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How bad are stack washer/dryers?

Leros

Leros

Lifer
I'm trying to find an apartment near campus. I'm debating between two places right now. One has a laundromat on site and the other has a stack washer/dryer in the unit. I've been told these things suck, but I figure I can just do smaller loads more often, which won't be a big deal since its in my unit. The place with the stacks also has a smaller laundry center on site, in case you ever need something larger.

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I would say they are 1/3 - 1/2 the size of a normal unit.

Surely someone here has used them.

 
Thats what I figured. I've just had real estate agents tell me how crappy the stack units are ("you can fit a pair of jeans and a few shirts per load"), but I figured they were just trying to talk me into spending more money. They made them sound pretty awful.
 
Originally posted by: tigersty1e
In the apartment complex or your unit?

If unit, it's a no-brainer like others have said.
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It'd be in the unit. Yeah, I figured it was a no-brainer. Just wanted to check.
 
I have one in my apartment and it works great. It is a full size large capacity one though.
 
Originally posted by: miri
I have one in my apartment and it works great. It is a full size large capacity one though.
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Yeah, I was mostly concerned about the capacity.
 
Originally posted by: Leros
Originally posted by: miri
I have one in my apartment and it works great. It is a full size large capacity one though.
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Yeah, I was mostly concerned about the capacity.
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Well the one I have holds as much as a average single unit.
 
We have one. Even though it's capacity isn't that great, it's suits the needs of 2 people fine.
 
I believe that rules on how much water a washer can used was changes some years back so pretty much any top loader is going to suck because it can't use the amount of water it optimally needs.

Laundromat with commercial front loaders, or even older top loaders manufactured when these new water restrictions were made might clean your clothes better.

That being said, that el cheapo combo unit will probably do an adequate job for clothes that aren't really too valuable to you, is convenient, and hopefully you aren't paying a separate water bill (?).
 
Dude I use a POS washer dryer in my apartment. I'm pretty sure most colleges have higher grade apartments, and I've seen my friends at UCLA, Davis, StanFUrd, with much better apartments. They come to my place and say flat out my place is a piece of shit. Yeah, if I'm ok with my crappy laundry, I'm sure you will be too. Sure you could go to a laundromat which I did once cuz they DO offer Wifi at some places, the time and money wasted is just not worth it in the end.
 
Originally posted by: DLeRium
Dude I use a POS washer dryer in my apartment. I'm pretty sure most colleges have higher grade apartments, and I've seen my friends at UCLA, Davis, StanFUrd, with much better apartments. They come to my place and say flat out my place is a piece of shit. Yeah, if I'm ok with my crappy laundry, I'm sure you will be too. Sure you could go to a laundromat which I did once cuz they DO offer Wifi at some places, the time and money wasted is just not worth it in the end.
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I'm playing the game of a not spending too much but not ending up a in a typical shithole. From talking to my friends at other colleges, the rent around here seems terrible.

I haven't found a unit with a nice W/D close to campus that wasn't a craphole for under $1000 a month.
 
You will be surprised how little you can fit in them at first, but I'm used to it now. One thing with my apartment's washer/dryers is the spin cycle of the washer can be VERY loud, especially if it's overloaded. You can often hear your neighbors doing their laundry, especially the neighbor above you. These are new washers too.
 
Originally posted by: thirtythree
You will be surprised how little you can fit in them at first, but I'm used to it now. One thing with my apartment's washer/dryers is the spin cycle of the washer can be VERY loud, especially if it's overloaded. You can often hear your neighbors doing their laundry, especially the neighbor above you. These are new washers too.
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Luckily, it would be a single floor complex. Nobody above or below me.
 
Originally posted by: Ktulu
We have one. Even though it's capacity isn't that great, it's suits the needs of 2 people fine.
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Same here. We can't throw 2 weeks worth of clothes in them but can definitely get a decent sized load in them. Plenty for us.
 
Stack unit. The alternative? Lugging your clothes to the laundromat, waiting for a machine, sitting there waiting for your clothes to finish, waiting for a dryer, waiting for them to dry, and dragging it back to the apartment. Are you outta your mind? That'll kill a good 4-5 hours if you only do wash once a week. The in unit machine is smaller, but you can just chill out and watch tv or go somewhere while it's running. Plus you can spread out your washing. I've got one and I can usually do a weeks worth of clothes in like 2 or 3 loads. I'll do one on friday, one saturday and one sunday.
 
Hands down choose the place with the stack washer/dryer. It is so much easier.
Plus, public laundry places gross me out....
 
I have one in my kitchen....weird place to put a washer/dryer, but it does the job fine. Capacity-wise, it's full size....unless you're washing for kids it shouldn't matter. If it's just one or two people, even a smaller unit will do the job. So what if you have to do an extra load of laundry every week.
 
In my first apartment there was a communal laundry room. You had to pay to use them. It sucked. Someone was always using it when I needed to, or I'd forget the clothes were in there and someone would've taken them out and left them somewhere.
 
I have one in my current apartment, and while it definitely doesn't fit as much as a traditional washer/dryer pair, it handles my bi-monthly laundry load quite well. And as others have already said, the convenience and time savings compared to landromat usage are practically priceless.
 
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