Posted by Jim at April 5th, 2006

Kristen screamed when she walked into the laundry room on Monday night. I learned why immediately. Hot water was spraying straight into the air from behind the washing machine. Within a few moments, I’d turned off the water and we discovered that the hot water hose had a hole.

Then we tried to figure out how that might happen.

Our basement floor slopes toward the drain. Thus, when our washer has something heavy in it, it shakes and moves steadily downhill toward the drain, rubbing the rubber hose against the wall. After nearly 9 years of this, it finally wore a hole through the hose.

Somehow Kristen decided that I was the person who should go get a new hose. I got around to it tonight (two days later). It turns out that Meijers sells hoses. I managed to get the new hose in without much hassle if by “without much hassle” you mean that I:

–discovered that the 6 foot hose I bought was short and ended up joining the new hose to another hose in order to reach the back of the washer.
–wore the same (nice) clothes while working on connecting the hose to a water pipe that I wore to a meeting earlier in the day. This was stupid.
–only dropped the plumber’s wrench on my foot once.