Set this washing machine to wash cold by default, the break room.

Roughly nine tenths of a washing machine's per-load energy goes into heating the water, not turning the drum, and this machine's temperature control has been left on Warm or Hot since it was installed, spending that energy on every single load.

Where

the break room at a City of Columbus public works or parks maintenance facility, near the Colorado County Courthouse, 400 Spring St, Columbus, TX 78934 (public works, best-estimate location near the confirmed courthouse address, exact maintenance-facility address not confirmed) · Open the map

Pay

$80 proposed

This packet is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price and not money waiting in escrow. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash. You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

before/after setting photos + dated label photo + GPS

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-13

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. With a City of Columbus public works staff member present, locate the washing machine's temperature control (dial, button, or touchscreen selector) and photograph its current default setting before touching it.
2. Change the default wash temperature to Cold, or the machine's coldest labeled setting, and confirm the rinse temperature is also left on Cold.
3. If the control lets a cycle be saved as a default or favorite, save the cold-wash setting so the machine returns to it automatically rather than reverting to the old setting.
4. Attach a small dated label near the control reading the new default, and photograph the finished setting and label together.

What counts as done

• Before photo of the original wash-temperature setting
• Confirmation that the rinse temperature was also confirmed cold
• After photo of the setting changed to cold with the dated label visible
• Attestation that the new default was saved or otherwise confirmed to hold on the next load

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Energy Efficiency Audit. Energy efficiency work begins with the walkthrough audit, the kind the ASHRAE standard describes: a trained eye moving through a building, reading the bills, the walls, the lights, and the equipment, and coming out with the short list of fixes worth doing first. Mastery looks like an auditor who can feel where a building is bleeding money within the hour, and prove it on paper. That instinct is trained by repetition on real buildings. This packet is one repetition: one system observed, one reading taken, one finding recorded the way the standard asks.