{"id":30092,"date":"2020-04-23T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T07:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=30092"},"modified":"2020-04-23T00:01:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T07:01:41","slug":"washing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/washing-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Washing Machine. Leaky Water Heater. Do I Let a Plumber Into the House? Sheltering at Home Week 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe title=\"Jon Newhall siphons water out of the family washing machine\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wHxiEZ9us5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>When our old washing machine gave out, Jon and I used a garden hose to siphon the dirty laundry water out the door and into the yard. <\/em>Video by Barbara Newhall<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sheltering at Home Week Six, April 22, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some dirty rags needed washing. I tossed them into our faithful 23-year-old Maytag washing machine. When the tub had filled, I closed the lid.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I opened the lid. Closed it again.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I called Jon. He opened the lid. Closed it.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30104\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2020\/04\/23\/washing-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2020\/04\/23\/washing-machine\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30104 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_3656-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"washing-machine-siphoned\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dirty water from the washing machine runs out of the garden hose we used as a siphon. <em>Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our old Maytag had bit the dust. Right in the middle of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Down and Dirty With Our Geriatric Appliances<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Jon and I got down on the floor next to the washing machine to see if we could see what was going on around back. We couldn&#8217;t see behind the washer. But now that we were on the floor we could see that the water heater, which lives next to the washer, was leaking.<\/p>\n<p>A puddle of water. Clumps of lime scale the size of portabello mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>A month ago, during Week Two of these sheltering at home chronicles, <a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2020\/03\/27\/no-furnace-no-heat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our furnace went out<\/a>. A repairman came and went. Apparently he was not shedding the COVID-19 virus at the time, because, now, four weeks later, Jon and I are neither coughing nor wheezing nor checking ourselves into the hospital. We&#8217;re still coronavirus virgins. For now.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Now What Do We Do?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>But what to do about this week&#8217;s double whammy?<\/p>\n<p>Get a plumber in to see if one person, wearing a mask, can fix the washing machine and the water heater in a single visit?<\/p>\n<p>Or, order two brand-new appliances from a single outlet and hope that no more than two service people, wearing masks, can deliver and install them both?<\/p>\n<p>Which strategy is cheaper? Which one is less likely to kill us? Which one will get a washing machine up and running before we&#8217;re out of clean socks?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>How are we coping with the coronavirus epidemic? Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/tag\/sheltering-at-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sheltering at Home<\/a>. You can also sign up to get notifications of <a href=\"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=bf75e334c287653b3666d474c&amp;id=afd1878d6c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my latest posts<\/a>. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>More about keeping house at &#8220;A Case of the Human Condition: <a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2009\/07\/17\/a-case-of-the-human-condition-im-a-woman-with-a-sprawling-past\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I&#8217;m a Woman With a Sprawling Past<\/a>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30106\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2020\/04\/23\/washing-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2020\/04\/23\/washing-machine\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30106\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_3669-4-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"broken-washing-machine- and-leaky-water-heater\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A puddle of water and lime scale on the floor next to our leaking water heater. <em>Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2020\/04\/23\/washing-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2020\/04\/23\/washing-machine\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30118 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_3651-2-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"siphon-washing-machine-water\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two major appliances have bit the dust at our house. How many people will be coming into our house to repair them? Will the coronavirus come with them? <a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2020\/04\/23\/washing-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[2179,2259,1188,29,2184,2260,2261],"class_list":["post-30092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","category-sheltering-at-home-chronicles","tag-coronavirus","tag-home-repairs","tag-house","tag-jon","tag-sheltering-at-home","tag-washing-machine","tag-water-heater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}