Wish you'd done this a few weeks earlier, 'cuz we just had to buy a new washing machine. Our three remaining appliances from 1994 all failed, sequentially, over the course of a month. First we replaced the dryer, which was taking hours to dry a load. A couple weeks later, the dishwasher pump started making a loud, bearing going out kind of noise. And, a couple weeks after that, the washing machine started drawing huge amounts of current and filling the laundry room with electrical stink (thankfully, it managed to finish the load of towels and not leave us with a failed machine full of wet mess.)
20 years ago, my appliance buying philosophy was to buy the highest end that still had mechanical controls instead of the newfangled electronic controls. And, I attribute that strategy for getting almost 20 years out of our old appliances. These days, everything has electronic controls, and we just went with the best rated, high end stuff. The washer and dryer are Kenmore Elite (made by LG), and the dishwasher is an 800 series Bosch. I doubt we'll get 20 years out of these new machines, but they do a much better job than the old ones, especially the dishwasher, which completely cleans stuff that had to be well rinsed with the old dishwasher, and in almost complete silence. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoi...@yahoo.com> wrote : * Offering a new washing machine to the lotus feet of Sri Alex, who manifested the siddhi of retaining his sense of humor about It All despite having to be a moderator at FFL.
