The Dryer That Could Not Dry

There is a pretty well known children's book, "The Little Engine That Could." It's a story about this little engine that makes it up a hill tooting, "I think I can, I think I can."  I was reminded of that story this past month with our brand new dryer pictured above.

The story of our special Speed Queen dryer is not a children's story and it is not an inspiring or motivational tale.  This is a top brand and we were told it would be delivered in a week or two and we expected it to be in our house before we were at the end of May.  It took several weeks more and when it was delivered by two younger guys, it did not work.  We weren't sure they knew what they were doing, but they believed the problem was with the outlet in our new house.

Over the next week or two, the project manager in our development visited twice and and then an electrician stopped by. They believed there was something wrong with the machine.  About a week later, a Speed Queen repairman with ten years experience, spent about an hour checking everything he could.  His conclusion was that the breaker had to be replaced and it was not the machine.

Meanwhile, we (my wife), was drying laundry twenty minutes away at our son's house.  It's one thing carrying baskets to and from the bedroom, but putting them in the car trunk, out of the trunk, into a house, down the stairs, up the stairs, out of the house, into the car, into the house and into the bedroom, can be exhausting. (As it was reading that too long sentence)

About a week later an experienced electrician came in and replaced the breaker and checked everything and told us that the problem is the machine, possibly the chord leading to the machine.  The following week, the same Speed Queen repairman came back and replaced the chord and the machine worked, seven weeks after we moved into the house. The delivery men did not put the chord in correctly.

The next time you do laundry keep in mind that it could be a lot more difficult. Below is the first towel load coming in and out of our new dryer and yes, they were dry.