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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LOL a similar thing happened to me. My favorite bro-in-law dropped a fridge on me while taking it off the truck (thank you craigslist). The fridge survived thanks to the “extra cushion”. I managed to live as well
Such a dagger, I’ve never had a flood (thank goodness) but we have had to make repairs on a washing machine and it was nerve-wracking to say the least. Both hubby and I are horrible with any type of handi/repair work, but sometimes he actually manages to do things right
-Sharon
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We have a front loading washer and i remember that
when its door broke, we had to buy it from a German website, delivery and door itself cost us a lot of money.
It never happened to me, and I wish it never does.
You just have a good experience in repairing your appliances. It is really annoying when you had such trouble, but after you get it fixed, you will find yourself to be more experienced dealing with such repair things.
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