Electrical Advice needed

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The electrician believes the washer belt needs loosening tightening or lubrication.

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I think you need someone from Sears.

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Avoid the clap

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Now that's good advice, Jimmy.

change out the solenoids.

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can give a little advice

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You have come to the right place.

I am not an electrician. I learned some shite after the flood though. Could be the amps for the washer/dryer in the fuse box? Although a competent electrician would have known that.

If you think that is legitimate advice, I suggest neither of you go near the main panel. Call a different electrician.

1 get wife
2 drink beer while she handles all the household shite
3 profit

I don't believe him and I conveyed that to the landlord's front office. I have no pull in choosing an electrician.

Is this a new development with the washer? If it’s new, it’s quite possibly a problem with the motor or belt that’s causing it to draw more amps than usual because something is obstructed or in a bind or something. If it’s always acted like this though, that’s a less likely cause.

What do you mean “the wires were backwards”? That probably would not have any affect on the lights dimming unless I’m misunderstanding this.

Also, a short explanation of the dimming: your lights dim when the voltage drops in your electrical system. The reason the voltage drops when a large electrical load (like a washer) runs is that when you have a large number of amps running through a wire or transformer (both the feed from the panel to the washer AND along the cable & transformer upstream of your panel) the voltage will drop because of the resistance of the wire/xfmr. Motors have a large inrush current, so when they start they can cause voltage drop over the entire system. It’s likely that a washer starts and stops it’s motor many times over the course of a cycle which causes the intermittent-ness of what you’re seeing. The only ways to alleviate this issue are: reduce the load (unlikely unless there is an issue within the machine that can be fixed), or increase the wire size upstream. Or I guess tap up the transformer but I don’t think normal house xfmrs come with that option.

ETA: these other posts do have a legit point. if you have a bad connection somewhere it could introduce a lot of resistance into the equation, so you could have an electrician check your connections as well.