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I would pay $3000 for that model.
Speed Queen - The Way of Water
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It's really nice.I would pay $3000 for that model.
It even has a dispenser for toppings like chocolate, sprinkles, gummy bears etc.
- Jun 1, 2018
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I was looking at either the speed queen (older version which I ended up with), speed queen commercial (without coin thingy), SQ classic” which u have, or maytag commercial if buying new. For real agitation, decent water level, & solid parts those are really the only options.
I didn’t care for the buttons on the new SQ classic, the commercial ones were online only which is a bit scary if theres a problem & the agitator action on the Maytag was extremely grating to my nerves (if you watch some videos you’ll see/hear what I mean) it’s a corkscrew situation & quite loud. My last maytag did that & it ate clothes! My laundry is in a closet in my kitchen adjacent to my living room so that would have driven me nuts.
The SQ just has a better wash action/ agitation method. It can flip a pair of jeans inside out but it has yet to damage anything nor has anything become trapped under the agitator (buttons, straps, strings etc)
Very glad I was able to find the one I got.
- May 23, 2015
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WAIT, WHUT??!?!? I could have gotten the coin-operator options???? Oh man, I’m sending these back! I want the coin-op so my kids can start learning what living in the real world means!! “You like clean clothes, 50¢ a wash!!”
Kids don't understand cash.
You need the machines that take Bitcoin, Apple Pay or Venmo.
And, even then, they will make you transfer the money into their app.
You need the machines that take Bitcoin, Apple Pay or Venmo.
And, even then, they will make you transfer the money into their app.
- Jun 1, 2018
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These are the ones- usually used in base housing etc
www.appliancesconnection.com
I think all the new coin op ones have the electronic controls.
Speed Queen 963055 $2,098.00
Top Load LWN432SP115TW01 26" Washer with Front Load LDE30RGS173TW01 27" Electric Dryer Commercial Laundry Pair in White
50 cents is not enough.
You have to figure out the cost of the machines, a depreciation schedule, electricity, soap, water, repairs, maintenance, taxes, insurance, lint filter fees etc.
Taking everything into consideration, I get $5.82 per washer load and $3.91 per dryer load.
Also, if two people want to use the machines at the same time, the machine fee app will open an auction mode and they will have to bid to see who will pay the most to use the machine.
I'm not sure that that is a fair test or that anything Ozzy says can be considered to be natural speech.
The only person who can understand more than 10% of what Ozzy says is Sharon and even then, she probably just pretends to understand.
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My in-laws used to own a couple of apartment complexes and those things were great money makers for them...if I recall, they charged $1 a load for wash and $1.50 for dry and they were in use A LOT.
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And of course, you should have dynamic/surge pricing. On Saturday and Sunday, the price is DOUBLE.
Jaffles
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27.5 min cycle I think we will have a winner.
We have a 18yo front loader that to be honest has been faultless, but must be getting close to retiring. Its down fall is using the 30min cycle is as effective has hosing the clothes on the line while they are drying. Also a pain, or impossible, to add to a load pending how close to starting the cycle. And washing bed sets from Queen and King sized beds takes its time as the machine can only cope with x amount, fair enough but the cycle is 1 hour short, 1.5 normal.
Is the Speed Queen very noisy? Our front loader is whisper quiet and we have no door on the laundry.
Also does it agitate and stop, agitate and stop; or just motor away while it agitates. My mother has a brand that agitates and stops, and repeats. I guess it's a first world problem but hers makes a click each time it stops. Been there since new but I find it hard to ignore the groan - stop - click.... groan - stop - click.
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I wouldn’t say it’s whisper quiet. We have our “laundry room” as the mud room between the garage and the bedroom hallway. It’s a split floor plan so the “master suite” is on the opposite side of the house from the kids bedrooms. When it is washing, if you’re in the mud room you hear the swoosh-swoosh-swoosh of the center agitator going. On a gentle cycle it does a couple of swooshes, then stops for a bit, then swooshes a bit more. That’s because it’s trying to be delicate. On a regular cycle, it’s mostly swooshing all the time. When it spins, the drum is dead quiet … even when my old Maytag was brand new, the spin cycle created this very high pitch noise that was due to the rotor on the direct drive motor spinning at high speed in air. The speed Queen uses a belt drive to a transmission to turn the agitator and drum. The only noise I’ve noticed is a very low volume low frequency humming noise during spin which I figured out is actually the very slight vibration that is induced on the sheet metal outer housing. I put my hands on the machine during the spin cycle and my ear up to the outer surface and the noise was definitely the vibration. It’s very slight though and could probably be eliminated completely with some strategic placement of rubber grommets around the sheet metal screws.
