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Speaking Of Speed Queen
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For all my kvetching about the SQ FL'er in another thread, I have to give these commercial TL'ers their props. The local laundromat had a bunch of these (probably older than the ones shown in Launderess's link) installed just before I moved to this little burg 20 years ago. I didn't have a washer my first 6 months here, so I was a regular at the laundromat. Just for kicks, I wandered in there for the first time in, oh, 2 decades and a bunch of the SQ's were still there! Five or six had been replaced with Whirlpools. They must be built right in order for them to last 20 years in a laundromat!
Q for you, Launderess (or anyone else who's in-the-know): Are the current Amana TL'ers still made by Alliance?
Q for you, Launderess (or anyone else who's in-the-know): Are the current Amana TL'ers still made by Alliance?
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We have those exact same washers in my apt. complex, except without SS tub. They are horrible!
They are always breaking down, and all make terrible squealing noises during operation. They never seem to distribute the load well. I'm constantly going back to the laundry room [which is outside, across from my building] and finding "unbalanced load" after another.
If these are supposed to be commercial duty machines, then why do they break down a million times more than our 23yr old Maytag [residential duty] washer at home?
It can't be user abuse much...i don't think the morons in my complex would know how to abuse a washer.
We have those exact same washers in my apt. complex, except without SS tub. They are horrible!
They are always breaking down, and all make terrible squealing noises during operation. They never seem to distribute the load well. I'm constantly going back to the laundry room [which is outside, across from my building] and finding "unbalanced load" after another.
If these are supposed to be commercial duty machines, then why do they break down a million times more than our 23yr old Maytag [residential duty] washer at home?
It can't be user abuse much...i don't think the morons in my complex would know how to abuse a washer.
That's interesting; I should ask the manager of the laundromat if he's had to do more than the average number of repairs to the SQ's there. I just made note of the fact that these 20-year old machines were still on duty. I have no idea how reliable they've been. I'd think if they were too much trouble, more of them would have been replaced by now.
The pickings are slim in the commercial TL arena. Most owners have either Maytag or SQ/Huebsch machines and they stand by their pick. In my observations, SQs tend to be noisier and come up with mystery leaks more often.
SQ used to make 2 different TLs depending on whether they will be installed in a route environment (apartment complexes and dorms) or in a commercial retail coin-op. The route machines had a slightly longer total wash cycle, coming in at about 32 minutes without fill while the coin-op machines come in at 26.
SQ used to make 2 different TLs depending on whether they will be installed in a route environment (apartment complexes and dorms) or in a commercial retail coin-op. The route machines had a slightly longer total wash cycle, coming in at about 32 minutes without fill while the coin-op machines come in at 26.
