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title: "Washer inlet valve repair"
description: "Electrolux washer inlet valve repair: a washer that will not fill, fills slowly, or keeps filling when nothing asked it to."
url: "https://electroluxmiami.support/services/washer-water-inlet-valve-repair/"
date_modified: "2026-09-11"
Appliance type: "Washers"
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# Electrolux washer inlet valve repair

### Two of three codes here are not our work

E11 for a long fill and HO SE for a reversed-hose detection are both published by this maker with a note sending the owner back to whoever installed the machine. If yours was fitted or moved in the last month, the fix is very likely free and it is not ours to charge for — we will say so on the phone rather than after a visit. E35, where the pressure sensor reports overfill, is the one that is genuinely ours.

What this involves

E11, E35 and HO SE — and two of the three are installation problems

Crossed supply hoses fill the machine badly for years without failing

Water arriving with the machine off is a shut-the-tap-now situation

Check which hose is on which inlet

Hot to hot, cold to cold, marked on the back panel. This maker names it first for a reason.

Open both taps fully and look at them

A quarter-turn valve left half open fills a washer slowly enough to trip E11 and nothing else.

Test the valve under power rather than by ear

A valve that buzzes and passes nothing and a valve that is never energised sound the same through a cabinet.

### How can hoses be crossed and the machine still work?

It fills, just slowly, through a valve sized for a different job. A washer plumbed backwards runs badly for years without ever failing, which is why this maker has a code that detects it directly.

### Water runs when the machine is off.

Shut the taps at the wall now and call us. That is the version of this problem whose failure mode is a floor, and on an upper floor it does not wait.

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