maytagwc401
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or like this one.
who made the worst dryer
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this is the beast
This is the one i was speaking of. The ones you posted are not much faster, but these were over night dryers.
This is the one i was speaking of. The ones you posted are not much faster, but these were over night dryers.
mrb627
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My vote goes to....
My vote goes out to any dryer with a white interior. They would all turn blue from drying jeans. I hate that so much that I refuse to own one! Give me stainless steel or porcelain.
My vote goes out to any dryer with a white interior. They would all turn blue from drying jeans. I hate that so much that I refuse to own one! Give me stainless steel or porcelain.
maytagwc401
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My Whirlpool is ten years old, and still white inside. A few blueish marks near the door, but otherwise very white everywhere else.
everythingold
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Any Newer GE or LG
robliverpool
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worst dryer
Well there has to be two for me, first one being an old hotpoint from late 80's it took hours to dry the clothes and the drum turned anti clockwise and everything used to roll itself into a ball and every 5 mins you would have to take the clothes out and untangle them
second one would be a whirlpool we got in 2001 with the sqaure door, after 9 weeks it went on fire and burnt all the clothes. currently have a hotpoint (ariston) dryer thats is 15 months old and the element blew the othew week so now its only blowing out warm air instead of hot, goodness know what i am going to get next, anyone reccomend anything?
Well there has to be two for me, first one being an old hotpoint from late 80's it took hours to dry the clothes and the drum turned anti clockwise and everything used to roll itself into a ball and every 5 mins you would have to take the clothes out and untangle them
second one would be a whirlpool we got in 2001 with the sqaure door, after 9 weeks it went on fire and burnt all the clothes. currently have a hotpoint (ariston) dryer thats is 15 months old and the element blew the othew week so now its only blowing out warm air instead of hot, goodness know what i am going to get next, anyone reccomend anything?
norgeway
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Norge
Even though norge is my favorite washer,the dryers were dreadful,,I used a 68 model for a year or so ,gansky called them flockomatics,and boy was he right,it was slow and blew lint all over the house.
Even though norge is my favorite washer,the dryers were dreadful,,I used a 68 model for a year or so ,gansky called them flockomatics,and boy was he right,it was slow and blew lint all over the house.
aldspinboy
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Hey Guy's I would have to say .... Those FRIGIDAIRE Stack units, they are soooooo slow and the lint stays on the dryer door, and it is wet, and loud with jeans or a lot of button item's. I don't know how people do multiple loads in them, a jean load 4 of them took 1:20 min eeew....lol . Scott I agree with those older G.E. - Hotpoint speckle basket dryers,they are very slow I used them so much in my mothers apartment, I had to put more coins in ...And that was after 60 min already ooooooh i had my share of those units.
Darren k
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moonvalleycacti
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Bosch... Awful POS..Died at 5 months
Bosch?
moonvalleycacti......Bad Bosch? OH NO! I guess there can be a bad 1 of anything. Im currently drying with a bosch dryer and been quite happy with it. May i ask what happen to it?
aldspinboy......Those dryers were hiddious! The ones with the "D" shaped inner door were not SOOO bad, but still not as fast as other brands. The only good thing about those dryers is they were quiet. Which as long as they took to dry quiet was a good thing.
moonvalleycacti......Bad Bosch? OH NO! I guess there can be a bad 1 of anything. Im currently drying with a bosch dryer and been quite happy with it. May i ask what happen to it?
aldspinboy......Those dryers were hiddious! The ones with the "D" shaped inner door were not SOOO bad, but still not as fast as other brands. The only good thing about those dryers is they were quiet. Which as long as they took to dry quiet was a good thing.
The old norge relabeled magic chef, "tragic chef" as they are known around here had a real ability to wear out the rear drum rollers, ker-klunk, ker=klunk, We had them fixed a couple of times but through in the towel the last time. I bought them as a matched set in 1990, we got our money's worth and they were a good deal. We bought the set on clearance, the washer had the "side hinged" door. The new style set was delivered with the "back hinged" washer lid. This change at least in the model we bought also marked the end of the "burp up" filter in the washer, it had the self cleaning or no filter design. i didn't know the difference back then.
fredriksam
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My family had an toploaded dryer that i really hated. It was made by Blomberg. The drying time was a joke. Some t-shirt took about 1 and a half hour. With heavier garments more than two hours.
