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We repair Ariston compact washers, washer-dryer combos, condenser dryers and dishwashers, the 24 inch units built for apartment laundry closets. Ariston left the North American appliance market, so parts and documentation are the constraint rather than the diagnosis. Labour runs $92 to $278, and the service call is free with the repair.
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Find Your Ariston Fault
Start with the appliance and what it is doing. Most of the calls we take on this brand have no code behind them at all, so those rows come first. Where a code does exist, read it carefully: F03 on a combo and F3 on an older AW washer are not the same fault.
| Appliance | What it is doing | On an Ariston this is usually | Code, if any |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washer | Water on the floor | The door seal on these front-loaders, part C00111416, which perishes at the bottom edge. Then the inlet hoses | none |
| Washer | Leaking only during the fill | The inlet hose washers or the three-way valve. Close the taps and it stops, which confirms it in seconds | none |
| Washer | Door will not open, drum full of water | The interlock has not released because the machine has not drained. Drain it at the filter first, gently | F17, F06 |
| Washer | Dead, no lights at all | The outlet and breaker first. On a condo install, the laundry circuit is often shared and easy to trip | none |
| Washer | Stops part way and sits there | A drain or pressure-switch fault on this platform. Check the pump filter before booking | F05, F10 |
| Washer | Will not drain, water left in the drum | The pump filter, then the pump. On the combos the same pump serves both functions | F05, F11 |
| Washer | Will not spin, or drum will not turn | The motor circuit or the tacho. F02 on the service manual reads blocked motor or open tachometry | F01, F02 |
| Washer | Not heating the wash | The NTC sensor or the heater relay. On a 115V North American unit the element runs longer than owners expect | F03, F07, F08 |
| Washer | Banging or walking | Transit bolts still fitted on a recently moved unit, then the shock absorbers. Worth checking before you call | none |
| Washer | Musty smell | Residue in the door seal folds and the dispenser. Compact machines with short cycles get this badly | none |
| Washer | Burning smell | Stop and unplug it. Motor brushes or a seized pump, and running it on makes the repair bigger | none |
| Combo | Washes fine but will not dry | The dryer side of a combo is a separate circuit. The manual's F13 to F15 all point at that wiring | F13, F14, F15 |
| Combo | Takes hours to dry a small load | Normal for a ventless 2.0 cubic foot combo, and often not a fault. We say so rather than selling you a part | none |
| Dryer | Tumbles but no heat | The lower element or its wiring. On the vented TVF the manual names F07 and F10 for exactly that | F07, F10 |
| Dryer | Water on the floor under a condenser dryer | The condensate tank seal or the drain hose, not the drum. A TCL73 in a condo usually drains to a standpipe | none |
| Dryer | Taking far longer than it used to | Filters and the condenser block. On a compact unit this shows up much faster than on a full-size dryer | none |
| Dryer | Squealing or rumbling | Drum bearings or the fan motor, part C00110434 on the AWD units | none |
| Dishwasher | Water on the floor, machine stopped | The anti-flood device has triggered on a real leak. F01 on this platform is the overflow protection | F01 |
| Dishwasher | Will not drain | Filters and sump, then the drain circuit. F03 is a drain failure or timeout | F03 |
| Dishwasher | Not filling | The tap and the fill valve. F02 is a fill valve failure and F06 a fill timeout | F02, F06 |
| Dishwasher | Dishes wet, or not washing hot | The heating element or thermostat. F04, F08 and F10 all sit in that circuit | F04, F08, F10 |
| Dishwasher | Smells bad | The filter and sump. Ten minutes of cleaning fixes most of these without a visit | none |
| Dishwasher | No display, lights flashing instead | On models without a screen the fault is counted out in LED flashes rather than shown as a code | flash count |
| Fridge | Not holding temperature | A sensor rather than the sealed system. The brand's E1 to E5 codes are all sensor and defrost sensor faults | E1 to E5 |
| Fridge | Water pooling inside or on the floor | A blocked defrost drain. On a built-in drawer unit the access is the slow part, not the repair | none |
| Fridge | Alarm sounding, freezer warm | The high-temperature alarm. Check the door seal and whether anything is holding a drawer open | E9 |
| Any | A code you cannot find anywhere | Read us the type number as well as the model. Ariston literature is indexed by type, not by the badge | any |
| Fridge | Ice maker not working | The Ariston refrigeration sold in North America was the BDR190 drawer unit, which has no ice maker. If yours makes ice, check the badge, because it is another brand | n/a |
Leaking right now? Close the taps behind the machine, switch it off at the breaker and call us rather than running another cycle to see what happens. On these compact units the leak is nearly always the door seal, a hose or a blocked filter, and the repair costs far less than the floor underneath. See also what sits behind the drum and whether the machine is worth repairing.
