Are you hiding, Pia, or waiting for someone on that chair tucked under the kitchen table?
Both, Mom, since you asked. It’s noisy and I know you’ll share this chair with me because this is where you sit.
So, our new washer; it’s really loud. Cats actually hide – Pia under the kitchen table on a chair, Quint upstairs in a tower cubical. Tessa and Viola vow not to hide until the other hides first. So far, neither have given up their usual routine or spots.
It’s a Whirlpool basic top load. There’s no bells and whistles. There’s no quiet setting. It’s a step down from our old washer that told you how many minutes you had left and what washing cycle it was currently on. Apparently, $700 doesn’t get you much anymore. It’s more bottom end grade perhaps and from the get-go, sounds like it going to break at any moment by providing all the loud snaps, clacks, clangs, and chug-chug-chug ambience of a relaxing afternoon spent lounging feet away from a bulldozer scrapping up miles of 50-year-old concrete. Those are the standard “features.”
Sounds like all the cool kid features are reserved for front load washers, you know, the kind that would surely leak through to our first floor if we were to buy one. We got what we paid for. We never kept our laundry room door closed before but we can assure you, when running, we definitely keep it closed now. No more worry that some Colehaus cat is going to hide in there anymore.
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A Colehaus Cats flashback:
2023 – Cool Weather? No, Cool Pia
2022 – No post
2021 – No post
2020 – No post
2019 – Not a Wordless Wednesday
2018 – No post
2017 – Will Labor for Fruit
2016 – No post
2015 – Miss Newton, Bugcatcher
2014 – No post
2013 – Wednesday Words
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Dearest Carole and Steve,
It sure is sad what we at present get back for our hard earned money!
Oh, the noise must be terrifying on any kitties ears as their hearing is so much sharper than ours…
Sweet photos!
Hugs,
Mariette + Kitties
Well, bummer!
An unforeseen noise problem, darnit!
We have a front loader and mom says never again. It’s too hard to load and unload.
We never thought of that aspect. Thank you!
I prefer the top loaders, they clean better even if they are noisy. 🙂
Agree!
Poor babies! I prefer the top loaders too. I’ll never understand how front loaders don’t leak on a regular basis.
We have a top loader, but it’s not too loud, thankfully!
It is a pity it is so noisy, but as long as it does it’s job is the important thing.
It sounds like a true, old time washer. The good news is, if it has the agitator in the middle, it will clean your clothes better than the new kind.
Even better, it has an agitator that can be removed or left in. Mr. Cole likes that.