Yes, pigpig - this inquiring mind sure wants to know too!! Dadoes - it's so cool you're still here. I haven't been around in a decade I suppose, but GardenWeb was THE BEST helping me redesign my kitchen and house. There are so many on here so generous of their so extensive knowledge. My appreciation is kind of boundless here. Anyway... pigpig - I'm in precisely the same situation. I have a HE4T that is probably 21 years old? It's not broken, but it will be, I think, too costly to replace. And my love for the thing is perhaps not quite as traceable to flawlessness but laced with a bit of Stockholm syndrome? Over the years I've refloated the solder on the motherboard I think 3x? And replaced the collar once and the shocks once and the water flow stuff. Now the shocks are bad again and the collar is also leaking (ie rusting the body, not unrelated to the shocks problem). Since I guess that means I have to replace all the shocks, even though they're just ~$50 ea, all told we're looking at ~$400 repairs. Which on a two-decades old machine.... the cost:benefit starts to tilt against. SO.... back to GW. Or, I dunno, ...howz this different now? ;) Thus: I am very curious about your LG choice. I was thinking of making the same. My HE4T IIRC definitely started with that "110..." serial number so it's really a washed-over Whirlpool. Do they still exist? Dadoes said "was"... implying maybe not. I know, located at the bottom of a hill, we have very heavy water pressure here. That sounds bad from the outset. We do have a slate floor so that might help but this sort of hammering does sound like a pia and I'm a little nervous to try it. That said I loooooove our FL machine. I have used this machine so many thousands of times, washed so many thousands of diapers and bedding - I feel practically spiritual about it. I feel guilty about retiring it. But part of that is because I don't want to take on a new set of problems. The hammer-thing sounds horrible and it will be really good to know if you've been able to preempt it or if there's any good way to anticipate who will/does have issues. We certainly have a complaint bias/denominator problem in here inasmuch as a few people have chimed in with "no issues" but, given the popularity of these machines it does seem possible the proportion of problem-households/machines is really quite small. But again, knowing whether you were able to stave problems off at the pass, would be super-helpful. Also, I'm in the market for suggestions... *****sigh*****. Please hop in if you have any. I gather there's at least one major-proponent of Mieles in here. But the machines are awfully pricey. And cost and availability all seem to be competing in a post-covid screwed-up-supply-chain atmosphere, so.... Fwiw we have a Miele speed oven which has been/was a GREAT product until... it had a problem. Zero human beings seem to know how to fix them (even around here, which is LA, not what I would consider a small market). And my pitiful attempts have been half-successful and wholly-annoying. Thus, I'm reluctant to buy another Miele. BTW - another mentioned purchasing via ABT in Chgo, which is where we got that Miele speed oven. I second enthusiasm for Abt's support. They have been nothing but wonderful, even if it's 2000K miles from this urban center. I'd buy an appliance from them via mail again. Love Abt. So, at last, my q: ¿How to replace a HE4T 1:1? lol. I want a front loader. I want high efficiency. I don't want to destroy the water pipes. I want large enough to wash a kind size blanket, but not quilt necessarily. That's expendable as a need, but it seems sizes are either small or gigantic anyway. The 4T is actually 3.8 cuft I think, which is medium-sized by today's standards. It's plenty big-enough for us and I'm not eager to replace it with *bigger*, however, it seems there's not really a choice about that. Thanks amazing GW'ers. This place will always be GardenWeb to me.... BTW - here's a link to reviews of the new whirlpools. Lots of the reviews are "incenitivized", fwiw. Kinda meh-sounding a little? Hard to tell....

Thanks for bumping this up, Pat. Enjoyed reading through it. I just finished up a small bottle of A&H Sensitive Skin plus Fresh Scent and have bought it a few times the last few years. Love the scent (which I think is the same as they used in their old “green/earth-friendly” formula called Essentials and I used to buy ~12 years ago), rinses well for me, and because it does not have enzymes I use it on puffy down layers and wool....

Lindsay, my contractor fixed my sound that is so much like yours, today. For me it turned out to be the drain pipe coming from my vanity in the bathroom. Mine banged just like your sound when hot water is run through my drain. It turns out that there was a small piece of wood attached to the framing that was very close to the plastic drain pipe in the wall. When hot water made the plastic expand, it would hit the wood, bounce back, then rebound against the wood, bounce back, and hit the wood again. And so on. It started out sounding like a "tick" noise, but got louder with each hit against the wood, until my pipe was banging against the wood. Jim just sawed off the wood piece that was too close to the pipe, and the sound is now gone entirely. Like yours, mine sounded like a loud "SNAP" sound, often with a smaller "tick" sound following it, before another "SNAP." Are you certain that a neighbor next to you or above you is not using the water at 5:30 every morning? Do you hear their movements so loudly that you would know every time they ran water in their bathroom sink? I know that our problems may have a different cause, but I just wanted you to know the solution to mine, in case it helps you figure out yours.

LG washers of a certain era are particularly prone to cause water hammer. There was a class action suit over it. The water valves usually open outward or against the water pressure on most machines. They don’t have the ability to close them selves they rely on the water pressure coming in to push the water valve into the closed position when released. The valves usually have a damper or some mechanism to prevent them closing too quickly or slamming. Helps to slow down waterflow before stoppiing Very important since water doesn’t compress. And if you have high water pressure especially and suddenly stopping flow causes a shockwave to travel down the line in reverse possibly damaging the pipes. Turns out LG did not seem to have that device on a number of their popular washing machines for quite some time even up till recently. I am told that LG makes the washers for Kenmore and Kenmore never suffered the problem, apparently they made LG add in the feature. Water hammer issue was made worse by the way LG washer seem to have this a tendency to continue to top off the water level throughout the wash and not a just few times but dozens.