Post by scowha7 on Aug 29, 2019 20:30:25 GMT -6
This week Sara has been in Washington D.C. care of some generous family members that bought her flights and took her along for a girls week of sightseeing. While she was seeing the nations capital, the plan was for me to fix her car, my truck and the dishwasher.
He car was the priority because the HVAC doors weren’t working and one side isn’t getting the right temperature air. She also needed new front brakes (rotors warped so new pads too) and the window regulator and motor was bad in the drivers door. My truck needs a new shackle and our dishwasher has no power.
The first day I was sick. The Second day I got the window fixed and the brake job no thanks to the nimrod that did the brake job last. (A 45 min job turned into almost 3 hours) Last night I tackled the HVAC and after 2-hours if pulling parts out of the dash I came to a sad conclusion: the problem is in the heater assembly! That means that everything has to come out except the steering column—an 8 hour job for a trained mechanic, 16-24 for a computer programmer. So I gave up last night and came home to work on diahwasher.
That too was a colossal failure—we’re just going to get another one. So, I put dishwasher back and planned to reassemble her car tonight to pick her up in it tomorrow night.
This is where 98 gallons comes in. I picked our youngest up from high school and drop her off at house. 45 seconds after I leave she calls to tell me the house is flooded. I come back in to see a flood coming out of the dishwasher. (Not even a drop at 7:15am)
So here I am at 10:30pm. From 3pm until 9pm, I sucked up 98 gallons of water from the floors. 84 gallons came out of the duct work. 8 gallons came off of the tiled kitchen floor. The last 6 gallons have been sucked out of the carpet in our master bedroom and the living room.
I have had to do 3 loads of laundry to clean rugs, towels, etc. I steam mopped the kitchen floor after everything dried. Everything has been cleaned. The carpets will take at least another 24 hours to dry and then THEY will have to be shampooed. Oh, and while things were drying, I still got the car put back together
I wanted to have her come home to a clean house...but this isn’t what I had in mind!
He car was the priority because the HVAC doors weren’t working and one side isn’t getting the right temperature air. She also needed new front brakes (rotors warped so new pads too) and the window regulator and motor was bad in the drivers door. My truck needs a new shackle and our dishwasher has no power.
The first day I was sick. The Second day I got the window fixed and the brake job no thanks to the nimrod that did the brake job last. (A 45 min job turned into almost 3 hours) Last night I tackled the HVAC and after 2-hours if pulling parts out of the dash I came to a sad conclusion: the problem is in the heater assembly! That means that everything has to come out except the steering column—an 8 hour job for a trained mechanic, 16-24 for a computer programmer. So I gave up last night and came home to work on diahwasher.
That too was a colossal failure—we’re just going to get another one. So, I put dishwasher back and planned to reassemble her car tonight to pick her up in it tomorrow night.
This is where 98 gallons comes in. I picked our youngest up from high school and drop her off at house. 45 seconds after I leave she calls to tell me the house is flooded. I come back in to see a flood coming out of the dishwasher. (Not even a drop at 7:15am)
So here I am at 10:30pm. From 3pm until 9pm, I sucked up 98 gallons of water from the floors. 84 gallons came out of the duct work. 8 gallons came off of the tiled kitchen floor. The last 6 gallons have been sucked out of the carpet in our master bedroom and the living room.
I have had to do 3 loads of laundry to clean rugs, towels, etc. I steam mopped the kitchen floor after everything dried. Everything has been cleaned. The carpets will take at least another 24 hours to dry and then THEY will have to be shampooed. Oh, and while things were drying, I still got the car put back together
I wanted to have her come home to a clean house...but this isn’t what I had in mind!
