Advice on washer/dryer/laundry room

[frigilux]

The WFW70HEBW is very near the top of the ratings at Consumer Reports, and a relative bargain for a well-featured front-loader. Rated excellent in categories of cleaning performance; water and energy efficiency; capacity; gentleness to fabrics. Rated very good for noise and freedom from vibration.

Congratulations! May you have many trouble-free loads of laundry in your future.

Qualin: One load of laundry every two weeks? Good heavens! I live alone and wash 7 loads a week.

1: Bath linens
2 & 3: Bed linens (launder them twice a week)
4: Light colors
5: Blacks/dark colors
6 & 7: Kitchen/personal whites (Have company for dinner regularly, so there are always several large tablecloths from the table and the buffet line, plus a boatload of cloth napkins in addition to all the towels/rags/aprons used in food prep.)

 

[passatdoc]

The only things that won't fit my my 3.5 cu ft 2006 Frigidaire FL are two king size comforters from IKEA. These were sold as a set, with snaps to connect the comforters. One is light weight, one is medium weight, and for winter you can snap together the comforters to make one very warm winter comforter (in theory. in reality, the resulting comforter is so lofty and bulky that it's hard to insert into a duvet cover, so in winter I give each one a cover and pile one on top of the other on the bed). They don't get soiled readily since they are always used with a duvet cover.

Once a year, I haul them down to the laundromat and use the triple-load Milnor washers. I can fit both of them inside one Milnor, and it costs $3.50-4.00 (somewhere in that area) to wash, and perhaps $2.50 to run two dryers. The whole process takes about 75 minutes and it's simply something I have to do once a year.