Well, it was more than 2 weeks between machines, then when the new one arrived, the vacuum cleaner and kettle decided to give out as well. Bloody domino effect or something. I'm hoping that's us done with replacing electrical items for the time being!
The mountain of laundry forced us to buy larger linen bins, water hyacinth this time, which are better in keeping with the house anyway and look much nicer. Then we went for broke and replaced an entire block of shelving as we were sick of dusty books, so we brought in a new unit with glass doors.
Not to mention that the machine was connected in a wrong manner by the so called professional connectors, and sprung a leek, which managed to seep through to our neighbour's ceiling. (
) We eventually had to replace some piping in the back. As to the other items, of course, none of that went smoothly... the deliverers of the shelving weren't prepared to take the gear upstairs, and decided to blame the whole thing on parking issues, which was nonsense, the markings on the road allow unloading and they knew it... delivery into the home is exactly the service we had paid for, and we had to reason with them about it for some time before finally threatening to call their office with a complaint, they eventually did it, but only after having wasted half a morning arguing about a 10 minute delivery.
When the linen bins arrived, one of them had been severely damaged by the delivery men and needed to go back, which meant another day in waiting for a further delivery.
When we bought the hoover, it turned out it was missing a part and was heavily used and dirty on top of it. Apparently a return which had been wrongly re-sold. We got apologies and replacements on everything, but not worth the inconvenience and headache of it all.
It's been an interesting couple of weeks, I'll say that.
As to newer machines wasting time, actually, I am much more pleased with this machine than the previous, because we had the presence of mind to do some googling on the subject this time, and managed to find a machine that allows you to have some say in the length of your wash, along with taking a larger 7 kilo load. This one gets things cleaner in a much shorter time, if you so wish, plus uses less energy while it's at it. I hope you won't need to replace yours any time soon, but there are some really cool machines out there if needed. Thankfully, the first machine was insured, so we didn't take too hard a hit, but since we didn't replace like for like, we did make up quite a considerable difference.
They got great gifts.
