Vintage FL'er Grotty Door Boot - Replace ?

[launderess]

Finally had some time to peek inside my "new" vintage front loader, and the door boot is totally grotty. Full of mould and much, and from what one can see so is the area round the boot where it joins the opening to the metal tub.

Have asked the installer to bring a new when he comes so if I choose to have it replaced won't need to make another service call. Some have suggested a good cleaning of the washer will take care of the muck and mold, but not too sure. A new boot will cost $67, plus labour, but again as it would be done during an install it might be a tad less "labour" than waiting until another time.

Sorry no snaps at the moment, but am working on it.

Thoughts?

Launderess

 

[SactoTeddyBear]

Re: Tub, give it the Boot:

Hey! Launderess, I would "Vote" for getting a new Boot as you mentioned while having the Installation done. That way you won't have to worry about the Boot possibly getting older and warranting replacement later on, besides I would think that you would feel better totally getting rid of the other person{s} Mold/Mildew, by having the new Boot. That is my opinion about what I think that I would do, if it were my Washer being Installed.

Good Luck with whichever you decide, enjoy you Vintage find, Steve
SactoTeddyBear...

 

[bethann]

Bleach & a Scotch Brite. As long as the rubber on the seal is still some what soft.

 

[bethann]

Bleach & a scotch brite, as long as the rubber is still soft.

 

[bethann]

Sorry, double post!

 

[launderess]

Thanks for the advice all, and especially YOU Sacto, good to have you posting again.

Since the machine is a Miele, it comes with all the prerequsite warnings about using LCB. Managed to peel back a bit of the rubber boot from the metal drum and it is equally grotty behind, so may have the boot changed. Since the tech will have the machine open any doing other things, maybe he will let me do the boot change while he works on other things. This could not only save me in labour costs, but give a chance for a good scrubbing behind the boot/round the tub before machine is put back together.

Do not understand how people let their washers get so nasty inside. Have given away front loaders with 10 or more years of use and inside they look as new/squeeky clean as the day they arrived.

L.

 

[frigilux]

Mould? Grotty? Are you British, Launderess? My Dad was from Wolverhampton. I was in elementary school before I realized a 'trolley' was really called a grocery cart and a 'lift' was an elevator.

 

[fixerman]

I got the same Idea. IIRC Laundress has used the word "colour" in past posts too.

 

[launderess]

No, not British, just attended a primary school with very funny ideas on how English should be taught.

"Coloured" has gotten me into more trouble, one has no idea. Was not around for most of the Civil Rights movement, and certianly had no idea that was the spelling of those infamous signs which spelled out whom went/sat where.

L.

 

[toggleswitch]

Who did what to whom?

We in this country botch the English language so much that errors and mis-use have begun to sound correct.

Who/whom? not my favo(u)rite one.

*Who*is a subject while *whom* is an indirect obect (pronoun).

SHE (subject)GAVE IT TO HER (indirect object) [receiver of action].

my favorite? "Should have went".
S/B "Should have gone"

Still nothing beats using prepositions in English as if we a Spanish-speakers. No one dies, for example, *from* a heart attack (DE in Spanish) You die OF a *heart* attack.

On the bottom of my cookware there is the set name "Pots & Pans from Calphalon" uh no dear, that should be "Pots & pans BY Calphalon"

And then the one that made a Brit boy co-worker mad/crazy.
"The train will be leaving momentariy". WRONG~~ s/b "The train will be leaving shortly" Momentarily means FOR a moment not IN a moment.

'Nuff said'. LOL

 

[fixerman]

Don't got no reason to dispute you Toggle.

 

[frigilux]

Oy vey, what do you know from Englishch, yunk man?

 

[launderess]

Had the Miele tech change out the grotty boot when doing the installation of my washer. As the nice Miele tech was getting the nasty boot off, he stuck his finger though a nice sized hole. So thank goodness asked Miele to send a new boot with his kit for my appointment and had the service man inspect/change the rubber boot.

Was going to keep the boot to take some snaps, but it was that gross with mould didn't want to touch it, much less keep it around the house. It went to the rubbish bin outside, though IMHO it should be destroyed as toxic waste.

L.

 

[Designgeek]

Good to hear you changed the boot; I was also going to suggest doing that. BTW, I also use some UK English, and some American Spanish expressions as well; one tends to pick these things up from reading and from the local area language mix.

Toggle, I agree about the bastardisation of the language. Few things bug me as much as what I call "gangsta-speak" in which words & usage from the urban criminal subculture get into the language at-large. (I suppose this also happened during the Prohibition era as well; either way it's gross.) Also "Newspeak," which is the shortening of words to remove pesky syllables that actually call for one to think whilst speaking. And then we have the mindless conversion of nouns to verbs and vice-versa, for example, originally "a party" was an occasion to celebrate an event, but now we have "to party," which is "to get intoxicated on alcohol or cannabis."

And although I'm certainly guilty of writing as if speaking (i.e. blurring the difference between spoken and written language), at least one can do that without falling into something that sounds (reads) like illiterate noise.

 

[duetboy]

Grammar

As mom always taught me.... Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.

duetboy
aka jeff

 

[chumbucket]

grotty what the hell is grotty u is trippin toots

 

[sudsmaster]

My pet American English peeves:

"This is very concerning"

Concerning what? Properly, this should be phrased, "This is a matter of great concern", or, "This is very worrisome".

"He has one of only examples"

Only of how many? Only by itself tells us nothing. "He has one of only five examples extant" would be the proper way to say this, or, "He has a rare item".

The above examples are simply cases where people have gotten too lazy to use words and grammar properly.

Another peeve - the deterioration of writing in daily newspapers. I remember when I could pick up a daily and be pretty much assured, typos and printing errors aside, that the editors had gone over everything with a fine tooth comb and the grammar and spelling at least would be reasonably correct. Nowadays I open a newspaper and it seems that most of the writers and editors are struggling with English as a second language, and not succeeding. The major urban newspapers seem to be hanging onto a semblance of respectable use of the language, but the smaller papers sometimes leaving me shaking my head in puzzlement. The gross misplacment of blocks of type, more common in the pre-computer days, are less common today, thanks to computerized typesetting, but even the best computer system can't compensate fully for garbage in.

 

[frigilux]

Definition Corner

Here's what the good book says:

 

[launderess]

Short Story About Grammer Correction

Young southern girl is starting her first semester at a northern college. Upon moving in she meets her dorm-mate and says:

"Hi! Were y'all from?"

To which the northern girl replies rather curtly: "Where I'm from, we do not end our sentences with prepositions.

The southern girls repiles: "Oh, I am so sorry. Where y'all from, bitch".

End of story......

 

[frigilux]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's a good one, Launderess; Thanks!

It was interesting to read the dictionary definition of 'grotty', because I've generally heard it used to mean 'filthy', as in unclean. I like that it came from the word 'grotesque'. Words is cool, boy-howdy!