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Thread Number: 35512
Apartment Building's Laundry Room Now Features NEW LG COMMERCIAL WASHERS |
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Post# 530052 7/11/2011 at 19:05 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch  (New York City, NY) |
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Time to investigate and play with new LG (brand) commercial washer.
Hung curtains for a friend two years ago. Never washed. So I hauled my @$$ over there to do so. (and of course try the new front-load washers that replaced the top-loaders). And here begin my observations of these new machines.... 
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Post# 530054 , Reply# 1 7/11/2011 at 19:06 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530055 , Reply# 2 7/11/2011 at 19:07 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530056 , Reply# 3 7/11/2011 at 19:08 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530057 , Reply# 4 7/11/2011 at 19:09 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530058 , Reply# 5 7/11/2011 at 19:10 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530059 , Reply# 6 7/11/2011 at 19:10 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530060 , Reply# 7 7/11/2011 at 19:11 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530061 , Reply# 8 7/11/2011 at 19:12 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530062 , Reply# 9 7/11/2011 at 19:15 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530063 , Reply# 10 7/11/2011 at 19:16 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530065 , Reply# 11 7/11/2011 at 19:16 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530067 , Reply# 12 7/11/2011 at 19:18 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530068 , Reply# 13 7/11/2011 at 19:18 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530069 , Reply# 14 7/11/2011 at 19:19 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530071 , Reply# 15 7/11/2011 at 19:21 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530072 , Reply# 16 7/11/2011 at 19:23 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530073 , Reply# 17 7/11/2011 at 19:23 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530074 , Reply# 18 7/11/2011 at 19:24 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530075 , Reply# 19 7/11/2011 at 19:25 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530076 , Reply# 20 7/11/2011 at 19:26 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530077 , Reply# 21 7/11/2011 at 19:26 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530078 , Reply# 22 7/11/2011 at 19:27 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 530080 , Reply# 23 7/11/2011 at 19:33 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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The tumbling drum is no longer full of holes everywhere.
Heat comes in from the back (pierced) then is forced to the front of the drum (pierced) where the exhaust /suction is at the bottom. No holes in the middle. These normally run on 100,000 to 125,000 BTU/h (British Thermal Units). They dry a full load in under half an hour. The intense heat will definitely fade black and dark/intense colors over time. As a matter of persective your gas cooker/stove normally has 9,000 to 15,000 BTU/h per top-burner, with 12,0000 BTU/h most often seen. USA home-use gas dryers heat at a rate of 22,000 BTU/h (roughly two stove burners). They may take up to one hour to dry a load of laundry. 
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Post# 530081 , Reply# 24 7/11/2011 at 19:35 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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OOOPS Sorry it's fuzzy! | ||
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Post# 530082 , Reply# 25 7/11/2011 at 19:37 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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The shirts should be fastened upside-down so that the clothe
same apt building.
Alwasy fascinating to see laundry hung out to dry by those with not the vaguest clue....... 
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Post# 530083 , Reply# 26 7/11/2011 at 19:40 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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The LGs were decent.
Tiny amount of water and had a spray at the top of the door (to acutally wet the clothes) that was only engaged as the tub was moving. Apparently one needs as much water in which to soak the laundry as the tub is stationary,in the that water fills are very low. I believe it was Wash, Rinse (thrice) Spin. SUPER WASH option was $0.25 more and added 10 minutes, being a pre-wash and a 4th rinse. 
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Post# 530085 , Reply# 27 7/11/2011 at 19:44 (4,535 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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I will try to check in occasionlly in case I may be of assistance in answering any questions.
The wascomats were not a bargain price-wise. Using two LGs had a greater capacity and is less charge/cost/money than the Wascomats. I don't recall their capacites. This post was last edited 07/11/2011 at 20:55 | ||
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Post# 530097 , Reply# 28 7/11/2011 at 20:51 (4,534 days old) by labboy (SD, CA) |
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The LG drum looks almost identical to the one we have at home. The dispenser drawer is very different as is the control panel. Interesting about getting a 4th rinse with Super Wash. The most I can get on my LG is 3 rinses. 3 works fine for me but I'm careful about dosing. They may be forced to do 4 for the general public who habitually over uses detergent.
