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Not my best moves...
Feb. 21st, 2007 01:11 pmToday I had a new washing machine delivered - the bearings died on the old one - so last night I started to get ready for the delivery by clearing junk out of the hall, emptying the cupboard under the sink to make it easy to disconnect hoses, etc.
Now, it happens that the washing machine and the dish washer are connected to a single tap via a Y junction - can't easily add a second tap or otherwise change it for various reasons. So I knew that I'd have to wash the dishes last night then turn off the water. Which I did - only to discover that the washer was leaking. And belatedly remembered that it was leaking the last time I had to do this, 11 years ago. Not a problem with two machines connected, but a bit of a bugger with a pipe removed, since a pint or so of water a minute was leaking out.
So I disconnected the washing machine hose at the other end and put it on the tap, snaking over into the sink, so that the water just ran down the drain, and apart from wasting water overnight it wasn't a problem.
A while later I tried to disconnect the drain hose from the machine, and a load of water came out.
Being an idiot, I assumed that this meant that water would come out as long as the leakage was running off down the sink. In fact it meant nothing of the sort, there was just a lot of water in the hose. But I didn't think of that, and decided that the best thing to do would be to leave it until the delivery guys were ready to take the old machine away, then quicly cut off the hose and keep the cut end above the level of the sink until I was ready to replace it with the hose from the new machine. For some reason I then faffed around until 3 AM and didn't actually get to sleep until nearly four - not a smart move since they said the delivery could be any time in the morning.
So this morning at 7.30 AM, while I was still eating breakfast, the bell rang, and the plan went into operation. But there was ( one tiny problem )
Now, it happens that the washing machine and the dish washer are connected to a single tap via a Y junction - can't easily add a second tap or otherwise change it for various reasons. So I knew that I'd have to wash the dishes last night then turn off the water. Which I did - only to discover that the washer was leaking. And belatedly remembered that it was leaking the last time I had to do this, 11 years ago. Not a problem with two machines connected, but a bit of a bugger with a pipe removed, since a pint or so of water a minute was leaking out.
So I disconnected the washing machine hose at the other end and put it on the tap, snaking over into the sink, so that the water just ran down the drain, and apart from wasting water overnight it wasn't a problem.
A while later I tried to disconnect the drain hose from the machine, and a load of water came out.
Being an idiot, I assumed that this meant that water would come out as long as the leakage was running off down the sink. In fact it meant nothing of the sort, there was just a lot of water in the hose. But I didn't think of that, and decided that the best thing to do would be to leave it until the delivery guys were ready to take the old machine away, then quicly cut off the hose and keep the cut end above the level of the sink until I was ready to replace it with the hose from the new machine. For some reason I then faffed around until 3 AM and didn't actually get to sleep until nearly four - not a smart move since they said the delivery could be any time in the morning.
So this morning at 7.30 AM, while I was still eating breakfast, the bell rang, and the plan went into operation. But there was ( one tiny problem )
