They're backwards. I looked for some time for a front load washer that goes to the right of the dryer. I confirmed with four different reps that the one I was ordering would install to the right of the dryer with the doors opening toward the walls and not inward. They came in today...and the washer goes to the left of the dryer. My setup is dryer-left and washer-right. So now the washer is installed where the dryer goes and the dryer is installed where the washer was. If I had known they were sending standard and not reverse set-up I would have ordered a different set (Electrolux with reversible doors or larger Kenmore than the set I purchased. Larger was available standard only so I ordered the smaller set with the doors that I was told were reversed.)
They did give me $50 credit on my card for my troubles and I have 30 days to return them if I don't want them.
So, how upset should I be? They are pretty, they're just backwards. Not that we can see that from the back.
As a side-note, my neighbor's house caught fire over the summer. It traumatized the girls and now I am *very* nervous about fire hazards, and the washer/dryer with electric and water crossing over each other because of the reversed installation makes me a little nervous about potential hazards.
Have you checked to see if you can just switch what side the doors are on? My ex's front loaders had that option and I did it myself with just a screw driver.
I would send them back too. we stacked our and and a result the washer door opens the "wrong" way. It drives me INSANE because moving around it into the corner to get shit out drives me batty. Order what you want in your space.
Have you checked to see if you can just switch what side the doors are on? My ex's front loaders had that option and I did it myself with just a screw driver.
Have you checked to see if you can just switch what side the doors are on? My ex's front loaders had that option and I did it myself with just a screw driver.
These ones don't have the reversible doors on the washer. I checked before I bought them, which is why I asked if they had the doors already reversed.
Have you checked to see if you can just switch what side the doors are on? My ex's front loaders had that option and I did it myself with just a screw driver.
These ones don't have the reversible doors on the washer. I checked before I bought them, which is why I asked if they had the doors already reversed.
Gotcha. That's lame. Every set should have the option to switch the doors.
I don't understand. I'm trying to picture this. Why can't they be installed with the washer on the right? It's the end of the day and my brain is mush, I can't figure out the problem here LOL
That said, if it's not what you want, i'd return it.
If we installed them washer on the right, the doors would bang together...unless I reversed the door on the dryer, which I can do, but then the washer door would still open toward the dryer and I'd have to lean over it or walk around it.
They are installed so that the doors don't open toward each other, so that's fine for now. I have 30 days to decide.
Yes, I would exchange them. As my mother says, sometimes things are just wrong, and time doesn't make you used to it. It just continues to annoy you. This is brought to you by someone who 2.5 years later is STILL reaching for a second lightswitch in kitchen that doesn't exist, and has switches behind the front door (so you have to close the door to reach them). Drives me effing BSC.
Oh man I hear you on the light switches. 10 years here and the light switch in what is now Kiddo's room drives me batty. The closet door is beside the entry door and they put the switch to the closet by the corner, the same side as the hinges (and the door opens) instead of either in the closet or making the overhead switch a double so one is overhead and one is closet. Every time I forget to hit the switch before I go in makes me want to throw something.
We're finally doing our office and part of it includes some electrical work. You can bet your sweet ass that I'm having that guy move the switch (and maybe my closet switch) along with some other electrical work while he's here.