A couple of weeks ago, we ordered a washer and dryer from Home Depot. Well, today it was delivered. At least it was supposed to be :)
I got the phone call I was supposed to get yesterday saying that they would be here today some time between 7 and 11 AM. That should have been my first hint that their would be problems :) Not only did they give me a broad window of times, but they told me a time that was earlier than I normally get up to go to work!
So, like a good husband, I got up at 6:45 and got a shower and let Karen sleep. Well, at 10:00 I got a phone call saying that some lazy slacker called in sick today so they were running behind on the deliveries. It would be between noon and 1 when they finally got here. Ok.. whatever, no problem right? Not really, they got here at around 1:30, not too bad.
So they take both the washer and dryer downstairs into the basement to hook them up. It took them a while to get everything hooked up because of all the bolts and supports they put in these things for shipping just so the drum doesn't spin :) Ok, so they finally get everything hooked up, except that the drainage pipe on the washer is too short to reach the drain which is mounted 5 feet up on the wall. (I'm told that this is normal now in new construction). So we now have to go out and buy a hose extension just so we can run our washer.
But wait! It get's better. We plug in the Dryer and poof, nothing happens. So I decided to look at the circuit breaker to see if maybe it was tripped. It didn't look like it, so he decided to check his wiring. Everything checked out fine there and we tried it again. Nothing this time either. But this time when I go up to check the breaker, it's tripped. And it won't turn back on! So who knows if the builder screwed something up and that outlet never worked or what, but the end result is that they took the dryer back and next week, they are going to bring us a new one and bring a 210v tester to try to figure out what the problem is.
Just our luck with this builder and house :)
Posted by doug at January 17, 2004 04:10 PM