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The Appliance/Electrical Gods are Angry
Aug. 2nd, 2013 08:04 amWhen we moved in, we couldn't test the air conditioner, as it was, y'know, December. At the end of June we had a heatwave of 10 days of 105+ temps, and we gave in and turned it on, even though it was untested. Unfortunately, we found that it was very slowly leaking water from somewhere into the mechanical room, so we turned it off. Still need to call a someone to look at it.
A couple weeks ago the dryer went temporarily offline - it started making a weird smell, something was glowing bright red in the back, and the clothes were hot to the touch. Theory is that something lint related might need cleaning in the back, or it's another thing on the "call the repairpeople" list. This one we at least have the healthy alternative of hanging clothes on our huge clothesline.
Two days ago, the garbage disposal gave up - again, I hope temporarily. It was right in the midst of my massive cooking fest for Fandemonium, which is inconvenient, but probably the cause. I was doing the dishes and it attempted to eat a plastic spoon. I have pretty much cleaned it out, but it still doesn't turn. This isn't a huge suprise, the inspector when we bought the house said, "garbage disposal jammed, unjammed it, then it jammed again." Actually, I'm surprised it worked this long with no issues. This is another one we should supposedly be able to fix on our own, but I haven't attempted yet.
Last night I came home from Too Late at Fandemonium prep, and the electricity was out for the street. It took me a surprisingly long time to figure out, because the first two lights I tried are finicky anyways. But there was a big windstorm last night, apparently caused the outage. The irksome part was, I had all the leftover chilli from dinner that I wanted to freeze. Also, needed to run a load of laundry, but instead I just went to bed. Also, my phone was almost dead, so I was Very Concerned about it giving me my morning alarm, but the electricity did come back sometime in the middle of the night.
This morning, alarm DID go off, and the electricity was back, though my brain was VERY confused by what time it was - phone said 5am, clock said 3:32. Went and started the laundry, then did the morning things. Laundry seemed to run pretty quickly. I took the chilli parcels down to the big freezer, noticed it was still off, even though the light in the room worked. Freaked out that the freezer was dead too. But actually, something on that circuit tripped the circuit breaker - the washer was on the same circuit. And the downstairs bathroom, and the back porchlight (it's a weird circuit). Flipped the circuit on and off, things came back on. Domino apparently finds a suddenly reanimated washingmachine TRAUMATIZING.
I don't know if it was related to the outage in the middle of the cycle or what, but then there was a tiny puddle peeking out from under the washing machine when I went downstairs to empty it.
I feel vaguely like the appliances are in cahoots against me.
A couple weeks ago the dryer went temporarily offline - it started making a weird smell, something was glowing bright red in the back, and the clothes were hot to the touch. Theory is that something lint related might need cleaning in the back, or it's another thing on the "call the repairpeople" list. This one we at least have the healthy alternative of hanging clothes on our huge clothesline.
Two days ago, the garbage disposal gave up - again, I hope temporarily. It was right in the midst of my massive cooking fest for Fandemonium, which is inconvenient, but probably the cause. I was doing the dishes and it attempted to eat a plastic spoon. I have pretty much cleaned it out, but it still doesn't turn. This isn't a huge suprise, the inspector when we bought the house said, "garbage disposal jammed, unjammed it, then it jammed again." Actually, I'm surprised it worked this long with no issues. This is another one we should supposedly be able to fix on our own, but I haven't attempted yet.
Last night I came home from Too Late at Fandemonium prep, and the electricity was out for the street. It took me a surprisingly long time to figure out, because the first two lights I tried are finicky anyways. But there was a big windstorm last night, apparently caused the outage. The irksome part was, I had all the leftover chilli from dinner that I wanted to freeze. Also, needed to run a load of laundry, but instead I just went to bed. Also, my phone was almost dead, so I was Very Concerned about it giving me my morning alarm, but the electricity did come back sometime in the middle of the night.
This morning, alarm DID go off, and the electricity was back, though my brain was VERY confused by what time it was - phone said 5am, clock said 3:32. Went and started the laundry, then did the morning things. Laundry seemed to run pretty quickly. I took the chilli parcels down to the big freezer, noticed it was still off, even though the light in the room worked. Freaked out that the freezer was dead too. But actually, something on that circuit tripped the circuit breaker - the washer was on the same circuit. And the downstairs bathroom, and the back porchlight (it's a weird circuit). Flipped the circuit on and off, things came back on. Domino apparently finds a suddenly reanimated washingmachine TRAUMATIZING.
I don't know if it was related to the outage in the middle of the cycle or what, but then there was a tiny puddle peeking out from under the washing machine when I went downstairs to empty it.
I feel vaguely like the appliances are in cahoots against me.
