the washing machine your washing machine could smell like

[cimorene]

OUR WASHING MACHINE: Front-loading, easy to program, runs like a dream, 7 kg capacity, can fit a large hall runner, or a full set of bedsheets, made by LG, sings a little song when it's done, nicknamed "Washy", only a few years old, 59 cm wide

MIL's WASHING MACHINE WE INHERITED: Miniature (only 5 kg), cannot fit a hall runner, cannot fit all the sheets from our double bed at once, makes an obnoxious but not easily-heard buzz when it's done, loads from the top like this requiring two steps and two hands to open or close it because you have to separately latch a little metal panel on the top of the drum which is sideways and means you can't keep things on top of it or put a counter over it because the top lifts up, programming difficult to understand, no preprogrammed superhot cycle for sterilization, also a few years old but feels older because the top-load thing is old-fashioned and inconvenient, 40 cm wide

OUR BATHROOM (where the washing machine is supposed to go) DOOR: 58 cm wide

ALTERNATE LOCATIONS FOR WASHING MACHINES: The only other available spots where a washing machine can be put are in the basement on the other side of the house, accessed via the garage and (once our tenant is here and the wall is boarded up between the two houses) hence requiring one to go outside and around the entire house, unfinished damp cement space that smells like mildew

 

Wax was like "I guess something had to go wrong" (but she's not the one who usually launders all the throw rugs multiple times a week due to our cats and rabbits). Our contractor, tragically, was not super gung-ho to, I guess, take the entire door including the frame out of the wall, which would have been the only way to get the washing machine in and would probably have cost us several hundred bucks in his wages, so not exactly cost effective.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

WELL SHIT.

[anatsuno]

Is the option "sell both machines and buy a thinner new one that still does Quite A Bit what we want" on the table at all? *crosses fingers for you*

[cimorene]

Hmmm, maybe in the future, though not sure we can get the cost of a new machine out of the two used ones.

from the department of debatably bad ideas

[ironymaiden]

that's the door opening, right? is there molding around the door frame? if so you would probably only have to remove the molding on one side to gain the 1 cm you need...

Re: from the department of debatably bad ideas

[cimorene]

Nope, sadly it's still ½ cm too narrow with the stops off.

[laurenthemself]

Oh no, that's so frustrating! We spent a year with ours outside in a wooden box with a tarp draped over it; I hope it doesn't come to that. How soon can the unfinished space be finished?

[cimorene]

It has cement walls, and floor, and those are going to get washed and painted with mildew-killing/repelling stuff... eventually. After everything else, perhaps. But there are no plans to turn it into proper weather- and damp-isolated finished space.

[laurenthemself]

Definitely not an option for washing machine location. Dang.

[cimorene]

Oh, we're going to keep the spare washing machine there, but it's not very convenient since you have to go outside and around the house to the opposite corner to get there. At least, we're going to if we can get the machine to the water hookup; the door in the way is too narrow, and the wall is cement, so we might need some builders to get the door and its frame out of the way...

[torachan]

Would it be possible to install both? That way you can have the one in the house for smaller washes and just have to trek around the house to the bigger one when you have those certain things to wash?

[cimorene]

Yeah I guess that's what we're going to do, though it turns out in order to get the machine to the water line we're gonna have to knock out ANOTHER door that's too narrow. In this case we don't need a door though so we can just take out the whole thing.

[cesy]

Oh no!