If there are very large bumps, not to eliminate them by means of supports, because under the influence of vibration over time, they still move.
  6. Masters recommend to install the device being analyzed on the tile floor in the bathroom or kitchen.
  7. If you want to install stiralku near the gas stove and the floor has large bumps, remove the flooring to the ground. It is easier to align crooked kitchen floor if he has a cement screed.

Before installing the washing machine is not too lazy to check the condition of the floor with the level. Only the presence of uneven surface helps domestic appliance to operate for a long time and maintain the integrity of spare parts.