re: washing machine and dryer recommendation

Outside of Speedqueen…find a real builder supply store that sells appliances and look at a commercial grade GE washer and dryer. Top load, agitator, knobs and buttons.

I have a pair that’s been getting used about twice daily for 5-6 years with do problems.

Most people will tell you Speed Queen.

My advice, if you buy a Speed Queen, stay away from the one with all the electronic buttons and face board.

It's the one I've have. I'm not telling you it's been a problem yet but it's been a risky proposition at times.

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Get the one with the least bells and whistles. Fewer things to go wrong

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Good advice for the washer, but...

All the (non-commercial at least) dryers are almost identical electronic insides now, and as I said up thread, I suspect the mechanical dial on our speed queen dryer is getting stuck. It's mechanical, but only in the sense it's acting as an electric switch. And an added layer to fail. Prob wouldn't happen with the upgraded push button or non-mech dial ones.

Not like the washers where it's direct drive vs transmission drive.

But wife had to have the matching set.

Maytag still makes an entirely analog one. I think they sell it under one of their other labels.

We have a Whirlpool set and while I like the washer, the dryer has a terrible design flaw. The lint trap is angled so that when you pull it out, the housing for it will catch lent and let it fall in the lint compartment. I always have to carefully pull out the lint guard.

I have to use a plastic drain clog removal tool to get the excess lint out. I've had to have our lint trap cleaned out a few times because of the excess lint that the dryer allows to be trapped.