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.
Thanks for the tip. Yeah the front loaders advantage is it avoids beating up the clothes. I like that idea. I agree that dryers are pretty much dreyers and they do not break too much.
LOL! I like the STFU idea button. R2D2 whistle back at yah!
If you use cloths softener tissues make sure yoy clean the wax like build up they leave behind off your lint filter. We heard about this problem and checked our lint filter. Found it almost completely blocked with wax but lint free. Cleaned it with 409 and the dryer ran like new.