Where is the strangest place you have seen someone's washing machine?

[twintubdexter]

let's see...

Years ago when I lived in the Duboce Triangle in San Francisco I rented a top flat in a 3-story building, pretty old considering the gas lines for lighting were still in the ceilings. I put a 60's Frigidaire washer out on the ricktey rear "balcony" that spanned the 2 upper flats since there was a laundry tub, a 110 plug and hot & cold water. The location wasn't that unusual, but when that Frigidaire went into it's high-speed spin the entire back of the building shook, windows, doors, everything. Standing out there and holding on to the old wood railing was like a ride at Disneyland. It also tended to make the other residents scared since SF is earthquake country.

The little house we had in Cupertino had the washer and dryer in the front yard. We made a small outside patio out of that area so it was shielded from view. I liked doing laundry outside. These were very cheap houses built for returning servicemen. The 2-part, deep Crosley kitchen sink was intended for a wringer washer.

 

[dustin92]

Our new house (built in 1948) has 2 sets, a speed queen set from the late 80's (gas dryer) in the original basement utility room (which is huge) and an early 2000's maytag performa set upstairs (in a small bedroom which was converted to a laundry room) (gas dryer) the upstairs laundry room is in an odd spot, right behind the living room, and another bedroom on the other side. The dryer is a bit noisy so it can be annoying if you are watching tv.

 

[fido]

I did repair one that was used in a greenhouse once. I also had a customer who had the machine in the garage but there was no waste plumbing. She had the hose looped up high them wedged into a beer crate to empty onto the garage floor. As you can imagine, the garage floor developed a crust of old detergent in places and the machines rusted rapidly!

 

[aquacycle]

Tom, I wouldn't say a garage is particularly unusual. I know a lot of people who have their washer and dryer in the garage, my mother being one of them 

 

[aegokocarat]

to me its strange, as no one around where i live (or any one i know for that matter) hasnt got thier washer in a garage

 

[jmm63]

My friends grandparents in Jacksonville Florida have the washer, no dryer, out on the patio. Its under an overhang on the house so its sort of protected from some rain and there's an old cast iron laundry tub it empties into next to it. She uses the rinse water on the garden and lawn.

I lived in a fairly new mobile home for awhile in Michigan. The washer and dryer were on each side of the bathroom door, which I always that was odd. Couldn't they have moved the door and made a closet for the washer and dryer. Thank God they were brand new Whirlpool Design 2000's so they looked nice

 

[omono]

I have had a washer and fridge land on the bonnet (hood ) of my car ,It was fun explaining that one to the insurance company

 

[tolivac]

While looking at houses in Manassas,Va-a home in Manassas Park-the washer and dryer was moved from an alcove in the attic-to the wall in the master bedroom at the foot of the bed.another home there-an alcove off the living room.In the area I am in now-See a few neighbors whose washer dryers are in the garage.In some of the homes out in the country here-old ones-the washer out on a wooden front porch.Hope they winterize them-it can get cold enough here to freeze machines outside.In a townhome in Manassas-the Washer dryer were in a shed in the backyard.Can't see trudging in the snow to do the laundry-and was the shed heated-again for freezing.

 

[newwave1]

My dad owns a rental property firm and I went to work with my brother for a week while waiting to start a new job.

We went to a 3 storey house. The kitchen was where you'd expect it downstairs and the washer was in a cupboard on the top floor inbetween 2 of the bedrooms! I went to repair the washer as it wasn't draining. I wasn't surprised the amount of coins and hair clips I found in the filter!

The other odd one was when I was walking to work and I saw a washer in a rather large front porch!

When I was little my mums friend had her washer in a downstairs toilet!

I thought machines in garages was odd until when living at my parents new place the utility room still wasn't complete so my dad plumbed the machine in the garage. I found it more inconvenient than anything as you couldn't access the garage from the house! Irritating when raining!

