Tuesday, September 1, 2009

New Washing Machine

 
This is our new washing machine that is also a dryer.  Two weekends ago, the old washing machine just died on us - we think the motor finally burned out after 7 years.  HH and I contemplated repairing the motor, but figured it was just too much trouble and decided to buy a new one.  Our old machine was a narrow top load Elba machine that had a front load movement and washed only 5 kg of laundry with a max spin speed of 600 rpm.  This new thing is from LG, washes 8 kg and dries 4 kg and has a maximum spin speed of 1400 rpm, so our laundry comes out drier but needs to be hung out to dry.  Sometimes, we also need a dryer, so we decided to get a 2in1 machine.
We could not make up our minds on what we wanted - we spotted an advertisement by Courts for a Sanyo machine that was within our budget that was tilted so we thought we could fit that into the downstairs bathroom that was the designated laundry area.  We could not fit anything in there other than the old Elba or similar type of machine with a footprint of 40cmx60cm. 
I like the front load type of movement or ferris wheel machines as I think they wash cleaner than those top load machines.  We were limiting our choices when we went hunting.  We could look at Bosch, Panasonic,  Whirlpool, Brant, LG and Samsung in front loaders.  The awful part was that their space requirement was 60x60cm. 
The new machines on the market are totally amazing - there's air wash, silver nano wash, ion wash and we were scratching our heads on what to buy.   After walking around Best Denki and Harvey Norman, we settled on this LG that seemed relatively simple compared to those high flying machines - just wash and dry!
Poor HH had to re-arrange the whole kitchen just to fit this new machine in our home.  The cooker was moved, the free standing shelf was moved, the cupboards moved - the only thing that stayed in place was the kitchen sink!!  I couldn't too much to help him because I wasn't feeling well and spent most of Sunday in bed whilst he set himself to rr-arranging the kitchen.
The machine was delivered yesterday and since then, we have been catching up with our laundry.  The good thing is that we can wash more - the bad thing?  We are running out of space to hang the enlarged load :p

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Haha... I have the same LG washer, I think. Same specs mentioned. Thought it was really Eco till I found out it only referred to the water consumption. Sigh... One thing I found out was not to mix towels with sports shorts or the fluff from the towels will transfer to other clothes, esp sports shorts.