Yes, I was planning to buy at Home Depot or Lowes, unless it's not offered like a Speed Queen.

I'd buy at lowes because they have free delivery/cheap haulaway of old appliances

Plus they'll price match

You probably just missed the big labor day sale though

No, it's good through Sept-12.

Oh good deal

Yeah that'll be the best sale until the next 4th of July I believe

Plus I need one, the place I'm moving to doesn't have a washer/dryer and the one's I'm using now aren't mine.

What do you think about GE? They sold the company to Haier (Chinese), but they're still make in Kentucky.

GE is solid. Sales are heavily down for them and I think their refrigerators have quite a few quality issues but overall I think their decent.

Buying appliances is seriously a lottery

I had people dish out 2k for fridges/washers and dryers and have them go bad within 2 months

Gross. Even with Whirlpool?

Yep

Go look at the lawsuits for every appliance brand due to icemaker issues

Every single appliance brand can't get it right

Why do the Japanese not make appliances?

Idk. Samsung and LG have only recently made their foray into appliances

And idk of any big japanese tech companies that could make appliance divisions

Honda makes lawnmowers, why not washing machines? Just turn the darn things upside-down and add a tub.

Hah. Yeah I suppose Honda could try. There just isn't a ton of money in appliances

I'd pay a premium for a Honda washer. I'd pay a premium for the Speed Queen if the government didn't ruin them.

Same, Speed Queens are solid. The older speed queens would last like 30 years

All the 2018 reviews for all washers are saying the water restrictions got tighter so they don't fill with enough water and the electric restrictions got tighter so they don't even turn your clothes hard enough to move them, they just jiggle a little.

Are there any brands comparable to Speed Queen? In that they offer a higher quality product that should be more reliable.

The HE washers by design are supposed to use less water. If they filled with more water they wouldn't do anything but float in the machine

HE washers wash your clothes the same way you wash your hands

They rub the clothes against each other and you can only do so when the tub isn't plum full

And no I don't think so. Maytag is probably the closest and that's only because WP bought them out when they went under in order to scoop up the laundromat market which is where Maytag dominated

Understood. Thanks for the tips.

@BryceB-ND What are your thoughts on the 5.0+ cu-ft washers?

They can double as a swimming pool

It sounds like they just made the tub deeper, so that could make for a very heavy load on the motor, plus maybe not wash as well since the top clothes are so far away from the mini agitator at the bottom and might not get fully turned over in the wash.

lol idk, I think at that point unless you have a 10 person family or a lot of dogs, something along those lines, they're unnessecary

4.5cuft should do everything you need it to do

But if the appliance will last me several years, I plan to have many children, so I might have a huge amount of laundry to do in 5 years.

Funny, I was typing that before I read the "10 person family". #LifeGoals

The impeller in HE machines are less designed to turn the clothes over like the agitators

hah

Well there ya go

If a ton of strain is placed on the machine mechanically, like its jumping around too much, the bearings will go about before the motor usually