What am I doing wrong?? Washing machine!

"krystalgamer1;c-16290652" wrote:
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.

It's the "move the machines off the wall" that did it, I've been using it just fine since the stuff pack came out.

Hey all, just wanted to share a quick update. We identified and fixed the issue with the washer/dryer running into routing difficulties that was most commonly triggered by placing a shelf above them. This fix will come in a future update, after the release of the Game Pack that's coming this quarter.

In the meantime, I'd recommend not placing things above your washer/dryer. Alternatively, as another player mentioned, you can pull them out from the wall a bit as well.

"SimGuruGraham;c-16293582" wrote:
Hey all, just wanted to share a quick update. We identified and fixed the issue with the washer/dryer running into routing difficulties that was most commonly triggered by placing a shelf above them. This fix will come in a future update, after the release of the Game Pack that's coming this quarter.

In the meantime, I'd recommend not placing things above your washer/dryer. Alternatively, as another player mentioned, you can pull them out from the wall a bit as well.

Awesome sauce. While this is being worked on, could you please consider having them queue up grabbing more than one load of laundry at a time? i.e., I have two hampers, clicking on Do Laundry will grab laundry from any hampers with clothes in them up to, say, 2 -3 hampers worth? Each hamper only had one change of clothes in them at the time so that would definitely fit in a washer. I could see if there were 3 FULL hampers that would be less realistic, but... *shrug*

"Pamtastic72;c-16268275" wrote:
It seems if you put your laundry room in a basement it says there is no available washer on the lot? Anyone else experiencing this?

Yes this is happening to me!!! I thought it was the shelf so i rearranged everything twice but now i think its because its in the basement :(

My Sims are still catching fire after now washing a second load. Even after cleaning the lint tray beforehand, they still catch fire and you can't move them out of the way. A sprinkler usually comes on to extinquish the Sim and then, you have to replace the dryer and soot covered Sim goes take a shower. Also, when the maid comes over, she always goes straight to the laundry room and you can't control her actions as she starts to catch on fire after just 1 load! She leaves and doesn't finish her maid service after all that. I hope the game creators can 1) Stop the machines from catching fire no matter what and 2) They can stop the Sims from accumulating so much laundry after every time they change clothes, work out, etc. This is especially problematic when you have an apartment building of 4 or more Sims. The laundry is out of control. Until there is a fix for this, I guess I will have to start removing the machines. Maybe the next patch will fix these issues.

I never had fire from washing machines and I placed washers in every household ( 10 households). I wish sometimes my game would give more surprises, not just surprise teen pregnancies. I event make teens repair dishwasher, still nada ...

> @Feisbukaite said:
> I never had fire from washing machines and I placed washers in every household ( 10 households). I wish sometimes my game would give more surprises, not just surprise teen pregnancies. I event make teens repair dishwasher, still nada ...

The fire is starting from the dryers not the wash machines. Surprise teen pregnancies?!!

I like the dryer fires. There isn't enough danger in the game. But as for your extinguishing trouble, I found that when I have trouble getting a SIM to extinguish themselves, an object, or another sim canceling "fire!' in their queue does the trick and I can then queue up the extinguish option and they do it right away.

I'm having the same issue. I have no shelves above the washer, no mods, and I have repaired the game. It still isnt working. I want my money back.

My sims just drop the laundry like they do plates and then I have to tell them many times to pick it up before they actually do as I say.