When you felt the fan working you could easily understand the long drying time. Also the motor made an REALLY annoying sound.
The worst thing with the dryer was that, you had to dismantle it and vaccum it. Otherwise the machine smelled burnt.
Here is a pic of this kind of dryer. Its from the german washing machine forum.
When you felt the fan working you could easily understand the long drying time. Also the motor made an REALLY annoying sound.
The worst thing with the dryer was that, you had to dismantle it and vaccum it. Otherwise the machine smelled burnt.
Here is a pic of this kind of dryer. Its from the german washing machine forum.
kenmorekeith
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Dryers
I'm going to have to go with GE and Whitewestinhouse.Both took Soooooooooo long to do a load and would need repair more than any other dryer I have ever had. The Westinhouse got to a point it was so loud I couldn't even use it. I love anytime by Kenmore/whirlpool. I currently have a Maytag 7.5 dryer its really good I love it!
I'm going to have to go with GE and Whitewestinhouse.Both took Soooooooooo long to do a load and would need repair more than any other dryer I have ever had. The Westinhouse got to a point it was so loud I couldn't even use it. I love anytime by Kenmore/whirlpool. I currently have a Maytag 7.5 dryer its really good I love it!
At least some complaints about slow dryers are due to clogged and/or damaged venting. Especially if you're getting a burnt smell, or lint on your clothes etc.
At our last house we had a Kenmore, the thing took two hours to dry anything. Then we discovered the wall vent (which was supposed to vent through the roof) had a 3' clog of lint near the top.
Once that was cleaned out, the dryer took just 20-30 minutes per load, even for towels and jeans.
At our last house we had a Kenmore, the thing took two hours to dry anything. Then we discovered the wall vent (which was supposed to vent through the roof) had a 3' clog of lint near the top.
Once that was cleaned out, the dryer took just 20-30 minutes per load, even for towels and jeans.
rll70sman
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Worst dryer
I remember my parents buying a brand new avocado green Gibson Vacu-Dry back about 1979-80. That thing was a piece of junk from the get-go. It clunked and banged and sounded like it was going to fall apart at anytime. It finally died about 13 years ago and was replaced by a simple 4-temperature, 3-cycle Whirlpool that has worked flawlessly ever since. I'm not sure if the Gibson Appliance Company was a division of White Consolidated Industries back then or not, but I would never buy any appliance made by WCI/Frigidaire/Electrolux--total garbage!
I remember my parents buying a brand new avocado green Gibson Vacu-Dry back about 1979-80. That thing was a piece of junk from the get-go. It clunked and banged and sounded like it was going to fall apart at anytime. It finally died about 13 years ago and was replaced by a simple 4-temperature, 3-cycle Whirlpool that has worked flawlessly ever since. I'm not sure if the Gibson Appliance Company was a division of White Consolidated Industries back then or not, but I would never buy any appliance made by WCI/Frigidaire/Electrolux--total garbage!
Flashback--a total Recall:
I remember seeing a Gibson Vacu-Dry from the 1980's-1990's era at my local Salvation Army store...
Just some ordinary WCI-built piece o' crap that would have easily been picked over by a more desirable Kenmore, Whirlpool or GE that was also there among the five dryers, to every washer that seemed to be present...
-- Dave
I remember seeing a Gibson Vacu-Dry from the 1980's-1990's era at my local Salvation Army store...
Just some ordinary WCI-built piece o' crap that would have easily been picked over by a more desirable Kenmore, Whirlpool or GE that was also there among the five dryers, to every washer that seemed to be present...
-- Dave
Gibson Laundry
At the time (1979) I sold Gibson Laundry. If you thought the dryers were bad....
the washers were far worse. I made the mistake of selling a pair to a farm family.
Big mistake. They replaced a pair of Maytags. Shortly after a year they had Maytag again.
At the time (1979) I sold Gibson Laundry. If you thought the dryers were bad....
the washers were far worse. I made the mistake of selling a pair to a farm family.
