>Well, somebody asked!
Mine's been a do-nothing day to recover.
Started yesterday with a trip to Wickes to pick up some paving because I'm modifying and re-laying a bit of patio. Boy those 600x600 slabs are heavy. Very carefully lifted them into the boot and laid them between the wheel arches to make life easier for the air suspension but no damage done to me or car. Then proceeded to twinge my back throwing the bags of sand in.
Drove home and got Mrs K to help me unload and carry them into the garden.
Just sat down with a coffee when a delivery driver turns up with the replacement bottom door seal for the dishwasher. The original had failed a few days earlier, depositing a chunk of rubber and dirty water on the kitchen floor.
Finished my coffee and started on the dishwasher. How difficult can it be to replace a bit of rubber attached to the bottom of the door right?
Let me tell you. It's a pig of a job if you've never done it before, because it's not attached to the bottom of the door. It's clamped between the door hinges and the guts of the machine. The bottom edge is doubled back and fastened over the lip of the interior and then the inside cover of the door needs to be manoeuvered over the top edge before being re-attached to the door itself. In short, you have to remove all the covers plus the door, springs and hinges just to get to the seal.* It took me about 3 hours of which at least 1 hour was finding how to get the thing apart.
* Reassembly is the reverse of removal. © Haynes.
PS. Just after I'd got everything back together the UPS van arrived with a replacement motorised brush head for the cordless vac which had packed up just before the dishwasher seal.
I'm currently waiting for whatever the third appliance failure will be.
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