We moved into this apartment complex in July, and were tickled pink about having a washer and dryer in the new apartment - for the past 8 years, we've been schlepping our dirty laundry to a laundromat (or to the apt complex laundry room, not much better).
It's a stacked unit, with the washer below and the dryer above. I've never used such a unit before, but hey how hard is it? Laundry science is pretty intuitive. Early on, Cindy remarked "Does this have a lint trap?"
Me: "Yeah, I didn't see one. I guess it's just that high-tech. I think that button on the right makes cappuccino."
(I should mention that my glee for having an in-unit washer/dryer has been diminished lately, since it seems to take longer to dry the clothes every time. This sucks! I'm fickle that way. If you take 3 hours to dry one load of clothes, I'll turn on ya).
Today I was doing laundry, and suddenly the dryer started making a horrendous sound, as if I were fluff-drying pots and pans. I opened the dryer door to discover some sort of hatch-cover had come off from the inside of the dryer.
Well what do you know, it was the cover for the lint-trap! The trap itself had become so full that it forced the cover off. Oops. I pulled most of the lint out in one giant mass - I could see the lines of sandy colored lint where I'd washed the sheets every few weeks, almost like an archaeological view of our laundry habits. I also dug out big fistfuls of lint that had been unable to congeal into the mother-load.
I'm posting these pics for educational purposes - I am not proud of being such a moron. I'm just lucky it didn't catch on fire.
It's a stacked unit, with the washer below and the dryer above. I've never used such a unit before, but hey how hard is it? Laundry science is pretty intuitive. Early on, Cindy remarked "Does this have a lint trap?"
Me: "Yeah, I didn't see one. I guess it's just that high-tech. I think that button on the right makes cappuccino."
(I should mention that my glee for having an in-unit washer/dryer has been diminished lately, since it seems to take longer to dry the clothes every time. This sucks! I'm fickle that way. If you take 3 hours to dry one load of clothes, I'll turn on ya).
Today I was doing laundry, and suddenly the dryer started making a horrendous sound, as if I were fluff-drying pots and pans. I opened the dryer door to discover some sort of hatch-cover had come off from the inside of the dryer.
Well what do you know, it was the cover for the lint-trap! The trap itself had become so full that it forced the cover off. Oops. I pulled most of the lint out in one giant mass - I could see the lines of sandy colored lint where I'd washed the sheets every few weeks, almost like an archaeological view of our laundry habits. I also dug out big fistfuls of lint that had been unable to congeal into the mother-load.
I'm posting these pics for educational purposes - I am not proud of being such a moron. I'm just lucky it didn't catch on fire.
This is a lint trap. It might not look like one, but it is. See the finger-grabby holes? Yeah. Don't be a moron like me. .
Oh, I should mention that the dryer works beautifully when it's not choked with enough lint to suffocate a water buffalo.
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Sadly, today was not my first laundry calamity - there have been others.
You have beautiful lint.
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