--- title: "Washers" description: "Kenmore washers: laundry is where the decode matters most, because a Kenmore washer can be a Whirlpool, an an LG, and those are two genuinely different…" url: "https://kenmoremiami.support/appliances/washer/" date_modified: "2026-09-01" Appliance type: "Washers" --- # Kenmore washers ### Three washers, one badge This is the appliance where the decode earns its keep. The Kenmore washers we are called out to were built by Whirlpool under 110 and by LG under 796, and they are not variants of each other. Different drive systems, different controls, different parts, different published codes. A repair page that talks about ‘the Kenmore washer’ as one machine is talking about nothing. ### What the display is telling you, and whose language it is in The characters on the panel belong to the builder. LG’s scheme reads as letter pairs; Whirlpool’s modern machines use an F-and-E pairing. They are different alphabets, and our code pages keep them apart and name the source of each. ### What we see most in South Florida Drainage, spin and leaks, and a steady background of gasket and smell complaints on front-loaders that comes down to humidity and a closed door. Municipal water here is hard enough to scale a heater and to shorten the life of a valve, and long horizontal drain runs in single-story houses hold water where a vertical one would not. ### What to have ready when you call The three digits before the period, whatever is on the display, and whether the drum has water in it right now. That last one changes what we bring. Top-load and front-load · 110 and 796 Washer repair 110 is Whirlpool-built, 796 is LG-built Drain, spin and leaks are most of what we see Two washers under one badge, and two code tables Three washers, one badge This is the appliance where the decode earns its keep. The Kenmore washers we are called out to were built by Whirlpool under 110 and by LG under 796, and they are not variants of each other. Different drive systems, different controls, different parts, different published codes. A repair page that talks about ‘the Kenmore washer’ as one machine is talking about nothing. What the display is telling you, and whose language it is in The characters on the panel belong to the builder. LG’s scheme reads as letter pairs; Whirlpool’s modern machines use an F-and-E pairing. They are different alphabets, and our code pages keep them apart and name the source of each. What we see most in South Florida Drainage, spin and leaks, and a steady background of gasket and smell complaints on front-loaders that comes down to humidity and a closed door. Municipal water here is hard enough to scale a heater and to shorten the life of a valve, and long horizontal drain runs in single-story houses hold water where a vertical one would not. What to have ready when you call The three digits before the period, whatever is on the display, and whether the drum has water in it right now. That last one changes what we bring. ### It will not drain and the drum is full. On any of the builders the order is the same to start with: the drain hose, then the filter or coin trap where the machine has one, then the pump. What differs is what the machine tells you about it. An LG-built 796 will usually put a code on the display naming a drain problem; a Whirlpool-built 110 of the same age may simply stop mid-cycle. Same repair, two very different experiences, which is why we ask what the display said before it stopped. ### It will not spin, or the load comes out soaking. Balance first, and it is not a brush-off — a load that will not distribute makes a machine refuse to spin up, and a single heavy item is the usual reason. After that it is the lid lock or door lock, which a machine will not spin without and which fails far more often than the motor does. The expensive answers are last on the list because they are last in reality. ### Which one do I have? Open the door or lid and look at the sticker on the frame — the model number starts with three digits and a period. 110 means Whirlpool built it and 796 means LG. Tell us those three digits when you call and the visit starts already knowing which machine is behind the panel. ### It smells, and cleaning it has not helped. This is mostly a front-load story and mostly a South Florida one: a warm humid house and a door left closed on a wet gasket. The fix is a habit rather than a part — leave the door ajar, wipe the gasket fold, and run a cleaning cycle on a schedule. Where it has gone past that, the gasket itself may need replacing, and that is a real job with a real figure rather than a bottle of something. --- **[Read full article: Washers](https://kenmoremiami.support/appliances/washer/)**