Appliances Take a Time Out

Have you ever had a week when the most important appliances take a time out? Here it is 6am and you find out your refrigerator is leaking on your wood floors, so you decide to wait until the 9am to place a frantic call to your appliance repair company. You take a deep breath and throw a load of laundry in all is good for now you continue with making the kids lunches and catching up on the news. Washer finishes up you throw it in the dryer only to hear NOTHING....what the heck....you keep pressing the button and nothing, oh and the load was a full one.....so you decide OK...I will hang it all up in the laundry room and get it dry.....now the repair man may have to spend a couple of hours at your home. Back to the lunches and the breakfast rounds. All the kids are off to school....and the dishwasher is loaded....what the heck....it is leaking and making a funny noise....can this really be happening? OK so you wait and you wait and you wait for 9am....MAKE THE CALL TO THE Appliance Repair and YES they can make it out before the end of the day, and you have to wait the repair tech will be there between 9-5.....cancel all plans and wait and wait and wait. The repair technician makes it there by 2pm, and figures this could be a job that takes him into way past dinner time....so we look at the dryer, needs a new drum cost is $200 or buy a new dryer bigger, better stronger (we opt for the latter). Next the refrigerator and it can't just be your normal refrigerator it is one that needs over $400 of work but cheaper then buying a new one...parts need to be ordered and another call from the repair technician in the next week.....last but not least we have some good news....luckily the Appliance Repair company is one that knows their stuff....the technician checks the serial number and thinks it could be a recall...OH GOOD NEWS! We called the company and it was a recall they would be sending the repair kit in the next 7-10 days; this will not cost anything since it is a recall. We can look at this in a positive light.....We have a recall that could have been dangerous...and now it will be fixed! The repair tech leaves; all of the food is out of the refrigerator, the laundry room has more clothes in it that some closets and the dishwasher has dirty dishes in it......clothes your eyes and think it will all be fine....and two weeks later it was all fixed, new dryer in place....and it only took two weeks. Valuable lesson learned keep on top of recalls.....there are many sites that list recalls....www.homedepot.com, www.lowes.com Everything in good working condition....and it only took two weeks!