Best brands of washer and dryers?

I prefer redheads and brunettes.

Get the one with the built in sandwich maker

We have Maytag Bravos XL washer and dryer. Very good. Very quiet and ton of capacity.

I don't know what's best, but we've been pretty pleased with our LG washer. The matching dryer leaves a little to be desired, but I think its shortcomings are common across all dryers. Namely, the energy saving features that cut the cycle off before the clothes are completely dry. There is a way to bypass that though.

I just had to replace some relatively new Samsung’s with Maytags.

Stupid me, I gave my daughter my GE Fridge and bought a Samsung. Ice maker went out 4 months later. Replaced it with unit they sent me for free. That one went out 4 months later.

Also, had to replace my 5 year old Samsung dishwasher.

I don’t know what the best is, but I damn sure know not to buy Samsung appliances.

Everything else is miles behind speed queen

Tell her she’s getting that

I've had my bottom of the line Whirlpool set for 12 years. I moved them across the basin 3 times. They are still kicking. When something breaks, it's usually less than a $50 fix and a 5 minute YouTube video.

Got a pair of GE for 14 years and yet to be serviced.

I have a background in repairing these things. There are a few factors that control how clean your clothes are:

1. Water
2. Friction
3. Surfactant (Soap)

The new high efficiency without an agitator right off the bat gets rid of about 50% of friction. The new high efficiency regulate the water to where you get almost barely what you need. And of course you control the surfactant. What you need to look for is something with an agitator and something simple enough to where if the board goes out you aren't spending $600 to get a new board put in. I found the best machines had an agitator and a simple mechanical timer. If the timer went bad, you popped it out and replaced it. Let me say that the more bells and whistles you have the worse shite will get for you.

With ALLLLLL of that said, I caved to what she wanted and ended up with a Whirlpool Cabrio set with no agitator and bells and whistles. That I have to periodically disassemble and clean because of a buildup of red mildew gunk.

All reviews where they actually test recommend front loaders over top due to the superior cleaning and reduced wear on your clothes. Most of these agree that LG makes the most reliable washers, but as other posters have said, if you do have an issue, LG's are difficult to repair. Their network of repairmen is not great. That said, repairing any front loader is going to be a shite experience so it largely doesn't matter. I just had a GE top loader crap out after 2 years. Will never buy another.

Also, speed queen is just a more expensive version of an old Kenmore. If you want to go that route, find an appliance repair place that sells refurbs and buy an old top loader. No use spending $1k on same old product.