Wait until you hear about the Windows file copy dialog.

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Usually this indicates that the drainage cycle is repeated again and again as the wash is still "too wet".

Could have all kinds of reasons, check the drain sieve in particular, mine had this silver "sheen" clogging everything that was packed and hardened bits of plastic and fibre mushed together.

A clogged drainage filter will make it take longer than anticipated. It’s usually lack of maintenance when these timers get THIS bad.

But even different materials hold water differently, it’s all an estimate based off of averages. Washing bedding or wool items? Probably gonna be 15% longer.

Maybe it's not the water intake but the drainage pump taking longer than expected, prolonging the last cycles? I have a machine that does that, coincidentally

check the waste pipes carrying water away from the machine because there's a blockage somewhere.

I have the same problem with the machines at my apartment. Actually, I think it's worse because it's not supposed to be an estimate; you pay based on time and you set the time yourself. I set the dryer to 45 minutes and it sometimes takes up to an hour and a half. At least it isn't charging me for the extra time.

This happens once in a while with my washer as well. My determination is that it starts to spin and is so far out of balance that it has to refill and swirl the clothes around a bit, then drain it to hopefully get a more even balance of mass so that it can properly spin. It's much worse when there are large items, like a blanket that tend to lump on one side.

If it helps, the dryer in our apartment makes a super loud buzzing for 10 seconds twice whenever it finishes unless you twist the dial to stop it early. And by loud, I mean you hear it from your neighboring apartments too. And it's not a bug, we checked. It's a feature.

ITT: OP just wants to vent, now he literally has homework instead.

Microsoft Washer ?

Whenever my wife and I are talking about our washer and drier we joke that it has "13 left" (instead of "13 minutes left") because the UI only says 13 and it often goes up again lol.

Time is relative.

To co-sign on the stupidity of embedded washing machine firmware, if we lose power, the next time you start the washing machine you're presented with an error message saying the power has failed. Like, no duh. You have to acknowledge the error message before you can start a new load.

Mine has no idea what the fuck time even is. 1 minute almost never shows up, normally it stops at 4 minutes left. But 4 minutes doesnt mean it's nearly done, it might be about to pop this very second but also half an hour seems like a good time.

I'll put the fucker on for a 30 minute cycle, have a shower, get dressed and come back to 29 minutes. Idk why it even bothers with a timer if it's literally never accurate.

Is this Finnish dryer?

Reminds me of our Palo Alto Panorama server. Commit jumps up to 99% after 30 seconds and sits there for the next 4-6 minutes, sometimes more.