Hot and Cold

We made good progress on last week's Honey-do list, though we didn't make it through quite all the way (that window pane is never getting replaced, is it?). Today I'll cover one repair that was pretty quick and easy (says the girl wielding the camera while everyone else was doing the heavy lifting): replacing the hoses on our washing machine.

The washer actually says that the hoses should be switched out every 5 years and the ones in place looked a lot older than that. We were ready with stainless steel hoses that don't need replacing, so now we can proceed with being lazy, a skill we are already very good at.

The hoses are conveniently laced with blue and red to keep them straight, and we made sure to only install one at a time to make sure we didn't mix them up on installation.

 Step one, move washer away from the wall (duh).

Step two, disconnect old hose, keeping a bucket ready since the hoses have water in them:

Step three, magically fast forward 5 minutes and voila! New hoses!

Only kidding--step three was to screw the new hoses back on with a wrench, but I'm sure smart people like you already figured that one out. Step four, not shown, is say a little prayer and do a load of laundry. We kept the washing machine pushed out for the first load, just so we could keep an eye on the connection and make sure we didn't spring a leak. All clear!

This one was so easy that I'm embarrassed it took so long to get around to doing. But it was easier having a few more big strong people around to help.