Get a 'Y' connector for your faucet. Then connect both hoses to it.

MRB

You can also get a pack of 2 caps that fit on the end of a soaker hose to stop the water from coming out. Just screw it onto the water valve like you would a hose.

I'd never given a thought to a washer doing as you say but it seems logical. A female PVC cap from Home Depot would be a cheap fix. I think sparky823 might have thought you were talking about faucets. I've used cold water for years. I had strong washer vent odor that continually got worse. I began reading the Net. One suggested running few empty loads USING ONLY HOT WATER with some baking soda and distilled vinegar mixed in. It worked for me. I'm back using cold. You might want to keep this in mind. Regards. Gene

No I knew what you were talking about. I was just saying the caps usually come on the ends of soaker hose but you can buy them in a two pack to use for other reasons. You can screw one of the caps directly onto the water valve on the back of the washer. It's just a plastic cap.(some are metal)

philngat111,

Water pressure is what makes the inlet valves close when power to them shuts off. Yeah, that's not intuitive but it is how they work. You need a cap on the hot valve port.

Hose Cap

Also, just to say ... washing in only cold water causes the washer to get smutzed-up with residue ... laundry soils sticking to the interior parts of the machine.

thanks for the advice, after i found water under the washer while in the laundry room i removed the washer to outside and after looking inside ( after removing the front panel )

for a couple of days and not finding a water leak i put back together and moved back into laundry room and started using, it still leaked, it wasnt a visible leak outside while working on it because i never thought to look in the back of washer to actually see the water escaping from hot water side, so after finding it was leaking from valve hot water side i attatched hose to hot water port hoping that would keep the water escaping from the hot water side, i knew the valve went bad i just thought keeping water in an enclosed system by attatching hose to both ports would stop the leak, it didnt work, the water found its way from the valve itself since the hoses were keeping pressure inside , but again, the water found its way to leak, so, i ordered a new valve, it came in and it was the cheapest valve i could buy on amazon, 10 bucks, it leaked a dribble when put on and started, i began to think i got what i paid for and am returning valve for a more expensive brand, AND the cold and hot water ports are not joined or combined inside the valve in any way , two different ports with two different solenoids , i will update when i get that on,

the photos of the washer drum above are horrible, it looks like well water or near a beach where water is not greatly filtered, our washer is old, 2000 model GE profile, and has always used on cold only, but ours is as clean as the day we bought it honestly. i dont know why, i dont do the laundry i just fix things that break , i can do laundry :) i rarely do, i think my mother said hot water can fade or make colors " bleed " making the whole load the same color ? i have no idea, i just dont want to have to replace the flooring in the laundry room so the washer has been moved outside on back porch again until new valve arrives, i was wondering if Jeff had any luck or ideas that i had not considered, i didnt think this 5 year old thread would still be active, i am very pleased it is, thank you.

p.s. sorry for the loooong read

The first two pics was my mother's after six years. City water supply. It's a 1999 Kenmore toploader, given to me by a friend after a $12 part broke. I refurbed it for mom to use, disassembled and every inch cleaned to pristine. She washes primarily in cold water against my advice (tap cold, she won't even use the ATC cold setting). She does not use fabric softener. The clean area on the basket is where I had wiped before taking the photo. The residue is greasy/sticky, did not generate any suds when washed with water.

The 3rd & 4th pics are a different machine, which I bought from young woman who was moving out of an apartment. I have no info on her usage habits but it's obvious they're not so good.

Better to get the proper OEM replacement part than a substitute.

My hot water in my washing machine is turned off I can only use cold.. The landlord turned the hot off for the washing machine.. But my cold water hoes has a leak.. So could I use the hot water hoes there both black

There's no physical difference between a hot and cold supply hose on a washing machine.

Landlord turned off the hot water .... Is a hose still connected to the hot tap? Some inlet valves may leak water out of an open port if no hose is connected, or a cap is not on it.

Your landlord sounds awful. :-(

My washer has never been hooked up to hot water. Never had a hose on that side or a cap. It started leaking from the hot water valve today. Googled for hours and the only thing I could find was to cap off the hot water side. Well this is what I did instead.

I learned in my googling what a solenoid is and how they work and figured that the only way water could come out of that side is if the solenoid was open. So I'm guessing that someone here had change the setting on my machine from cold/cold to one that used hot water and that action had opened the solenoid. But just changing the setting back did not close it. It needed more. So I unhooked my water line from the cold and placed it on the hot, turned the water supply back on, set my washer to hot/cold, turned it on and it started filling, then switched it to cold/cold. It then stopped filling, so I knew the solenoid was closed. Then I just removed the hose from hot and put it back on the cold water side. And YAY, no more leaking. I also taped up the knob for the temp. Setting so no one will fiddle with them again.

I had 3 grown men watching me mess with this so you can only imagine how the rest of my day went after I fixed it myself 😎