Good point about levelling it with the screw feet. The floors in this house are pretty level (nothing like the last one, where we had to put wedges under the front of Every Single Bookcase), but it would be good to check. If the top of the cabinet is level, the tub should be level, right?
Hmm. Come to think of it, this is a front loader; it won't spin around a vertical axis anyway. Is levelling as important with a front loader?
Right now the hot water heater is set *quite* hot. I haven't measured the temp yet, and maybe it's because the house has a dishwasher, but getting a warm shower that isn't too hot is a bit of a trick. So I expect the warm wash to be, um, probably quite warm. I almost always wash in cold, so maybe it doesn't matter too much.
New hoses and vents are purchased, since the units didn't come with any, except the washer outflow hose :-) I got the good hoses with the braided wire reinforcement--I heard those were less likely to fail.
I *hope* a dryer cord transplant won't be necessary, but haven't checked whether the cord will fit the plug yet.
The vent goes into the attic, through the attic by means of a LOOOONG piece of dryer vent, and ends at a soffit vent. The problem is it's twisted around in there, so the open end of the dryer vent doesn't point directly at the soffit vent. We may have to take the soffit vent off, which I am unenthused about because it appears to have been fastened with nails rather than screws. But if necessary I will do it; I have screws to put it back with.
I found one birdie nest, in the knee of a gutter drainpipe, and reluctantly removed it. I like baby birdies but not in the cracks of my house, please. Maybe I will put up a bird house somewhere in the yard for them.
I'm wondering just how house poor I'm going to end up in the next couple of months :-)
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Date: 2009-02-15 02:02 am (UTC)Hmm. Come to think of it, this is a front loader; it won't spin around a vertical axis anyway. Is levelling as important with a front loader?
Right now the hot water heater is set *quite* hot. I haven't measured the temp yet, and maybe it's because the house has a dishwasher, but getting a warm shower that isn't too hot is a bit of a trick. So I expect the warm wash to be, um, probably quite warm. I almost always wash in cold, so maybe it doesn't matter too much.
New hoses and vents are purchased, since the units didn't come with any, except the washer outflow hose :-) I got the good hoses with the braided wire reinforcement--I heard those were less likely to fail.
I *hope* a dryer cord transplant won't be necessary, but haven't checked whether the cord will fit the plug yet.
The vent goes into the attic, through the attic by means of a LOOOONG piece of dryer vent, and ends at a soffit vent. The problem is it's twisted around in there, so the open end of the dryer vent doesn't point directly at the soffit vent. We may have to take the soffit vent off, which I am unenthused about because it appears to have been fastened with nails rather than screws. But if necessary I will do it; I have screws to put it back with.
I found one birdie nest, in the knee of a gutter drainpipe, and reluctantly removed it. I like baby birdies but not in the cracks of my house, please. Maybe I will put up a bird house somewhere in the yard for them.
I'm wondering just how house poor I'm going to end up in the next couple of months :-)