So a couple weeks ago I was having trouble with the washer/dryer unit and it appeared that my landlord (who lives upstairs) was out of town so I called the Sears repair people, figuring when the landlord got home I'd 'splain and he'd be cool with it, since he's the sort of person to be cool with me calling the repair people in his absence. Sure enough, the afternoon of the day I called them, he came home. But he had no problem with it after all, and started to wonder aloud if he shouldn't try to get them to come upstairs and look at his washer/dryer up there at the same time.

Anyway, the repair guy comes out, gets the washer opened up, takes one look, calls me over, and says it'll be five hundred bucks to fix. Oops. Plus he doesn't have that part anyway and it's a two-man job, but I can call and reschedule if I think it's worth it. The problem is that the baseplate for the washer bucket is made of really cheap stamped metal, and where the support struts (which are mounted on vibration dampers) bolt on, the baseplate eventually cracks, breaks completely, and the bolts go right through.

Considering that a new unit would only be $700, and that the repair guy said if we take the receipt for the service call by we get $30 off a replacement, it wasn't too hard to talk the landlord into getting a new unit. The good news is, it's full! size! instead of a junior unit like the one it's replacing. The other good news is that it was delivered this morning.

The bad news is that the water is currently turned off. One of the guys upstairs works at a salon and has Mondays off, so generally whenever there's going to be a service call of any sort it happens on Monday. So today was a double call, as not only did the appliance delivery guys show up (at nine, a full hour before the earliest we'd been told to expect them, but I'm not complaining), but there's also a plumber upstairs fixing some leaks. And he's got the main valve for the house shut off while he's doing it.

So the appliance installers are gone, my washer's in place, I need a shower before I can go to work, and there's no water. Plus I desperately need to be in the office as it looks like one of my machines failed last week and I wasn't paying attention. Ugh.

I'll report on the pleasures of a full size washer and dryer soon enough.

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