I'm not sure you're ready to select appliances just yet. You might have some other homework to do first. You may well have vibration issues with this. How's the construction of the building? Do you own the building? If not, you'll probably need permission to do this for a number of reasons, not to mention vibration issues affecting the building and other residents, liability for damage from water, fire, etc. Are you thinking of an electric dryer or gas? You should spend the money to have electrical and plumbing run to the location with the shutoffs there. If it were my building and you ran an extension cord, I'd evict you. How do you plan to vent the dryer or are you going with condensation? Keep in mind that there could be shared breakers between units so your increased electrical needs could affect others so you need to work with your contractors and landlord (unless you own it) for the proper plumbing, for waste and water, electrical and venting needs. If you're going with an electric dryer, do you have 220v available at the position you want it? You can't just run an extension cord to the stove. If you're going with gas, do you have the gas lines run? You probably need to contact your insurance agent since most renter insurance policies might not cover the washer/dryer liability. If you flood the building you will affect other units most likely and you will be held responsible, same for fire liability. Do you have a direct wall outside for venting the dryer? If it's a brick building or concrete they likely won't want you just punching a hole through the wall. If time is an issue, remember that front load machines take a lot longer than top loads for doing a cycle so this could impact your laundry scheduling. You would probably adjust easily, but a heated cycle on a front load can be 2-3 hours for the wash cycle. If that's an issue, you may want to consider a top load, which you may have to consider anyway. During your remodel, your contractor could give you some guidance on beefing up the structure to eliminate vibration if the contractor is experienced in this area. Find out before you choose the contractor. Maybe you've considered all this already, but you haven't indicated anything to so suggest. Before worrying about a model to buy, I'd suggest looking into these aspects and make the arrangements for permission and possibly permits needed if any so you can then have this out of the way. Otherwise you might wind up with a couple machines sitting in storage that you can't use. BTW, FYI, you're finding out about dryers with the peeve you suggested. The normal guideline for sizing a dryer is to double the capacity of the washer, so for instance, if you have a 3.5 cf washer, you should have at least a 7 cf dryer. The extra room is for tumbling and air flow. In the combo units, if you do a full load, you have three options, remove 1/2 the load and dry them separately; do only 1/2 load at a time (which you probably wouldn't need to do large loads anyway, right?); or take an incredibly long time to dry and it could be very tangled and wrinkled. One last suggestion: Consider carefully the types of cycles you will need, whether you will need a heater and how big of loads you will be doing. If you often do just a shirt and a pair of pants, many FL machines seem to have trouble with balancing this from what I've been reading. Good luck!

Hi There are alot that I can not wash in my US Bosch washer just because it does not spin and if it does not at full speed and the result is wet laundry. When I use it for lile a duvet or a medium load of clothes I always need to spin it in my small euro miele to be able to dry the stuff. The miele can make a kind of clonk sound starting a badly balanced load by it always spinns it, sometimes abit slower but I have never had a load not spun. I never think about what I am washing in it, well as you said larsi you can take stuff to the cleaners but I like to wash it at home. I have done a bit cotton rug that I had under my diningtable in the kitchen in my euro miele and it did fine. Miele is not as sensitive as those bigger machines

Great larsi! I could watch your beautiful Giant vids all day!!

I have the Persil liquid but now have to go buy these to see what kind of result I have with my speed queen front-loader. The differing experience with suds level is incredible and must be related to the water hardness.. I am bummed that this had less than desirable results for you, especially since so far you like the scent and they clean well.