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It sounds like you have room for two identical machines set side by side now and can get twice as much done with half of the effort.

@@LlyleHunter I'm pondering that idea...but not sure how the app would handle that... Also does the app handle multiple users @ashleyhuze ? Also wondering the power requirements...

CURIOUS ABOUT THE ELECTRIC BILL USAGE

​@jackskillet when I read their information on their website it uses less electric than a standard electric dryer. Also they don't make a gas unit.

@@LlyleHunter Main problem with 2 units is water discharge. You would have to have a new standpipe run with its own vent and be sure it feeds to a 3" line or better...

They are way better today.

You make it sound like these haven't been made since the 50's, yet they have been around in the UK & Europe for a long time.

@@majestyk3337 Never said that. But in the U.S., I never saw new ones sold after the early 60's. I was an appliance repairman for many brands of appliances from '72 to '77. Only worked on two of these older machines in the field all that time. Materials & design/technology had not solved the problems, especially with fires from built-up lint in the machines and rubber technology of door seals. The new ones I've seen on RU-vid complaints are overly complex and very expensive. Too many bells & whistles increase cost and breakdowns. The hourly cost of paying for repairs has increased substantially compared to the past and just like automobiles, the number of former do-it-yourselfers who cannot afford the cost of repair techs has substantially increased. Simplicity cuts cost and makes the work involved to do laundry a reasonable effort. Doing laundry is not and never has been rocket science and does not necessitate a machine that costs several thousand dollars to was and dry clothes.

I spoke too soon. Do a search for... "GE All in one Combo washer dryer lint collecting on coils"

@@majestyk3337 Thanks for the reply. I have nothing against the advancement of technology in appliances, but the downsides to me are flaws that don't logically occur to designers during the design process that ultimately show themselves over time while in use. Stand alone dryers by themselves are not sophisticated designs and have not changed much over the years... all have clothes drums, heating elements, cycling and hi-limit thermostats, support for the drums (shaft/bearing in back, usually support of opening in front, with exception of old 70's vintage or earlier Maytag dryers which were only supported in the back), a drive motor and belt to turn the drum and a lint screen, with a timer to select drying time, heat settings and shut off the dryer once drying time was done. More sophisticated models had more elaborate "timers" and sensors on the drum paddles to detect moisture content of clothes and shut off the timer when the moisture in the clothes was minimal or nil. And of course, lint filters and vents. Sounds complex, but fairly simple because if you ever worked on one, you would see all or most of the items I described above, if you knew what to look for. That said, marrying a washer and dryer results in a new set of problems that need to be overcome... namely lint buildup because conventional lint filters are not and never have been 100% successful in capturing all the lint from clothes. Once that damp lint gets thru the lint filter, it settles in undesirable places and dries out and builds up over time. If you look at all the complex plastic components inside one of these "new, improved" combos, you can see how unwanted lint can accumulate in nooks and crannies. Plastic and metal internal parts tend to attract and accumulate lint. The more nooks and crannies that designers put into the parts they design are havens for this lint to build up and cause problems. Perhaps over the years, the Europeans have solved all these problems, but I never heard about it happening, and apparently G.E. and other sppliance manufactures in the U.S. haven't heard it either. We've had a Frigidaire laundry center (stacked dryer) for several years and I've seen the inside of the washer mechanism. Not very impressed as all manufacturers have cheapened mechanisms from metal to plastic and cabinets to cut costs and keep prices "low". Couple that with a more sophisticated mechanism and you have a serviceman's dream... he or she will never, ever be out of work. Good for him and his employer, bad for their customers. As with automobiles, there are fewer and fewer backyard mechanics each year who try to fix or repair their autos to stay within family budget as repair costs soar. The same is happening with appliances. When I see a $2,000-$3,000 price tag on a washer dryer combo, I cringe and feel for lower income folks with even a small family who struggle to make ends meet, and may well have an albatross combo unit that will bring them future nightmares both in worries and cost. I believe in the KISS method of design... Keep It Simple, Stupid. More sophisticated appliances ultimately result in more cost and headaches for consumers. Food for thought, from an old Maytag man.

I can relate.

and you sit and watch housewife reviewing appliances...

You are​@@mentallychallenged5764, who else would know better than a housewife

I am also in Illinois, How can I get the rebate, could you please help me? Thank you

@@MrMartinconco How was the process for your rebate?

Got $100.00 for mine in Idaho!

Is the rebate over

Gl. My floor model purchases have been quite challenging.

little more than that Im sure lol

@@tw4328 I've never had luck with floor models so for me to buy one if have to get it super cheap. I bought this from Costco about two weeks ago and it's still not here nor has anyone contacted me.

860? Im seeing almost 3k.

Yeah, I actually appreciated a review that showed some different cycle times and didn't feel like it was reading off a spec sheet.

What’s your experience with the one in rvs do they last ? Thinking of getting one but reluctant.

