The repairman showed up this afternoon. I spent the morning cleaning up the house; First I cleaned my bathroom, then I did the dusting and vacuuming. I did all the floors and the cat trees (not the bedroom, though). It’s a pretty nice day and I had all of the doors and windows open, so the house smelled fresh. It’s been very windy here today.
Anyway, he came in, I told him where the parts were and he took off the cover, replaced the pump, put the machine back together. Then he started up a cycle and it sounded way better. Much, much better.
When he had uninstalled the old pump, I picked it up and looked inside. I asked if he had to take it with him, because I really wanted Brian to see what was inside of it. He said he had to, so I took a picture of the crud inside:
This stuff is like cement. It does not just rub off. It’s like the stuff that was in the dispenser, the stuff I was chiseling out with a screwdriver (I still haven’t gotten it all). And apparantly what was happening is a piece would break off and block the pump from working properly (you can kind of see a piece at the back of the image). I think the fact that we’ve got hard water added to the problem.
So, no more powder detergent. And I’m real excited to be doing laundry again.
The first thing? The sofa cover that hasn’t been washed in a month. It’s nasty. Really, really nasty. But I had to leave it on because I didn’t have anything else to protect the sofa. Ah, clean stuff. I’m so looking forward to clean stuff.
With this and the Annie news, it’s been a great day.
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