Finally, washed up
Apr. 23rd, 2026 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadasAt long last, we have a new washer/dryer.
This was a month-long saga as we kept having to reschedule. The delivery people misread our address and didn't send enough people--our building uses European-style addressing so we're on a higher floor than it otherwise seems--or there was roof work that we were only warned about day before that blocked the entire alley, or our neighbors selling their condos and a bunch of stuff being stored on on the back and blocking the stairway. But after multiple reschedulings it's all finally handled, our old washer and dryer are hauled away, and a new one is here.
We got a stacked combo unit but it was very important to![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee that we have a top-loading washer because she was sick of trying to keep a side-loader clean. The drum of the new one is larger than the old one by at least a third, not even counting that you can't load a side-loader as much because it uses less water than a top-loader.
Unfortunately, though I haven't toldsashagee this, I think every other part of the new setup is a downgrade. There's no light inside the dryer drum so if I want to turn it on at night I have to turn on the washer closet light, which shines directly into the bedroom; it's louder; the display and controls are analog instead of digital; there's no way to pause and resume the dryer cycle; and it's taller than our previous machine so we had to take down the shelves on the top of that closet and now there's nowhere to put our laundry supplies up there. But, we're stuck with it now so I'll have to get used to it.
This was a month-long saga as we kept having to reschedule. The delivery people misread our address and didn't send enough people--our building uses European-style addressing so we're on a higher floor than it otherwise seems--or there was roof work that we were only warned about day before that blocked the entire alley, or our neighbors selling their condos and a bunch of stuff being stored on on the back and blocking the stairway. But after multiple reschedulings it's all finally handled, our old washer and dryer are hauled away, and a new one is here.
We got a stacked combo unit but it was very important to
sashagee that we have a top-loading washer because she was sick of trying to keep a side-loader clean. The drum of the new one is larger than the old one by at least a third, not even counting that you can't load a side-loader as much because it uses less water than a top-loader. Unfortunately, though I haven't told
sashagee this, I think every other part of the new setup is a downgrade. There's no light inside the dryer drum so if I want to turn it on at night I have to turn on the washer closet light, which shines directly into the bedroom; it's louder; the display and controls are analog instead of digital; there's no way to pause and resume the dryer cycle; and it's taller than our previous machine so we had to take down the shelves on the top of that closet and now there's nowhere to put our laundry supplies up there. But, we're stuck with it now so I'll have to get used to it.
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