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Condo Snafu #6: Mystery washer-dryer leak
My neighbor called me at work today to tell me that there was water streaming out of the house from a pipe emerging from my part of the house.* She said the basement was fine, but still this was kinda inexplicable, so it was 4pm and I decided the best thing to do would be to rush home and see what it was, in the mean time she turned off the water main to the building.
It turned out to be the outlet for the drain pan around my washer-dryer which was leaking and running a lot of cold water during the dry cycle. I don't understand the physics of what it's trying to accomplish by this. Maybe it's a bug. I called customer service and they told me to check a filter behind some panel and I said ok, I'd try that, and hung up. I shoulda stayed on the line. There was one little dust bunny of hair in the filter, which I removed. I turned the machine on again and it started doing the weird leaking thing again.
It's off now, I'm going out. I'll deal with it later.
(* I thought I was being terribly clever by putting the thing on delayed cycle so that I would have freshly done dryed clothes right when I got home so that I could fold things and be done with it. If everything had worked, this would have indeed been a good plan.)
It turned out to be the outlet for the drain pan around my washer-dryer which was leaking and running a lot of cold water during the dry cycle. I don't understand the physics of what it's trying to accomplish by this. Maybe it's a bug. I called customer service and they told me to check a filter behind some panel and I said ok, I'd try that, and hung up. I shoulda stayed on the line. There was one little dust bunny of hair in the filter, which I removed. I turned the machine on again and it started doing the weird leaking thing again.
It's off now, I'm going out. I'll deal with it later.
(* I thought I was being terribly clever by putting the thing on delayed cycle so that I would have freshly done dryed clothes right when I got home so that I could fold things and be done with it. If everything had worked, this would have indeed been a good plan.)