Are you fairly tall? If not, go to a store and make believe your removing clothing from a stacked large capacity dryer (e.g. LE, Kenmore HE, Duet, etc). These machines are all roughly the same size as the Miele pair. It won't get any easier than this as you'll be raising the dryer a couple of more inches. I tried this and found access to the back of the drying drum was on the edge of acceptability before raising it on a shelf. The position of the dryer controls didn't bother me as I would have paired the W4840 with the LG FL dryer with adaptable controls.

Amd111~ For what it's worth, I have a Maytag Epic set. They are stackable also & did require a kit... Just remember if you have to take the feet off the dryer to put them in a safe place!... Anyway, I originally had mine stacked & it didn't seem to cause any problems; no extra noise, vibration, etc... Also, we live in a mobile home, and there was no problem w/ the weight at all, I was also paranoid about this to begin with. Just recently, I unstacked mine to create hanging space in my laundry room, remember the "tip" above? I lost 1 of my dryer feet & DH had to rig up boards of the perfect height to go under my dryer so it was the same height as my washer! About the venting situation... Why couldn't you buy a longer dryer vent, possibly the expandable periscope vents, and maybe even a longer dryer cord if necessary to put the machines like they're supposed to be? I had to rearrange my laundry room from the way it's supposed to be set up b/c of the depth of my machines, I just bought a longer dryer cord, a periscope vent (these also let you push the dryer further back), and longer washer hoses... All of this stuff is readily available online. Anyway, that's just a thought, good luck! Mc_Hudd

Like I've posted a few times before, clothes washers are saving far more energy and water than necessary to earn the Energy Star rating. They're doing it to earn a $250/unit tax credit, paid directly to the manufacturer. In theory, this gives the industry an incentive to build efficient washers that consumers are willing to buy. But just about everyone thinks that today's overly-efficient washers are required by law, so they think they're powerless to reject them. Therefore, the industry gets their tax credit ($250/unit is a lot of money) while letting us think we have no choice. Even the Home Editor of Consumer Reports didn't believe it at first, when I told him how the system works. Now CR knows about it, but won't educate the public by including the facts in their reports.

Please realize that the washer alone weighs close to 200lbs with the dryer you are looking at about 330 lbs and thats not even considering weight of water and clothes. The manufacture pedastal would not hold up. Even biulding a platform and tring to stack would be a BAD IDEA. I said trying because no installer would take on the liability of doing that. Remember that most if not ALL service providers WILL NOT work on a stacked washer dryer. They will not unstack and restack it.