Long story short - it’s not whisper quiet but it’s not at all loud either and if it’s in a closed off laundry room or basement, you won’t hear it.
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Mine doesn’t click between agitation - it agitates the whole time on heavy duty, on delicate it pauses during agitation. I believe it does make a slight clicking noise as the mechanical timer goes the selections while running (fill, wash, rinse, spin) In my opinion it’s no louder than my lg front loader - that thing wound up like a jet!
There’s a bunch of YouTube videos that record the entire cycle with sound on various models
Last week, my agitator wasn’t working so I called customer service and told them how frustrating it was.
The person asked if it was agitating, and I said that it was.
They said, well that’s what it’s supposed to do and they hung up.
The person asked if it was agitating, and I said that it was.
They said, well that’s what it’s supposed to do and they hung up.
Katodude
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Wait, wait, wait. This is a honest and dumb question. Are you saying the old style agitators are better than the open drums? I was always told those destroyed clothes thats why they have the new style.
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Agitators move clothes and water more thoroughly around. So they clean a lot better/faster. In some circumstances, agitators could catch clothing but that only happens when machines are over filled or improper fabric settings are used. Most modern top load designs with agitators rarely damage clothing nowadays. It’s mostly urban legend at this point.
Drum washers don’t clean as well because water volumes are a lot lower and an article of clothing spends more time outside the water than in it. They’re gentler on fabrics but their cleaning performance sucks. So the way they get around that is longer cycle times. If you don’t mind longer wash times, then a drum washer (front load or top load with no agitator) is fine.
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Also, front load drum washers are mechanically more complicated since the tilted drum design requires proper balancing and a direct drive motor to ensure that the unit stays mechanically balanced during high speed spin/rinse cycles. They are harder to service as most of the major components are in the rear of the unit which is usually pushed back against a wall. The most common failure mechanism is bearing wear out which is diagnosed by sound. If the washer gets progressively loader over time and the sound it emits is a lower frequency noise (sounds like a jet engine) then the bearings are bad. Bearing replacement is very expensive as it is almost entirely labor costs and most warranties would rather pay you off with a pro-rated replacement fee than pay for a service shop to replace the bearings. It’s usually 2/3rds the cost of a new machine to replace bearings. This is why most people replace washers every 5 years or so.
By contrast, top load agitator machines can either be direct drive or, more commonly, belt driven with a transmission. This allows the water discharge pump to be belt driven as well instead of electric motor driven. Spin speeds are a little lower in top load machines and the bearings are typically under less off-axis stress so they last longer and are fairly easy to replace. A well designed top loader will have all the major components right in front which makes the machine more easily serviceable. Top load machines do use more water on average as the drum is filled (half or full fill) and the clothes circulate submerged in the water volume. The agitator produces more complex water flow patterns and so clothes are typically cleaned faster.
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I am not a big fan of our washer with all the noise it makes. Many clicks as it moves through the cycles. Thankfully, the laundry room is tucked away from the kitchen and there is a solid pocket door that muffles the sound adequately. It also doesn't handle our "Purple" king size sheets...it ALWAYS piles them to one side which causes an imbalance when the spin cycle starts and I have yet to figure out how to fix that.
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Big comforters are always a problem. With our king size bed we decided to go with a white inner comforter with a removable outer fabric cover, aka a “duvet”. That way the duvet can be washed with the sheets since it’s thinner fabric and the inner comforter stays mostly clean. We then bring the inner comforter to the dry cleaners and get that dry cleaned a few times a year. It’s expensive but it’s only needs cleaning a few times as the duvet takes most of the beating. And it also avoids the problem of the comforter “stuffing” bunching up into little balls.
Look at YOU all fancy schmancy. You got a duvet, a bidet and a green toupee.