A laundry corner with a front-load washer in an Eichler house laundry closet off the carport, seen from a low angle, the washer door catching the light.

Santa Clara County, San Francisco Bay Area

Washer repair in Palo Alto.

Eichler-era homes generally wash clothes in the garage on a concrete slab; the replacement houses going up in their place frequently put the machine by the bedrooms instead. An upstairs washer is the one that needs a pan, a good drain connection and supply hoses replaced on schedule.

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What Palo Alto does
to a washer.

Palo Alto is the only California city that runs six utilities, among them water, wastewater collection and treatment, and storm drainage.

In most years five turnouts from San Francisco's regional system supply all of the city's drinking water.

San Francisquito Creek overtopped its banks in the El Niño storms of 1998, and its levees were damaged.

Palo Alto's wettest month on record was February 1998, with 12.43 inches of rain, including 3.75 inches on February 3 alone.

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Designed laundry rooms

Placing the washer for symmetry instead of for plumbing can leave its drain hose crossing a long flat stretch, and that is often why a brand-new unit empties slowly or posts a drain code.

Newer developments

Tract houses repeat one laundry floor plan lot after lot, down to the valve box, so their washers age as a group. When one house on a street has a hose give way, its neighbors' hoses are likely near the same age.

Family houses

With kids' uniforms, bedding and play clothes cycling through nearly every day, a family washer wears its pump, belt and shocks out ahead of its years. A new thump on spin or a drain that takes longer each week usually points to one of them.