Which Ariston You Actually Have
Three separate businesses use this name, and only one of them made your appliance. Getting this straight saves you calling the wrong trade.
| If you have | That is | Who to call |
|---|---|---|
| A 24 inch washer, combo, dryer or dishwasher | The Merloni and Indesit appliance line, sold here roughly 2004 to 2013 | Us. This is the page for it |
| A water heater or a boiler | Ariston Group, a different company since the 1975 split. Its Canadian arm in Saint John, New Brunswick was NTI and became Ariston Canada in 2025 | A heating contractor. That trade is not ours |
| Something badged Hotpoint bought in Canada | A GE Appliances product. GE states plainly that the European Hotpoint is a separate company | Not this page. Hotpoint-Ariston is the European line |
The appliance side went from Merloni Elettrodomestici to Indesit Company in 2005, Hotpoint and Ariston were combined as Hotpoint-Ariston in 2007, Whirlpool took control of Indesit in October 2014, and the European business became Beko Europe in April 2024. None of that reached Canada. Ariston household appliances are no longer sold or supported in North America, and the service address printed inside the old manuals now points at a domain that has been taken over by an unrelated site.
Where These Washers and Combos Ended Up
Condo laundry closets, mostly. These are 24 inch ventless machines built for apartments where a full-size pair will not fit, the same slot our washer repair and dryer repair pages cover for mainstream brands, and they came into Canada through niche importers rather than the mainstream retail chain.
The strongest sign of where they ended up: Concord Pacific hosts the Ariston ARWDF 129 combo manual and the TCL73 condenser dryer manual on its own website for residents of its buildings. If you bought a Toronto or Vancouver condo built in that era and inherited the laundry, this is very likely your machine.
The models we see are the ARWDF129NA and ARWDF129SNA combos, the ARWL129NA and ARWXF129WNA washers, the AW122NA, AW129NA and AW149NA, the TVF63XSNA and TVM63X dryers, the LI640 and LI670 dishwashers, and occasionally the BDR190NA refrigerator drawers. The combo is a 2.0 cubic foot ventless unit on a 115V 60Hz supply, so it was never the European machine with a North American plug.
Ariston Washer and Combo Fault Codes
Two different code systems ran on these machines and mixing them up sends the repair the wrong way. The North American service manual for the AWD combo platform, published by Merloni Elettrodomestici, uses two-digit codes. The older AW washers use single digits with different meanings.
| Code | What it points at | Checked first |
|---|---|---|
| F01 | Motor triac short circuit on the control board | The board. This one rarely has a cheap answer |
| F02 | Blocked motor, or open and short-circuited tachometry | Whether the drum turns by hand, then the tacho and brushes |
| F03 | NTC temperature sensor open or short circuit | The sensor and its connector before the heater is suspected |
| F04 | Overflow and pressure switch empty seen at the same time | The pressure hose, which is the usual culprit on a contradiction like this |
| F05 | Blocked pump, or pressure switch stuck on empty | The pump filter. Coins and hairclips end most of these calls |
| F07, F08 | Heater relay stuck, or heating missing with the pressure switch stuck on full | The element, the relay and the pressure system together |
| F09 | Machine setup error | The stored configuration, often after a board was swapped |
| F10 | Pressure switch reading empty and full, or neither | The hose and chamber before the switch |
| F11 | Pump feedback missing | The pump wiring, then the pump |
| F12 | No communication between the display card and the main card | The ribbon connection between them |
| F13, F14, F15 | The drying side: sensor harness disconnected, dryer connector open, or connector always active | Combo models only. A washer that will not dry starts here |
| F17 | Door lock error, on the European-platform machines | Whether the drum drained, then the interlock |
The trap worth knowing. On the older AW 120 the single-digit list runs F1 triac, F2 main motor, F3 water temperature NTC, F4 pressure switch, F5 blocked drain motor, F6 program selector, F8 pressure switch shorted on full, F9 control board, F10 pressure switch shorted, F11 drain motor, with F7 and F12 unused and F13 to F16 applying only to the combo models. Read that against the two-digit table and several meanings move. If the machine also refuses to spin or will not fill, those guides describe the same faults across brands. Tell us which machine you have and we will use the right list.
