A laundry excursion

Yesterday was a bit of an excursion for us. Our washer/dryer unit has been acting up in the last few weeks and after numerous cleanings of filters, drain pipes and more, it’s still not completing a wash cycle. My guess is that the pump is out and I can only hope...

My coffee maker is possessed

When we moved into our house two years ago (WOW!), my in-laws bought us me a lovely new coffee maker. It’s a fairly basic machine, which suits me fine because I don’t drink coffee that often (even less so now that I’m pregnant because even decaf...

Oh, it’s on! Laundry time!!!

Well, I guess I spoke too soon. Shortly after I posted about sitting here waiting on the repair guy, he showed up. Speak of the devil, I guess…It was the same guy as last time and he came in and got right to work. I was rather impressed when 15 minutes later he...

Waiting on repairmen…

There are few things I dislike more than sitting around, waiting for someone to show up and having no idea when and if he actually will. When I last talked about our washer/dryer machine that which is the fritz, I mentioned that the service guy who came out...

Update on our washer/dryer

The repairman was here at about 11am to check out the washer/dryer we have. He showed me that it was the carbon brushes inside the motor that were causing the trouble and informed me that it would be just under 200 euros to make the repair. Since buying a new machine...