WHEN PURCHASING APPLIANCES ...

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

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!

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

sarahpanda · ‎03-11-2010

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.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

@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.

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

SloopJohnB · ‎04-25-2020

@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. 📺

I would give everything I own just to have you back again.......David Gates of Bread

Tuppermore · ‎03-20-2010

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.

DrakesMomma · ‎06-02-2010

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

We rescue cats · ‎01-25-2023

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

Lynn-Critter Lover!
(especially cats!)

Citrine1 · ‎03-09-2010

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!