Shortly after I moved into my last apartment (this would be May-June 1998) I got stackable Frigidaire front-loader + its twin dryer. I paid an extra $35 for the Hudson's Bay Co to actually assemble them on-site into a top-and-bottom pair and twas the best $35 I've ever spent, after watching them do it, and the video(!) that came with the machine telling how to use 'em, and how to stack the pair.
I was extremely pleased with them, and would recommend them to anyone.
Now I realise a) you live in a house, so footprint isn't quite so demanding as it was in my 21st storey condo, so you may not need a stackable, b) this was an all-electric setup (yes, yes, it used water to do the laundry), but gas was not an option for moi, so this isn't directly transferable information.
(I also had a 1-metre-square white enamelled steel lid -- from the washer -- in my storage locker for seven years. I spoze I could have converted it to a card table, and heaven knows the kitchen could have used the counterspace -- but it belongs to the new owners of 2101 now)
I don't have the model info, coz the laundry machines done got sold with the apartment when I moved this past spring. [I *did* tell you about that didn't I? New address: apt 2108, not 2101, everything else is the same]. The laundry machine in the new apt is an all-in-one Whirlpool washer-dryer. The washer half is a top-loader + agitator paddle. It's OK, but if I had a magic wand, I'd prefer my old front-loading Frigidaire back.
There is a LOT more lint in the dryer lintscreen now, with the top-loader washer, than there was with the front-loader-no-agitator washer. That seems like direct and very visible evidence that the top-loader is being harder on my clothes, pounding that much more lint out of them every cycle.
The front-loaders use much less water - maybe 33% of the top loaders, and consequently less detergent too, which is also an issue if you're paying a) for water or b)more significantly, to heat said water.
All that said, I hope your old washer isn't flooding regularly
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Date: 2005-10-14 05:39 pm (UTC)I was extremely pleased with them, and would recommend them to anyone.
Now I realise a) you live in a house, so footprint isn't quite so demanding as it was in my 21st storey condo, so you may not need a stackable, b) this was an all-electric setup (yes, yes, it used water to do the laundry), but gas was not an option for moi, so this isn't directly transferable information.
(I also had a 1-metre-square white enamelled steel lid -- from the washer -- in my storage locker for seven years. I spoze I could have converted it to a card table, and heaven knows the kitchen could have used the counterspace -- but it belongs to the new owners of 2101 now)
I don't have the model info, coz the laundry machines done got sold with the apartment when I moved this past spring. [I *did* tell you about that didn't I? New address: apt 2108, not 2101, everything else is the same]. The laundry machine in the new apt is an all-in-one Whirlpool washer-dryer. The washer half is a top-loader + agitator paddle. It's OK, but if I had a magic wand, I'd prefer my old front-loading Frigidaire back.
There is a LOT more lint in the dryer lintscreen now, with the top-loader washer, than there was with the front-loader-no-agitator washer. That seems like direct and very visible evidence that the top-loader is being harder on my clothes, pounding that much more lint out of them every cycle.
The front-loaders use much less water - maybe 33% of the top loaders, and consequently less detergent too, which is also an issue if you're paying a) for water or b)more significantly, to heat said water.
All that said, I hope your old washer isn't flooding regularly