Unexpected new washing machine
Dec. 15th, 2023 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lyornNot completely unexpected, maybe, as my old washing machine had made the habit of walking through the room at spin cycles and making all kinds of weird noises (banging like a ghoul in the ducts, rustling, scraping) for years.
Still it was unexpected when, yesterday night, it just stopped, the washing half-spun, heavy and waterlogged in the drum. I let out the water, dried the parts, wrung out the washing, and hung if up an a heated and aired room for fast drying. The bedsheets I took to C___ where they could tumble-dry overnight.
It's probably the suspension, and it can probably be repaired. However, the machine is 21 years old and getting it repaired before the holidays seems unlikely.
So today morning at 9 a.m. I was at my company's factory sale (we do not actually produce household appliances anymore, but for historical reasons we still have a "factory sale") and got a new one. It will be delivered and set up (including putting a metal platform/drawer under it) before the holidays.
If that actually happens, I'll be very impressed. But after weeks of annoying digital and virtual shit not working or not making sense or taking forever and then some, I feel I might be up for some analogue and physical luck.
Still it was unexpected when, yesterday night, it just stopped, the washing half-spun, heavy and waterlogged in the drum. I let out the water, dried the parts, wrung out the washing, and hung if up an a heated and aired room for fast drying. The bedsheets I took to C___ where they could tumble-dry overnight.
It's probably the suspension, and it can probably be repaired. However, the machine is 21 years old and getting it repaired before the holidays seems unlikely.
So today morning at 9 a.m. I was at my company's factory sale (we do not actually produce household appliances anymore, but for historical reasons we still have a "factory sale") and got a new one. It will be delivered and set up (including putting a metal platform/drawer under it) before the holidays.
If that actually happens, I'll be very impressed. But after weeks of annoying digital and virtual shit not working or not making sense or taking forever and then some, I feel I might be up for some analogue and physical luck.
