Getting up in the morning can be exciting. Take for example this morning when I heard an unknown racket coming from the kitchen area of the house.
“Come in
here, right now! I heard something
explode and water is going everywhere?”
You might
call that a motivational talk; but that would be an understatement. I reached the kitchen area, more precisely,
the washroom where we keep the washing machine and dryer. I don’t know about
any explosion; however, there was a stream of water shooting out from behind
the washing machine. I located the shut
off valves and solved that part of the problem.
I then
located the source of the escaping water, the cold-water feed line to the
washing machine had broken off where it attached to the washing machine. A few old bath towels sopped up the water on
the floor and I pulled the washing machine away from the wall to get a better
idea of what I was up against as far as repairs. It looked simple enough; purchase a
replacement water feed line, better yet, purchase all three water feed
lines. Our dryer has a steam added
function so there’s a cold-water feed that might as well be replaced at the
same time. I noticed the dryer vent hose
was a bit mangled, might as well replace that too.
Have you
ever wondered where all the lint and dust goes, the stuff that falls off the
side of the dryer after you scoop off the lint screen? It attaches to the wall next to the dryer and
along the floor molding at the base of that wall. Then when the dryer and washing machine are
pulled away from the wall there’s a thick film of dirt and lint attached to the
floor, mixed with the water that escaped moments earlier. Yes, we were having fun.
I drove to
the local hardware store, purchased 3 water feed lines and a new dryer vent
hose. The fellow had assumed I meant 2 water feed lines until I told him about
the fancy dryer with steam function built in.
It’s all fixed now and the first load of wash to go in…drum roll please…all
those sopping wet bath towels.
It works,
chalk this up to being grateful that water supply line didn’t break off while
we were away; that would have been a really bad day.
