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Thread Number: 4944
Vintage FL'er Grotty Door Boot - Replace ? |
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Post# 108906 2/10/2006 at 17:29 (6,646 days old) by launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Finally had some time to peek inside my "new" vintage front loader, and the door boot is totally grotty. Full of mould and much, and from what one can see so is the area round the boot where it joins the opening to the metal tub. Have asked the installer to bring a new when he comes so if I choose to have it replaced won't need to make another service call. Some have suggested a good cleaning of the washer will take care of the muck and mold, but not too sure. A new boot will cost $67, plus labour, but again as it would be done during an install it might be a tad less "labour" than waiting until another time. Sorry no snaps at the moment, but am working on it. Thoughts? Launderess | ||
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| Post# 108929 , Reply# 2 2/10/2006 at 19:52 (6,646 days old) by bethann (Indianapolis) | ||
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Bleach & a Scotch Brite. As long as the rubber on the seal is still some what soft. | ||
| Post# 108930 , Reply# 3 2/10/2006 at 19:55 (6,646 days old) by bethann (Indianapolis) | ||
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Bleach & a scotch brite, as long as the rubber is still soft. | ||
| Post# 108931 , Reply# 4 2/10/2006 at 19:56 (6,646 days old) by bethann (Indianapolis) | ||
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Sorry, double post! | ||
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Post# 108945 , Reply# 5 2/10/2006 at 21:07 (6,646 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Thanks for the advice all, and especially YOU Sacto, good to have you posting again. Since the machine is a Miele, it comes with all the prerequsite warnings about using LCB. Managed to peel back a bit of the rubber boot from the metal drum and it is equally grotty behind, so may have the boot changed. Since the tech will have the machine open any doing other things, maybe he will let me do the boot change while he works on other things. This could not only save me in labour costs, but give a chance for a good scrubbing behind the boot/round the tub before machine is put back together. Do not understand how people let their washers get so nasty inside. Have given away front loaders with 10 or more years of use and inside they look as new/squeeky clean as the day they arrived. L. | ||
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Post# 108976 , Reply# 6 2/10/2006 at 23:16 (6,646 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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| Post# 108985 , Reply# 7 2/10/2006 at 23:31 (6,646 days old) by fixerman () | ||
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I got the same Idea. IIRC Laundress has used the word "colour" in past posts too. | ||
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Post# 108991 , Reply# 8 2/10/2006 at 23:54 (6,646 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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No, not British, just attended a primary school with very funny ideas on how English should be taught. "Coloured" has gotten me into more trouble, one has no idea. Was not around for most of the Civil Rights movement, and certianly had no idea that was the spelling of those infamous signs which spelled out whom went/sat where. L. | ||
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Post# 109048 , Reply# 9 2/11/2006 at 08:54 (6,646 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Who did what to whom? 
We in this country botch the English language so much that errors and mis-use have begun to sound correct. Who/whom? not my favo(u)rite one. *Who*is a subject while *whom* is an indirect obect (pronoun). SHE (subject)GAVE IT TO HER (indirect object) [receiver of action]. my favorite? "Should have went". S/B "Should have gone" Still nothing beats using prepositions in English as if we a Spanish-speakers. No one dies, for example, *from* a heart attack (DE in Spanish) You die OF a *heart* attack. On the bottom of my cookware there is the set name "Pots & Pans from Calphalon" uh no dear, that should be "Pots & pans BY Calphalon" And then the one that made a Brit boy co-worker mad/crazy. "The train will be leaving momentariy". WRONG~~ s/b "The train will be leaving shortly" Momentarily means FOR a moment not IN a moment. 'Nuff said'. LOL | ||
| Post# 109091 , Reply# 10 2/11/2006 at 12:41 (6,646 days old) by fixerman () | ||
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Don't got no reason to dispute you Toggle. | ||
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Post# 109142 , Reply# 11 2/11/2006 at 18:22 (6,645 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Post# 109211 , Reply# 12 2/12/2006 at 01:33 (6,645 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Had the Miele tech change out the grotty boot when doing the installation of my washer. As the nice Miele tech was getting the nasty boot off, he stuck his finger though a nice sized hole. So thank goodness asked Miele to send a new boot with his kit for my appointment and had the service man inspect/change the rubber boot. Was going to keep the boot to take some snaps, but it was that gross with mould didn't want to touch it, much less keep it around the house. It went to the rubbish bin outside, though IMHO it should be destroyed as toxic waste. L. | ||
| Post# 109512 , Reply# 14 2/13/2006 at 13:21 (6,644 days old) by duetboy () | ||
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Grammar As mom always taught me.... Never use a preposition to end a sentence with. duetboy aka jeff | ||
| Post# 109548 , Reply# 15 2/13/2006 at 16:59 (6,643 days old) by chumbucket () | ||
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grotty what the hell is grotty u is trippin toots | ||
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Post# 109572 , Reply# 16 2/13/2006 at 18:32 (6,643 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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My pet American English peeves: "This is very concerning" Concerning what? Properly, this should be phrased, "This is a matter of great concern", or, "This is very worrisome". "He has one of only examples" Only of how many? Only by itself tells us nothing. "He has one of only five examples extant" would be the proper way to say this, or, "He has a rare item". The above examples are simply cases where people have gotten too lazy to use words and grammar properly. Another peeve - the deterioration of writing in daily newspapers. I remember when I could pick up a daily and be pretty much assured, typos and printing errors aside, that the editors had gone over everything with a fine tooth comb and the grammar and spelling at least would be reasonably correct. Nowadays I open a newspaper and it seems that most of the writers and editors are struggling with English as a second language, and not succeeding. The major urban newspapers seem to be hanging onto a semblance of respectable use of the language, but the smaller papers sometimes leaving me shaking my head in puzzlement. The gross misplacment of blocks of type, more common in the pre-computer days, are less common today, thanks to computerized typesetting, but even the best computer system can't compensate fully for garbage in. | ||
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Post# 109581 , Reply# 17 2/13/2006 at 19:11 (6,643 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Definition Corner | ||
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Post# 109603 , Reply# 18 2/13/2006 at 20:07 (6,643 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Short Story About Grammer Correction
Young southern girl is starting her first semester at a northern college. Upon moving in she meets her dorm-mate and says: "Hi! Were y'all from?" To which the northern girl replies rather curtly: "Where I'm from, we do not end our sentences with prepositions. The southern girls repiles: "Oh, I am so sorry. Where y'all from, bitch". End of story...... | ||
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Post# 109656 , Reply# 19 2/13/2006 at 22:58 (6,643 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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| Post# 109755 , Reply# 20 2/14/2006 at 11:21 (6,643 days old) by chumbucket () | ||
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Youve got grotty skid mark undies youll need thoses old noisey side of the road machines to wash it out | ||
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Post# 109768 , Reply# 21 2/14/2006 at 12:41 (6,643 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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| Post# 109773 , Reply# 22 2/14/2006 at 13:30 (6,643 days old) by rickr (.) | ||
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