How is it now ? I have read after a few months the clothes start to be be damp at the end

Me too. Thats why I hang everything but socks and undies.

😂😂😂

Our laundry always gets stuck between laundry room and bedrooms. This w/d could probably go in the closet

I've been saying that for years!!

There is a machine that folds clothes for you, it's just stupid expensive

Same here! I can’t even get anyone to come out for less than $400 and most balk at the steep roof. The duct going up two stories is awful! I was contemplating expanding the laundry a few feet into a bedroom just to move the vent to the exterior wall. I ordered this machine after very little deliberation- it’s cheaper than duct cleaning year after year or expanding the laundry closet and now I’ll have room to install a laundry sink.

Of the reviews I’ve seen, this one addressed my concerns: adjustable soap amount, the moldy drum smell, humidity, length of cycle. Now I can add: savings on duct cleaning 🤗

You can add another lint trap after the exhaust.

Ouch that’s highway robbery at 400! I do mine myself quarterly. You don’t even have to clean from the top just check if it’s clogged and pull anything out by hand. Whoever is running that business is making a killing.

Hi Ashly, I don't see it in Costco online yet. Did you get it from your local warehouse?

I also just ordered from Costco online. They included everything in the price! Sale goes through July 12.

Unfortunately I bought a new Maytag washer 6 months ago on the Costco website before knowing of this machine.

Out of curiosity what was the Costco price? It wont let me view it without a membership and the closest one is out of state for me.

@@evanjohnson5307 $1999

Are you liking it so far? My husband offered to buy me one if I think I’ll like it since our mudroom is tight on space

They didn't have that slightly damp feel like some people mention? Felt like it pulled straight from a regular dryer?

this tech has been around for decades already...

@@jacobjones6851 Yes, I didn't realize or ever remember seeing combo units like this. But you are right, as the first combo unit was invented and put on the market by Bendix Home Appliances in 1953. 👍

That is important! This means I can have one in my apartment! No more gross laundrymat st 20$ every laundry day.

is it cheaper then using gas?

@@randomrazr The heat pump will be more efficient than gas but it's hard to say if it's cheaper without knowing your specific situation - your price of gas vs. electricity, source of gas (NG or propane), whether you have gas today and would need to add an outlet for electric, also how much of the year you heat or cool your house where the ventless aspect of a heat pump dryer also contributes.

With electric dryers you can vent that hot moist air back into the house during the winter, that is efficient.

@@SABERTOOTHBEAVER you really can't, at least not without risking considerable moisture damage to the room it's in, and that's before you realize that the amount of lint that gets blown out of a normal vented dryer.. they're just designed to be the bare absolute minimum viable product, concerned only with cost to produce and purchase price, with no concern for their cost to operate.

@@dregenius It's nice but it's also an expensive and complicated machine. Most modern complicated products these days aren't very reliable.

@@SABERTOOTHBEAVER Electric resistive heat is, *by far* the most expensive way to heat a space. Heat pumps operating at their absolute worst are still at least 2x as efficient.

When I rented a flat to start at Berkeley in the early 70’s, the previous tenants offered to sell and leave their one piece W/D. I declined because it was in a creepy outside shed and also because I had never heard of such a strange contraption!

It’s a guarantee non of these will lasts as long as yours.

It has a heatpump, not electric grid heaters.

There is an intentional effort to not be cost effective and efficient.

@@SK-ki1te everything in Berkeley is a major creepy contraption of mind warping now.

Where does the hot air go?

@@Cons2911 Into your house or laundry space. It has to go somewhere and temps on the unit have read 110 degrees, so there is HOT air.

@@fyoukungflu5881 so I’m guessing ventless is the way to go if you live in a condo? Small space and I don’t really have access to the window (to vent) unless I want my dryer inside the bedroom

​​@@Cons2911It is a heat pump, it blows out both cool and warm air that should relatively cancel each other out. It doesn't generate its own heat, it just transfers it to the clothes from the ambient home temp

New appliances make me so happy!! Glad you're enjoying your new set!❤

@@ashleyhuze me too. Thank you.

Me three! It's been amazing.

Liar

@@greenidguy9292 huh?!

IT REALLY IS!! SO so cool!! 🙌🏻

My thoughts exactly! This reduces an ADHDer's laundry-related cognitive load by half or more! I wonder if the app will send a notification when the load is done.

@@lesleyegbert4807 yes, the app does!

I am thinking this might be easier for our daughter to operate

They have had these in the USA but not as nice as this one. The reason Europe and others have them is they have lots a smaller homes just like smaller cars because some roads need them. We build houses with places big enough for a washer and dryer.

