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  • Denco
    Established Member
    • Mar 2003
    • 426
    • Coming soon: California
    • BT3100
    #1

    The Dishwasher

    Well, now that LOML and I have been empty nesters for a few years, we've adapted to sharing the housework over time as we both work full-time jobs.

    I was loading the dishwasher as usual. Put the dishwasher gel soap in the the holder, shut the door, and turned that sucker on.

    As I was wiping down the counter, I happen to look down only to see.....suds...Suds....AND MORE SUDS ALL OVER THE FLOOR OOZING OUT OF THE DISHWASHER!

    I grabbed a big shop-vac from the garage and vacuumed up all the water and suds. I thought perhaps the exit pump failed but that's not what happened.

    Right next to the dishwasher gel soap was the regular dish soap meant for hand washing dishes. I'd grabbed the wrong soap and created my own "Sudz-a-Wunder" all over the floor.

    Dishes are really clean though......not to mention the floor. I'm starting to think I'm trapped in a sitcom. "Leave it to Denco"?
    *****Measure twice, cut once.....rats, back to the lumber yard.*****
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    • jackellis
      Veteran Member
      • Nov 2003
      • 2638
      • Tahoe City, CA, USA.
      • BT3100
      #2
      You're not the first and you won't be the last.

      Life's even more exciting when the water hoses that connect to a clothes washer finally give it up. In our last home, the laundry room was off the kitchen. One fine day LOML started a load of laundry and was greeted by a flood that covered both the laundry room and kitchen floors. Luckily there was no permanent damage. In our new home, the laundry room is on the middle floor with carpet, tile or hardwood in the adjacent rooms. We had a drain spec'd so that if the braided hoses or some other part in the washer failed, any spills would be directed to the sewer (someday I'll tell the tale of the missing P-trap).

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        • cabinetman
          Gone but not Forgotten RIP
          • Jun 2006
          • 15216
          • So. Florida
          • Delta
          #3
          I remember one of the old sitcoms that had an episode about something just like that. I think it was I Love Lucy.

          .

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            • TB Roye
              Veteran Member
              • Jan 2004
              • 2969
              • Sacramento, CA, USA.
              • BT3100
              #4
              Been there done that. once by accident and once when i was to lazy to go to store and buy more. Tride to use just a little tiny bit and wow what a mess.

              Tomk

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                • leehljp
                  The Full Monte
                  • Dec 2002
                  • 8687
                  • Tunica, MS
                  • BT3000/3100
                  #5
                  Originally posted by TB Roye
                  Been there done that. once by accident and once when i was to lazy to go to store and buy more. Tride to use just a little tiny bit and wow what a mess.

                  Tomk
                  Well, you never know till you try it! Southern vernacular--> Ain't "discovery" fun!
                  Hank Lee

                  Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted!

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                    • Bruce Cohen
                      Veteran Member
                      • May 2003
                      • 2698
                      • Nanuet, NY, USA.
                      • BT3100
                      #6
                      Been thee, done that and paid for a new dishwasher. I totally trashed it.
                      "Western civilization didn't make all men equal,
                      Samuel Colt did"

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