The most significant part of this past weekend is that we got a washer and dryer in the house in Casco.
We’ve never had a dryer in Newton. The biggest factor is that we haven’t figured out how we’d vent it. Arlene likes line-dried clothes anyway. It’s fine in winter when the house is dry and things can dry indoors; and on good drying days the rest of the year. When the weather is humid for days on end, it’s a problem.
The previous owners in Casco had a washer and drier set up in an alcove in the bathroom. There was a 220 outlet and a vent for the drier, and water and drain connections in the back wall. Arlene has been wanting to get laundry appliances in there ever since before we bought the place so we don’t have to bring sheets and towels back and forth to wash. We’ve looked in Sears and Lowe’s before. Saturday evening we went to Lowe’s in Windham, looked at the appliances, asked the salesman what they had that was listed in Consumer Reports (though as usual, Consumer Reports rated appliances with slightly different model numbers from anything that we could find), and found that they could indeed deliver the next day if the items were in stock. So we just did it.
We gave them my cell phone number to call the next day to tell us when to expect the delivery. I guess the signal is marginal. The phone seems to work fine in the kitchen, but sitting on my bedside table it didn’t pick up a call in the morning. The delivery people showed up before 1 PM, though. They expertly took the bathroom door off its hinges to get the dryer in, hooked it all up, checked and told us there weren’t any leaks, and were done before 3.
We haven’t tried using the washer nor dryer yet. All in due time.