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Texted landlord at 7:56 AM that my clothes dryer had suddenly stopped working

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DrPizza said:
Well, given your apparent wardrobe problems, it's no wonder.


Okay, someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I cannot imagine any circumstances where a maintenance guy would need to take a dryer to a repair shop. (To me) it sounds like a lie that someone with little knowledge about dryers would make. They are incredibly simple pieces of machinery. A motor, a belt, a pair of rollers, a few switches, controller, and either electric heating elements, else controls for a gas burner, and a few minor (though common problems) such as thermal fuses. Diagnosing the problem is child's play for any decent mechanic. The body of dryers are incredibly simple to open, and a trip to the shop to repair the dryer would more likely be a trip to go get a part. Why haul a dryer out, rather than return with the needed part?

edit: if I'm wrong, then I'm really surprised that "dryer to the repair shop" and "dryer back to the repair shop" turned up a grand total of 1 hit on Google. OP is lying.
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Before your post, I thought pretty much, exactly the same thing. Worse still, referring back to a similar, but older thread they wrote (on a similar but different appliance going faulty). It is actually technically/physically IMPOSSIBLE, for what they say to have occurred. Without literally re-writing the laws of Physics/Chemistry.
 
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futurefields said:
No, I think the maintanence guy is gonna come. He just left with the dryer, taking it to repair shop. He was really nice and I apologized about the early text.
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This doesn't make sense. How can you think he's going to come and simultaneous he leaves with the dryer. Is this Schrodinger's repair man?

And as others already pointed out, it's rather laughable that a repairman would remove the dryer from the apartment, all by himself, to service it in the repair shop.
 
Many apartment complexes, including mine, rent washers and dryers. I opted out and they took two months to come pick mine up (left from previous tenant). Obviously, it went into storage somewhere.

It makes sense that they might store the broken ones and move in a replacement. Once they have several that need service and their own maintenance personnel have given up, THEN they call in a repairman.

They are probably going to show up with another seemingly-identical dryer and he's going to assume that they "fixed" it.
 
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Next time in an emergency, dry your clothes by hanging them over a lit crayon
 
Red Squirrel said:
Check under the dryer, some of them put the ram slots upwards and with the vibration the ram can fall out.
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I just checked and mine is ok.

I have a question though if you have a minute. The ram in mine is 4gb 1333mhz, if I change it for 1600mhz will the clothes dry faster. I assume the maufacturer puts an artificial limit on the capacity so changing to 8gb wouldn't help.

Thoughts?
 
Ok, I admit to being a bit texting-ignorant. I don't text. Ever.

But how does texting a landlord at around 8AM about a problem that he needs to be notified about, qualify it as an "emergency"? Why would anyone _not_ do that? It's a fucking text. You're not calling and waking him up at 4AM. You're not pounding on his front door at midnight.
 
WelshBloke said:
Oh that wasn't an apology to you, I thought that I might have been thinking of the wrong person.

I have no doubt about your moral compass.
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No two people on earth have the exact same morals, so yours being different from mine is perfectly fine. And if you think you're morally superior to me, well, that's fine too because opinions are like assholes. I'd be in your position if I actually cared about what others thought of me.
 
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Puppies04 said:
I just checked and mine is ok.

I have a question though if you have a minute. The ram in mine is 4gb 1333mhz, if I change it for 1600mhz will the clothes dry faster. I assume the maufacturer puts an artificial limit on the capacity so changing to 8gb wouldn't help.

Thoughts?
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I think you need to upgrade the VGA for clothes to dry faster, if you go SLI you pretty much double. The ram speed does not affect much in the dryer as the ram is only used to ensure clothes do not get all wrinkled or turned inside out and stuff as it basically just stores their configuration before the cycle starts then attempts to restore the config back. Problem is they often use cheap non ECC ram so that's why you often end up with stuff turned all inside out and stuff anyway. The high end commercial units use ECC ram and clothes come out better.

Then there's stack overflow problems that can happen when people load them past capacity. You can sometimes install more ram which will help a bit but not much.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I think you need to upgrade the VGA for clothes to dry faster, if you go SLI you pretty much double. The ram speed does not affect much in the dryer as the ram is only used to ensure clothes do not get all wrinkled or turned inside out and stuff as it basically just stores their configuration before the cycle starts then attempts to restore the config back. Problem is they often use cheap non ECC ram so that's why you often end up with stuff turned all inside out and stuff anyway. The high end commercial units use ECC ram and clothes come out better.

