07/05/09, 08:09 AM
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1/2 bubble off plumb
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: NE OH
Posts: 8,781
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Laundry woes
It's been a "fun" 72 hours since coming back from the US. To make a long story short (check my blog for the long version and picture) the washer has been not working correctly for the last week and a half. My dear husband, who was on his own for three weeks, and the washer did not not get along.
The washer quit spinning 10 days go. The landlord was in the house for other reasons and saw the dripping laundry in the laundry room. He guessed the filter was plugged so he cleared it. Unfortunately he didn't re assemble it correctly so it flooded the room when we went to run the next load (the day after I got in from the US - VERY jet-lagged). After 2 hours they got that fixed, but it still won't spin.
I had nightmares for 2 nights about not being able to do laundry (DH must have clean clothes, towels, etc daily), no local laundry mats (only 2 in the city of Budapest and I can't get to either), and finally of large copper kettles, fire heated water and hand wringers.
Today, finally, DH tells me he messed with the settings as his white undershirts didn't come out very white a week or so ago (they are 10+ years old....they haven't been white for a decade!!). So he turned off the washers water heater thinking the hot water made his black work pants run (his pants don't bleed even in the hottest water). Could I check to make sure all the buttons were right? We don't have a water heater button (we have a dial with temp settings). The TURKEY turned off the spin cycle!!!!!! Needless to say the washer is now working fine and we can, once again, do laundry the way we are use to doing it (verses dragging dripping clothes up a flight of stairs to drip outside for 2 hours before drying). Looking forward to no laundry dreams tonight.
And yes, this IS the short version.
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at least he finally admitted it! 
