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Nobody mentioned yet how fucking loud this will be. Strong vibrations coupled to a resonating body like ** YOUR HOUSE** sounds like a bad experience.
It won’t move relative to the wall.
Do that in an US-American paper house and watch it crumble lol
How’s your wife going to use it to jerk off now?
Could go either way I reckon, acoustically coupling the walls of your house to a big spinning drum
wife is once again dissappointed.
They’ll come out with flat washing machines next.
I thought we had those already.
On today’s episode of Extreme Built-In Appliances …
Balancing a centrifuge.
I tried this with my top loader now i got a whole 'nother problem
except it’s a Samsung so it’s about 6 months away from needing a $400 motherboard or other insanely stupid electronic component that is worth more than the machine itself.
When I got this house, all my appliances were Samsung. It’s been five years. None of my appliances are Samsung.
Well it easy to just repair your own washing machine yours-… Oh it’s Samsung, never mind. Overly complex electronics and digital control made to not be fixable and break just after warrenty. But on the upside, it has ads and doesn’t work without an app on your phone!
Remember the time when a washing machine actually was made to wash clothes, for over 20 years? Or a fridge, which was designed to keep your products cool, for over 20 years? Without a monthly subscription, no ads, no updates, no popups, no ai which doesn’t work, no phone connectivity required, etc. And all for a reasonable price, as it wasn’t an overly complex computer. 120 euros for a washing machine which lasts for over 20 years, or a 650 euros for one that lasts 2 years and 2 months.
We’re not buying appliences that make our life easy anymore. We’re just buying trinkets designed to make companies and billionaires as rich as possible.
All appliances used to be really expensive, now only good ones are. Stop buying crap and they will last 20 years.
The problem is that there are very few well built appliances anymore, even among the expensive options. Some catagories just have no option that’s competently designed and manufactured at all, from any brand.
You are correct that adjusted for inflation/portion of yearly average income, appliances used to be proportionally much more expensive, though. Manufacturers could afford to build them to last back then.
Like what?
Speed Queen
Miele, Bosch Benchmark.
Bosch appliances are famous for designed failure and inability to fix. Their washers are designed to break. Your opinion is a decade out of date.
Hm. Do they have a Canadian service network? Cause I’m a bit skeptical towards German engineering these days. We’re runnung a pair of Whirlpools that have parts and repair people available for.
Miele does for sure. Not sure about Bosch.
Bad ones are also expensive. For what I’ve seen, the cheap ones are the non-smart basic function devices. They usually last longer and if they break they can be easily fixed with a screwdriver and a YouTube tutorial. You don’t need a Rolls Royce, a Toyota Landcruiser works just fine.
No Miele appliance I have owned has ever broken. But agreed, adding screens and TVs is just dumb and increases the price with no benefit.
The Miele oven I had broke 2 months after 2 year warrenty. The mechanic who looked at it said it was dead, I needed to buy a new one. I found the issue myself, the spit roast function (which I never used) was broken. I unplugged it and the over worked again. The Miele mechanic costed €185. The news I needed to buy a new one costed me that much, even though it was a simple fix.
Miele used to produce great devices which would last for 40 years. But also they found out you sell less when it never breaks. Now they rely on their good name while the quality becomes less.
Strange. Made the mistake of getting the 10 year warranty on all of the appliances and never used it.
I used to insure every new phone I got. First one I didn’t, because I never broke my phone before, fell out of my hand and broke the screen after just 2 weeks. Sad face.
My rule is if you’ve ever made a TV or cell phone I’ll NEVER buy your appliance.
the worst part is that said electronic component will have been the cheapest one to physically manufacture, but because it’s the hardest to copy they can charge whatever the fuck they like
That’s why you prepare a hallway with like 20 of these alcoves. When one machine breaks, you simply pump it full of cement and plaster it over. It just becomes part of the wall. It remains there, entombed forever, like some latter-day washing machine Pompeii. Or maybe you don’t plaster over them at all. Maybe you proudly display them. “These are the washing machines of my ancestors…”
That’s built in storage right there
My wife was a huge Samsung fan. When it came time to get a washer I found a ding and dent option at a habitat for humanity ReStore. It likes to get unbalanced but it’s still kicking after 8 years. I didn’t expect it to last this long. But I know for a fact the next time we get one my wife will not care if it’s Samsung or not.
I had a similar unbalanced issue with a Samsung dryer years ago. Weird as hell rubbing noise but as far as I could tell no actual mechanical issue with the drum. Realized that lifting the front end made it stop immediately. Tried adjusting the feet but that didn’t resolve it consistently.
I shoved a 2in high piece of wood under the front lip and the machine has never made the noise again. Still going strong.
I think ours is a spring.
Costs
It’s probably not worth it.
For us it was the $180 concrete counterbalance weight that broke, dented the front panel, and broke the drain tube clean out up front. Hunk of junk.
My Samsung washer and dryer have been running for the last 6 years with 0 issues
Same here.
That’s … that’s the joke
Fun fact: Clothes washers actually do have concrete weights in them to help damper spin oscillations:
Source: The Secret Life of Machines
Some higher end models have a cast iron weights instead.
Some cheaper models have two little people from New Jersey in them.
WHOAO…HEYAH.
What a rip off.
Yeah, you gotta keep stuffing lasagna and deli meats in your washing machine or else it’ll start to wobble.
Why don’t they just have a basin that fills with water? Would be much easier for moving.
Those who don’t know; have never moved.
I moved recently and had some small filing cabinets that needed to be moved downstairs (and subsequently back upstairs). I was amazed at how heavy the near-empty, cheap sheet metal cabinets were, until I saw the giant paver stones bolted to the inside back wall to give them support when the drawers are open.
As someone who moves filing cabinets a fair bit for my job, this is actually super common, I see it all the time
I guarantee the salespeople said the weight meant they were built well
Modern ranges/stoves do this also, and some of them even have the concrete blocks bolted to the outside where you can see them. Albeit on the back.
My dishwasher does as well, it’s a model on wheels and for the first couple of weeks it left flakes of concrete everywhere when I moved it.
“No need to service it. All parts last the lifetime of the machine” (the lifetime is 6 months)
Edger Allen Poe’s the Cask of Fabric Softener
Quote the Samsung, “Error: Door.”
There has to be some hippy out there selling organic fabric softener in a wooden cask.
The hippie probably doesn’t use fabric softener. That shit isn’t worth it in my opinion, and just makes things softer at the expense of lifetime and performance. Things like towels lose absorbency when you use it, workout clothes don’t wick sweat off your skin as easy, it can demonish the flame retardant property of kid clothes, and it can make it easier for mold/mildew to grow in your machine.
If you’re using it for static/smells, just use dryer balls and some essential oil. I think they’re also pretty good at softening your clothes.
Built-in washing machine.
