Weekly Flylady Thread 26th January 2009

kazwookie

Right lovely ladies and men

I NEED HELP!!

My dishwasher is blowing the electric in the house, so it is now unpluged, electric back on.

BUT

It was on a cycle, it stopped on rinse cycle, the dishes etc are out of the machine, but there is approx. 2 inches of soapy water in the bottom of the machine.

I have look in the book that came with it, there is nothing about how to get this water out if the machine is broken, if you plug it back in it blows the electric again. (if it helps it is a NEFF)

So anyone any ideas how to get this out?

Thanks in advance.

Valli

Have you any tubing to run a syphon?

to run a syphon you need tubing (long enough to sit in the water and run to something shallow like a washing up bowl or an (empty) cat litter tray.
Submerge all the tubing, one end at a time, in the water so that the air in the tube is replaced completely by water. Holding one end under the water surface (as low as possible, put your thumb over the other end and bring to the bucket/tray. This needs to be lower than the was in the dishwasher to work.

The science - air pressure pushes down on the water thus forcing it into the tube and then the bowl because it's lower.

lil_me

Flower when you get a new one, don't use it unless necessary. Laptops should work with the battery out! It stops the charging/recharging killing it. I got my last battery off ebay.
Michelle sounds like the munchkins are keeping you very busy. 2 years between mine and I remember how hard it was, nice now when they do play together nicely. I am sure you will be on top of things in no time.
Well done soappie, what a lovely sized kitchen! Could fit mine in there twice or more I had a kitchen with a similar lay out and table (but mine was pine) which I loved in a previous house.

kazwookie www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk !!! As for the water, I ladelled ours out when our DW needed the filter sorting then soaked the last of it up with towels that were waiting to be washed. If you take the filter out it'll give you somewhere to put the ladel in usually.

I can smell petrol/exhaust fumes...........I bet DPs working on his quad with the garage door shut again, grrrrr men! Dog walked again, brrrrr!!!!

Have sorted another box, binned some more junk, recycled some more paper, now it's rest until after tea time with my book. Cup of coffee and global warming anyone? Ok just the coffee then....

soappie

And just for the curious - this is the current state of my living room - one GYNORMOUS hot spot :eek::eek:

Flylady_Flower

Valli wrote: »

Flower 48% ouch:mad::o Hope the PADs are [strike]pi$$ing them off[/strike] making a difference!

Tell me about it... 48% us disgusting, but at least not much on there (enough though - £22 min payment last month, £24.16 in interest...:eek: HOW are you suppost to pay that off? luckily we paid more...)

juliejim

Not a very successful HHC but I:

Fed Gemma
Took clothes that DH ironed this morning upstairs.
Searched in freezer for something for tea
Put dishes away that were on the drainer
Washed more dishes!

How did you get on rach?

kazwookie

greenbee wrote: »

I think you'll find Pigpen's seen the state of your car ... she's put it on the weekend list :rotfl:

Well it is done now, and the wash bottle filled up.!!:j

Veg soup and mushroom soup also made and now cooling, althought OH has been 'sampling' according to him the mushroom one, say it is good.:D

greenbee

Well done soappie - with you and AnW's Mum leading the way it looks as if the rest of us will have to stop claiming we can't do things and just get on with it... as Valli says, who needs men (and TBH, if you don't need them, then you can work with what you like rather than trying to pick one with useful skills!).

Have just cleaned the front door... was wiping it down while on the phone to a call centre :rolleyes: and realised there were lots of cobwebs around it, and far more worrying, spider nests :eek: between the frame & the atomic strip. So the door and frame have been wiped, the cobwebs hoovered, and the atomic strip thoroughly scrubbed to ensure that there will be no baby spiders surviving to come into the house in the spring!

Washing is in from the line - half on the airer, and the other half has just come out of the TD.

As I've now put the hoover back together, I might as well get the rest of the house done...

Valli - stop it... :rolleyes:

juliejim

Kitchen's coming along nicely soappie - maybe your LR will be your next job!

froddington

wow soappie - that's amazing so far! Well done :T Love the living room photo - looks a bit like mine

Anyone fancy doing a

HHC 5:00 - 5:30?

I want to get a few bits done before I start dinner