When I switch my just-out-of-guarantee Indesit WIA121 on at the mains electrical plug, no lights appear on the control panel and there is no response to any of the dials or buttons, but cold water endlessly flows through the soap dispenser unit and half-fills the drum. Clearly this machine is not well but - as a minimum - how can I drain the water out (and save my trapped clothes!) so that someone can start to fix the machine? Thanks for any advice !

C. Shaw, March 2008

Try to drain machine by running the outlet pipe into a bucket.
Sounds like the inlet valve is jammed open, but there must be something else seriously wrong if no panel lights are up.

dan, March 2008