Washer update
Aug. 26th, 2021 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roselightfairyStill out of order, a week later, and I have been handwashing my underwear for days.
For the last several days, the lights on the washer have been dark (the place where you can hit a button to start a load, the digital face that indicates how much money you still need to put in, because of course it's coin-op). Yesterday, those lights were back on. The "out of order" sign was still on the machine, though the words "will be exchanged" had been added to it. I texted my landlord to ask if he knew what was going on (again, reminder, this is the one machine for our entire building) and he said that the service people had marked that the order was complete but also indicated that they would replace it. He wasn't clear on if it had been temporarily fixed or not.
More fool I, I decided to try.
It hadn't been. Which then meant I had to haul a load of sopping wet laundry back upstairs to my apartment, dump it in the bathtub, and do my best with water and detergent and my hands to clean it before hauling it back down to put into the dryer. I let it run, and then the second I opened the dryer and got hit by a whiff of air from inside, I knew none of it had worked - handwashing wasn't effective enough, and it having sat in its own wetness for several minutes before I tried had left an indelible Scent on all of it. It was still damp in the dryer, but I decided it wasn't worth running it another time, since it wouldn't be clean even if it did get dry.
So I hauled the lot of it back upstairs, separated out enough underwear to get me through the next couple of days, and washed those on my own in the sink. Again. Meanwhile, I guess the rest of it will just wait.
And the worst of all of it is that the laundry people got paid for this - because I paid for a load each of washing and drying that didn't work.
My landlord is frustrated with the service people, and I am too - but he's not off the hook for this, either. This would not be a problem if there were more than one machine for the entire building.
I'll be going to my mom's next week, so I guess I'll just bring my laundry then. Even if it does get fixed in the next few days, at this point, it's not even worth it to try.
For the last several days, the lights on the washer have been dark (the place where you can hit a button to start a load, the digital face that indicates how much money you still need to put in, because of course it's coin-op). Yesterday, those lights were back on. The "out of order" sign was still on the machine, though the words "will be exchanged" had been added to it. I texted my landlord to ask if he knew what was going on (again, reminder, this is the one machine for our entire building) and he said that the service people had marked that the order was complete but also indicated that they would replace it. He wasn't clear on if it had been temporarily fixed or not.
More fool I, I decided to try.
It hadn't been. Which then meant I had to haul a load of sopping wet laundry back upstairs to my apartment, dump it in the bathtub, and do my best with water and detergent and my hands to clean it before hauling it back down to put into the dryer. I let it run, and then the second I opened the dryer and got hit by a whiff of air from inside, I knew none of it had worked - handwashing wasn't effective enough, and it having sat in its own wetness for several minutes before I tried had left an indelible Scent on all of it. It was still damp in the dryer, but I decided it wasn't worth running it another time, since it wouldn't be clean even if it did get dry.
So I hauled the lot of it back upstairs, separated out enough underwear to get me through the next couple of days, and washed those on my own in the sink. Again. Meanwhile, I guess the rest of it will just wait.
And the worst of all of it is that the laundry people got paid for this - because I paid for a load each of washing and drying that didn't work.
My landlord is frustrated with the service people, and I am too - but he's not off the hook for this, either. This would not be a problem if there were more than one machine for the entire building.
I'll be going to my mom's next week, so I guess I'll just bring my laundry then. Even if it does get fixed in the next few days, at this point, it's not even worth it to try.
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Date: 2021-08-29 10:10 am (UTC)