I'm not sure what's going on here, but a large volume of water suddenly appeared in the laundry room, causing me to go into panic mode.
I had just arrived home from work and Mary announced that there was water in the laundry room floor, so I rushed in and found that, indeed, there was. Mary had already shut off the washing machine (the culprit), but by then, unfortunately (or fortunately?), the cat litter on the floor had soaked it up and had formed a thick mud.
It took a while to clean all the water off the floor; and then it was necessary to find out the actual source of the problem. So I put blocks under the washing machine in order to help pinpoint the leak, thinking that it was probably coming from underneath, then turned it on to see what would happen.
And the source of the leak turned out to be the little soap dispenser thing at the top of the machine. The one in which the detergents and softeners and additives are poured. Apparently something got in there that plugged up the drain so when the water rushed in to carry the detergent(s) down into the main part of the machine, it back-flowed up and over the dispenser, down the front of the machine, and onto the floor.
Naturally, whatever it was that was blocking the dispenser drain quickly disappeared so that I was unable to repeat the problem. And I tried for nearly an hour.
I really hate when that happens. It leaves me with a sour taste of uncertainty and doubt. And fear that it will suddenly happen in the middle of the night when we are all in bed, since we sometimes set it to go off in the early morning hours.
It wouldn't be so bad if the laundry room was completely water-proof; but there are a couple holes in the floor where the gas lines from the basement come up, and I'm not too keen on the idea of water finding its way over to those holes and cascading like a fountain down through the walls I've so carefully built down there.
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Meanwhile, Mary has been busy cooking and baking again. We had a crockpot dinner tonight.
As part of dinner tonight, her latest experiment was creating breadsticks from pastry dough. They were a lot thinner and crispier than I was expecting, but they tasted great! The only problem is that they disappear too quickly.
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| Washing Machine Up On Blocks |
It took a while to clean all the water off the floor; and then it was necessary to find out the actual source of the problem. So I put blocks under the washing machine in order to help pinpoint the leak, thinking that it was probably coming from underneath, then turned it on to see what would happen.
And the source of the leak turned out to be the little soap dispenser thing at the top of the machine. The one in which the detergents and softeners and additives are poured. Apparently something got in there that plugged up the drain so when the water rushed in to carry the detergent(s) down into the main part of the machine, it back-flowed up and over the dispenser, down the front of the machine, and onto the floor.
Naturally, whatever it was that was blocking the dispenser drain quickly disappeared so that I was unable to repeat the problem. And I tried for nearly an hour.
I really hate when that happens. It leaves me with a sour taste of uncertainty and doubt. And fear that it will suddenly happen in the middle of the night when we are all in bed, since we sometimes set it to go off in the early morning hours.
It wouldn't be so bad if the laundry room was completely water-proof; but there are a couple holes in the floor where the gas lines from the basement come up, and I'm not too keen on the idea of water finding its way over to those holes and cascading like a fountain down through the walls I've so carefully built down there.
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Meanwhile, Mary has been busy cooking and baking again. We had a crockpot dinner tonight.
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| Dinner is Served! |
As part of dinner tonight, her latest experiment was creating breadsticks from pastry dough. They were a lot thinner and crispier than I was expecting, but they tasted great! The only problem is that they disappear too quickly.
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| Turning Flat Pastry Into Yummy Breadsticks |
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| These Won't Last Long -- Trust Me! |
1 comment:
Our front loader was leaking intermittently. Called the service guy; he said it was a bad door seal. Not that the seal itself was bad, but that something had blocked it. Long story short, turns out if I don't make 100% sure that there are no pieces of laundry blocking the seal, it will flood the floor. As long as the seal is clear, so's the floor.
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