The dryer died........ I have not.

After all of my hard work to fix up this laundry room and make it a beautiful place, my dryer then says to me, "I'm outta here sister!" I haven't done any laundry for a few days so its a pretty ugly site to behold considering I'm dryerless. First things first.

This towel really is hanging in our master bathroom and, although it was a gift to Jeremy from Ellenor, I have often needed to see it. Today was one of those days.

The dryer runs but doesn't produce any heat so I figured we were in need of a heating element which is not a quick fix. So, after looking at the bath towel, I channeled my domestic engineer and made a clothesline.

 

It was a nice, windy day so I thought this would be a piece of cake getting all of this laundry done. WRONG!! It started raining thirty minutes after I hung the laundry out. So I had to resort to this.

Hahahaaa!! This cracks me up! I did move the line down to the basement later.

Once Kaci got home from school I got to work taking the dryer apart and cleaning out the bottom lint catcher. It was pretty full so I had better do this more often. I also took the hose off of the back to be sure that it wasn't plugged. It wasn't so at that point I plugged it back in and turned on the dryer with the front panel off. From there I could see that the heating coil wasn't getting red so I figured that was the answer.

Violet was so proud of herself for taking this picture!

Since I have a fabulous Electrical Engineer for a husband, I decided to let him take it from there when he got home. He tested everything to make sure we were getting enough volts and to also rule out the fuse to the heater. After all of that checking out ok he removed the heater coil and tada! Pay dirt. It was snapped in half. I will be hanging out laundry for up to 5 days but there are worse things.

 

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