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Tinkrbl44 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:30:38 GMT

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on the bay — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:40:04 GMT

This one looks just great

I don't know what the advantage is of having a machine including cars with computers and icons you need to read the manual to figure out. It took me about 5 tries to figure out the washer and dryer in a beach house we were at. And I felt lucky it only took 5 tries!

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sarahpanda — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:00:04 GMT

I bought a Speed Queen washer and dryer recently...so expensive - and soooo worth the money - just the basics !! My appliance repairman recommended that brand and he was right !!! By the way, their life expectancy is 25 years. That works for me.

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on the bay — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:24:06 GMT

@sarahpanda,

Speed Queen is such a good brand and made in the US in Wisconsin.

I used to have a Roper with the simplest knobs, made in Georgia. It was not expensive. One of my favorites I've had.

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SloopJohnB — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:10:31 GMT

@on the bay wrote:
@sarahpanda,
Speed Queen is such a good brand and made in the US in Wisconsin.
I used to have a Roper with the simplest knobs, made in Georgia. It was not expensive. One of my favorites I've had.

Yes, I used to own Roper, too, as the salesman who sold it to us told us it was a subsidiary company of Whirlpool. I personally don't need all the many settings on a washer. I'm very old school. Washing a few delicates for me translates to hand washing them with a cap full of Woolite in the laundry basin.

And as far as dryers go, I hardly ever, read almost never, use my dryer. I hang dry just about everything. Yes, it means using the iron a bit, but I multitask. I will iron while watching the news or some other TV show. 📺

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Tuppermore — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:03:33 GMT

My vote is for Speed Queen. We have had ours since September of 2008. We have never had to have a repair done. All of the gears are metal and as another person said, it is completely made in the US. I have had several washers of varying brands through the years, but this one has been the the most relianble. The worst was Fridgeair. I purposely bought the Speed Queen model without all of the bells and whistles. A friend who does appliance repair for a living told me that the extras are what always breaks on appliances. Speed Queen is the commercial washer found in most laundry mats. The salesman told us that the in home washers are exactly the same, but without the coin box.

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DrakesMomma — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:41:09 GMT

I also got Speed Queen in 2015. I had to have the ball bearing replaced in the dryer a few months ago. Once the repair guy was able to come it was an easy fix. Waited almost a week and some how got 6,283 loads of laundry during that time

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We rescue cats — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 12:41:17 GMT

We just bought a new one, ours died after almost 20 years. So we got another Maytag, but we told him we wanted it dumbed down! LOL!!! Went to his shop on Tuesday evening, he delivered and installed it on Thursday

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Citrine1 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:31:50 GMT

Not only that, but I appreciate how the older appliances came with a simple 3 or 4 page brochure of instructions/information. Now they come with a manual as thick as a book!

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Sunshine Kate — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:40:15 GMT

This is a great idea for more simple appliances, but do not raise the price to make it simple--not on board for that idea.

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Mz iMac — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:13:02 GMT

Same thing can be said about automobiles. My control panel looks like a 747 control panel. And, my manual is thicker than the War & Peace book.

Going from a manual car to this...........

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Sooner — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:24:27 GMT

I am so much happier with my front loader washer! No more unbalanced loads! I love it. No more leaning over and digging stuff out of the tub--and it be all tangled up like I'm gonna use the sheets for a rope to climb out of the jail.

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shoesnbags — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:36:49 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
I am so much happier with my front loader washer! No more unbalanced loads! I love it. No more leaning over and digging stuff out of the tub--and it be all tangled up like I'm gonna use the sheets for a rope to climb out of the jail.

@Sooner I wonder if that doesn't have more to do with the brand than with top loader vs front loader. I had a top loading Kenmore Elite for years and finally replaced it a couple of years ago with a top loading Speed Queen. Neither of them ever tangled or twisted my clothes.

