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title: "Washer error code HO SE"
description: "Electrolux washer error code HO SE: The machine has worked out for itself that its supply hoses are crossed and has said so in the only four characters it…"
url: "https://electroluxmiami.support/error-codes/washer-ho-se/"
date_modified: "2026-09-11"
Appliance type: "Washers"
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# Washer error code HO SE

### What HO SE means on this make

The machine has worked out for itself that its supply hoses are crossed and has said so in the only four characters it has. This is the same underlying problem E11 hints at, caught directly rather than inferred from a slow fill — the control compares what it asked for with what arrived and concludes the hot line is on the cold inlet. The maker names this condition and publishes no procedure behind it, so the page carries the name and the obvious remedy and does not invent the rest. It is worth a minute because a washer plumbed backwards works, badly, for years.

### The other ways this one is printed

HO SE · HOSE · HO5E

The same condition is printed differently on different panels of the same make, and every spelling the maker publishes for it is above. Whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page.

### Where this appears, and why not to clear it

On the appliance’s own display, as a short single code — a letter and a number, or two letters. Nothing alternates and nothing arrives in halves on this make, so what the panel shows is the whole of it. Photograph it before you cut the power. This maker’s own answer to most of these is thirty seconds at the breaker, and that is worth following once — but a display that has been cleared has taken the evidence with it, and there is no way to ask the machine for it again.

### What to do about it

- Shut both taps at the wall before touching a hose.
- Swap the hoses at the machine end: hot supply to the hot inlet, cold to the cold. The inlets are marked on the back panel.
- Reopen both taps, run a short cycle, and check the code has gone. If the machine was installed by somebody else, this is worth raising with them.
- If the hoses are demonstrably correct and the code stands, the inlet valve or the sensor behind it is reporting wrongly, and that is the visit.

### Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is [diagnostic visit](/services/diagnostic-visit/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 912-9018](tel:+13059129018) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

Reversed hose detection.

What this one means

What HO SE means on this make

The machine has worked out for itself that its supply hoses are crossed and has said so in the only four characters it has. This is the same underlying problem E11 hints at, caught directly rather than inferred from a slow fill — the control compares what it asked for with what arrived and concludes the hot line is on the cold inlet. The maker names this condition and publishes no procedure behind it, so the page carries the name and the obvious remedy and does not invent the rest. It is worth a minute because a washer plumbed backwards works, badly, for years.

The other ways this one is printed

HO SE · HOSE · HO5E

The same condition is printed differently on different panels of the same make, and every spelling the maker publishes for it is above. Whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page.

Where this appears, and why not to clear it

On the appliance’s own display, as a short single code — a letter and a number, or two letters. Nothing alternates and nothing arrives in halves on this make, so what the panel shows is the whole of it. Photograph it before you cut the power. This maker’s own answer to most of these is thirty seconds at the breaker, and that is worth following once — but a display that has been cleared has taken the evidence with it, and there is no way to ask the machine for it again.

What to do about it

Shut both taps at the wall before touching a hose.

Swap the hoses at the machine end: hot supply to the hot inlet, cold to the cold. The inlets are marked on the back panel.

Reopen both taps, run a short cycle, and check the code has gone. If the machine was installed by somebody else, this is worth raising with them.

If the hoses are demonstrably correct and the code stands, the inlet valve or the sensor behind it is reporting wrongly, and that is the visit.

Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is diagnostic visit, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 912-9018](tel:+13059129018) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

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