At the end of last year our 6 month old washing machine developed a fault…months of wrangling with AO and Samsung and it was repaired (a miserable story) Happy happy me until today teen DD starts a job at a local stables comes home puts her clothes and socks in the wash (never known to put anything in the wash before) i pass by pop in a load of laundry turn it on walk past ten min later to see what appears to be a bale of hay being washed. washing machine promptly has a nervous breakdown everything is covered in hay!! have emptied the filter scouped out a tesco bag amt of Hay and now sat watching more hay go round on a self clean cycle its put itself on …which lasts 3 hours!!!! Will i ever have a washing machine not full of hay? will i have to call the AO helpline again ? I feel defeated by the week and its not even Monday. someone tell me it will be ok and someone horsey tell me why were her socks full of hay???