I'm curious if they had HE detergent in the vending machine or the standard non-HE product. I saw the nice big HE warning sign but wondered what they stocked with. | ||
| Post# 530119 , Reply# 29 7/11/2011 at 23:20 (4,534 days old) by alr2903 (TN) | ||
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Thanks Togs, keep us posted on how the LG's hold up in the "real world". I notice the laundry vendor has big ole sku# numbers bet that makes for some easy book keeping on machine use and repairs alr
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Post# 530154 , Reply# 30 7/12/2011 at 08:02 (4,534 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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LG! | ||
| Post# 530236 , Reply# 32 7/12/2011 at 15:29 (4,534 days old) by commercial () | ||
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LG Commercial washer I have one in silver 
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Post# 530361 , Reply# 33 7/13/2011 at 07:54 (4,533 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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NEW COMMERCIAL LAUNDRY Hi Steve thanks for the tour of the new laundry room equipment. We have a 10 year old SQ coin-op gas dryer like those and it only fires at 65,000 BTUs and some fire even less now that they have better extracting commercial washers. Try to get behind and look at the model# tag to see the BTU rating on these I would be very curious what they are installing in the NY area now. These SQ dryers can be had in models with higher BTU inputs where they are used in attended laundry installations, but for coin laundry rooms used by the general public where people can throw who knows what in a load they usally keep the BTUs down.
I hope that Coinmach does a better job in your area than they do in DC. I know many condo associations that have pulled out their equipment in recent years over poor repair service. I won't put in print the things I know about Coinmach. | ||
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Post# 530651 , Reply# 34 7/14/2011 at 16:17 (4,532 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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LABBOY: I have no idea what's in the vending machine in term of HE or regular detergent.
ALR2903: Real-world updates. I don't reside where those machines are located but I will ask my friend to be on the lookout for down-time/ repairs/ out-of-order signs. PETESKI50: Don't know if it takes forever, but the timer does not appear to keep moving as it gets ready to spin, so it MAY take a year and a day......... MTN1584: Hi Mike. Previously there were two front-landing Wascomats and a slew of top-loading Speed Queens. Yah the drying yard is in the back and you are so right it is an older style garden apartment complex. The complex is in eastern Queens, so technically it is in New York City, but not far from the Long Island border. AS much as I want to hate foreign intruders in our major appliance market, I find it hard to dislike the LGs. Methinks the USA appliance manufacturers were better off before they devoured and destroyed domestic competitors to achieve greater market-share. The vacuum apparently was filled with foreigners. And now they have to compete with novel ideas, innovation quality and energy consciousness. Now if Europe was smart they'd get their price down(and sizes/capacities up) to reasonable levels for us and they'd flood our market in my opinion. | ||
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Post# 530652 , Reply# 35 7/14/2011 at 16:21 (4,532 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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| Post# 530801 , Reply# 36 7/15/2011 at 10:45 (4,531 days old) by sudsman () | ||
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Everything you would to know about l g commerical machines they are trying really hard to sell use several machines. CLICK HERE TO GO TO sudsman's LINK | ||
| Post# 530812 , Reply# 37 7/15/2011 at 11:33 (4,531 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada) | ||
in case you did not know in certain hotels they replace there commercial washers with regular household washers like a few years back i was staying in a hotel and they had a small laundromat for the hotel residants and they had a commercial inglis dryer but the washer as a reg household toploading washer like this one the brand was admiral. and me i think that most older appartments building today where renovated to inculde washer dryer hook ups.
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| Post# 530989 , Reply# 38 7/16/2011 at 15:52 (4,530 days old) by Huebschman (Quebec, CA) | ||
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Everything you would to know Funny how there's no warranty information (yet) on their website... CLICK HERE TO GO TO Huebschman's LINK | ||
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