Originally Posted by MR UKI (1)

Mines flooded the kitchen 3 times since Thursday Shell funnily enough. Not a Hotpoint machine though. It wouldn't finish a cycle and needed to be drained and put on 'spin only' to release the door. Needed to remove the panel at the front at the bottom) and remove the plug to drain, hence the floods. It was doing it because the filter was blocked as I put a bath mat in which fell apart! Once all the fluff was removed it's working fine. Worth a look to see if it is because it is blocked somewhere.