Saturday our washing machine crapped out on us, and so after checking the error code I was on the phone with Hitachi customer service. They told me that we’d have to wait until Monday for a repair guy to come out. Yesterday I came right home after work, and the guy was patiently waiting for me outside our house. He got right to work on the washing machine, and within five minutes had it apart and had found the problem.
According to him, this small circuit board fan had died. The fan looked exactly like what you’d find inside a PC to cool the inside, so I was pretty happy that it was such a small, cheap part and not the entire motor of the washing machine. The repair guy said that he’d replace the fan, and also he’d have to replace the circuit board that controls it. I was instantly suspicious, however. Why not just change the fan and see if that works? But the price he quoted me for the repair was really cheap, about a quarter of what I expected, so I didn’t complain too much. He fixed it all up in about 15 minutes, and we are now good to go on laundry. Hooray!
Laundry is one of those critical things that you don’t think about until your washer dies. Luckily this time we didn’t need to make a trip to the laundromat. But we were thinking about it…
