Back in October 2022 (while I had Covid) the washing machine that came with the apartment suddenly flooded everywhere so I called the landlord and he showed up with a replacement machine the next day. Except it turned out the problem wasn’t the machine, it was a backup in the drains. But by the time we realised that they had already swapped machines so I ended up with a different second hand one that frankly didn’t work as well as the original one. Boo.

Fast forward to January this year and suddenly the machine was making a noise during the spin cycle like a 747 about to take off. Landlords didn’t seem too keen to do anything about it as long as the machine was still working but then a couple of weeks ago it started leaving grease stains on our clothes.

Long story short… got this brand new machine installed this morning, after agreeing to pay half. I just wanted to get the crap one replaced asap rather than wait for them to do something (or maybe bring another crap second hand one) and I didn’t want anymore clothes/sheets ruined. So that’s done! I’m hoping this means they plan on keeping the apartment (with me in it!) when the contract has to be renewed this summer. And now I just have to figure out why an “Eco Wash” takes over 3 hours…