Thread Number: 36723
POD 9/29/11 WP washer and dryer ad |
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Post# 546443 , Reply# 2   9/29/2011 at 09:57 (4,564 days old) by westingman123 ()   |   | |
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Personally, I'd want the mangle under the window, anyway. Rather like having your kitchen sink under the window. Allow your mind to wander into the yard, while your hands are doing the flat work! |
Post# 546464 , Reply# 3   9/29/2011 at 14:22 (4,564 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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I always looked at these ads and wondered who ever had a setup like that......of all the homes I have ever been in, none had setups like this......lucky if the machines were even side by side, mostly in the basement, or where ever they could find space.......and most of the newer homes had them tucked into a closet hidden behind doors....
but we always dreamed of a full featured laundry with washer/dryer, a sink, cabinets and countertops.....and places to store chemicals, hang clothing, laundry shutes and bins for sorting, space for an ironing board.....plus other ammenities.... a laundry area should be a room to perform these task, with the mess out of site for the busy household, allowing you to get to the laundry when possible, not a niche in a hallway/mudroom passing thru to the garage, at this point their in the way..... but, for the most part we are thankful for having a washer and dryer at home rather than drag the clothes to the laundromat, no matter the configuration...... |
Post# 546468 , Reply# 4   9/29/2011 at 14:49 (4,564 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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I'm surprised that comments of this sort are being made about this particular ad when we've seen both Jane Wyman and Rosemary Clooney touting Lady Kenmores that were installed in what has to be the primest of prime real estate in their respective homes( or photo studio facsimiles).
Personally, I've always liked the idea of having my washer and dryer in the kitchen, although so many people are right to object to dirty laundry being in the same room with food preparation. Very common in the UK.
To me it makes the most sense to have them on the bedroom floors, where all the laundry is generated and then stored. But for worry-warts, the basement makes the most sense because, if there's some mishap like a leak or a burst hose, all that water isn't going to go up. I've heard some horror stories from people who've had their machines on the upper floors who have had to pay thousands in repairs to ceilings and walls from just one leak. |
Post# 546475 , Reply# 5   9/29/2011 at 16:14 (4,564 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Post# 546476 , Reply# 6   9/29/2011 at 16:25 (4,564 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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I've been in so many houses that have horrible vent systems, the builder or architect spec the dryer vent to run down through the floor and then along the joists to the back of the house so as not to disrupt the brickwork and aesthetics of the front of the home. Sometimes the laundry is located in a "convenient, step saving location" and the vent has to run through a maze of framing, walls and joists to make it to the outside. The worst I've seen was the dryer was against an interior wall (back of the front entry) and the outside wall was next to the side of the dryer. The vent ran through several 90 degree elbows, under the floor and 34 feet to the back of the house. By the time the 29" Kenmore dryer exhaust got to the end of the vent, it was barely a trickle of air, even after cleaning the entire length of what turned out to be mostly flexible foil tubing. For a family of five, this made drying times excruciatingly long so they ended up drilling through the front of the house and installing less than 24" of vent to the outside.
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Post# 546522 , Reply# 7   9/29/2011 at 22:00 (4,564 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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OK, what GANSKY 1 described here is frighteningly like how my dryer exhaust is set up...
I'm hoping, too, that I don't have an unsafe arrangement, and otherwise don't know what alternative (and what reason this is even set up in this catastrophic way) I have to a better system (which won't involve cutting the foundation of my house or any other skillful carpentry much too complex for me to handle & given how troublesome that basement has been (water leaks through the wall & window back there--and through my FURNACE!) cannot bear any unusual monetary expense! -- Dave |
Post# 546579 , Reply# 9   9/30/2011 at 07:15 (4,564 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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WP did make some early dryers that did use a 3" vent, however no WP built dryers really baked the clothes dry as the heaters were always enclosed in a separate box well away from the clothes.
Dave your vent system while not neatly installed is acceptable as long as it is keep clean. It would be better to move the dryer to the wall under the vent or short of that have the vent line go up behind the dryer and across to the outside connection. I find from experience that it is not ideal to have the vent pipe or hose laying on a cold basement floor as this collects to much lint. If you must use this type of vent run it will need more frequent cleaning. |
Post# 546581 , Reply# 10   9/30/2011 at 07:36 (4,563 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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I hate to admit this, but I once lived in a duplex condo where my neighbor and I had similar bathroom/laundry areas on the ground floor sharing an adjoining wall. Susan's dryer vented directly through the house's outer wall whereas the duct-work for my dryer traveled about 10 feet through that shared interior wall to get to the same exterior wall; the dryer outlet was maybe 4 inches from hers. She had a Whirlpool pair, I had a Maytag pair. The blast of exhaust from Susan's dryer was like the belching of an engine out of hell. The Maytag exhaust was characteristically calm and polite. I still don't believe that the 10 feet of extra duct-work made that much difference. |
Post# 546594 , Reply# 11   9/30/2011 at 08:56 (4,563 days old) by ingliscanada ()   |   | |
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Just curious; how old were the WP and Maytags in the duplex? Gary |
Post# 546602 , Reply# 12   9/30/2011 at 10:32 (4,563 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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