Friday, 20 April 2007

Washing machine blues

Sigh. Probably if you calculated the mean time between failures we're not doing any worse than usual. The problem is that we have had to buy a whole lot of things upon arrival in New Zealand.

Our washing machine lasted a few days then started complaining about OE. The manual says that means it couldn't drain ("(O)utlet (E)rror"?) and that you had to open a door, drain a hose, poke around inside. I wouldn't have been surprised to find sticks, stones, acorns, pretty shells etc but all seemed clear. A technician came out expecting to find something but didn't. Of course, when he was here it started working again. Two loads later it died. One new drain pump later and all is good.

I must say that for the most part I have been impressed with the quality of service when things go wrong.

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