It came time to rebed our water treatment tanks, I can tell 'cause our water pressure drops to almost nil as the sand gets clogged up. It's a pretty good size chore and the water co. wants 1200 bucks to do it. No thank you, I have a very strong, athletic son I keep around here when I need some muscle on jobs like this (the tanks weigh about 300 lbs and have to be carried up outta the basement and cleaned out).
So after some minor issues getting everything cleaned,rebedded and put back together I turn the water pressure back on, bingo! enough pressure to put out a three alarm fire. Life is good, wife is happy. Until. Wife goes to do some laundry and bam! something blows inside the washing machine, our tired old washer just couldn't handle the water pressure. DAMN! Start taking that apart spewing certain expletives all the while. Now I've worked a on all kinds of appliances and can usually bring them back to life but this damn washing machine was being a total pain in the ass just getting inside of it. Well I start thinking about it and I realize this washer came from our old house,hmm, lessee, that was '98 and it was in the house when we had moved in '92...carry the two and...well geez honey this thing's ancient , maybe it's time for a new one. Oooooo, she squealed in agreement.
Well the hunt for a new machine is on. GEEEZ, when did stuff get so expensive? I figured we'd go get a nice middle of the road machine for 300 bucks or so. bzzzt! Wrong! Well after much scouring around at all the different places,and there are many, we fin ally end up at home depot. Man, all these new machines are all kinds of decked out, there's no way in the world I'd be able to work on any of these things, knobs,dials, readouts, all kinds of crap. The wife picks one out and after I inspect it(like I really know what I'm looking at), I figure it just has to be a good one, one of the dials goes to 11 We'll take it.
Two days later, guys came and took away the old machine,put in the new one. No leaks, plenty of water pressure, clean clothes, happy happy wife. Life ain't bad again.
So after some minor issues getting everything cleaned,rebedded and put back together I turn the water pressure back on, bingo! enough pressure to put out a three alarm fire. Life is good, wife is happy. Until. Wife goes to do some laundry and bam! something blows inside the washing machine, our tired old washer just couldn't handle the water pressure. DAMN! Start taking that apart spewing certain expletives all the while. Now I've worked a on all kinds of appliances and can usually bring them back to life but this damn washing machine was being a total pain in the ass just getting inside of it. Well I start thinking about it and I realize this washer came from our old house,hmm, lessee, that was '98 and it was in the house when we had moved in '92...carry the two and...well geez honey this thing's ancient , maybe it's time for a new one. Oooooo, she squealed in agreement.
Well the hunt for a new machine is on. GEEEZ, when did stuff get so expensive? I figured we'd go get a nice middle of the road machine for 300 bucks or so. bzzzt! Wrong! Well after much scouring around at all the different places,and there are many, we fin ally end up at home depot. Man, all these new machines are all kinds of decked out, there's no way in the world I'd be able to work on any of these things, knobs,dials, readouts, all kinds of crap. The wife picks one out and after I inspect it(like I really know what I'm looking at), I figure it just has to be a good one, one of the dials goes to 11 We'll take it.
Two days later, guys came and took away the old machine,put in the new one. No leaks, plenty of water pressure, clean clothes, happy happy wife. Life ain't bad again.
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