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how to maintain your washer properly

Having a functional washer at home is important as it spares our hands from doing the dreadful laundry. To ensure that your washer works properly, you need to pay attention to the maintenance on a regular basis.

Have your clothes become wet as soon as they come out of the washer? This is because the seal around the door on your washer has failed. Just replace this seal and it will stop leaking water.

If you have a traditional top load washer, then you probably have to deal with overflowing clothes. The problem here may be due to a faulty tube connecting to your vacuum pump. Or if it’s an older home, the standpipe might be clogged. Either way, call a professional technician before you end up with standing dirty water in your machine.

If you only want to clean your washer properly, you can check the following simple steps:

To start with, make sure to remove any clothing from the washtub so they don’t get stuck in the small spaces of the drained water inside. If there are still clothes stuck inside make sure to use a tool to pull them out if possible or call a repairman to come and fix the issue. Using a tool would not be that hard because washers are basically dry inside after they drain the washtub.

In the meantime, get a washer bucket and fill it with warm water and add some dishwashing liquid soap into the washtub and let it sit for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, you will want to wash out the washtub of your washer until clean, then rinse clean by running another cycle. Then you can fill up the washtub again and rinse it thoroughly. Do this process multiple times if needed.

There are other steps you can take such as deodorizing the washer. There are washer deodorizing disks that you can put into your washer on the washtub, then just run it just like you would with a normal washer cycle. This will not only clean out the washer but also take away odors and leave it smelling fresh.

Last but not least, it is always a good idea to save the factory manual at home in case you find any error codes in the future. It is also helpful to have a few reliable appliance repair technicians in your area. Meanwhile, if your washer has worked for more than 10 years, you can consider replacing it with a more energy-efficient model.

** This was a contributed post.

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by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 02/18/2022 • Permalink

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Tagged dryer, home, house, laundry room, max appliance, repair, washer

Posted by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 02/18/2022

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cross medicine cabinet : diy

When we were designing The Little Barn, we always knew that one of the most important rooms would be the mudroom. The reason for its significance was the fact that it had to serve various roles, from an office space, to a boot room, to a greenhouse, to a laundry room, to a dog room. While we ended up removing two of those five functions, the three most important (laundry, boots, and dogs) stayed. Because this mudroom would serve as a bedroom, dining room, kitchen, laundry room, porch, and apothecary for our own animals, I wanted to make sure that it was well-equipped with everything that they could ever need and I could ever want for them.

Holly has quite a few medical issues, all of which I have chronicled over the last year. This results in her having a number of medications. Rather than keeping her medicine with ours, I wanted to make her a whimsical storage unit. It was also my way of putting a positive spin on her medical issues. Plus, it looks damn delightful in their mudroom.

This is what you’ll need to make your own hand-painted Cross Medicine Cabinet:

Glass cabinet
Glass paint
Brushes
Q-tip
Painter’s tape
Measuring tape

Steps:

1. Lay the medicine cabinet flat on the ground. Using the measuring and painter’s tape, measure and mark off a symmetrical cross that will be located in the centre of the cabinet.

2. Take the base paint colour and brush. Fill in the cross.

3. Once the base coat is dry, take the border colour and outline the cross. I did mine using a freehand method, but you can also use the painter’s tape for cleaner lines.

4. Once that coat is dry, it is ready to be installed and used!

Emory

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by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 04/08/2015 • Permalink

Posted in diy

Tagged animals, bathroom, craft, cross, design, diy, do it yourself, dogs, Furniture, health, home, house, ideas, laundry room, medical, medicine cabinet, mudroom, pets, renovation

Posted by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 04/08/2015

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the not-so-reclaimed siding

Hi friends, and happy Saturday! Are you enjoying it? I hope so! I’m spending mine working at the store, which in my eyes, doesn’t really feel like work at all. So I’m pretty happy. :-)

Before we examine the siding and the title of this post, I’m going to backtrack a little. It was only 10 days ago when I revealed our metal roof to you. While I initially liked it, a tiny part of me did question if we made the right decision in going with brown. It didn’t pop the way that I had hoped that it would, yet at the same time, that’s exactly why I did choose it. Putting my emotions aside, I told myself to just wait until the siding comes. I knew that everything would change once that was up. Boy, did it ever.