This is a great point! I have NEVER had just one cycle going at once, I always have something in the dryer and something in the wash. Somehow, this hasn’t been even KIND of an issue for me! I don’t know how that math adds up but I’ve never gotten backed up on washes with this machine!!👏🏻

This is so ironic me & my aunt was just talking about this washer/dryer combo……That is an valid point, 😊 I primarily think if u have kids it will definitely not be idea, this is definitely interesting I was reading reviews several months ago & last year I read more negative reviews not on this particular brand therefore maybe it’s the brand. I myself am a little skeptical 🤔 I think having one machine would take getting use to however it saves time from transferring clothes from one machine to the next. I see pros and cons. 😊😊😊

That’s assuming there is no downtime between washing and drying. GE says the average downtime between transferring loads is 130 minutes.

If you’re doing one load a day I think it would be easy to keep up. If you’re like me and leave all your laundry for one day where it’s constantly running I don’t think this would be ideal

I’m on my 3rd load today, 1massive load 1whites and 1 regular so I started at 9am and it’s 5pm now, in other words I put on 2normal loads and one white load, the white took the longest, they all dried besides a couple things that I laid out for a bit and finished air drying, I can’t be more grateful for this crazy genius machine lol

It is not new at all.. this is all the UK has

That will be exactly the same experience with this model except people think it's ok for towels to take 3 hours now so they cheer with glee like morons that this is acceptable as they consume five times the energy of a model from twenty years ago.

@@Scott-dn1bk use the sun it dry faster these days

@@Scott-dn1bk Hi, can you share your data as to the 5x the energy of a 20 year old model? Thank you

@@JudiRhodes-vk5ru Scott's an imbecile who doesn't understand the difference between condensing dryers (which use tons of water to cool a heat exchanger to produce heat by moving energy) vs a heat pump (which moves energy via refrigerant. There are no "20-year-old models" of heat pump washer/dryers.

This machine was just released

@@virginia6984 My all in one was purchased 5yrs ago. All in ones have been around at least 15yrs, your model has features my machine doesnt. I have a Kenmore. I love the concept of the all in one.

Yes. I'm in London and I'm shocked at how many views and how much attention this washer dryer is getting. It's also $1999 dollars which is about double a decent UK washer dryer. A Samsung smart washer dryer with add-wash (mid wash additional items hatch) is about 3/4 the price and not quite as tall as this unit. Still, this is a clever and useful unit.

Have you done your car or boat cover yet? The stairs runner? Give the machine a bit if a break, a sodden rug slamming around in the washer/dryer drum is quite a load to ask it to bear.

Wow!! 4 kids here as well!! Family of 6!🙌🏻This was my concern too! I’ve always done laundry every single day and if I miss I get backed up! I haven’t had one single issue with that. In fact I feel much more on top of it cause clothes are 100% done once I put them in and I never run into accidentally leaving them in the wash & having to rewash them! (Which has always caused me backed up laundry)🫠

We have a family of 8, 6 boys and a man, all very dirty. 😂 I just do one or two loads a day. You can fit big loads in this bad boy.

... just like every other washer and dryer (and refrigerator and stove and ...)!

Same

They have been around for years, this is just a newer better name brand version. These are often used in RVs and travel trailers.

@TheRealdal my mom has replaced her washer and dryer 3 times in 10 years. Three different manufacturers, bought brand new, and all three died. I have had a maytag combo for 8 years that I won at an estate auction for $200 that is from 2003 and it is still going strong. Sure it doesnt have fancy features, but they have more than paid for themselves. If they go out, I'll repair them. If I can't get them repaired, I'm gonna look for a set just like it. I will avoid buying new appliances if I can. They aren't built to last anymore, because if they were companies would lose money. Everything now is built to become waste so you have to keep buying new crap.

This statement is getting old. Electronics have been a staple in our lives for two decades. You’re gonna have to get over it.

I washed my California King size comforter and it handled it even better than a standard washer & dryer.

It has a setting you can choose that will keep the clothes tumbling without heat after they are dry to keep them from wrinkling

VERY WRINKLED! we do not like to ironing. We will return it.

Where from?

Best buy has them at that price 4th of July sale

@@yag0490 Conns

They’re only clothes cookers when you use the high heat setting. I dry everything on delicate.

@@rhondareese1607 It's still going to cook your clothes. I do the same and the difference between the gentleness on a heat pump dryer high setting and a normal dryer low settings is insane.

If your dryer is destroying your clothes, you’re leaving them in way too long. 20-25mins is plenty for normal clothes. Any remaining moisture will evaporate quickly.

Try washing your clothes in cold water, dry on a low heat delicate temperature.

It only takes me 15 to 20 minutes to dry and put away clothes with my gas dryer. I usually take the more delicate clothes/thinner clothes out after 5 or so minutes. I wonder how I would handle the delicates in this type of unit...... 🤔

Only bad thing about upstairs is this thing weighs in at 350 lbs. Hope you got help getting it up there.

​@@ntmd8or100Wow, that's heavy. Like refrigerator heavy.