Amana washers that'd you buy today are completely different from the Amana to which the repairmen refer. Whirlpool, Maytag, Amana, Admiral, Roper, Estate, Inglis, some Kenmore, and some Crosley ... are Whirlpool-family brands. Frigidaire. General Electric. LG. Samsung. Fisher & Paykel. Kenmore (Sears) is not a manufacturer. Kenmore products (washers, dryers, refrigerators, dishwasher, stoves, etc.) are sourced from other manufacturers. The first three digits (before the period ... example, 110.20907990) is a code for the manufacturer.

"Miele W1, Miele Little Giants or Miele Professional will all provide proper heating of the water to the temp selected. No need to set house common water heater to an unsafe temperature." Miele has temp options Cold tap, 85, 105, 120, 140, and sanitary 170. Very customizable, and heater wastes no time going to work. Most machines you have no idea what the temps are at all period. If a huge drum which most do not even utilize is not important to you, Miele is the bomb. It will hold as much as a full size top loader.

You should not have any trouble fitting a full size top load washer with a vented (rear-control) dryer in a space of 30" deep by 60" wide. Many top load washer models run between 26" and 28" deep. Most dryers that match front-load washers --- that is, non-stackable models with top-rear mounted control panels --- are mostly no more than 29" deep, often less. However, do figure in that you will need at least a couple of inches of space behind the dryer for a vent connection unless your laundry-room is set up with a different vent connection such as one recessed into the wall. You indicated that you would be willing to up your washer and dryer budget up to $2000 when there is a reasonable prospect of the pair lasting more than 10 years. I'd say you should focus on washers, as you are doing, because vented dryer tech was worked out decades ago. They are simple and effective and pretty easy to keep going for decades. For example Whirlpool is still offering a version of the 29"-deep, top-filter, sensor-equipped vented electric dryer I bought 20 years ago. For your preference for top load washers with agitators, good performance, and good prospects of longevity beyond ten years, there are the Speed Queen TC5 suggested by littlegreeny as well as the Maytag Commercial MVWP575 (also sold as the MVWP576 at Lowe's). Note that Speed Queen has a different line of "TR" top load models which have garnered much less favorable reviews than its "old school" TC model. Both the TC5 and the MVWP575/576 are home versions of the companies' commercial and on-premises models. Both are designed for serviceability. I'm not recalling much discussion of those models here but there have been several in-depth discussions by owners and users at the automaticwasher.org site. (On the AW site, it may help with searching that many of the recent discussions of these models involve a member with the screen name of PinkPower4 who wound up buying the Maytag a year or two ago.) At present, the Maytag 575/576 comes with a five year full warranty and is priced at around $850. The SQ TC5 comes with a three-year warranty and seems priced between $1030 and $1200, depending on the retailer you shop at. The matching dryers are priced like the washers, so the Maytag set would be a bit above your $1500 target but less than your $2000 cap and less than the Speed Queen set. You also could check that site for discussions of the latest GE top load models like the one that Monicakm_gw has; those also seem to get some favorable comments. If you would like to see these models in action, you can find trustworthy in-depth YouTube reviews of the various cycles and pros-and-cons by retailers lorainfurniture and Kirk Rivas. At the other end of the market are the very affordably priced Roper RTW4516 and Amana NTW4516 that boba suggested. These are are Whirlpool brands and essentially the same machine. Some reviewers pan these machines for being bottom of the line (BoL) models. Lorainfurniture and Wirecutter both concluded that the machines are neither great nor terrible and can do a respectable a job of cleaning. At least while they last; the comments suggest they are so cheaply built that they might wear out in 4 or 5 years of moderate usage. I'll leave it to others to talk about the HE top loaders with "impellers" rather than agitators. I do not have any first hand experience with them. But, if you haven't already done so, you might look at Consumer Reports and Wirecutter to get a start on models to check out. Both reviewers seemed to think well of the LG WT7300CW. It is currently priced at around $700 and is supposed to clean better than most (if not all) current agitator TL models. At least it does according to the standardized test procedures both employ. (FWIW, the test procedures allow for comparisons between the machines but may exaggerate the differences between machines in cleaning ordinary laundry). CR requires a subscription or a hard copy but you can find the Wirecutter/NYTimes review here, if you have not already seen it. My personal preference is for front load washers but I will leave it to others to argue the respective merits of top load versus front load models. FWIW, I have seen the LG WM3900 front loader in action (that's the front load model recommended by littlegreeny) and was impressed enough to recommend it to friends. Do note that current full-sized front load models, including that LG, are all 31" deep or deeper. Depending on the model, many need another 2" to 4" behind them for running the water supply and drain hoses up the back to the connections on or in the wall. Plus you need room in front for the washer door to swing (as you will with a dryer) as well as room for leaving the washer door at least partly open when not in use. If that seems to require more space than you have, maybe a more precise measurement of the space might be in order. In my case, my old-house laundry room has "space challenges" even more restrictive than yours, so I've been looking at compact front load washers. They mostly are 25" to 27" deep. Their rated drum capacities might seem small but actually can hold as much as many older top load washers. Until recently, top loader volume listings did not deduct for the drum space taken up the agitators and were thus listed with what seemed to be larger capacities. As things turned out for me, I was able to easily and cheaply fix my current front load washer (an older model with near-compact dimensions.) Otherwise, I was seriously considering the compact Electrolux EFLS210tiw. If you would be interested in one, I can share the information I collected on that one including it's having enough drum capacity to do a good job washing loads as large as a queen size down comforter.

A new pump, as GeorgeCT says, is unlikely to have an effect on reducing the residual water ... unless it's malfunctioning, which doesn't sound to be the case. Have you checked if the pump filter has any debris accumulation? (must remove the machine's toe-kick panel to access it). Can you confirm that there was less residual water in the drain hose before the machine was relocated, or was it perhaps not substantially different and you're noticing it only now? Assuming the requirements are the same as a 2006 sibling Duet, the top of the standpipe is to be between 30 and 96 inches height measured from the bottom of the machine (which includes a pedestal). The P-trap and standpipe presumably are the same as before the relocation? Regards to returning the pump assembly ... the machine is quoted as 18 years old and the machine design went out of production at least 12 years ago. Some parts already are NLA, so it may not be available later if you return it so you may consider keeping it for future need. Honestly, I'm surprised the drum bearings haven't yet gone bad ... which may be a testament to your good usage habits and potential for it to keep going for some years longer.