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Sarah wrote:
Okay, with the stackable, can kids get stuff out of the dryer? My oldest is 9 and he's always looking for clothes  .
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My nine year old cannot reach into it, but the others can. I guess a chair would help, but I don't think I want him climbing in the laundry room (he is a bit of a wild-man, and likes to bounce ).
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On second thought, Could they be a tipping hazard if they climbed in?
(What's with my "climbing in" theme?)
I had heard that the washing machine can lock and never open once the cycle begins, that's why I asked about a toddler getting trapped. THEN, we thought. . .she'd NEVER climb in there--she doesn't do it now to the dryer. As we walked through Home Depot looking at the models. . . what did dd2 do?---She ran up and climbed in the front loading washer 
My kids are really daredevil hyper monkeys. If they can get locked in something, they will. It must be genetic. My husband has a Prussian General as an ancestor. (They are good kids though).
Part of my disfunctional laundry system is "go find it in the dryer". Maybe stackable wouldn't work for us.
Although, I agree with Angie, the extra room seems nice.
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Stackable won't work in my laundry room. Sarah, I wonder if they could climb in if you went ahead and bought the drawer units. Were the ones in the store on the drawers? That might make them just high enough so that kids who don't know better can't get in but low enough so that kids who do know better can retrieve their own clothes from the dryer.
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The ones weren't on drawers and dh thought that would solve it. Also, the drum moved when she tried to get in so she got right out.
Dh's thought that in order for her to truly get trapped someone would have to shut the door and turn it on and that would be so mean.  My kids might be hyper, but they don't appear mean. . .
So, I am leaning toward the drawers.
Thanks all.
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Sarah wrote:
On second thought, Could they be a tipping hazard if they climbed in?
(What's with my "climbing in" theme?)
I had heard that the washing machine can lock and never open once the cycle begins, that's why I asked about a toddler getting trapped. Although, I agree with Angie, the extra room seems nice.
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No tipping hazard here. They are locked together and incredibly heavy. I can and often do stop the cycle to throw something extra in...no problem there.
If I had a decent sized laundry room, I wouldn't stack them. Mine is only the length of a washer and dryer with a walkway in front of them connecting our garage and home. I literally doubled my room capacity by stacking.
Ha! I'm being called to my dryer by the end of cycle chime. Sometimes I feel like Pavlov's dog! Has anyone else had the thought that in heaven there will be no end of cycle chimes, LOL?
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I have the Whirlpool Duet front loader. I love it. We went with WP b/c we had WP washer (top loading) before and it lasted 15 years and actually was still working when we traded it, but needed a minor repair. It had not broken down once. We also have had 2 WP dishwashers (2 different houses) that lasted 14 and 19 years. We were talked into a Maytag dishwasher a few yrs ago and it broke down 3 times in the first year.
Anyway, I washed cloth diapers in mine for about a year, until we were done with diapers. I always had a liner in the diaper pail (washable PUL liner) and just pulled the whole thing out of the pail, stuffed it into the washer and then shook it empty inside and washed it along with the dipes. Not really much harder than a top loader.
As far as the kids climbing in, mine never have (and dd would probably still fit even now at 4 yo she's so tiny). But I don't see how they could close it on themselves. Mine requires a slam to close it; I couldn't do it from inside. Plus, if the machine is running it can't be opened unless you push pause, then the kid would have to get inside, pull it shut and somehow hit the button again to restart. Unless you think one kid would lock the other in it and run the buttons! That's the only possible way I can see it being a problem.
I use regular liquid detergent (purex free and clear), just lower amounts. We use liq b/c of a septic tank. The machine uses much less water per load than a top loading.
We have the same machine at my office (veterinary) and run way more laundry than I do, and it's held up great. I don't have the Duet dryer b/c our old Whirlpool basic one is still going strong. I'm not entirely convinced the matching dryer is really all that much greater than a regular one, which is much cheaper. It'd be nice to match, but otherwise...
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Karen T wrote:
Plus, if the machine is running it can't be opened unless you push pause, then the kid would have to get inside, pull it shut and somehow hit the button again to restart.
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Okay, I think I missed something. You can stop a front-loading washer mid-cycle and add laundry??
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I just found this link on Choosing a Washing Machine at Consumer Search. This site does a review round-up of sorts using Consumer Reports and various other sites. The report is from THIS MONTH.
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Karen T wrote:
I don't have the Duet dryer b/c our old Whirlpool basic one is still going strong. I'm not entirely convinced the matching dryer is really all that much greater than a regular one, which is much cheaper. It'd be nice to match, but otherwise...
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The same appliance salesperson who talked me into the Duet Washers talked me out of the Duet dryer. Said it was throwing money away unless it was worth hundreds more to match.
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Jen L. wrote:
Okay, I think I missed something. You can stop a front-loading washer mid-cycle and add laundry?? |
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Not really mid cycle. But probably in the first 10 minutes or so. You might get a few drips of water on the floor but that's it. It really does use way less water than the top loaders.
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Karen T wrote:
We use liq b/c of a septic tank.
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The house we are looking into moving into this spring has a septic tank. Are you required to use liquid, or is that just a recommendation (why?). . .I don't mean to get to far off the topic here, but I am interested in front loading machines and septics tanks. Any info to pass on.
I don't know ANYTHING about septics tanks yet. . .
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