Trouble comes in three's so it is said and this past month has borne that out. Firstly a few weeks ago just as we were starting our quarantine our tv went on the fritz, no power. It was a Samsung 40" perhaps about 10 or so years old. I was already nervous about going out shopping but I raced over to Best Buy and grabbed a 50" TCL, probably the lowest cost tv available. Shocking how light the thing is but hey, it has a great picture. The only thing that worries me is there are no tv controls at all on the tv itself, everything is done with the remote including turning it on.
Next came the toaster oven two weeks ago.
Which led to number 3 last Thursday. Once again the id.. er loving gentlman I have lived with for 37 years overloaded the washer and basically broke the assembly. When I say overloaded I mean it.. I could barely extricate the stuff that was in there it was so jam packed. When I finally got it out and onto the floor I guestimate it weighed about 100 lbs.. Numerous thick hoodies the really thick ones, a pair of jeans, a couple of bath towels, shirts, tees, underwear, socks.
To say I was furious would be an understatement. The F word and the lords name were flying.
Yes the machine was getting on and we'd only had it for barely 2 years.. I got it from the neighbors who were curbing it for no other reason that it didn't match their new dryer. Worse was I aquiesced when he brow beat me into getting rid of the trusty old Filter Flow because it was taking up space. So no backup.. This isnt the first machine he wrecked from overloading. He did the same with my little apartment sizer when we first moved in together 37 years ago.. within 2 years that was wrecked.. and I've been on him ever since about overloading but it seems to fall on deaf ears. Amazing how that GE filter flo could take it, but his laundry always stank because the clothes couldn't circulate, there was no room for it to circulate, there was barely any water in the machine because there was so much clothes in there . well you get it. LOL.
And now with this covid thing and the stores all closed I had to resort to buying a new washer online and missed out on the fun of real life shopping for a new washer... I've been reading everyones threads etc.
I made a vow, after the all the troubles we'd had with two KitchenAid dishwashers that a Whirpool made product would never darken our door again so they, and all their progeny, were struck from the list of new washing machine contenders.
I also kept reading too many negatives on Samsung. Speed Queen (Heubsch here in Canada) are expensive and not widely available. Heck I don't even know where I'd get one and didn't want to wait.
Long story short I went with an LG. Yeah I hear negatives about them but also a lot of positives and they along with SQ top the reliability and performance ratings in CR for washing machines. I do somewhat trust their reliability ratings because they are garnered from the actual membership,, not just anyone can fill out their questionairreres, you have to be a paid subscriber, that filters out a lot of spammers.
And with that here it is..just delivered an hour or so ago and still on the back porch a new LG WM3700. Heck I just read the manual and this thing is quite feature packed with stuff we'll probably never even use.. Something about downloading additional cycles,, holding your phone to the machine so they can analyze what's wrong with it. I didn't buy the pedestal yet, those things are pricey. I'll wait a while and see how I like it that low down,, and with any luck one will show up at the Habitat Restore,, they often have washer pedestals in there and I think LG's all fit the same LG pedestals regardless of model, at least the newer ones.
I am kind of excited to get it in the house and going.. It's been a horrible month, horrible weather, although yesterday was beautiful and sunny and warm, today is back to mierable gray and raining and cool..
Next came the toaster oven two weeks ago.
Which led to number 3 last Thursday. Once again the id.. er loving gentlman I have lived with for 37 years overloaded the washer and basically broke the assembly. When I say overloaded I mean it.. I could barely extricate the stuff that was in there it was so jam packed. When I finally got it out and onto the floor I guestimate it weighed about 100 lbs.. Numerous thick hoodies the really thick ones, a pair of jeans, a couple of bath towels, shirts, tees, underwear, socks.
To say I was furious would be an understatement. The F word and the lords name were flying.
Yes the machine was getting on and we'd only had it for barely 2 years.. I got it from the neighbors who were curbing it for no other reason that it didn't match their new dryer. Worse was I aquiesced when he brow beat me into getting rid of the trusty old Filter Flow because it was taking up space. So no backup.. This isnt the first machine he wrecked from overloading. He did the same with my little apartment sizer when we first moved in together 37 years ago.. within 2 years that was wrecked.. and I've been on him ever since about overloading but it seems to fall on deaf ears. Amazing how that GE filter flo could take it, but his laundry always stank because the clothes couldn't circulate, there was no room for it to circulate, there was barely any water in the machine because there was so much clothes in there . well you get it. LOL.
And now with this covid thing and the stores all closed I had to resort to buying a new washer online and missed out on the fun of real life shopping for a new washer... I've been reading everyones threads etc.
I made a vow, after the all the troubles we'd had with two KitchenAid dishwashers that a Whirpool made product would never darken our door again so they, and all their progeny, were struck from the list of new washing machine contenders.
I also kept reading too many negatives on Samsung. Speed Queen (Heubsch here in Canada) are expensive and not widely available. Heck I don't even know where I'd get one and didn't want to wait.
Long story short I went with an LG. Yeah I hear negatives about them but also a lot of positives and they along with SQ top the reliability and performance ratings in CR for washing machines. I do somewhat trust their reliability ratings because they are garnered from the actual membership,, not just anyone can fill out their questionairreres, you have to be a paid subscriber, that filters out a lot of spammers.
And with that here it is..just delivered an hour or so ago and still on the back porch a new LG WM3700. Heck I just read the manual and this thing is quite feature packed with stuff we'll probably never even use.. Something about downloading additional cycles,, holding your phone to the machine so they can analyze what's wrong with it. I didn't buy the pedestal yet, those things are pricey. I'll wait a while and see how I like it that low down,, and with any luck one will show up at the Habitat Restore,, they often have washer pedestals in there and I think LG's all fit the same LG pedestals regardless of model, at least the newer ones.
I am kind of excited to get it in the house and going.. It's been a horrible month, horrible weather, although yesterday was beautiful and sunny and warm, today is back to mierable gray and raining and cool..
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