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Thread Number: 73714
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
Commercial Speed Queen front loader |
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Post# 973593 12/14/2017 at 07:33 (2,318 days old) by chetlaham  (United States) |
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| Post# 973608 , Reply# 1 12/14/2017 at 08:56 (2,317 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
I would guess this machine is a hard mount.
Right before the last spin while the machine is closing in on the last few seconds of the rinse cycle, you can hear water draining for about 6 seconds.(2:25) I also noticed that thick black pipe running from the back of the machine. so I would say it is a gravity drain. Here's some fun stuff... www.speedqueencommercial.com/vend... | ||
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Post# 973614 , Reply# 2 12/14/2017 at 09:43 (2,317 days old) by chetlaham (United States) |
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Post# 973623 , Reply# 3 12/14/2017 at 10:08 (2,317 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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A friend lives in a ritzy complex in NW DC. Each floor has two laundry rooms with two SQ toploaders and one FL. She said the TLs are $1.50 per load and the FL is $3.00 a load, but it looked like it is like the home machine, a soft mount. It has the slanted control panel like the new domestic FL machines. | ||
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Post# 973629 , Reply# 5 12/14/2017 at 10:42 (2,317 days old) by chetlaham (United States) |
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^^^ Something I have always fantasized about. Its the speed and versatility which would actually make me convert to front load. People think I am anti front load. I am not, just the fact most do not match up to these.
Question- how does one even go about mounting these in resi? You need to drill the concrete, right? | ||
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Post# 973674 , Reply# 7 12/14/2017 at 17:12 (2,317 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Hard mount washing machines
Do not have suspension systems, thus must be bolted into a few feet of concrete and or another firm and stable surface. Simply put the forces generated during extraction are sent down through machine to flooring and dissipated through structure.
Given the above you are *NOT* going to be putting even a small 20lb hard mount washing machine on a wood floor: docs.alliancelaundry.com/tech_pdf... Took a heavy old coverlet to our local last week rather than risk even using the Maytag wringer, as it certainly wasn't going into either the Miele or AEG. During final high speed spin in SQ you could feel vibrations from machine coming through floor several feet away. This with the thing bolted into a concrete platform several feet thick. Ironically when you start getting into larger to uber sized washer-extractors soft mount machines (those with suspension systems) are preferred. Can you imagine the force generated by a washer rated for 200, 300 or more pounds? It could literally shake a building... Of course as many members already know, early Bendix domestic washing machines required bolting down. Don't try this at home children,*LOL* Beauty of a hard mount washer with a drain valve (no pump) is that the things will spin and drain even a very sudsy wash with ease. In parts of Asia automatic washing machines are sold without pumps (drain valve). You just either run the hose off the back porch, a balcony or into a floor drain. | ||
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