A laundry corner with a front-load washer in a lakefront house basement laundry, seen from a low angle, the washer door catching the light.

Lake County, Chicago

Washer repair in Lake Forest.

Lake Forest City Hall, designed by Charles Sumner Frost, was completed in 1898 and first housed the fire department, the library and the city offices.

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What Lake Forest does
to a washer.

The older neighborhood of eastern Lake Forest near Lake Michigan remains relatively secluded, while much new construction has gone up farther west.

About 18 percent of Lake Forest's housing was built before 1940, and its median home dates from 1976, by the Census Bureau's 2020–2024 estimates.

About 77 percent of its housing units are single-family detached.

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Older housing stock

Older supply plumbing, especially galvanized steel, can shed rust and scale into a washer's inlet screens and slow the fill until the machine reports a water supply error. Clearing the screens and checking the house valves comes before replacing the washer's own valve.

Gated communities

Getting to a washer behind a gate means being cleared at the guardhouse beforehand by the owner or the estate manager. The laundry room beyond it often has stone or wood floors, so the machine is slid out on protective pads and kept clear of the cabinets.

Pool and beach towels

A backyard built for entertaining means the washer takes pool towels, cushion covers and swimsuits load after load. Sand, grass and chlorinated water all find their way to the pump filter, which needs clearing more often than in a house without a pool.