My indesit is still plumbed in there as when I moved out if I'd taken it they wouldn't have had a machine, it's now a secondary machine as they bought a new AEG set when the utility room was complete.

Darren

 

[jetsystem1200]

I have seen a house where the washer is in a small garage converted into a dining room. As the plumbing is strange, they had their drain pipe sticking out the window of the room and had the wash water drain the (dead) plants. Also, there is a bedroom next to the dining room which has very thin walls and you can hear the washer washing through the wall.

 

[sudsmaster]

It was in Funtier Town

LOL, it wasn't so much strange as it was memorable.

It was around 1970, and I was visiting SF. I took the streetcar out to Playland, which was in the process of being shut down, or close to it. I remember walking past one of the buildings, and there was an open crude wooden door in the side of a crude wooden building painted a sort of odd blue/green/gray. I think it was attached to some sort of Wild West attraction called "Funtier Town". Inside there was a white automatic washer chugging away. No, I don't remember the brand. I remember looking at this prosaic evidence of domestic life, and how out of place it seemed in an arena dedicated to, well, fantasy. As I gazed curiously an unseen hand swiftly shoved the door closed. Not slamming it, but close to it.

I suppose it was a caretaker's residence, probably in the last year of residence, and not appreciative of my prying eye. Nowadays the site is all apartments and condos. No more narrow gauge roller coaster (it was REALLY small) or whirly rides. No more laughing Sal in the Fun House. And no more old washers chugging away behind the rough hewn doors of Funtier Town.

 

[mikeklondon]

1920s house

Most of the houses my family had were built in the 1920/30 s with small kitchens and it was common to have the washer in a Conservatory that run along the back of the house we had a THOR at one point put in like this

 

[matthewza]

Here in SA, the older generation (like my grandparents) and some of thr younger generation put their dryers in the bathroom but the washer is in the kitchen or laundry. Here its very popular to have the washer dryer and dishwasher in the kitchen simply for convenience or in the scullery/laundry just off the kitchen. We have the 1 washer and dryer in the kitchen, the other washer in the laundry room (just off the kitchen) and the other dryer on top of the counter on the enclosed back veranda (next to the laundry also off the kitchen). While we were renovating, the 1 dryer stood in the entrance hall right by the front door as there was nowhere else to put it and 2 years ago we had the dryer in my moms sewing room because it was a very cold room in the winter. Here people put washers and dryers anywhere they can so nothing is unusual. I've seen it all, kitchens, bathrooms, front verandas, balcony's, etc

 

[jmurray01]

Strangest place I've ever seen a washer was in a kitchen... Never seen one anywhere else, but then, I don't get out much to be fair!

 

[whirlykenmore78]

I've seen this 2 times.

A washer and drryer in the dishroom of a restaurant. One was a 18# Unimac and 30# Huebesch dryer (Stero Dishwasher) and the other a Maytag DC stackable (Hobart Dishwasher).

Along the same lines I've seen many cases in Florida where the water heater and softener are outside of a home or business in a small enclosure.
We could not do this in Minnesota for obvious reasons.
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[jmurray01]

Since I am in the UK... What are those reasons Nick ?

 

[wringingwet]

Living in the south

A true redneck puts the washer and dryer on the porch To show everyone. That is where mine started out on then we enclosed the porch and created a master bedroom and closet where the washer and dryer resides it is very convenient to put away everything. But in essence I enclose the porch around the washer and drier. In my short sighted planning when we added on a master bath I had to put an outside door on the bathroom so we could get the washer and dryer out of the house.

 

[sudsmaster]

those reasons

Probably the annual sub-zero winter temps... which would ruin a water softener and might also destroy a washer.

 

[jmurray01]

I see! Thanks Rich.

 

[whirlykenmore78]

Rich is right Jmurray.

Most of the winter here November-March is below freezing and overnight and even daytime temps can be below -18C not to mention the snow piling up on them. Then come summer with the storms and the humidity it would do a number on them.
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