Now to discuss the siding. The plan for the siding on The Little Barn was always to be reclaimed wood. So my husband and my brother-in-law began to spend their weekends tearing down old barns and outbuildings across the province. They were not hard pressed for these types of structures given that we live in Saskatchewan. Yet, it was backbreaking work and extremely time-consuming to do so. It didn’t take long before we began to rethink our decision. Upon assessing the quality of boards, mulling the idea over amongst ourselves, and finally discussing it with our contractor, we chose not to put that particular wood on our house. We were just too afraid of leaks and dry rot.

It was our contractor that came up with the perfect solution. He was able to get wood siding that had been sitting on a distributor’s lot for a few years. No one had wanted it because it was beginning to look reclaimed. It had already turned grey, and best of all, they were selling it to us at an extremely low cost. In the case of miracles, this was a big one. I still cannot believe how lucky we were to get this amazing material.

In the end, our not-so-reclaimed siding is one of my favourite things about The Little Barn. Well, one of many.

Emory

by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 10/25/2014 • Permalink

Posted in new home

Tagged barn, bedroom, blueprints, canada, church, construction, contractor, couch, dry rot, garage, home, home design, house building, house plans, ikea, kitchen, lake, laundry room, living room, metal roof, mudroom, new home, pike lake, pinterest, reclaimed house, reclaimed wood, roof, saskatchewan, tiny home, tiny house, wood

Posted by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 10/25/2014

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up on the roof

Hey guys! The day is finally here for me to reveal our metal roof to you!

If you can remember this post, I had enlisted your help in choosing a colour for a new roof. Most of you thought that red would vibrant and beautiful, which I agreed with. However, given that our previous metal roof stood out, this time, I wanted one that would blend in with its surroundings.

Maybe I was playing the devil’s advocate, or maybe I was just stubborn in my vision for a weathered-looking house. Whatever the case, I am so thankful that we chose the colour that we did!

I think that the brown looks great here, but honestly, you should see it with the reclaimed siding that is now up. Honestly, it is absolutely gorgeous.

Don’t worry, the siding post will come soon. :-)))

Emory

by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 10/15/2014 • Permalink

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Tagged barn, bedroom, blueprints, canada, church, construction, contractor, couch, garage, home, home design, house building, house plans, ikea, kitchen, lake, laundry room, living room, metal roof, mudroom, new home, pike lake, pinterest, reclaimed house, roof, saskatchewan, tiny home, tiny house, wood

Posted by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 10/15/2014

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in september.

Is anyone else on the same page with me when I say that each month just seems to fly by? As I predicted in August, September was a very hectic month for me. Let’s recap what exactly happened:

I revealed to you guys that I was starting up my own vintage, handmade, and clothing store. With only a few days from the grand opening, I am still hurriedly trying to get last minute details together.

This month I introduced you to one new, one recycled, and one recipe from a lovely guest blogger. The theme this month was apparently sweet treats, but would you really expect anything else during the end of a long, hot summer?

We went on a small road trip where I visited my first antique mall. I bought many amazing vintage items, most of which are now available in my store. We also took Holly and Truman along with us, and made it a proper family vacation. :-)

I reviewed yet another dream cabin of mine, and showed you my inspiration for our mudroom and living room.

I finally revealed the progress of The Little Barn, which admittedly was long overdue. It’s by far my favourite (and only) house we’ve ever built.

I reviewed a hit song and offered another version of it, an incredibly good movie starring Tom Hardy, and most recently, this film.

I discussed what it was really like living on an acreage, and then scheduled a photo shoot with our pet family in the countryside.

We also had a flower-inspired shoot here.

Last, but not least, this was my latest, and one of my cutest, DIY posts.

See you in October!

Emory

by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 09/30/2014 • Permalink

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Tagged 2014, Acreage, all about that bass, america, august, beginning, building, cabin, canada, carrot cake, countryside, crafts, cupcakes, dessert, diy, do it yourself, dogs, end, fall, film, food, holiday, home, house, laundry room, living room, month, movie, muffins, october, pets, recipe, Regina, rhubarb, saskatchewan, saskatoon, september, summer, the drop, the trip to italy, treats, usa, vacation

Posted by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 09/30/2014

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