Travis and I picked out a washer and dryer the second day we were here. After about an hour conversation with my mom on the phone who looked up customer reports and calling local shops to see what their prices were. We crunched the numbers and decided this was in fact a deal!!! I was so excited to get Travis and I's first washer and dryer. There were delivered Wednesday afternoon. I decided that this was a man's job! Travis got all new tools for Christmas and I didn't want to rob him of the opportunity to use them. Travis sat and read all the manuals. He started with the washer. He hooked up the hoses and started running water and realized there was a leak. He called maintenance and they were scheduled for the next morning to come....so day one was over.
The next day the maintenance man came out and stayed for five minutes and said, "Ma'm it's fixed." With that obstacle behind us Travis came home and finished hooking up the washer. He cleaned out the outside vent and then began hooking up the dryer.It is important for you to know that Travis is about has handy has a monkey with a screwdriver. I heard a lot of sighing and asking for me for help, but I kept refusing to help so that he had to figure it out for himself and learn!
Half way through the dryer installation he got very frustrated from the clamp on the hose. he called me in there to help, so I finally got up and walked in there and he was laying in a space about a foot wide. There was no way for me to help him....so I sat back on the couch. He finally struggled through it and connected it!! Yeah I thought to myself...I am forming a handy man :) But my dream was short lived he had me in there again swearing that he needed my help to screw a clamp together. I took the tool and did one side all by myself, gave him the screwdriver back and again sat on the couch. Five minutes later the other side was screwed in. Almost there I thought! But things came to a dead halt when the other clamp for the hose didn't work...end of day two!
Day three we went to Lowes and spent way more than we intended (it seems to be trend). We got a new clamp and went back home. Again there was sighing and load gruff, but he did it! He kept saying he hoped nothing would blow up because of all the warnings in the manuals, but I assured him that normal Americans like ourselves do it unsupervised all the time!
Today Travis did the first loads of laundry and is totally in love with the machines. He mentions all the time how quiet they are and has made me come watch them during their cycles.....I just think he proud of his handy work. I am proud of him too!
Way to go Trav!!! Those Pemberton's are tough on us non-handy folks but the more you do it the easier it will get. I will have to tell you about the first time Dave saw me paint:). Oh and I am totally jealous of your washer and dryer! I have been begging Dave for those front loaders for years!! You guys are so cute and are going to have some great memories together. Miss you and we want to come visit.
ReplyDeleteLooking back on it, setting up the washer and dryer was not too complex--and the directions for the washer came with color coded pictures. My only hang up was that dryer! The vent was giving me grief as Katie explained from her perspective, and I have never done anything with electric chords and wires. The directions for the dryer were awful and did not go into detail. It would say, "Grab the 3 pronged wire and unscrew the back of the washer panel. Then put grounding wire in middle on first, then the others." Something along those lines...very vague so I had to read the directions over and over and make some guesses where all the wires went. Not to mention the directions kept having HUGE highlighted danger and warning notes that if you don't put the wires on right there could be an explosion. I had horror images in my mind of Katie unsuspectingly going to turn on the dryer and blowing up.
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