Psychotomy

Well, no, not really.  My laundry machine appears to have decided to develop a hole.  a large hole.

Initially I discovered the floor was wet, and I assumed the drain tub clogged and overflowed.  So I took my hanger-snake and dredged it some, but not near enough to have caused that kind of overflow.  So I threw drain cleaner down it, even though that almost never helps.  Then I turned the washer back on to drain some more and it was draining GREAT.  Problem solved.

Then last night I went to carpet-shampoo-er dry out the carpets, and I threw in a load of laundry while I worked, figuring I have a bunch of stuff that needs washing, even more after it flooded the stuff that was there. (it was dirty before, but now it was REALLY dirty, plus all the towels I tried to mop it up with initially)

After an hour and a half, kiir comes to see how I’m doing, and I’m noticing that things aren’t getting much better and I decide to break off for the night, because I swear it WAS getting better earlier.  So I go to swap the laundry before going up, and uh … there’s 1.5″ of water standing in the laundry area … and the clothes in the washer are really wet …, wtf?

So I partially refill the machine so I can run it on spin to see whats leaking.  And as I look in, I can see the water level … uh … going down … while it’s off … wait just a damned minute!

So today I stayed home and vac’d up the floor and carpets (carpet is starting to smell at this point, going to need to do some real shampooing once I get it tolerably dry)

Pulled it out, and the back, where all the hoses connect, is perfectly dry and still has all the dust that 9 years in the house has given it.  So it’s leaking from the inside out the bottom.  GREAAAAT.

We have an appt with a place to come out and take a look this weekend, give us an estimate at least.  Because decent washing machines?  are apparently in the 700-1000$ range!

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