Ariston Dryer Repair
The dryers split into vented units such as the TVF63XSNA and TVM63X, and condenser units such as the TCL73. On the vented electronic models the published codes are readable: F01 the motor running when it should be off, F03 and F13 the front and rear thermistors, F07 a lower element failure, F08 the element energised when it should be off, F10 an open circuit in the heater common wiring, and F12 no communication between the display and control modules.
On a condenser dryer, water on the floor is almost never the drum. It is the condensate tank seal or the drain hose where the unit has been plumbed to a standpipe, which is how most apartment installs run. Slow drying on either type is filters and the condenser block before anything electrical, and on a compact machine that shows up faster than it would on a full-size dryer.
See electric dryer repair, a dryer that will not heat and one that has become noisy.
Ariston Dishwasher Repair
The dishwashers, the LI640 and LI670 families, use a separate F list where F01 is the anti-flood overflow, F02 a fill valve failure, F03 a drain failure or timeout, F04 a thermostat fault, F06 a fill timeout, F10 a heating element fault and F11 a wash pump failure. Machines without a display count the fault out in LED flashes instead.
An F01 is worth understanding before you book. The anti-flood device has detected water in the base, so the machine is protecting your floor rather than failing. Drying the tray clears the code, but if the source has not been traced it returns, which is why the visit is about finding the leak rather than resetting the machine.
See dishwasher repair, a machine that will not drain, one that will not fill and weak spray arms.
Ariston Refrigeration Repair
Ariston refrigeration reached North America as a built-in drawer unit rather than a freestanding cabinet, so there is no ice maker and no water dispenser to fail. What there is, is a sealed refrigeration system behind cabinetry, and the access is usually the slow part of the visit rather than the repair itself.
The published E-series codes are all sensor and defrost-sensor faults, which is better news than owners expect: a sensor and its wiring is a parts-and-labour repair, not a sealed-circuit one. Water pooling is a blocked defrost drain. An alarm with a warm compartment usually traces to a door seal or a drawer held open. Where the diagnosis does reach the sealed circuit, that work requires an Ozone Depletion Prevention certificate in Ontario.
See fridge repair, freezer repair, a fridge that will not cool and the temperatures these should hold.
Parts for a Brand That Left the Market
This is the question every Ariston owner asks first, and the answer is better than expected. Parts exist, they are simply not where you would look.
Ariston part numbers run in the C00 series, and Canadian catalogues frequently drop the prefix. The door seal is C00111416 and lists in North American catalogues as plain 111416. The dryer fan motor is C00110434. That one detail is why an owner searching their own model number finds nothing while the part is sitting in stock, and it is the difference between a technician telling you the brand is unsupported and one finding the part in a few minutes.
What we do before booking: give us the model and the type number and we check the channels that still carry this brand, then quote the wait alongside the price. On a brand with no manufacturer support behind it that answer matters as much as the diagnosis, and we would rather tell you a part is gone than take a service call and discover it on the day. The same approach applies to the other European compacts we are called to, such as Asko, Bosch and Miele, where the parts channel matters more than the badge.
The Type Number Is What Orders Parts
Worth two minutes before you call. Ariston indexes its technical literature by type number rather than by the model on the badge, the same convention Asko uses, and it is why owners searching a model number find nothing. Technicians hit the same wall.
On these machines the plate sits inside the door opening on a washer or combo, on the rear panel of a dryer, and on the inner door edge of a dishwasher. Read us everything on it, including the type and the commercial code. That string is what tells us which of the two washer code lists applies to your machine, and which parts diagram to order from.
Whether the repair is worth doing on a machine of this age is a separate question, and we answer it honestly. Our guides on repairing or replacing a washing machine, a dryer and a dishwasher set out how we weigh it. For a compact unit built into a condo closet, the calculation is different from a freestanding pair, because the replacement has to fit the same opening and take the same ventless plumbing.
If you would rather move to a brand with a Canadian parts network behind it, our washer repair, dryer repair and dishwasher repair pages cover the makes we see most, and we will say plainly when replacing beats repairing.
We have technicians based in eight regions rather than dispatched from one hub: the GTA, Barrie, London and Ottawa in Ontario, Vancouver in British Columbia, Winnipeg in Manitoba, Halifax in Nova Scotia, and New York City. Each has its own local number. Ariston compacts cluster in downtown condo stock, so most of this work is Toronto and Vancouver. The service areas page lists the number nearest you.
