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Thread Number: 33694
Moving to a new rental house, need help washer/dryer |
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| Post# 506453 , Reply# 1 3/24/2011 at 12:33 (4,773 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada) | ||
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| Post# 506472 , Reply# 2 3/24/2011 at 13:29 (4,773 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii) | ||
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Post# 506487 , Reply# 3 3/24/2011 at 14:48 (4,773 days old) by yogitunes  (New Jersey) |
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I would check into this Kenmore or the Frigidaire series....hit the sale right, and you can get the washer and dryer for under 800.00 or less......pedestal is optional
uses plenty of water, nice capacities.....proven more reliable than most.... best thing is you can build a fake cabinet around these to hide them when not in use, or just add the counter top for more space..... CLICK HERE TO GO TO yogitunes's LINK | ||
| Post# 506491 , Reply# 4 3/24/2011 at 15:06 (4,773 days old) by 3beltwesty () | ||
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A token combo of top loader and dryer at Home depot only costs 498 bucks for both and they deliver here on Saturdays too for free. You can make a image so the washer looks like a front loader to please your green friends. | ||
| Post# 506498 , Reply# 5 3/24/2011 at 15:33 (4,773 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada) | ||
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front load washer if there is a spot for a built in dishwasher you can also have it look like the washer is built in the cabinet and if you don't went someone to see the washer you can also hide it with a curtain but it also depends on your budget and the price you went to pay have a look at this link and a pic of the washer this model also have a water heater to heat the water if needed.
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| Post# 506607 , Reply# 6 3/24/2011 at 22:25 (4,773 days old) by powerfin64 (Yakima, Washington) | ||
I would look into the whirlpool duet. Most front loading washing machines are fairly quiet, and stylish. I would not recommend placing it in a dishwasher slot and covering it up with a curtain, as someone else suggested, would be very tacky.
Sounds like money and energy savings could be on your road ahead, use that to your advantage if I were you. | ||
| Post# 506608 , Reply# 7 3/24/2011 at 22:36 (4,773 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii) | ||
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Top loading agitator washers may be less to buy but eat up more of your hard earned money because they use 3 times more water,3 times more detergent,bleach and fabric softener and almost 3 times more electricity to run than a front loader that not only uses a lot less water,additives and electricity but will wash items you'd never think of washing in a machine like tennis shoes,pillows,sleeping bags,tents,area rugs,stuffed toy animals and queen to king size bedspreads.Cleaner clothes,less ware and tare,less water,less energy and better results.top loaders are easy to overload where as a front loader has a special angled/recessed window.If you have overloaded them,the door won't close and it will not come on. No transmission means less possible breakage.Either direct drive or belt drive and a hell of a lot quieter than any top loading washer.I am seeing some of the Whirlpool Duets for $499/washer and $499 electric dryer.
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Post# 506618 , Reply# 8 3/25/2011 at 01:10 (4,773 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI) |
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I'm a convert to the Duet, can't really say anything bad about them. Quite, do a great job, use little water and energy, all around winner... | ||
| Post# 506738 , Reply# 10 3/25/2011 at 12:25 (4,772 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
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| Post# 506774 , Reply# 11 3/25/2011 at 14:01 (4,772 days old) by dj-gabriele () | ||
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Plus, moving a FL washer from home to home will shorten its Who says that?! Just put back the transit bolts and you're done! @ 3beltwesty "You can make a image so the washer looks like a front loader to please your green friends." ...offensive as usual | ||
| Post# 506776 , Reply# 12 3/25/2011 at 14:04 (4,772 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada) | ||
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and you also need to know that before moving a front loading washer you need to call a service tech that will prepare the washer for the move as moving a front loader is not like moving a toploading washer like for exemple you rent the house for a year and after a year you decide to move aka because of your job or you went a bigger house because of lack of space you need to think about this closely about this as well because 1 mistake and it can not only shorten your front load washer but it might get damage beyond repair me when i move in the condo i live in today i had a topload 93 inglis whirlpool superb2 washer and matching dry this is a pic that i saved from cl as i no longer have this set the bleach dispenser was damage during the move 1 and then a few weeks later the motor burn out and needed to have on this wahser the timer knob to be fix in a way it shorten its life use because in 2004 i have to repalce the washer it was near 8 to 10 years of use.
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Post# 506781 , Reply# 14 3/25/2011 at 14:13 (4,772 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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| Post# 506782 , Reply# 15 3/25/2011 at 14:15 (4,772 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada) | ||
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us and canadian front loaders are not the same thing when it comes to transit bolt once remove from a canadian or us machine the actual transit bolts can not be reuse in the case of the whirlpool duet this must be done by a whirlpool service tech says so in the insturction manuel i know as i was the one that install my duet washer in 2004 and read the install manuel and it clearly stated not to reuse the actual transit bolt for moving a washer. well this was my 2 cent in this topic
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| Post# 506795 , Reply# 18 3/25/2011 at 14:48 (4,772 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada) | ||
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fact about appliance today | ||
| Post# 506813 , Reply# 19 3/25/2011 at 16:25 (4,772 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
You beat me to it Matt Transit bolts/bars are generally a doddle to re-insert.
...and Pierre....I agree that the Whirlpool manual says to 'call service' when you want to reinstall the transport bolts, but lets be honest here....how challenging do you think it is to do?
...and your comment that 'they cannot be reused' is a complete fabrication. Nowhere in the Whirlpool manual does it say that. In fact, I bet if you were to ring and ask to have the machine 'prepared for moving', the first thing the tech would ask is 'have you got the shipping bolts?'
...by way of comparison, the Frigidaire manual says to 'retain the bolts for use in the future'.....as I will lay odds, all Electrolux machines do (my European ones certainly do)...and Miele used to have storage clips for them on the machine.
The only machine I have ever had a challenge getting them back into was my Australian made Hoover Electra (which looked similar to the British ones from the early 1980's). They were 2 ft bars that needed the top of the drum pushed down to allow alignment of the holes with the base of the machine....but, as Matt said, a couple of old pillows or a duvet around the drum/sides of the machine and it's sorted.
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| Post# 506822 , Reply# 20 3/25/2011 at 16:40 (4,772 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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Interestingly.... | ||
| Post# 506837 , Reply# 22 3/25/2011 at 17:31 (4,772 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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| Post# 506890 , Reply# 23 3/25/2011 at 22:49 (4,772 days old) by zipdang (Portland, OR) | ||
We have a KitchenAid Ensemble washer and dryer, which are Duet clones. The delivery people didn't leave the original shipping bolts when they installed the washer so I cannot attest to whether they are resusable or not. However, when we moved last year I ordered replacement shipping bolts and they were very easy to install ourselves. No service tech required. :)
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