bw
Fringe Ranger
Your frame is secured to the floor by several 3" nails. If you jack against it you're likely to shift it, and then you've got a mess. Sacrifice the door and get on with it.
…… STUPID PROBLEM OF THE WEEK Fixed! Post #42
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Sawsall it was. I didn’t do it so it is crooked and, well just another annoying thing to look at with silver duct tape over it. I was the one who “jumped the door” to push it back. “You can’t do that…”. Sigh. Hold my beer.
He has a torn ligament in his shoulder. Had shot yesterday so he doesn’t know what he can and cannot do. Yet. Wait until tomorrow. Heh.
He has a torn ligament in his shoulder. Had shot yesterday so he doesn’t know what he can and cannot do. Yet. Wait until tomorrow. Heh.
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
ReStore has inexpensive ones (or other store that sells used building materials)
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Good idea actually, especially if the washer decides to try and escape again.
The hinges were on the other side of the door. Impossible to get to.
kyrsyan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Do you really need a door there? Because a truly practical suggestion would be - remove the door. Get some wood putty, fill in where the hinges went. Make it look "pretty" and leave it open.
If the door is needed. Maybe consider replacing it so that it swings open the other way.
Coming from someone whose house has three interior doors.
If the door is needed. Maybe consider replacing it so that it swings open the other way.
Coming from someone whose house has three interior doors.
patriotgal
Veteran Member
Skinny grandkid squeezed thru then sat on cabinet and used her feet to get washer pushed back. Then we went to farm store and bought rubber stall liner which we then cut to fit beneath washer and dryer. No more walking appliances.
Henry Bowman
Veteran Member
Or rubber shim it so it can't happen again, unbalanced load or otherwise.
Tristan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Intestinal Fortitude
Have Faith
Replace the door with strings of beads and macrame . . . or a sheet! lol
momma_soapmaker
Disgusted
I leave the laundry door open for exactly this reason. Ugh...
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Never, and I mean never put a challenge like that out for a woman. Not only will the door be gone, but also the walls, etc,. and that stupid washer will be out on the front lawn!!!
Door? What door!
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
No door on my laundry room. That jackass washer that kept trying to walk its way up the stairs out of the basement laundry room. It’s stupid ass got replaced with a speed queen!
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
I didn't want to write more without seeing a photo, but -- yeah -- I have power tools and know how to use them. If I couldn't get at the hinges, the door would be history.
Knighttemplar
Veteran Member
Can you loop a rope with knots in it around the machine? Then pull the rope to spin the machine. Otherwise use a allen wrench to knock the pins out.
Macgyver
Has No Life - Lives on TB
There is a funny story with that.
He demolished the prop doors to easily, they had to use a heavy one.
Yes Jack Nicholson was apparently a fireman when he was younger.
20Gauge
TB Fanatic
If the door opens 8" this tool should work. Then again if may not, but in my experience there is enough room
bw
Fringe Ranger
You shouldn't have to open the door that wide to get at the pins. A small screwdriver should be able to reach through and pop the pins.
Better than calling Florida Man to do the doing. "Hold my beer" wouldn't even touch what the likely result would be.
Siskiyoumom
Veteran Member
This!
You REALLY want those hoses to come out of the wall and post my Killer Appliance obit don’t you? Lol.
Bloody thing had actually stopped just before doing that anyway. It’s one of them “smart washers” doncha know. And I hear, “you know what’s under that panel you were pushing on don’t you?” Oh I most certainly do idiot man. In fact I know how to reset it to factory settings. Do YOU? (I didn’t say this because there are just somethings you don’t tell people you know.)
I am mechanically minded and he should know that by now, but apparently he forgot until I gave him that Italian Witch stare. Nothing else was said about that.
The door is a complete mess. It’s a metal door and DOES need the Dutch door treatment. Not really because it couldn’t be replaced or whatever, but because there’s a vent in that room. I swear the person who designed this house was on serious drugs. It has about 51 interior doors - it’s insane. To replace the laundry room door so it swings out would be a major OSHA violation (ok it would go against fire code) because it is off a hallway leading to master bedroom. Marital hazard at the very least, but you can get couch movers if you need to be very quiet.
