Three hours on Saturday during March Madness is all day.
Had to pick them up, get them home, yadda yadda yadda, disconnect the old stuff, scrape 13 years of clothing tags and old pennies off the floor, etc., run an empty load to make sure it was all working, etc.
The real delay was that my dryer hookup is a 3-prong, and the new one had a 4 prong. Would have been easy to swap the cords except whoever put the 4 prong cord on had way overtightened one of the wire connections, to the point where the threaded nut on the back was broken loose, and stripped, which made it ridiculously complicated to remove and reattach to the other cord.
My grandpa would have had that done in an hour, and probably drank 3 PBR’s. My dad would have taken 2 hours, counting at least 1 trip to the hardware store with no beer. Took me 3 hours, but I fixed it with stuff from my own workbench and have moved onto the bourbon stage of the day. My 16 year old son would probably be fine with never washing clothes at all.