Any tips for pushing in a washing machine?

[WaterTight]

I've done a good few but this one is super-tight and on bare floorboards so could get stuck. What do you guys use to make pushing it in easier? Bit of ply or something?

 

[Ben-gee]

If you got height, offcut of wallboard as the laminate is very slippery. If no height I have some 1200 gauge DPM I use (this is also what I use to make syphon diaphragms!)

 

[townfanjon]

I keep two strips of steel ( came of old boiler jig ) in the van , approx 4 mm , around 1 m long with one end of each bent by about 80 mm , to grab or push .
Helps no end

 

[hammers4spanner]

What you lot keeping crap like that for??

Ask customer to use their polish, spray on floor around said area and it will be like a sheet of ice under the appliance.

Job done

 

[Harvest Fields]

Washing up liquid. But you will not get it back out as easily as it went in.

 

[townfanjon]

What you lot keeping crap like that for??

Ask customer to use their polish, spray on floor around said area and it will be like a sheet of ice under the appliance.

Job done

So tell me how you get a heavy machine/dishwasher out when theres expensive cushion floor / vinyl under the it all the way back to the skirting without ripping the flooring . Please lol .

 

[hammers4spanner]

So tell me how you get a heavy machine/dishwasher out when theres expensive cushion floor / vinyl under the it all the way back to the skirting without ripping the flooring . Please lol .

Polish literally done it a million times never had one incident if done properly

 

[Harvest Fields]

Polish literally done it a million times never had one incident if done properly

His last famous words

 

[hammers4spanner]

Haha usually happens that way.

 

[townfanjon]

Polish literally done it a million times never had one incident if done properly

After you have polished Mrs Smifs floor , and the washer goes into full throttle spin , does is skate across the floor as far as the hoses allow lol .

 

[Scott_D]

After you have polished Mrs Smifs floor , and the washer goes into full throttle spin , does is skate across the floor as far as the hoses allow lol .

Expanding foam down the sides to hold it in place

 

[hammers4spanner]

After you have polished Mrs Smifs floor , and the washer goes into full throttle spin , does is skate across the floor as far as the hoses allow lol .

Have you tried it ??

 

[townfanjon]

Have you tried it ??

Nope , I wouldn’t risk it , first time I did , I rip the bloody floor lol

 

[hammers4spanner]

Nope , I wouldn’t risk it , first time I did , I rip the bloody floor lol

You would be surprised

 

[Deleted member 32524]

What you lot keeping crap like that for??

Ask customer to use their polish, spray on floor around said area and it will be like a sheet of ice under the appliance.

Job done

Going to give that a go next time!

 

[Sharp Point]

Piece of carpet upside down

 

[WaterTight]

The variety of answers in this thread makes me think of the adage that if there are many solutions practised to a problem none of them work very well.

 

[Ben-gee]

Never heard of that one?

More appropriate “there’s more than one way to skin a cat”

 

[WaterTight]

I'll bet most of the ways to skin a cat are actually very similar.

Perhaps it would be better put to say that when one way works really well it tends to be the only one used.

No doubt before aspirin was available there were many ways to treat a headache. Not many now though are there?

But ok, maybe all the above suggested ways work well. I might ask the customer to do the floor polish thing. I was just hoping there'd be an 'aspirin answer' I'd never heard of with 20 people then agreeing.

Thanks anyway to all of you for your help during this difficult time. May all your washing machines be light as air and glide in like a hot buttered biscuit.