Is anyone happy with their front loader washer and dryer?
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Nice Samsung Front Loader washer dryer video review
Comments (1)it's hardly a "review". It basically lets someone get a general feel for the noise level. I have the same w & d and the video depicts the washer noise pretty well, IMO....See MoreAnyone HAPPY with a recent washer/dryer purchase?
Comments (45)hvtech42: "The funny thing is that not a single Samsung model was rated 'excellent' for gentleness by Consumer Reports, whereas LG, Whirlpool, Electrolux, and GE all managed to earn that score on at least one of their models despite not having a 'diamond' drum." Hvtech24, I once was a huge supporter of Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports. I personally knew the late Prof. Colston Warne, who founded the organization, and I treated the detailed tests results in the CU publications as if they were engraved on the tablets that Moses brought down from the mountain. Even today, I do not question CU's objectivity. But I gave up completely on CU several years ago, for one reason: Repeatedly and consistently, they ask the wrong questions. The reports will give you honest answers to the wrong questions, but if the wrong question has been asked, the answers are irrelevant. I have not read the report to which you allude, and therefore cannot comment on what went into CU's blanket assessment of "gentleness." It may mean nothing more than that one machine has a preprogramed cycle for "hand wash" and another does not; you tell me. But I can tell you -- keeping it strictly to laundry appliances -- that CU blackballs any clothes dryer from a Recommended Rating if the door of the clothes dryer is hinged at the bottom (hamper door) instead of at the side. CU automatically gives every dryer that has a hamper door a Not Recommended Rating. Yet we -- our laundry appliances are in the basement which has an old poured concrete floor that is impossible to keep clean -- look for a hamper door as the number one criterion in a dryer purchase, because the hamper door catches articles of wet laundry that fall during the transfer from the washer to the dryer before they can hit the dirty floor. Back to the washing machine: we encounter less pilling and broken fibers in our washed laundry since we replaced our former front loading Frigidaire (= Electrolux) washing machine with our current Samsung. That is OUR experience, but it may have nothing at all to do with CU's evaluation of "gentleness."...See MoreNew washer/dryer....front loader for sure. What brand?
Comments (7)Here's some discussion of the Miele Little Giant. If you can find one locally I'd take in your comforter for a trial wash. 195 heated wash. http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2437975/question-for-miele-little-giant-owners...See MoreBuying a new washer/dryer soon, front loader
Comments (13)I would get a front loader again. I have a neighbor with an LG top loader without an agitator and she hates it. People have been happy with Electrolux, Whirlpool Duets, Mieles, LGs. Look them over and see what features you need. For example. I have a regular sized Miele, but would not be able to wash a king sized quilt/comforter in it. My house is too small for a king sized bed though, haha. I love my Miele and have a second set, I found used on Craigs List from an appliance repair shop that repairs high end appliances, in the basement now, for DH farm clothes. I have a regular laundromat going on here :) I like having special wash cycles for wool, pillows, outerwear, whites, sanitize, etc. I love having an on board heater. My washer will wash cold, cool, warm (104f deg), very warm (122f), hot (140f), and sanitize (158f). I usually use warm, very warm, and hot....See MoreSunRaven01
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