Got the dryer to work, but given that it was submerged, we weren’t sure how long we’d have; used the washer, but only with the dog pee pads – when we tried it with clothes, found out it wasn’t really washing and didn’t spin at all. So Thursday saw me at hh gregg, trying to buy the simplest washer and dryer on the market. Which turns out to be not so simple. I really wanted a wringer washer, but the only source was for the Amish and completely off the grid folks (I’m not really the plunger and laundry tub type) and were priced at $949 with $175 freight.
When I told the salesman what I was looking for, he said I was just like his mother, no bells and whistles, etc. Only trouble – he was 63! Flood work is aging. The Maytag machines I was replacing weren’t that old, but the new ones have no agitator and the first eight pages of the washer instruction manual contain warnings (if you do not use the child lock, a child could open the top, climb in, be trapped and suffocate). But I skipped all those…
They have machines that talk to each other (did you see what she put in there to clean? Has she no shame?). Since I line dry most of the year, would the dryer have to go on robotic anti-depressants because the washer kept promising loads that never arrived? Too much drama already in my life, thankyouverymuch.
Settled on the Samsung pair pictured because they were on sale, had a ComEd instant rebate and … they were available. Never discount the availability factor!
It’s weird because the washer doesn’t look or work anything like the more familiar washer: The tub rotates around a few times (like a dog turning and turning), then clicks and some water comes in. It also takes an ungodly amount of time if you let it handle things on its own (heavy-duty setting takes well over an hour). Now I’m learning to just ignore those settings and use the timed feature. Normally it wouldn’t matter to me, but with 158 loads of laundry, I’ll be dead before I reach that last load. It does clean very, very well and there’s no dripping clothes.