Home planning advice

[ciphergoth]

Everyone says "don't get a washer-dryer, they always break too soon".

If we get a separate washer and dryer, can we put the dryer on top of the washing machine? They'd be backing on to a 100-year-old outside brick wall, so we could screw the dryer to the wall if need be. What's involved in making such a setup work? Has anyone done this before? This Channel 4 website seems to suggest it's a viable plan, as does this stacking kit from John Lewis.

We also have no idea what washer or what dryer to buy or who to buy them from, though I'm currently looking at this washing machine and this condenser tumble dryer from John Lewis.

Did I mention that we moved? We moved. Thank you so much to the cast of thousands who helped us move, clean up the old flat, and celebrate in the new.

Comments

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Strong advice: if you can afford one, buy a Miele washer-dryer.

They're about half again to double the price of normal washer-driers, but they're worth it. Five year warranty as standard, twenty year design life, and a whole bunch of unusual design features. The drum isn't ballasted by a concrete lump, it sits inside a cast iron casing instead: much less vibration and noise. It does the condensing thing, naturally. It also has a whole bunch of high efficiency settings -- result is, it washes and dries in about half the time of our old (and unlamented) Zanussi, and uses less electricity, and it's so close to silent you might be unsure whether it's working at first.

German domestic over-engineering at its finest. And you can see 'em in John Lewis's and Comet (as their high end Rolls Royce model -- probably near the bottom of Miele's range).

(Ignore their vacuum cleaners, though -- they're pants.)

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Thanks, but at a grand a pop, I think we may have to pass!