The saga of a new gas dryer after the last one was in a flooded basement.

[CTyankee]

We got the basement pumped out but had to buy a new washer and dryer. Then with the new dryer the clothes were only getting partially dried. We thought it was the vent so after a couple hundred bucks we got the venting tube completely cleaned out. We thought we were done. NOT.

We had had to remove the stair railings to get the dryer down and then put them back up again. I dreaded having to have that done again.

Dryer was still only drying partially.

So I called the store (which is what I should have done in the first place). They are a locally owned store in competition with the big chain stores and they were quick to say "We'll get someone out to fix it asap." They are scheduled for next week and I'll be gone but hubby can supervise.

It's gotta be a bad dryer. I am hopeful that I'll return to a working dryer. Our home health worker will be pleased. She works hard for us and I am grateful to have her every other week.

We'll keep our fingers crossed!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. There are a lot of reasons I don't want my washer and drier in the basement.

A possible flood is not even one of them, although I'll add it now.

[CTyankee]

4. I had no choice. It's an older house. Really nice prewar colonial. Everything else fine but that.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. I'm convinced that one way you can tell that men,

not women, are the chief designers of houses is a lack of consideration of actual housework. Traipsing down two flights of stairs to do laundry is one example. Another is that a lot of houses, even ones built recently, have no utility closet or space to store things like a vacuum cleaner.

[CTyankee]

8. Yes. And older houses don't have as many electrical outlets as we do now.

While we're on older houses, as of about 30 years ago when we bought this house I tried to start the toaster and the coffee maker and kerflouey! I learned that day what a fuse was (I had no idea) and where the fuse box was located. That was our first project on the house: upgrade the electrical system. To this day, I wonder how the family before us, with three kids, could have lived well under such circumstances. However, I do know they were Orthodox Jews who lived there to be closer to their synagogue, which on Saturdays they had to walk to (no driving on Sabbath).

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. Ahhh, yes. The lack of electrical outlets.

One home we lived in, I quickly learned I couldn't blow dry my hair at the same time my husband was taking a shower. Apparently, far too many circuits were on one fuse. We probably should have had the electric redone, but never got around to it.

[badhair77]

2. I hope it's a simple fix and

that you don’t have to replace your current dryer. That’s frustrating. I’m glad you have a reliable health care worker you like. Good luck. I wish you well.

[CTyankee]

6. I should have done that earlier...shudda, coulda, woulda...

[wyn borkins]

3. Just A (Gassy) Thought

You may wish to (also) contact your local residential gas service company and ask if they would inspect your newly-installed dryer as well as all of your other incoming gas service lines. Typically, residential gas service companies offer free inspections like this in an effort to preclude "booming" events. If they offer, they might also check your gas oven, your gas range burners, and your gas water heater if you happen to have any of these appliances.

[CTyankee]

5. I have a new hot water heater. We shoulda replaced it before. It was 19 years old!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

10. This house we just bought came with a washer and dryer that we will soon upgrade.

I didn’t realize the dryer was set on “auto sense” dry meaning the dryer would stop when the dryer thought the clothes were dry. Those never seem to work properly. I set it to timed dry and it works great.

My other guess would be shipping bolts not removed. Or gas valve not fully opened.

[CTyankee]

11. I can't be bothered running downstairs to the basement when the "timed" stuff was done.

Probably good exercise but I have a stationary bike for that.

[LisaL]

13. I am not sure what the difference is-you still have to go downstairs to

get the clothes, regarding of whether they were dried on timed cycle or not. If your dryer has a sensor, that could be a reason your clothes are not completely dry.
Because they dryer is turning off when it thinks the clothes are dry.

[CTyankee]

14. Sometimes they aren't fully dry or have been there done and getting wrinkled. I want to just go down

once at the timed finish.

[LisaL]

12. Yep, that's what my dryer has-a sensor.

If I set it on normal dry, the clothes are not dry. So I have to set it for extra dry, and still sometimes clothes are not dry to my satisfaction, so I also use timed dry afterwards.