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I am not fan of GE. Electrolux has mainly Muslims in their manufacturing facility in MN because of prayer rug breaks. Maytag I think is owned by GE. I heard the LG/Samsung stuff canb break. Daewoo's stuff is supposedly crap. Frigidaire looks so so quality/ Whirlpool appears to be good. Bosch's are nice but expensive and on the Lowes web site get so so reviews.
Due to space restrictions I may have to get a front loader stack. The all in one apt units are kind of cheezy. So if I get a stack it looks like Frigidaire, Whirlpool, Maytag or maybe Kenmore (Whirlpools).
Any suggestions? My impression is dryers are dryers and rarely break.
The other option is put the washer iin the garage and keep the exiting dryer in the smallish utility room. Thanks.
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We went with a front loader, which allowed us to stack the dryer on top of the washer, which made room for a top door freezer where the washer used to be.
IT's a direct drive model... no belts between the motor and the spinning apparatus. It's been bulletproof so far.
All new stuff breaks in less than half the time as stuff made 50 years ago. stuff today is all S#it
Maytag, but you’ll pay the premium. Sears has almost all brands, and they’re usually in a negotiating mood in this economy. Ask the salesperson when the next “friends and family night” is and try to get an invite for extra discounts. If they won’t budge, go to Lowes.
I have stacked Bosch - front load of course - because this is what would fit in my closet/laundry area and this freed up enough room for shelves built to be my linen closet.
I’m happy with this. But then, I don’t have kids and a large amount of laundry.
We got a front loader a couple of years ago. More “efficient” but you pay for efficiency with stinky cloths. If I had to do it again I would buy the inefficient and cheaper top loader. Your cloths will not stink when they come out of the top loader.
I like our Maytag Neptune front load washer and dryer. Best w/d we’ve had in 20 years.
Bought a Fisher & Paykel washer-what a buggy POS!
NEVER AGAIN!
Look at Kenmore and GE — I don’t remember the model number, but they have nice top loading washing machines — it’s actually the “lower end” ones that are narrow enough to fit, also they are not “saving water”, just wash the clothes. I personally think washing and rinsing the clothese properly should be the criteria for washing machines.
We bought the neptune HE front loaders about 2 years ago, and have learned to hate them.
We began having a funky smell from the washer and the clothing put into it, no matter how many times you washed them, and found out there was a bacteria growing behind the rubber rim that surrounds the door. So that has to be removed every couple months and bleached down (not an easy task).
Also, if overloaded, by which I mean, you put in a dozen towels, though it claimed it would wash 20 towels, the clothing catches on the same rubber ring on the door and tears them up. So, the washer in reality, only holds as much as our old washers.
The dryer seems OK.
Next time we will go back to top-loaders. I’m not really sure why we wanted front loaders to begin with, maybe because we had top loaders... you know, grass always greener on the other side sort of thing.
Have you considered a washer/dryer stack? We’ve had a Maytag stack for 8 years and I love it. They aren’t terribly expensive and still have large enough capacity for most household uses. In our case, it left enough space for a freezer...:)
We got the newer high-end Sears front-load HE5 machines a couple years ago. We’re pretty well impressed with the results in the laundry.
I don’t know that they’ll fit in your space requirements tho.
After years of having a top-load and now having a front-load, I will say this: Your clothes will last a lot longer in a front-load.
Dryers rarely break. There’s really nothing TO break. There’s a motor, a belt, a drum, a bearing and a heating element. Keep them free of lint build-up and they last forever. Usually when stuff goes wrong on a dryer, it is small stuff like the switch on the door being broken from someone slamming the door too hard. Aside from that, the only issues on dryers are lint and how well the machine deals with it.
The old top-load washing machines used to have issues with their transmissions, their pumps, etc. The new front-loaders have issues with their door seals more than most other issues. For my part, I could do without all the silly beeping and whirring of the new machines, which try to ‘talk’ to you like R2D2, but on the top-end Sears machines, you can press a switch that says “STFU!” and then it reverts to being a laundry machine instead of a droid.
In our last house, we had bought a Fisher Paykel top loader that was small and did a great job on cloths. A simple induction motor, and simple mechanicals, although we had to have a replacement wax reed valve after about four years.
Made in New Zealand.
We bought a Maytag centennial about a year ago. I previously had Maytags and loved them. Not this one.
A couple of things I do not like about it. It’s noisier than all heck. Throughout the entire cycle. You also cannot choose your own water level. Many of the new appliances are like state nannies. They do not want you to waste water so the unit senses the size of the load. If you forget to add something and lift the lid it will override itself and fill it to the top regardless of how much laundry you have in there. I can’t figure out how to fix this problem.
I can remember my Mom having a Speed Queen back in the 50's when I was just a kid.
I hate my Frigidaire appliances- I can’t type the names I’ve called that company because I’d probably get banned here! They are crap crap crap! They also make Electrolux to beware!
I just bought a cheap Roper washer and drier set. When we did the math on how much money we would potentially save by those fancy new front loaders, it was still cheaper to go with the old fashioned kind. To break even on price we would have had to have kept the new front load style for 19 years for it to pay off. My old washer lasted 7 1/2 years so I didn’t want to go for it. Just my $.02!
Buy LG. The L stands for lucky so you know you can’t go wrong.