See, my solution was to go through attic, cut ceiling in laundry room and drop down, but no one asked me before doing anything. That’s ok too because we would have to have cleaned that crap up and either locked the cat in here to eat whatever comes in or actually done something more than just add duct tape.
This morning I am thinking as I am waking up, “you know, you can put wood bondo in a mold” - it was then I slapped my brain. Hard. Lowe’s lives for a reason.
My washer is probably 15 years old, a top loader, and nothing special - very basic price range - but if it starts banging around with an unbalanced load, (which I can easily hear), even before I can hustle in to correct it, it has an auto-shut-off. Do not the new ones do this? Has been standard on washers as far back as two others I've owned and replaced over the past 30 years.
Well, considering that all the water hookups would have to be swapped or longer hoses used for both appliances, I think I’d rather look at duct tape forever.
HOWEVER, the anchoring DOES need to be done somehow because you KNOW it will happen again.
(Gee, I bet SOMEONE needs to level the washer again.)
See usually you hear it when it goes off balance. (I was asked that question five times like I would just let it do that. Yes, the one who actually runs and stops it when it happens.) I would be willing to bet that it did that while I was wrestling with the overly full trash can down our 600 mile drive way so that I could incur an injury to go with the Limburger shoulder that’s already here. Might as well eh?
Yeah, I’m the one who has been screaming the dryer has become a fire hazard and am apparently not aware of what a washer can do if it goes too far. Yeah, the deaf person. The person who KNEW NOT TO STEP ON THE DAMNED DOOR OF THE WASHER AS THEY CLIMBED ON IT! (Oooooo) The person who motioned you to go do something besides badger the hell out of me while I listened to Vietnam war music and plot death and destruction because I had other things on my mind besides wood working and answering stupid questions. Yes. The one who is plotting death and destruction on a smaller scale this very moment. Bawahaha. Get out of my way buddy. Out. Of. My. Way.
I sense a long day ahead.
I wonder this also. It’s probably something they took off to put new crap we don’t need in. I would look at the directions on it but I’d rather find an old one and fix it before I blow the control board up on the POS “new one” up with something that requires it to be moved out of doors. See, same song and dance: The Government to the rescue. Anyone want to hear about the new toilet? I didn’t think so.
kyrsyan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Sooo... if you are going the dutch door route, well, a few inches need to come out of the middle to put a little "shelf" on the top of the bottom door. So just straighten out that cut and use some good 2x4s. You'll be good to go. Unless they went really wild with the sawzall. Then it might be worth it to just buy an already made dutch door.
bw
Fringe Ranger
This is a person who does not need the added aggravation of a Limburger shoulder acting up.
This is starting to sound like "Fifty Shades of Arkansas".
My front loader will stop its spin, reverse direction in “slow mode” while adding some water to loosen the clothes, then will restart the spin in the opposite direction. It’s never “walked” because of that feature.
Oh and I’m “depressing” tonight because of my F it attitude. Well, I looked at someone’s labs today to see if they have a kidney or liver problem, I had two nurses call to tell me about work problems, I had someone trying to buy a HP plotter for fed and the sales person has business cards that look like she really does blow jobs for a living and didn’t get the account correct and then wants you to still buy the POS they are selling. Then I don’t feed the dogs/cats on time. Yeah. I’m sucking Xanax. Anyone who can make donations PM me. Lord have mercy.
I don’t believe this for a second. Send me make and model number. Please.
Well, the cut is uh, how do I say this: really bad. So yes, you’re correct, get a proper door. But I hesitate to mention that because I’M DEPRESSING. That would obviously throw things over the line.
I’m going to let my favorite diabetic cat die because I didn’t hop up at 8p and give him his meds. Shoot me. Now the weird dog is snoring louder than Limburger Cheese man. That’s a plane taking off. Someone look that up.
Meanwhile, I have received two calls from “the Home” (that I told to take my badge two weeks ago) because the dissatisfied nurses there think I can/will do something. Excuse me!! Why? Why am I called on tech support, read my labs and poor working conditions all in one day?
Does the Lord hate me!? I don’t think so. So WHY? This is a bad week. Sheesh!!
kyrsyan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
You put up with more than me. And I tend to put up with a lot. By now, that pile of bs would have popped my temper in a way that is scary to most.