Washer and Dryer at New House

debodun

debodun

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I thought my trips to the laundromat would be over when I bought the new house. It has a Kenmore washer and dryer in the basement. I got around to using them today and all I can say is I am very disappointed. When I went to take the wash out of the washer, there wasn't any standing water in the tub, but the contents were wringing wet. After squeezing as much out as I could I put it in the dryer and set it on the max time and temp. An hour later when the dryer stopped, the clothes were as cold and wet as when I put them in. The previous owner did not disclose there was any problems with these appliances.
 

It looks like I'm going to have to spend a lot more fixing things in the new house. If I knew that beforehand, I may have had second thoughts. Appliances aren't covered in the inspection since that aren't part of the standing structure. I already had to get a new roof. Also, after I moved my pendulum clock, it doesn't work. I did remove the pendulum before transporting.

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debodun said:
I thought my trips to the laundromat would be over when I bought the new house. It has a Kenmore washer and dryer in the basement. I got around to using them today and all I can say is I am very disappointed. When I went to take the wash out of the washer, there wasn't any standing water in the tub, but the contents were wringing wet. After squeezing as much out as I could I put it in the dryer and set it on the max time and temp. An hour later when the dryer stopped, the clothes were as cold and wet as when I put them in. The previous owner did not disclose there was any problems with these appliances.
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You should be able to re-set the washer to do an extra spin cycle or two, to wring the clothes out more.
 
About the clock - I sent a PM to a clock repair shop about 15 miles away. Of course, they can't tell without looking at it and their "bench fee" is starts at $200 and could be more depending on what the problem is. They also added that on a clock that old (going on 40 years) that's never had any maintenence, it may need a whole new works and that could get to be $$$.
 
debodun said:
About the clock - I sent a PM to a clock repair shop about 15 miles away. Of course, they can't tell without looking at it and their "bench fee" is starts at $200 and could be more depending on what the problem is. They also added that on a clock that old (going on 40 years) that's never had any maintenence, it may need a whole new works and that could get to be $$$.
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Not worth repairing. Replacing is wiser.
 
debodun said:
About the clock - I sent a PM to a clock repair shop about 15 miles away. Of course, they can't tell without looking at it and their "bench fee" is starts at $200 and could be more depending on what the problem is. They also added that on a clock that old (going on 40 years) that's never had any maintenence, it may need a whole new works and that could get to be $$$.
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Yes. fixing old clocks can quickly get expensive. My wife brought an old clock from Germany, that belonged to her grandparents....probably about 100 years old. It still works but wasn't keeping good time. We took it to a local Mennonite clock dealer, and he was able to clean and lubricate it, and get it working good again.....cost was $150.
 
debodun said:
I did contact the former owner. She said she had to run the dryer 2 or 3 times for it to dry. I'm not waiting 2 or 3 hours for laundry to dry!

Thanks for letting me know this BEFORE the sale.
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Sounds like the heating element. They're pretty easy to replace. You could save a lot of money if you'd do online stuff because you can look up your appliance model # and order the part. You can buy prepaid cards although not everyone accepts those.
 
You could try asking for a washer and dryer on freecycle maybe? Or keep watching it in case anyone gives one away. When we moved to our house we brought our awesome fairly new washer and dryer, and we gave away the cheap (but presumably functional) washer and dryer that came with the house.
Also, I don't know if it is true, but I have heard in the past that some of the big hardware/appliance stores sell used ones cheap behind their facility. On one hand that seems unlikely, but on the other hand when we got a new refrigerator the appliance people removed the old one for us so maybe they do sell old ones (the previous house owner had refused to sell it with the house, and left it chained shut, but then didn't remove it from the house, but we'd already ordered a new one since they had said they were taking it).
 
If you buy a new washer and dryer, beware of the so called energy efficient models! We bought a brand new, glass lid top loading washer that looked big enough to wash a full sized comforter in. We soon began to realize that the clothes weren't getting clean, that the washer took nearly an hour to do a medium sized load of stuff, and often the laundry had dry spots on it, and didn't smell clean at all. It turned out that the washer wasn't filling up enough. An online search revealed that people were complaining about it, and there were Youtubes showing how to defeat the weight requirement by putting wet towels in with the wash, to fool the washer into filling up more. Even worse, the lid would lock in place so you couldn't rearrange the items if they got unbalanced.

So when we bought our new house, it came with a older washer and dryer, and I swear they work perfectly, and way better than the so called newer model. We sold our washer and stuck with the older model.
 
If you think there’ll be a time that you will want your W/D set upstairs, investigate something can be moved later. Or do it now.

Also check into how close repair people would be for the new set. We were warned at one of the stores to not buy brand X because there’s no qualified service person here.
 

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