Thread Number: 72200
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
How we feelin' bout Washer / Dryer Combo units? |
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Post# 954734   8/26/2017 at 22:28 (2,405 days old) by amyofescobar (oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 954754 , Reply# 2   8/27/2017 at 05:32 (2,404 days old) by henene4 (Heidenheim a.d. Brenz (Germany))   |   | |
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Modern units are usually slower due to their low heating powers and the pretty terrible efficeny of their water cooled condensers. |
Post# 954770 , Reply# 4   8/27/2017 at 07:48 (2,404 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Post# 954848 , Reply# 6   8/27/2017 at 13:22 (2,404 days old) by amyofescobar (oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 954857 , Reply# 8   8/27/2017 at 14:07 (2,404 days old) by henene4 (Heidenheim a.d. Brenz (Germany))   |   | |
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Japan is weired anyways in terms of appliances. They are technology wise usually 2-3 years ahead, with even lower quality, and even tighter space constraints then europe. |
Post# 954909 , Reply# 9   8/27/2017 at 19:19 (2,404 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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These are only tolerable if one is washing half-loads (as Henrik noted) and has hours and hours and hours more time. There is no doubt but what they work, I used one for six weeks in England to do the laundry for eleven of us. It ran the entire time (this was the Lake District, so it also rained the entire time, in case somebody is foolish enough to ask why I didn't 'line dry'. Everything came out clean and nothing was scorched or horribly wrinkled. I did, however, follow Hoover's guidelines exactly. They, like all the other makers, insist on only drying half-loads. Because this machine could go from washing to drying automatically, I could load it at 5.30 in the morning when I got up, put the next load in at 9.00 when I had the kitchen clean, the next load in the middle of dinner, then sweet tea, then Abendbrot, then before the baths and then before bed. It's doable. But, gosh - if one need not, why? |
Post# 954911 , Reply# 10   8/27/2017 at 19:31 (2,404 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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I saw advertising well over a year ago - but seems nothing on the marker as of yet?
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Post# 954962 , Reply# 11   8/28/2017 at 04:36 (2,403 days old) by speedqueen (Metro-Detroit)   |   | |
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"Silicon Valley is moving into your laundry room."
Bah! They'll have to push me kicking and screaming out of the laundry room for that invasion! "We are rethinking laundry." "Washers and dryers have advanced very little in the last 70 years. In particular, you still have a Washer and a Dryer. There is no good reason for that — it is an artifact of history. You don't have a dishwasher and a dishdryer, right? Why are there two machines to do one task? Exactly." *And they want me to believe a combo is something new? "It’s time for a change. Marathon Laundry machines are challenging all the assumptions: we're combining washing and drying into one machine; we're getting rid of all the dizzying controls you don't use, and the dumb alert sounds; we are introducing Apple-like simplicity, internet connectivity that actually does something useful, and energy savings through real Smart Grid technology." *My Bendix fits the bill with regard to this for everything except internet connectivity and smart grid technology. They go on a tirade about fancy controls and yet are making a machine with internet conectivity. They can keep it! I'll take timers, solenoids, and relays any day over this hogwash! |
Post# 955144 , Reply# 12   8/29/2017 at 07:03 (2,402 days old) by Laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii)   |   | |
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If you're there when the washer stops to transfer from wash to dry then you save time. If not, then a combo will go right from spin to dry. Our Gas Lady Kenmore combo from 1963 took an average of 90 minutes with a wash, three rinses,a final high spin then a sensing dry cycle. The LG I had took two hours and fifteen minutes but had longer wash programs. The secret to a good condenser dry cycle begins with COLD water to be sure of real condensation.
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Post# 955147 , Reply# 13   8/29/2017 at 07:18 (2,402 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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The high-tech Marathon--should it actually make it to production--is certainly overhyped in giving the impression a combo is a new idea. Could be a very effective machine. Hard to tell when no one has one, LOL. And the hype is certainly nothing new. Companies advertised all sorts of outlandish claims about laundry equipment in the 1950s and 60s. Was Whirlpool's Suds-Miser system really like no other on the market? Many brands featured suds-savers and nearly all drained water into a storage tank then returned it to the tub for the next load.
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Post# 955148 , Reply# 14   8/29/2017 at 07:31 (2,402 days old) by henene4 (Heidenheim a.d. Brenz (Germany))   |   | |
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It's a Marathon laundry product... You really think that will make it to the market? Wasn't there a touchscreen combo with a GE base designed by an ex apple employee that was hyped and never made it to the market? |
Post# 955150 , Reply# 16   8/29/2017 at 07:49 (2,402 days old) by henene4 (Heidenheim a.d. Brenz (Germany))   |   | |
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Not really. For drying, the hold half their max capacity for washing. If you're just washing, you can still use full capacity. And both compact and full size combos (the LGs for example) have reasonable drum sizes (2.3cuft for the compacts and 4.3 for the full size one). |
Post# 955160 , Reply# 17   8/29/2017 at 08:45 (2,402 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 955163 , Reply# 18   8/29/2017 at 08:53 (2,402 days old) by mrboilwash (Munich,Germany)   |   | |
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Once had a "compact" combo for a short period of time and it was a disaster.
They may work better in soft water areas, but certainly not where I live. All it takes is just a little bit of limescale buildup in the condenser channel to attract lint, then the lint doesn`t get flushed out anymore and attracts even more lint and in no time at all the condensing unit is totally blocked. I could help myself a few times until I got too annoyed and got rid of the combo, but for the average houskeeper it means expensive service calls. It`s nice that combos still exist, but I consider them only as a last resort solution. |