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Top-loading washing machines take up considerably less space than their front-loading counterparts, especially when their doors are open. It is very important i
by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 10y ago
Top-loading washing machines take up considerably less space than their front-loading counterparts, especially when their doors are open. It is very important in cramped flats.
- yabatopia 10y agoBut you can't put a dryer on top of it, which is a great space saver. And most dryers are front-loading, why not washing machines?
- xeeeeeeeeeeenu 10y agoIn Europe most people don't own separate dryers. Washing machines have that function built-in.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoWhereabouts in Europe? When I lived in Europe nobody had dryers at all.
- shanev 10y agoThe AirBnB I stayed at in Helsinki had a tiny washer with a built-in dryer. It fit in the bathroom which is the size of my closet in the U.S.
- roel_v 10y agoIn my part of Europe everybody has separate washer/dryer and combo machines are hard to find/have limited options available in b&m shops.
- yardie 10y agoI've used those washer/dryer combos. I don't know why they bothered, except for small loads the dryer was effectively useless. It was faster to bag up the wet clothes and drive over to the laundromat. Gas fired dryer had a load done in 20 minutes.
- to3m 10y agoIn Europe we have a device known as "the sun". It's sort of like this big ball of flame that hangs in the sky...
- eloff 10y agoObviously you're not talking about the UK. Maybe you live in Spain.
- to3m 10y agoI must admit that I do have a south-facing bay window... The sun's drying power certainly isn't at its best at this time of year, but if I wash things after work in the evening, and get them in the sun's line of sight ready for sunrise the next day, I can expect 1 day to dry shirts (ironed in that evening's darkness)/underwear/socks, 2 days to dry pullovers/fleeces/trousers, and 3 days to dry towels/bedsheets/jeans. (That's "dry" as in "bone dry", meaning I can put them in a drawer.) I'm sure that to people accustomed to using their 2.5 ton V8 pickup truck to drive a bag of wet clothes to be dried at a launderette like normal people, this whole thing seems improbably primitive - whatever next, outdoor loos? 3.5mm headphone jacks? - but it works for me!
- mikestew 10y agoI live in Seattle. Please describe more of this thing your people call "sun". Or you could dial back the snark and open your mind to the idea that not everyone lives where to do, even other Europeans.
- jakobegger 10y agoYou don't even need sun to hang dry clothes. When there's bad weather, we just hang the clothes in the basement. Or in the living room. It'll take a day or two, but who cares.
- morganvachon 10y ago
- kyriakos 10y agoDepends where in Europe. In the hotter south almost no one owns dryers. Clothes are hang dried.
- reitanqild 10y agoI only ever had to deal with one of those. I don't really like it. I think all of my friends also have separate ones.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoYou can buy a combo http://c.shld.net/rpx/i/s/i/spin/10130653/prod_2041911112?hei=240&wid=240 http://c.shld.net/rpx/i/s/i/spin/10130653/prod_2041911112?he...
- msbarnett 10y agoThere are plenty of stacked -top-load washer and dryer combos in the US. They look like this: http://images1.americanlisted.com/nlarge/kenmore-stacked-washer-dryer-set-pair-used-americanlisted_50669015.jpg http://images1.americanlisted.com/nlarge/kenmore-stacked-was...
- ekianjo 10y agoNot everyone needs a drier.
- radiowave 10y agoA front loader dryer doesn't have a lot of water sloshing around inside it, so the load on the bearing at the back of the drum is greatly reduced, compared to a front loader washing machine.
- nihonde 10y agoTop loaders are standard in Japan, where virtually no one uses a dryer. They strongly prefer to air dry here for a variety of reasons, not least of which is energy conservation.