i'm literally watching the Amsterdam episode of Ted Lasso where her clothes take 2 hours and 40 minutes or whatever to dry on the houseboat and it's reeeally turning me off to this idea lol
I feel like even regular dryers in Europe take 8000 years to dry clothes. America may suck in some areas but we really win in powerful household appliances lol.
i'm literally watching the Amsterdam episode of Ted Lasso where her clothes take 2 hours and 40 minutes or whatever to dry on the houseboat and it's reeeally turning me off to this idea lol
I feel like even regular dryers in Europe take 8000 years to dry clothes. America may suck in some areas but we really win in powerful household appliances lol.
Specifically in regards to washers and driers I think some of it is because Americans live in massive houses and the large washers and driers are better vs apartment and attached living in other countries being more common.
I’ve lived in apartments for the past 6 or so years with smaller driers and they work well but do seem to take longer than full sized ones.
I've used them in Serbia and South Korea 10+ years ago and both experiences were very positive. No problems with clothes not getting dry. Downsides were it wasn't fast (but didn't matter too much since we'd start it every morning before heading out for the day), the loads had to be pretty small, and also obviously you couldn't wash things together if they needed different dryer settings.
My H just rushed in to tell me all about my MIL’s new washer/dryer combo and how awesome it would be for us, too. H doesn’t comprehend that I hardly ever run a load of laundry where I don’t hang dry a bunch of items. It’s cracking me up that this post is happening at the same time he’s excited about an appliance. I’m all “Bad news, I’ve read a lot of reviews and it’s not great. The drying feature takes a long time.”
My neighbor has one. It was expensive and it doesn't hold much. He told me the dry cycle takes two hours.
They don't seem very efficient to me. You can only do one load at a time; if you have both a washer and dryer you can wash one load while another is in the dryer. With this machine you can't do that.
I had one for 2-3 years and donated it in the end and bought separate again because it sucked so bad. It took forever (3 hours) to do a load and the clothes ended up more wrinkled, less clean, and always had a weird smell, either dampish/dingy or burnt smelling. My friend had one and highly recommended it because she loves hers but it was a huge and costly mistake for us. I told Dh I made a poor choice and I was eating the cost because it was so bad.
ETA. I’m pretty sure I had the large capacity LG one.