How do I wash clothes if I can’t get water into the machine?
Submitted by Mom Reviews Blog
This is a guest post from Michael Brown:
A washing machine can only be filled up by a washing machine fill hose. That may sound a little obvious but when you have an appliance repair experience like I did you will understand why I am making the statement. I learned painfully that using anything but proper appliance parts, in this case proper Whirlpool parts, will lead to disaster. In my case, it led to a flood in my basement.
Here’s the story. The fill hose connected to my washing machine broke when we were moving and my brother-in-law dropped the machine on top of it. I suppose I should be grateful that he didn’t break the entire washer, but I really don’t like my brother-in-law so I’m going to be inexplicably angry with him for as long as I can. We were moving the machine off the truck and he put it down on top of the fill hose which was still attached (my fault there). This led to a need for a replacement fill hose.
This is the part where the adventure begins. Needing to get a load of laundry done as soon as possible, we put the washer in the basement and looked around for something we could use as a fill hose. Two guys who don’t like each other very much, a couple of six packs, and an angry wife who wants to get the move done are factors that do not lead to intelligent problem solving. We rigged it with a garden hose, turned the machine on to do a load, and left it. An hour later when I came down to check it there was water everywhere.
Without getting into too many details my wife (very angry), brother-in-law (blaming everything on me), and landlord (more angry than wife) let me have it for being an idiot. I knew it and I just let them all vent, then I took out my laptop and did what I should have done in the first place. I went to AppliancePartsPros.com and ordered the Whirlpool fill hose that my brother-in-law had broken. It only cost me $12.40 (good stainless steel hose, not the cheap rubber ones) but I made him pay me $25.00. Then I cleaned up the water in the basement. The hose arrived a day later and I made my wife happy by doing the appliance repair and then doing four loads of laundry. Next time I move I’ll hire movers and skip the drama with the in-laws.
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