I am falling in love..............................................

[ronhic]

20 cents for 20 minutes

Ahhh...

I've not seen one of those used commercially....however, my aunt in Sydney has one from the early 1970's. They are about the size of a tall single door fridge...

...and ASKO now sell one. Calling it 'new' in any shape or form is a tad stretching though...

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www.asko.com.au

 

[roscoe62]

@20 cents

Didn't Maytag have a drying center available only a few short years ago with the tumbler underneath and two drying sections on top one to hang things and the other to dry flat? Where or what happened to that?

 

[ptcruiser51]

Maytag drying center

Was discontinued after 18 months; low demand. We had a tuff time getting rid of ours off the floor when it clearanced.

The little LG toy gets a workout here. Everyone loves it and wants to buy one. I know who it's going home with...eventually!

 

[cornutt]

My wife really wanted one of those Maytag drying centers. But by the time we were ready to buy, I couldn't find one.

 

[mark_wpduet]

So I'm assuming that the TL washers don't have the front load spider issues...That being said, I wonder what they do in manufacturing these TL machines to make them crap out in a few years?

 

[supremewhirlpol]

Here is something you may want to ask yourself before buying that LG: If I buy this machine, WITHOUT the extended warranty, and it should break, will appliance repair businesses in my area service it?

Not every appliance repair business or repair person you know will service foreign manufacture appliances, ESPECIALLY LG, Samsung, Bosch, Asko, or Miele.

Find out what businesses will service your machine. If you don't find any locally, you might want to pass on buying the LG.

I wonder what they do in manufacturing these TL machines to make them crap out in a few years?

Oh, there's lots of crap on that machine ready to fail. Electronics are good for failing, especially if the supply that you feed it is not adequate. I would think on this LG machine, you would need a tub seal somewhere to keep water from going down the shaft to the motor. What ever is going to fail on this machine has to fail in a way to which either the part is too costly for most people to justify repairing the machine, or the part requires a lot of work in the form of labor costs to replace.

 

[laundromat]

The LG is THE ONLY top loading washer I would even consider buying. It has a massive capacity,stainless steel wash basket and impeller, and has a great recirculating spray that really helps save on water and gets the wash extremely clean as well as thoroughly rinsed.The lid doesn't slam and it's not at all op'd like the new Whirlpools are.The matching dryer is also nice and not over priced. Whirlpools are $2400 each!!!!

 

[mark_wpduet]

Agreed

I do know PLENTY of places here in Lexington service LG's......That's not an issue.......

The issue I have when/if a washer happens to break is potentially being without a washer for two to three weeks while they order parts and try to figure out what's wrong.....etc.

I agree that I would not consider the TL HE washers from Whirlpool based on the videos I have seen. I would however take the LG TL washer. It looks great but I do know looks can be deceiving .........I've just never had many problems with any Whirlpool appliance ever...just minor things here and there.

 

[iheartmaytag]

Sear's service (A&E) is now making LG one of their major brands they service.
There are some independent service companies that will not service anything but GE, Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAide, Amana, Speed Queen etc. I know of one that used to would not service anything but a Maytag, and even then if you didn't buy it from him; he may have to wait a week or so before he got around to you.

I don't kow if they are being snobs or if they have difficulty being reimbursed for the repairs.

 

[mark_wpduet]

So I noticed on the videos of this machine on Youtube that it looked like it had a pretty full tub of water.....But it would spin one way pretty fast (with the tub FULL of water while spraying high pressure in all directions on the load....Then it stopped and would spin the OTHER way doing the same thing......

It's REALLY cool! But is this washing or rinsing? I'm confused at what it is actually doing?

 

[coldspot]

I find the drying coffin to be worthless. A few company still sell them in the us.

http://www.staber.com/dryingcabinet

 

[ozzie908]

Drying cabinets

Now thats a blast from the past I can remember back in the 60's tumble dryers were few and far between but there was a drying cabinet called a Flatley. It made everything you put in it bone dry in a short time and turned all towels to cardboard. If you let anything touch the bottom it became scortched you could get them in gas or electric and one thing they were good for was heating the laundry room. Give me a tumble dryer any day ...