Check out your washer hoses, folks

[jamiel]

Was going to be gone for several weeks, so turned off the faucets to the washing machine where I noticed the hot water hose was blistered and had some turgid bubbles in the outer skin (these were black vinyl/rubber, not woven-metal clad).

Interestingly, when I took them off, they each had printed on them a manufacturing date of 2014 and a "replace by" September 2020.

Fortunately no leaks--wouldn't have been too bad a mess as they're in the unfinished part of the basement.

 

[wayupnorth]

I automatically shut my washer faucets off after wash is done. A friends parents went out of town one day and came back to find a flood in their basement as their laundry was on the main level and all that water soaked everything on 2 floors.

 

[ea56]

I shut off the valves too after each use. To save the angle stops from wearing out I screwed on brass 1/4 turn shutoff valves like you can use on your outside faucets at the suggestion of Yogi (Martin) This works perfectly.

Eddie