New washer and dryer

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I just know I hate our highly rated front loaders. I've seen lots of other front loader hate on other boards here.

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I'll second that. Do not get a front load.

I guess I’m in the minority for liking a front load washer. Well, my wife does. I never use it. Don’t even know how to.

Just bought the washing machine a couple of months ago. It’s a Samsung. It was one of the highest rated on consumer reports. The dryer is still the old one and it’s still going strong. Had to replace a sensor on it and a drum bearing but they were very easy to do.

One thing on a front load, when it’s done washing get the clothes out and leave the door open.

We have a LG front load washer and dryer going on eight years now. Works fine...you do need to clean it every so often but I think that's true with all of them.

We got the cheap Kenmore top load washer and front load dryer a few months ago, and I've been happy with it so far. We just leave the water setting on "deep fill". Otherwise, it doesn't put enough water in.

If you’re looking for a basic top load washing machine I’d go with a GE just because parts are cheaper and readily available. You’re gonna get 7-10 years out of one tops now days. Dryer doesn’t really matter they make them basically the same as they did 20 years ago and it’ll definitely outlive your washing machine. I work on em so you can take my word for it. Unless you wanna spend 5k for a pair of quality commercial units I’d buy a basic GE top load.

The top recommendation here will likely be speed queen. Even from the resident washer and dryer expert, Napoleon

We had a Whirlpool front load washer that had to be replaced after a couple of years. I don't remember what broke. We replaced it with a highly rated Samsung top loader. A year and one service call later, we found out it was on a recall list. They sent us a check after we sent them a copy of the receipt for the Speed Queen top loader we got. It doesn't play music, and it doesn't have four or five different temperature settings, but it washes our clothes well.

On the front loaders:
We didn't just leave the door on the front loader open. We had to take a towel and dry all of the rubber off after each load. If we didn't our clothes smelled bad. Our bath towels and wash clothes started smelling very bad. Jeans will soak that musty smell up too. We bought Affresh, and started using it. Took advice from OT posters and washed the towels and jeans in hot water with nothing but baking soda and used vinegar instead of fabric softener. After seven or eight washings, most of the smell seems gone.

Those front load machines have all of the bells and whistles, but are too much trouble. What led the manufacturers to believe we wanted a piece of sh*t that required buying extra products, and required regular cleaning to clean our clothes? Who the hell wants to clean their washer after ever load? It's supposed to get your clothes clean, not make them smell like a wet dog.

Really like our Maytag Bravos washer & dryer. Top loader with a glass top

Speed Queen