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ZooKeeper
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Posted: Mon Jul 2nd, 2007 21:42 |
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We just did what has to be the most ridiculous washer/dryer install I've ever seen. Full size Duet pair, stacked, in about a 32" wide closet on the second floor. Vented at the rear, up through the 13 ft. high ceiling. Electric and water at the left hand side in front of the washer/dryer.
Ha. Ha. Ha. I can't imagine with we'll have to charge to work on these when it comes time for service... I think it took our delivery crew close to three hours to get it installed...
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Scottthewolf
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| Location: | Cleveland, Ohio USA |
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Posted: Wed Jul 4th, 2007 01:29 |
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| The worst washer and dryer install I ever saw was a Maytag Neptune stack that looked like they built the closet around the washer/dryer because the stack was taller than the closet. I wonder what they are going to do when parts are NLA, Hmmmm.
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nickfixit
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Posted: Wed Jul 4th, 2007 01:56 |
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It's easy, just tell the customer that they must get it out if they want service to be done.
I don't really have any sympathy for customers with appliances that are installed in stupid ways.
Nick
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Chat_in_RI
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Posted: Thu Jul 5th, 2007 11:06 |
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nickfixit wrote: It's easy, just tell the customer that they must get it out if they want service to be done.
I don't really have any sympathy for customers with appliances that are installed in stupid ways.
Nick
Yeaper, it says so in the fine print in the service contract... unit must be accessible... I rely heavily on that one...
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AccApp
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Posted: Fri Jul 6th, 2007 03:29 |
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| I was on a top-five worst today, Asko washer and dryer on a second-floor of a beach house under a fixed counter and in a custom-built raised-lip fiberglass drain pan. The fuse blew on the dryer and it took me about fifteen minutes to get it out and fixed. Took an hour to get it back in as the vent had to be lined up perfectly which I finally figured out could only be done with the washer pulled out. Then the fun part was getting the washer back in and on top of the 2x4's it stood on to match the height of the dryer (also on 2x4's to line up with the vent).
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Trying to help
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| Location: | Georgia USA |
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Posted: Fri Jul 6th, 2007 19:32 |
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I've seen a lot of bad ones, but the one that comes to mind is one that hits close to home, or at least close to Mom's home. Mom's vent in the Condo is 3" PVC  with at least 3 elbows to make it to the rear of the complex some 40 feet away. So we have a minimum 3 elbows and then another 40' going through 3" pipe. No one will do anything about it because the whole complex is like that and they can not get to it without knocking down walls. They wont do a thing about it and of course Mom blames the Whirlpool dryer for the long dry times and thermal blows. All the super said when I spoke to him was, it's only a inch difference, how much of a difference could that possibly make?
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nickfixit
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Posted: Sat Jul 7th, 2007 01:55 |
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Isn't there any building codes that cover this sort of issue?
Nick
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Posted: Sat Jul 7th, 2007 13:02 |
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| You would think there is but I could not tell you for sure, the Condo complex is about 9 years old. I printed off the installation instruction for the Whirlpool unit as well as two other brands and gave them too my dad. Of course the super (property Manager) didn't want to hear crap from me and wanted to know why no one else had ever told them this little bit of information. All it accomplished was my dad states they clean every ones vent on the property twice a year via a set schedule. I have never seen them do it but the old man tells me they spend about 1/2 hour each time. You know how it is Nick, what do we know, the Super and his brother the Plumber say it's fine!!! Can't get anymore official then that!!
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himeros
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Posted: Sat Nov 10th, 2007 00:46 |
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I did have one install where they forgot to include a vent for the dryer, what a bunch of dumb *&%$#.
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mcgill72143
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Posted: Tue Oct 7th, 2008 21:55 |
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I had an install in a mobile home where you had to get the washer and dryer down the hallway to the laundry room...no big deal right..?..except for the water heater they installed right in the hallway against the wall.....we had to bench press both machines over it to get by it....
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