Also, I'm just 5'2" and can easily reach the bottom of my washer. So I'm always puzzled when I read that someone else can't. Is is because some machines sit on platforms and mine sits right on the floor? I can't reach stuff in cabinets, but I can reach all the way down into my washer.

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Sooner — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:58:20 GMT

@shoesnbags wrote:
@Sooner wrote:
I am so much happier with my front loader washer! No more unbalanced loads! I love it. No more leaning over and digging stuff out of the tub--and it be all tangled up like I'm gonna use the sheets for a rope to climb out of the jail.
@Sooner I wonder if that doesn't have more to do with the brand than with top loader vs front loader. I had a top loading Kenmore Elite for years and finally replaced it a couple of years ago with a top loading Speed Queen. Neither of them ever tangled or twisted my clothes.

Also, I'm just 5'2" and can easily reach the bottom of my washer. So I'm always puzzled when I read that someone else can't. Is is because some machines sit on platforms and mine sits right on the floor? I can't reach stuff in cabinets, but I can reach all the way down into my washer.

@shoesnbags I'm a 1/2-inch shorter than you. We had a big top load washer in our last house. It twisted king sized sheets no matter what, was often off balance, and I really had to stretch in and dig for anything in the bottom. It was the highest rated one, don't remember the brand, but I hated it.

We have had this LG set for 8 years without an issue. I love the washer and the dryer both, and I do not know how two people manage to wash every day, sometimes multiple loads. We live in a dry climate, have a laundry room where we can leave the washer door open, and have had no issues with mold.

I was skeptical about buying them, but have loved them so much and it made laundry a lot easier for us. And yes, these are on the raised drawers so the height is more comfortable for me and 6'3" hubby.

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Shelbelle — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:01:00 GMT

The less bells and whistles the better, I like Hotpoint made by GE.

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Alsace Gal — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:15:18 GMT

@Tinkrbl44

I have a Speed Queen washer and love it.

When I was kid mom did her laundry at a laundromat and the washers and dryers all-Speed Queens!

I bought a Speed Queen washer in 2019, no bells and whistles and it works like a charm.

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shoekitty — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:15:37 GMT

@sarahpanda wrote:
I bought a Speed Queen washer and dryer recently...so expensive - and soooo worth the money - just the basics !! My appliance repairman recommended that brand and he was right !!! By the way, their life expectancy is 25 years. That works for me.

@sarahpanda . I have a Maytag large, basics that is over 35 years old. Looks new, and does the job. If we need a new one I would like a Speed Queen, but I heard a while back they had changed them and there was a glitch. Is that true, or did they fix it..? Also, I would like a reg washer dryer, not one that is a total energy saver. My daughter has one of those fancy energy saver and it takes 45-1 hour to dry a load. And the washer takes forever.

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Still Raining — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:49:17 GMT

My 1 year old front loader actually has "button" to press for a DOWNLOADED wash cycle.

My brain just can't cope with this concept.

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shoesnbags — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 22:03:06 GMT

@Tinkrbl44

My ipad shows many of the neighbors wifi addresses as well as our own. (of course the're all password protected) But recently I noticed someone's LG REFRIGERATOR is also on our list! Frankly I'm glad that my fridge isn't wifi enabled.

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Eileen in Virginia — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 23:22:38 GMT

When our 30 year old Kenmore washer died a couple of years ago, I bought a Maytag commercial/residential top loader washer. We love it. It has dials instead of a compluter control panel and enough cycles to meet our needs without going overboard. It also came with both rubber hoses and stainless steel hoses (we used the stainless steel ones). The Kenmore was older than the guys who installed it. 😄

I was on the fence between getting a Speed Queen or the Maytag, but had read that Speed Queen had changed to be more energy efficient and weren't cleaning as well as they once had. Our Maytag was more expensive, but it's great. I'm thinking of taking it with us when we move in a couple of years and giving the new owners a credit to buy their own washer.

BTW, we had the dryer in your picture, too. We got it at the same time we bought our Kenmore washer, but it died a few years before the washer. Ours were white.