My vote goes to the 1966. You have more control over cycles. It also allows you to do a separate rinse and spin. The 1215 does not, though I love the all stainless steel.

I have a homemade pedestal for an Asko Dryer made of 2X4's connected with metal corner brackets we bought at Home Depot. These are special heavy duty things that allow you to connect not only two adjoining horizontal frame members but also a vertical post at each corner. We have a 3/4" piece of plywood atop this as a floor for the machine. It's stood up to years of hard use. It would be easy to make this and simply screw on a skirt of a prettier material to the exposed front or sides. For a washer, I would consider some additional diagonal bracing, although this would eliminate the possibility of using the space underneath for storage. Molly~

bump I couldn't find much info while looking for a 220 machine, so...this may help someone else. Well, I just got a set of floor models from a distributor's showroomÂyay! I've been waiting until I could go back to a front-loader and had been looking at the Asko, Fagor, AXXIS, Blomberg, and Ariston. This one is more than I expected to get, what a beauty and what a stroke of good luck to find them! I got my first FL, a simple Italian machine with a 1.48 cu ft capacity, stainless drum, 800 rpm spin, etc. in 1981 and used it until 1995. It handled babies through early teens just fine. As the kids got older with larger clothes, constant sports, and more changes, I got a stacked Frigidaire Gallery set for the larger capacity of its TL washer in the same space. Its only problems were being a real pain for my husband to move when necessary, not being as efficient as the FL, and not getting the wash as clean as the FL...but it has worked as well as it could. None of my W/D sets have ever failed and have never required anything but small repairs or maintenance. For that matter, my daughter's Asko is doing fine at 10 yrs old too. The 2.5 cu ft (or more) size of the 1215 will take anything I normally wash including the king duvet cover which was about the only thing I couldn't fit into my old FL. It took the twin covers, of course. I don't like to wash the actual duvets as it kills the down, so I just keep them covered to prevent body oils, etc. from getting into them, then keep those covers clean. I'm looking forward to having the internal heater, especially for towels and sheets. We installed a gas demand hot water heater in the house where we first used the old FL, so had the equivalent in that situation. Being on a lovely spring didn't hurt either. In the current house, we're still on its original electric heater and the difference with the same machine was noticeable, and then more so with the TL. I don't like using bleach, and I'm really tired of "not quite..." Given how well the Miele is supposed to clean, I doubt that I'll be needing an extra rinse and spin cycle which is mostly what I have used that for with the TL. Just in case, though, I'd like to know the workaround for getting the machine to do that. Having a dryer which can sense the moisture of the load and not over dry is the other big change...and being able to shut off the alarm...and the delay start...and the extra tumbling to keep down the wrinkles...and the stainless steel and solid build quality...mmm...it's all good! This is 2009 and the 220v Miele set is still listed and available if you look around...or hunt down another Euro machine which offers it. The difference between my old FL and the 1215 might best be described by comparing them to the old VW Transporter we drove then and today's BMW...both great for their time.

Sounds like the solenoid (water inlet valve in the machine) is failing to fully shut. You can see how to fix it on YouTube.