The next few months...

[Chris Savage]

Like you said the time span goes against you but you have nothing to lose by contacting the seller. Also remove the back panel and see if there is much damage internally, there is a chance that only the outer casing took the hit or it may be repairable.
EDIT: I guess hanging your laundry out to dry is not a great idea this time of year, everything will be stiff as a board.

Yeah, we do have one of those folding clothes racks that you can set in your bathtub to dry things, but it doesn't dry nearly as much as the 7.0 cubic foot dryer. Not to mention doing sheets. We'll see what Best Buy says.

[Chris Savage]

So, GREAT news! Best Buy is going to replace the dryer. Not only that, but they're going to deliver the replacement and pick up the damaged unit for me. Awesome!

[granz]

Glad to hear that.

[JKnightandKARR]

How nice.... atleast its being taken care of

[Chris Savage]

Yeah, I found out today that the replacement dryer will arrive on the 16th of this month. They will also take away the damaged unit. Laundry will be a little delayed, but overall I am happy with the result, considering I took so long to discover the issue.

[Jeff_T]

Awesome Chris full marks to Best Buy

[Chris Savage]

The continuing saga in the wake of the dryer issue...

Last night we needed to determine where to mount shelving in the "laundry nook", so I took the dryer out of its box to slide it into the nook for some measurements.

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After having the issues with the dryer vent, it was finally installed using the existing access hole, then routed through our basement access to the outside, above the cellar door. Not the ideal solution, but less work overall with not having to patch up the old hole.

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Now I could finally install the shelf in the laundry nook so we can finally get the washer put in.

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Finally done with this so we can actually do laundry at home (once I move the washer into place).

[granz]

Finally done with this so we can actually do laundry at home (once I move the washer into place).

Congrats, it's always better to not carry laundry out to clean it. 

[Chris Savage]

Congrats, it's always better to not carry laundry out to clean it. 

Especially in the winter. But I keep following up on this thread so you guys all know where I am at with the house, since much of it is priority over everything else.

On that note, it's been a very long time since I published an article in Nuts & Volts / Servo magazines. To that end, I recently got back in touch with them and have plans to submit two or three articles this year; one being my current priority project listed in the Member Projects area.

[Chris Savage]

Laundry area is finally done and we did our first load of laundry this past weekend.

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[JKnightandKARR]

Good

[Chris Savage]

I know I haven't posted here in a while and several people have asked me how the house is coming, so here's an update. There was a lot of boxed furniture that needed to be assembled. There are still a few things left, however much of it is taken care of, finally! Curtains have been hung, dishes, pots and pans have been put away. Some photos and signs have been hung. It's really starting to look like a home now.

Our metal shed (what was referred to as a garage in the home listing) had been suffering impacts over the years of branches falling off the three trees around it. The roof was mostly destroyed and leaked badly. That shed was a replacement for the original garage which used to be there and was built upon the original concrete slab, which did not appear to have any rebar reinforcement. In anticipation of having a pole-barn garage built, we had the shed removed, as well as the concrete slab.

But we also needed to get rid of the three trees that were not only a danger to our future garage, but our neighbor's home and garage as well. We hired someone to come in and take the trees down, but it's been slow with all the rain and the fact that our transfer station for green waste is only open on Saturdays and Wednesdays. The first tree was trimmed down of the worst problems initially, including the remains of one branch that fell in the neighbor's yard where they park. Fortunately, they weren't there when it fell.

Recently, with branches from the first two trees out of the way, the tree guy decided to completely take down the third tree (furthest back). It's a good thing he did. While removing the first primary split ("Y") halfway up, he heard the lower trunk crack and split. When he went to fell the lower section, his chainsaw kept binding.

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Turns out ants had eaten the entire lower core of the tree out! It was so close to falling on the neighbor's garage!!!


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All the crap from the heart fell down into the lower section, but under all that it's all rotted and hollowed. Ants were everywhere!


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It's hard to see in this last photo, but there are two splits and in the lower left you can see where the ants had eaten through the bark as well. Very scary stuff!


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In this security camera shot out our back window, you can see the pile of wood from that tree. More than half was removed and yet there's still a lot left! So, we're still working on this.


In the meantime, the new garage should be built in August after a new concrete slab has been poured. As for the workshop, it just needs to be organized and cleaned up. There are a LOT of parts to put away in the parts cabinets. I didn't finish that before moving. There's a lot of 3D prints laying all over the place that haven't been assembled yet. The test equipment and power stuff is all done though. So close to being able to just sit down and work on stuff again.

[Chris Savage]

Right now waiting for some people who wanted firewood to come get it before tomorrow when the tree guy is supposed to be back to hopefully wrap things up.

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[granz]

I hope they are careful about what they pick up - thousands of ants running out of your fireplace can play havoc with your romantic fire-side cuddling. 

[Chris Savage]

I hope they are careful about what they pick up - thousands of ants running out of your fireplace can play havoc with your romantic fire-side cuddling. 

When I was 11 or 12 we had a woodstove in our old home. Once we put a log in there that was chock FULL of ants that were frozen because the logs were all outside. Once that log started heating up there were some strange sounds as the ants were running to their deaths, including weird hissing noises, like plastic makes when it's melting into fire.