What am I doing wrong?? Washing machine!

"Volvenom;c-16272478" wrote:

"Feisbukaite;c-16272254" wrote:
So now my sims are dropping their laundry all over the house, because hamper is full and I still have no active options to do laundry. You can see 3 piles in this picture, but actually only two piles are dirty, one pile is clean !
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When I click on dirty pile it gives me the option to wash it and that what my sim is doing. He is going with the bag of dirty laundry to the basement to load the machine, but he left clean pile on the floor. When he went downstairs he grabbed two more piles of dirty laundry.
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And as you can see, hamper is still full but no options to do anything with it.
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I sent him back to the pile of clean clothes he left on the floor. When I clicked on it, it gave me an option to take it to the hamper. Why clean clothes are going on the floor or to the hamper ????? So right now I have 2 laundry baskets full of clean clothes and all dirty are dropped all over the house. Clean clothes are going to the hamper as long as I have enough space in it. But since I can't do anything with hampers, they are filling up fast and I need new one once last one is full. I went from one to two already.

Try switching it for the separate one's.

I switched to another house, made new laundry room with side by side units, 2 hampers and there is no shelves above machines ( there wasn't any shelves in the first house either). The same thing is happening. It works fine until both hampers fills up with clean clothes. After they are full, clean and dirty clothes goes on the floor around the house.
In my opinion this problem is happening, because clean clothes are not going to the dressers, but goes back to the hampers, it's wrong and should be fixed. When 2 hampers are filled with clean clothes and I place third hamper, then dirty clothes goes to the third hamper, but after 2 washes it fills up with clean clothes and I have 3 hampers with clean clothes and piles of dirty and clean on the floor. So the only option is to keep replacing hampers with new ones once they fill up with clean clothes.

My washer and dryer both work fine, but when the clothes are don the sim takes them out of the dryer and throws them on the floor. Then the only option is to wash them again. I washed and dried the same load of clothes 3 times. What are you supposed to do with the clean clothes??

There should be an option on the pile of clothes themselves that allow you to put them away or if the clothes are in the dryer there should be an option along the lines of 'remove and put away' (Can't remember what the exact wording would be)

I bought the Laundry Day pack when it came out and played a few households since then with no problems. Every time I finished a load of wash there was an option to unload and put away, it went into the dressers. Today, for some reason, I didn't get that option and am getting the same problem a few here are having where there is no option when unloading a clean load from the dryer except to put on the floor, inventory or back in the hamper... WHY :open_mouth:

I finally had one of my playable Sims get into the laundry room and clean the lint out of the dryer before the Butler could get in there. LOL She's always doing laundry, so it was hard. Also, when I had the Dad remove the clothes from the dryer, I chose the wrong option. He put them on the floor. In checking them they were damp. So, I had one of the teens move them into the dryer. They were put, all folded, on top of the machine afterwards. I suspect the Butler, again. After all, isn't the Butler always the one to blame?

I can't figure out how to tell if the laundry is dry or not. Any help would be appreciated.

It didn't work for me as well. But, when i realized i had too many hampers, i deleted several and have one hamper in the house.
Boom! It worked.

I can't use any of the items in the Laundry pack...Every time I try to place something it says something about not having a footprint. It's like it didn't install all the way or something.

"Prix2006;c-16287974" wrote:
I can't use any of the items in the Laundry pack...Every time I try to place something it says something about not having a footprint. It's like it didn't install all the way or something.

Hello
If you have cc/mods in your game, move your mods folder to the desktop. Then start the game and see if the issues are still there.

Repairing the game may help. To do that, go to games library in Origin, right click on the sims 4 picture and click repair

I think it's possible a few people here may be missing a couple of steps. After you put your clothes in the washer, you have to then tell it to "wash laundry." After you put them in the dryer, you then have to tell it to "dry laundry." If you don't tell it to wash the laundry, you never get the option to put it in the dryer. It just remains frustratingly grayed out. Same if you don't tell the dryer to dry. You'll never have folded laundry.

Also, I couldn't get my machines to work initially. I moved things around until they did. But, one of the things I still have are shelves above the dryer and it's working just fine now. I also have two hampers in the house in different rooms, and it's still all working. I have no mods or custom content in my game though.

What I did was move the laundry baskets I had sitting on the machine, moved both machines off the wall, and I raised the shelves just a hair. I'm not sure which of those things did the trick yet. But, one of them seemed to. I write again if I figure out more.