Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

GDB2222

I took lots of stuff to the hospice shop. Whilst parking the car, I gashed the tyre on the kerb. This car has no spare, so I had to go home to call the RAC, then go back to the car and hang around. They got the car home, and tomorrow a mobile fitter will call to fit a new tyre. The tyre will cost (PN look away!) £150, which is really annoying.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I probably need a carer twice a week for two hours - who will sit with me while I use the cooker and the washing machine

Maybe I should find some friends, then start hosting a tea/cake session .... and sneakily run the washing machine while they're round

Washing machine gate.

GDB2222

Oh, and I've just had a large G plus T.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think, on this one, you turn it up (or not) - and I don't touch it.... so it's at the lowest speed. It's not digital. The front's got a dial and buttons. No displays.

Other people call it quiet. http://www.appliance-reviews.co.uk/p/Indesit-IWB5123-Washing-Machines-in-White-24801/reviews#tabs

I think it will be spinning at 1200rpm unless you press the button which slows it down to 600rpm (see page 9).

http://www.indesit.co.uk/indesit/_pdf/manuals/19507883603_UK.pdf

If you don't want to fiddle with the buttons, try running your next wash on programme 6, 11 or 12 as they are limited to 600rpm regardless of whether you press the button by the looks of things.

PasturesNew

My mirror's just made me more than it cost me. Cost me £1. Just wrote about it online ... and made just over £1 so far.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I think it will be spinning at 1200rpm unless you press the button which slows it down to 600rpm.

http://www.indesit.co.uk/indesit/_pdf/manuals/19507883603_UK.pdf

Cheers.... I'd assumed pressing the button would have made it go faster..... I've got the book, obviously never read it. Cheers for the PDF .... I'll read that. I'm more than happy for clothes to come out wettish .... I've spent most of my life handwashing.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Thanks for all the confirmations.

Machine's about as level as it'll get ..... the man who pulled it out and cut up/put some wood on the floor where there weren't tiles/backing ply struggled to get it in position due to weight - and made a small comment about it being difficult to manoeuvre... so I stand no chance. Where it was before, on vinyl, I could pull it in/out on my own without any trouble. It's just not good on tiles ... and the other assortment of flooring that's now at the back.

It'll go down at the bottom of the list for "little man" in case I've a 10 minute slot of jobs that needs filling to make a "full day's work".

It is sort of a two person job but a lot can be achieved by person 1 leaning on the front at the top to try and tilt the machine back to take the pressure off the front feet which can then be screwed in/out as required to do the levelling. Can you get your fingers on top to either front corner to see if you can rock the machine slightly easily as this would be a clear sign that it was not level.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

... tyre will cost (PN look away!) £150...

Blimey ... that IS pricey. Sorry that happened to you - especially as you were doing a charitable good deed.

Last tyre I bought annoyed me because I'd got the puncture by parking outside work ..... and the tyre cost me a day's pay. I thought to myself "I'd have rather had an unpaid day at home than go to work to pay for the tyre that'd been punctured parking there." I still spit .... that was £50 ... at £150 I think I'd just cry

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Can you get your fingers on top to either front corner to see if you can rock the machine slightly easily as this would be a clear sign that it was not level.

I can manage that ..... it doesn't move at all. Not by 1mm.

GDB2222

What was really annoying was that I had parked perfectly, without realising it. So, I thought I would just get a bit tighter to the kerb .....