Front loading washers

[Irulan]

The only washers I've had have been Sears Kenmore. I've never had a front loader, and unless Sears makes one, I'm not going to get one. In any case, it will likely be many years before I need to replace my Kenmore.

But my brother and his wife love their Bosch.

Kenmore Elite has been around as a front loader for years, who knows who it's built by. Depending on your price point, they relabel different manufacturers.

[Miranda]

LOL, like that TV commercial.
That is how I feel about mine. I have a first generation ( and last generation ) of a "high efficiency spray rinse"...
Normally we are a "drive it til it breaks" family but I am just sick of this thing.

YES! That is what this stupid thing does. The clothes just lay in the bottom piled up with not even enough water to cover them. It's about like if I took my kitchen sink sprayer shooting from a distance to damp wet the clothes. They say is was suppose to be "smarter". Oh brother...

An early death by stone washing your new jeans with rocks? "Honest Honey, I don't know what happened."

just trying to help

HA! I like you way you think. Do you need any laundry done? Come on over via cyberspace to my washing machine crash and burn party.

[Flybye]

Just another note about my Front Load dryer. It really does a nice job of melting crayons and adhering them to Columbia coats.

[SadieKate]

What colors does it do best?

[OakLeaf]

Just another note about my Front Load dryer. It really does a nice job of melting crayons and adhering them to Columbia coats.

Another nice thing about air-drying.

[badger]

I'm on a brink of a mental breakdown due to my recent troubles with washers and dryers.

Oh how I knew so little about them...

Now I know they all stick out a good two inches in the back, and they never are the size they claim they are on their websites. And damn those bubble-doors that stick out.

The compact apt size is expensive and takes forever and a day to do a single load of laundry. Using my neighbour's apt size LG took a whopping 4 hours to dry my sheets.

Samsung has a stupid stacking kit where it pushes the washer 3 inches. Absolutely no sense to this, and I had to return my bling washer/dryer.

Built-in heater apparently will give me a sanitizing option to my washing, which is great for pet bedding.

I've been without a w/d now for 6 weeks, and I'm finally getting the Frigidaire Affinity 8000 on Sunday and it's not my dream machine nor my first choice. But due to space restriction I've had to sacrifice my sanity and my desire for a set I really wanted.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think this will become such an all-encompassing nightmare. All this because I just wanted my clothes washed

[OakLeaf]

Using my neighbour's apt size LG took a whopping 4 hours to dry my sheets.

That problem is what I mentioned before, that any front loader will wash more than a dryer of the same exterior dimensions will accommodate.

So even though you can fill a front-loader full and it will function just fine, you only want to actually do that if you're air-drying all or most of the clothes.

I'd put money that your sheets would have dried in two dryer loads of 1 hour each.

[Irulan]

Just another note about my Front Load dryer.

Is there any other kind? ( besides clothesline, that is...)

[Irulan]

Another nice thing about air-drying.

that is, unless your HOA thinks clotheslines are ghetto.

[xeney]

Built-in heater apparently will give me a sanitizing option to my washing, which is great for pet bedding.

We thought this was a great idea and it was one of the reasons we were glad to upgrade to the Duet (the old Kenmore/Frigidaire did not have a sanitize cycle). But the sanitize cycle ruined our towels, shrunk the cover on the dog's bed, and made our diapers look old and worn in one shot.

We just use "heavy duty" now. The sanitize cycle is REALLY hot.

[Flybye]

Is there any other kind? ( besides clothesline, that is...)

I was already to defend myself when it dawned on me................
Guess not!
What I meant to say was..................aw, nevermind!

[DDH]

I love my clothesline for sheets and beadspreads. Of course I'm in the country and already gettho so I dont' care what the neighbors think. LOL
It's one of the advatages of living in the country although I'm finding fewer and fewer as I get older.

I still have my 15 year old dryer, and I am of the use it till it breaks families. In fact my husband will fix things until he can't anymore to keep from spending money on a new one. Sometimes that's a good thing, and sometimes not.

[Irulan]

We thought this was a great idea and it was one of the reasons we were glad to upgrade to the Duet (the old Kenmore/Frigidaire did not have a sanitize cycle). But the sanitize cycle ruined our towels, shrunk the cover on the dog's bed, and made our diapers look old and worn in one shot.

We just use "heavy duty" now. The sanitize cycle is REALLY hot.

The one I got has that, but it wasn't a selling point for us. I was more interested in the larger capacity for all our sleeping bags.

[badger]

I actually air dry almost all my clothes and underwear and just put sheets and crappy in-house clothes in the dryer.

A lot of my clothes have that 1-2% stretch and found that they became baggy after a couple of months. After I started hang drying, I don't have them become limp anymore and last much longer.

Maybe the newer machines won't do that, but it's become habit for me now that I'll probably continue after I get my laundry crisis sorted.

[tulip]

My dryer came with the house and is very old, but it works when I have to use it so I won't replace it until it dies and cannot be repaired. The washer came with my house, too, but it's newer and the same Kenmore model I had in my previous house. I MUCH prefer to dry things on the line outside. That is one reason that I will never live in a development with an HOA. Give me a real neighborhood any day!