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To: afraidfortherepublic

Sounds really lovely. Would love to see your kitchen ... sounds very creative!

I wasn’t able to get my washer dryer into the space provided even though my new house was built just months ago. So the delivery people did not leave them at the house.

I had to call a “third-party-installer’ who is charging me an extra $180.00 to install.

Two days ago the delivery people left them at my house.

Now, I’m trying to reach the installer to beg him to come out. In the meantime the wash is building up. I’m desperate.


30 posted on 09/16/2014 7:52:07 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: BunnySlippers

LOLOLOL. I’ve “out” of a washer/dryer since Aug 1! I got the washer last week, but it’s pretty useless without a dryer. I washed a load of jeans the day the washer came and dried them by hanging them over the front of the machine. They took two days to dry and are stiff as boards.


39 posted on 09/16/2014 11:19:07 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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That has been my pet peeve since they first started selling the “new” washing machines — especially the front loaders on pedastals. There are millions of houses, all over the country, that have built in cabinets around their laundry room set ups. And then the washing machine people started making the machines in different sizes that don’t fit. Actually, I didn’t think it would last, but they are still doing it and I’v been complaining at least 10 years.

My situation is a little different. We were getting a new floor installed in the laundry room, kitchen, powder bath; and front entry hall.

All the appliances were new when we bought this house in 1987. The sellers were insistent that we take the machines at the time, so we did. About 3 weeks after moving in, I noticed something strange about how the washer (an oversized model) was installed. I looked closer and saw that in order to squeeze this 29” washer into a smaller space, someone had cut the ends of the counter off, removed the side of the coabinet, and ripped out the sheet rock down to the studs where all the plumbing comes in and out.

My husband said he’d fix it. That was 27 years ago! So, now he fixed it (which was a 2 week ordeal, fitting all the pieces in). In the mean time, I pointed out that my perfectly good washer was probably on its last legs and we should consider getting a new washer/dryer because we didn’t want to take the chance that the old one would fail and leak all over the new floor!

We bought a set of LGs and had them delivered. An hour after they were installed, they leaked all over the floor (which was still the old floor). I raised holy he!! with Best Buy and LG and sent them back. (In the mean time, Best Buy had taken my old machines). Then I ordered as set of Whirlpool Cabrios from HH Gregg. They kept changing the delivery date and then finally brought them out at 9:30 PM and they arrived all dented. We sent them back.

In the mean time, we found out that the leak all over the floor was from an outdoor water faucet that had sprung a leak over the winter. We hadn’t used it yet, but recently had a delivery of hydrangeas that are sitting in their pots waiting to be planted.

So, we went to Home Depot and re-ordered the LGs. I’ve only got the washer so far. The dryer comes next week. So, I’ve had to learn to use the laundromat, an experience I haven’t had since 1961. I have a bump on my head where a dryer door hit me, and I lost $6 in quarters in one of their machines.

But, things could be worse. We could be living in Iraq and be threatened with beheading by ISIS.


40 posted on 09/16/2014 12:03:18 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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