Big mistake. They replaced a pair of Maytags. Shortly after a year they had Maytag again.
washerdude
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Oh the old hotpoints. When we first moved into our house, we had that hotpoint dryer. It didn't have rocker switches but it looked the most similiar to the hotpoint pair in the second picture. This thing didn't do its job right half the damn time. So we called someone to see what was wrong with it. They cleaned out the lint and just said we would be better off getting a new dryer. These things toke 70 MINUTES to dry 1 LOAD. And lets say you did a load today, it would NOT heat up tommorow no matter what you did. Finally we had enough and changed it out with a maytag/whirlpool dryer - 7.0cf. This thing has treated us well, drys clothes in less then 40 minutes and with our new duet washer it takes less then 30 minutes. The dryer is about 6 years and its run without a single issue and is still working perfect.
mark_wpduet
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I've only ever experienced GE or Whirlpool/Kenmore dryers. Only ONE of them was a GE, the rest were WP/Kenmore. I remember the first time I used the GE dryer I was horrified that the lint screen was in the DOOR, and not on the top, like the WP/Kenmore's....I HATED that! The GE dryer was OK, but the WP/Kenmores were the best..but I do HATE that too Malcolm, the white interior getting blue stained, although my Duet dryer is white, and it's still pretty white amazingly. The dryer before that was stained blue from jeans. Not sure why this one hasn't.
lordkenmore
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I've had bad experiences with 2 GE family dryers. One was an older model, complete with light up console. I was so excited, because that dryer was the first time that I'd ever use a non-WP type dryer.
I created a thread about that dryer under my original AW.org screen name:
http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?23269
Unfortunately, it was less exciting in use...it seemed to take forever to dry. Although there may have been an issue with the vent system, or something not working right in the dryer itself past design flaws. Fortunately, I dried very little with a dryer then--I air dried almost everything during the time I was living with that dryer.
More recently, a Hotpoint like the one pictured above in #19 was supplied in my current laundry room, and words cannot express how much I hated that dryer. It took forever to dry anything. In this case, I know it was not a vent issue--the vent here is very short, and I know it was straight and clean. It was a huge pain, because there are times when one wants to get a load of laundry done fast for whatever reasons. Also I don't think the dryer got hot enough to have any real sanitizing effect, which I like for some loads (e.g. hand towels). One fine day recently, that dryer went to the Great Big Laundry Room in the Sky. It was a huge pain having no dryer, but in a way that dryer's demise was the best thing that could have happened: it encouraged my landlady to put a WP in that actually works.
Other things I disliked about the HP: as stated above, the drum is a rather dark, dreary place. I can't remember if the one I used had an option for a light or not, but there was no working light. The other thing I realize I don't like is how the door hinges to the side. I never really realized this before, but the approach of having the door hinge at the bottom, so that it opens to create shelf, is very handy.
I created a thread about that dryer under my original AW.org screen name:
http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?23269
Unfortunately, it was less exciting in use...it seemed to take forever to dry. Although there may have been an issue with the vent system, or something not working right in the dryer itself past design flaws. Fortunately, I dried very little with a dryer then--I air dried almost everything during the time I was living with that dryer.
More recently, a Hotpoint like the one pictured above in #19 was supplied in my current laundry room, and words cannot express how much I hated that dryer. It took forever to dry anything. In this case, I know it was not a vent issue--the vent here is very short, and I know it was straight and clean. It was a huge pain, because there are times when one wants to get a load of laundry done fast for whatever reasons. Also I don't think the dryer got hot enough to have any real sanitizing effect, which I like for some loads (e.g. hand towels). One fine day recently, that dryer went to the Great Big Laundry Room in the Sky. It was a huge pain having no dryer, but in a way that dryer's demise was the best thing that could have happened: it encouraged my landlady to put a WP in that actually works.
Other things I disliked about the HP: as stated above, the drum is a rather dark, dreary place. I can't remember if the one I used had an option for a light or not, but there was no working light. The other thing I realize I don't like is how the door hinges to the side. I never really realized this before, but the approach of having the door hinge at the bottom, so that it opens to create shelf, is very handy.
