Thread Number: 73118
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Now This Is A Miele Laundry Set-up |
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Post# 965861   11/3/2017 at 20:24 (2,336 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Not one but *two* stacked sets of uber sized Miele washer and dryer.
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Post# 965865 , Reply# 1   11/3/2017 at 20:30 (2,336 days old) by NeptuneGuy27 (Baltimore,MD)   |   | |
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Though one does wonder if the current owners are very tall or if they have to use a ladder to be able to see and set the dryer controls. LOL |
Post# 965867 , Reply# 2   11/3/2017 at 20:35 (2,336 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 965868 , Reply# 3   11/3/2017 at 20:37 (2,336 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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One does see many of these uber Miele washers and dryers going for very little money on CL and elsewhere. You can often pick up a barely five or so years old unit for $500 or less each. Not all cases are due to persons moving house and need to sell, or reverse; those moving into a new home and don't want.
Miele says they discontinued these units due to low sales/losing money, but I've never been sure. All that R&D, fanfare and so forth to pull washers and dryers barely a few years after they launched? There is story there I shouldn't wonder. |
Post# 965875 , Reply# 5   11/3/2017 at 21:28 (2,336 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 965895 , Reply# 7   11/4/2017 at 00:00 (2,336 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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It was that three-quarters max fill for Normal/Cottons that threw one for a start. Even mentioned it several times here in the group.
What is the point of having an uber sized washing machine if you cannot fill it to capacity? The suds spewing was a common complaint from those who purchased the first design washer, not sure how or if it got corrected by the 4840. Other major issue was internal leaks or something that trigged the water control system. Once that was activated machine shut down and that was it for duration. Miele would advise customers to "tip machine over and drain water out". Well you can see how that advice would go over. Leaving aside paying a few thousand dollars for a washing machine, you now want a 5'2" woman who weighs around 130lbs or so to "tip over" a very large and heavy appliance. You had other issues like detergent dispenser drawers that popped open during operation, and or leaked. Ironically it seemed that the 3XXX series selling side by side with the 4XXX killed the latter's sales. People simply felt the 3XXX washers were a better value and vastly greater in build quality than the 4XXX. At least you could load more into the 3XXX washer instead of that insane 3/4's rule. More is the pity really; Miele like Whirlpool knows how to build and markets commercial capacity front loaders for the European market. Instead of going off and doing something totally new for the USA (a market they apparently didn't study well enough), baby steps were likely best. Miele obviously was going after the Whirlpool/Duet market, but failed miserably. |
Post# 965941 , Reply# 9   11/4/2017 at 08:18 (2,336 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Is the Miele Little Giant the same size as my W1986, but with beefier components and a higher wattage heater requiring a 30 amp circuit so that it finishes a load faster? I read something about it also having a longer lifetime expectancy. |
Post# 966025 , Reply# 11   11/4/2017 at 18:16 (2,335 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Miele W1986 and IIRC the W1926 were "super capacity" washers sold in USA market.
Seem to recall Miele was able to up the capacity one kilo (six instead of five)by making the drum slightly deeper. www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin... www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/T... Cannot speak for elsewhere but many commercial laundries/dry cleaners had Miele 19XX series washing machines. They were used for everything from wet cleaning to their ability to do special and or delicate fabrics such as lace tablecloths and other fine linen. Also for washing machines that were built to pretty much commercial quality, a place could get something that self heated water. This is as opposed to the huge commercial machines that require steam, gas or other sources of heat. |
Post# 966077 , Reply# 12   11/4/2017 at 22:24 (2,335 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Thank you, Launderess! |
Post# 966080 , Reply# 13   11/4/2017 at 22:35 (2,335 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Many consider the w1986 one of if not the best Miele washer sold in USA to date. I'd have one in a minute if could sort out the electrical requirments, *and* found one in good enough condition.
Very good capacity, excellent choice of cycles, but not so much pre-programming to be not user friendly for those that one a bit more control over things. The W1986 was pretty close to perfect IMHO. What one likes about the later 19XX models is they over come some of the minor niggles of the W700 and W10XX series. Better control of the motor and drum speeds means machine will do less banging and clanging itself to death with unbalanced loads. Spins between more of the rinses gives better results in that area while cutting down on water use. |
Post# 966116 , Reply# 15   11/5/2017 at 05:02 (2,335 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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As Henrik said, we had a few manufacturers who tried selling 27 inch wide appliances on the European market, but people just don't buy that stuff. You are probably one of the few interested in a dryer with a bigger drum. That said, overhere in the NL we had a Huebsch (Speed Queen) gas dryer available here, pushed by the gas companies. I know noone who bought one. There is however one for sale now.
link.marktplaats.nl/m1219250744... Other 27 inch appliances took up space in the stores for a long time, according to the sales people they hardly sold and the display models were sold at very low prices. |
Post# 966121 , Reply# 17   11/5/2017 at 05:36 (2,335 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Well, that Huebsch dryer came on the market without a matching washer. And it was gas, you would think it would catch on with our huge resources of natural gas. Not! The other dryers didn't sell either witout the matching washers. Appliance manufacturers have tried, but they weren't able to attract customers. I'm afraid we will not see another manufacturer try again soon.
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Post# 966230 , Reply# 21   11/5/2017 at 17:08 (2,334 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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This is something I prefer, speaking of Spanish Provincial,
www.angelenoliving.com/blog/touch... Getting back to those Miele sets; you can tell there is money because the stands are custom built. At first glance when spotted the listing thought units were stacked, but they aren't. Someone put a good amount of effort into that laundry area. Sellers are offering units as set or individually. A bit shy of $800 for either washer or dryer might not be such a bad deal. If units have been well taken care of and not abused they should have decades of use remaining. Providing one is willing to deal with the aforementioned limitations or whatever those uber Miele washer or dryers might not be a bad way to go. |
Post# 966358 , Reply# 22   11/6/2017 at 08:20 (2,334 days old) by Vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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Who wouldn't? Typical California price. A cousins 2200 sq. ft. Newport not on the beach colonial is 1.2 million. My aunts modest 4 bed. 3 bath 1,880 sq. ft. rambler off of Whittier blvd. and Cole rd. below the LA average at about $635,000. |
Post# 966398 , Reply# 23   11/6/2017 at 12:12 (2,333 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 967046 , Reply# 25   11/9/2017 at 15:39 (2,330 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Cl does not keep ads up forever. Unless taken down before expiration the thing will fall off on its own accord.
A good thing because some sellers or whatever on CL have an annoying habit of *NOT* taking down adverts even after a thing is sold and or otherwise not available. That AEG washer one was going after is (or was) still listed this weeks supposedly after it was gone. This or worse people revise their CL listing to say "Sold" or "Gone". What is the point of that? If you can revise why not just take the thing down and be done? |