13
Feb
New washer and dryer
We got the new GE front loaders delivered on Tuesday of last week but they couldn’t complete the installation of th dryer because we had the wrong size connection at 3/8″. According to the install manual it needed a 1/2″ connection. I saw that I couldn’t just remove the valve because there wasn’t enough clearance with the wall for the valve lever to rotate through that space. I tried cutting a hole in the wall behind it but there was a beam there. So I carved all the wall up to the beam, but there still wasn’t enough clearance! Then I found the pipe was strapped to the wall with the strap under a load of plaster. Once I got that taken care of the rest of the gas hookup went very quickly.
Yesterday I ran a new dryer vent line so for the first time since I’ve lived here it doesn’t just vent under the house. The previous vent line was a flexible dryer hose plastered in to the wall and dangling under the house.