Then there's stack overflow problems that can happen when people load them past capacity. You can sometimes install more ram which will help a bit but not much.
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I'd recommend an SSD also so it turns on a little quicker. I know past dryers took at least 30 seconds to boot up.
 
Carson Dyle said:
Ok, I admit to being a bit texting-ignorant. I don't text. Ever.

But how does texting a landlord at around 8AM about a problem that he needs to be notified about, qualify it as an "emergency"? Why would anyone _not_ do that? It's a fucking text. You're not calling and waking him up at 4AM. You're not pounding on his front door at midnight.
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That's just it: it wasn't an emergency. Apartment complexes and HOAs have rules about when you can do work that disturbs your neighbors. He disturbed a human being on a weekend for something that only an idiot would think is an emergency and then tries to tell us that it really was an emergency.

futurefields said:
A clothes dryer is emergency! How in the hell am I supposed to do my laundry before work next week?

In b4 somebody tells me to put up a clothesline .. in an apartment complex..
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And here is where he first called it one. He went on DEFENDING it as one when confronted, as if it was an emergency simply because he had "no way" to dry his clothes. Thay is not the criteria for an emergency. Heck, he wouldn't even be allowed to dry his clothes on weekends where I use to enforce those rules as a community attendant (a luxury high-rise condo in San Diego). No construction, cleaners, contractors, etc were allowed on weekends so that residents could relax and not worry about noosy neighbors. We would not have allowed him to run the washer/dryer that early no matter what day of the week, and yet he routinely does this for warm clothes. Did you see the comment in this thread sarcastically saying "I bet your neighbors LOVE you?"
 
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Call your Mom, get her to walk you through how to clean lint trap.
Then do it everytime after you freshen up your clothes
 
Brainonska511 said:
This doesn't make sense. How can you think he's going to come and simultaneous he leaves with the dryer. Is this Schrodinger's repair man?

And as others already pointed out, it's rather laughable that a repairman would remove the dryer from the apartment, all by himself, to service it in the repair shop.
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You're pretty stupid. 🙂

Here's the sequence of events -

I texted landlord at 7:56 AM

Maintainence guy shows up at 9:15 AM

Maintainence guy opens up dryer and sees that the control wire has burned out.

Maintainence guy doesnt do wiring like that, so he removed the unit with dolly and took it to repair shop.

🙂
 
futurefields said:
You're pretty stupid. 🙂

Here's the sequence of events -

I texted landlord at 7:56 AM

Maintainence guy shows up at 9:15 AM

Maintainence guy opens up dryer and sees that the control wire has burned out.

Maintainence guy doesnt do wiring like that, so he removed the unit with dolly and took it to repair shop.

🙂
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The above sounds like a made up story to me, sorry.

I have more information about your "stories", but I'm NOT posting it, because you would read it, and know how to improve your story telling in the future. But the long and short of it, is that there is a MAJOR logic fault, if one refers to your "other" thread(s), which fairly clearly shows that you are very likely to NOT be telling the truth, sorry.

i.e. You have got partly mixed up between the two stories, and made statement(s) between the 2, which make it likely that you are NOT telling 100% the truth here. I would love Judge judy to read through your posts, and make her highly sarcastic comments about your "stories".

EDIT: There are so many signs that you may not be telling the truth here, that I don't feel like listing them all. E.g. Why did you delete the original post #1 ?
 
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SOFTengCOMPelec said:
The above sounds like a made up story to me, sorry.

I have more information about your "stories", but I'm NOT posting it, because you would read it, and know how to improve your story telling in the future. But the long and short of it, is that there is a MAJOR logic fault, if one refers to your "other" thread(s), which fairly clearly shows that you are very likely to NOT be telling the truth, sorry.

i.e. You have got partly mixed up between the two stories, and made statement(s) between the 2, which make it likely that you are NOT telling 100% the truth here. I would love Judge judy to read through your posts, and make her highly sarcastic comments about your "stories".

EDIT: There are so many signs that you may not be telling the truth here, that I don't feel like listing them all. E.g. Why did you delete the original post #1 ?
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You might be mentally ill. Just saying.
 
futurefields said:
You might be mentally ill. Just saying.
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You're right. The first thing I should/will do, is stop making all these semi-crazy story threads. The next thing I will do is realize that a faulty dryer is NOT an emergency. Anything else I should do about all these threads that "I" am making ?

The psychiatrist said that my mental illness is called MMI, or M.M.I.

M.M.I. = Mirror Mental Illness, which is where I take on the mental illness of someone else I see or read about, e.g. On a forum.
 
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