It only makes sense! Put dirty clothes in, hit button, two hours later clothes are clean and dry? No loading dryer after washer... much smaller footprint in laundry room... why aren’t these more popular?
It only makes sense! Put dirty clothes in, hit button, two hours later clothes are clean and dry? No loading dryer after washer... much smaller footprint in laundry room... why aren’t these more popular?
In reply to joey48442 :don't don't don't you use twice as much electricity it takes 4 times as long to wash and dry
we had one and took it back to get a stackable.
The ones I have had are more like 4hr turnover. No vent for drier so takes forever. Front load so can't open and add anything once it starts. Only holds a couple days of clothes. Then it has to cool off before the door will unlock and your clothes start to wrinkle.
Oh wow! Sounds like they are not so great. I’ll stick with my Craigslist ones I got ten years ago!
Also if you ever look at the size of washers vs dryers you'll notice most dryers are about twice the capacity of the matched washer. You need the space for air movement to properly dry clothes.
Erich said:Also if you ever look at the size of washers vs dryers you'll notice most dryers are about twice the capacity of the matched washer. You need the space for air movement to properly dry clothes.
Ah good point
The wash load rating of ours is about 10kg, and the dry load is about 7kg (IIRC) and while we don't experience the 4-hour turnover (closer to an hour, maybe a little more?), our clothes aren't completely dry when they come out either. For that we have a drying rack that we fold out, and the clothes usually hang dry in a reasonable amount of time (we're a family of four with two very young kids). I would probably call what comes out of the unit "iron dry". That is, if you iron your clothes, they'd be completely dry. Honestly, I could go either way. We moved and wanted to try something new in our new place so we did. If you have something that works, I wouldn't spend the money. Had we not moved we'd still have normal, separate, units that were about 20 years old 
My friend Reece has one, he likes it. It is at the family farmhouse that is only used for weekends and holidays . Generally just the towels and linens are put in as they leave and are ready upon return. It replaced an outdoor gasoline engine powered washer and clothes line.
It sounds like some compromises would need to be made. I would expect that it does nothing well.
johndej said:The ones I have had are more like 4hr turnover. No vent for drier so takes forever. Front load so can't open and add anything once it starts. Only holds a couple days of clothes. Then it has to cool off before the door will unlock and your clothes start to wrinkle.
You can get vented ones. The unvented ones, yes, are very very slow and leave the clothes pretty wet.
dculberson said:johndej said:The ones I have had are more like 4hr turnover. No vent for drier so takes forever. Front load so can't open and add anything once it starts. Only holds a couple days of clothes. Then it has to cool off before the door will unlock and your clothes start to wrinkle.
You can get vented ones. The unvented ones, yes, are very very slow and leave the clothes pretty wet.
The vented ones I saw were tiny. I bought an LG unit that had a capacity similar to other front-loading machines, and while I still wish it had a vent, the air is dry enough here that after the time you hang or fold the clothes they are completely dry. One thing most people do is cram way too much into the machine, and of course there isn't enough air circulation to dry a load, but there is a line on the door opening that says "Max dry load level" to make it easy.
Vented dryers vent through a 4" diameter pipe leading to the outside. Non-vented units vent through a 2" plumbing drain line eventually leading to a 4" main drain that could be occupied doing other things. Unfortunately, you could be in for a hell of a mess if your drain backs up while you're drying clothes.
These units make sense if the user has absolutely no other place to install a washer other than under a counter somewhere. I see them in condo conversions in the LA area from time to time where there wasn't enough closet space to place a stackable in the unit. If you have enough space for a conventional washer-dryer arrangement or a stacking pair, you're much better off.
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