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Want a good washer and dryer? Buy Speed Queen TC5
While paying thousands more for them
to keep with the 60s example; that’s what you’d pay then. What’s new today is mostly the fact that you can pay that kind of money for a washing machine and it sucks as a washing machine
Except it’s not the 60s, so I expect better
Worth every penny when you can’t get parts for your LG appliance and have to wait 3 weeks just for a service call because there is only 1 company in the area. LG and Samsung are the WORST
I imagine part of why these last longer is also that people pay for a 300$ repair for a 1800$ washing machine but not for a 400$ washing machine.
edit: video mentions this as a reason but other reasons too.
Yep, our touch panel is failing but a replacement board is $200 on a $600 unit
You might be able to replace a bad capacitor or something but labour costs will end up the same
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$1000 USD for both is a great price.
A speed queen stack retails for $5500 USD in my country.
I really wish I could buy stuff with the quality of old appliances but the efficiency of new ones. The speed Queen for instance uses tons of water and is apparently pretty harsh on your clothes. My parents have a 50 year old deep freeze that works great, but I plugged in a kill-a-watt and it uses 3x the energy of my newer upright version, meaning the energy savings pay to replace it within a few years.
Is the volume the same for both freezers?
Pretty close, but my upright one is way more usable space in practice as stuff doesn’t get buried at the bottom.
I’ve disassembled and reassembled my LG washing machine like 8 times now replacing different parts every time.
Even the “complex” ones really aren’t that complex, you just need to know how to order parts and put them in. Each re-assembly added 2 years to the life of the washing machine and none of them took more than 45 minutes with the most home gamer tools from harbour freight
A week ago my landlord replaced our oven. I excitedly put in a frozen pizza, and when it was almost done the light bulb inside the oven spontaneously shattered and glass was all over my pizza and new oven.
In March of 2024, a new US law mandated locking microwave doors after doing anything, including using it as a timer. The official reason is to protect people from the food which mAy Be HoT aFtEr BeInG iN tHe MiCrOwAvE.
So now those dozen buttons we never use on a microwave finally have a use, which is to disable the shitty “feature” that shouldn’t exist each and every time the fuse trips or the power goes out.
I have a post-it note taped to the door of my microwave that’s the button sequence to disable the “safety” feature.
Is this about touch screens on ampliances? Because fuck those.
No need for appliances if we retvrn to monke
that’s cool if you want someone in your household spending 4 hours a day doing the wash instead of 90 minutes 2-3 times a month
No clothes, no plates, only monke
he has everything he needs, and no one can say otherwise
checkmonke
everything new is bad because it’s more profitable for corporations to charge premiums for shit products than to make anything that actually works properly, because they know consumers have no other option than to buy said shit products. monopoly moment
There is like a thousand different fridges from a hundred different brands I can buy and get delivered to my door.
and yet they’re all shit
If you find one that doesn’t suck please let us know
If you find one that sucks you off let us know.
none that do that but plenty that lose important functions within six months of purchase and can’t be fixed by warranty work, apparently
Don’t buy GE or Whirlpool.
Yes but that’s question of basic standards not how much options there are.
They’re full of circuit boards that aren’t necessary at all whether you get the fancy versions or not. None of the appliances here have touchscreens but the GE fridge for example stopped dispensing water or ice. You could get it to dispense both if you opened the door but pressed the door close sensor button. The warranty service had a guy come and replace two boards over a span of three weeks because of backorders, and the replacement of those boards made it stop dispensing water or ice entirely, no matter what was done to the door button. Guy came out and replaced two different boards, got it to return to the original broken state where it will dispense water and ice if you open the door and press the button. Haven’t bothered to follow up for further service because this half-broke situation beats no water and no ice. Oh also the fridge won’t work if you buy generic water filters that don’t have the GE rfid tag, I had to tape the “plug” rfid tag into the filter housing to make it work with generics.
None of those functions should require logic boards, those are all entirely within the scope of switches and solenoids that would be extremely serviceable.
I don’t know anything about all that but a good part of the video is about ice and water dispensers always breaking.
As a consumer it’s pretty difficult to get longevity data for appliances. So it’s kinda weird how much he goes on about that consumers don’t care about appliances lasting long.
Information like price, features and energy use are readily available. So that’s what I have to base my decisions on.
And if it’s like he hints at in the video that I can get a washing machine that lasts 25 instead of 7 years for 10 times the price, I’m not feeling stupid for buying the cheap one. Not even just because 25/7 < 10, or that I just don’t want to soend this much money but I would be worried that I’d probably still be disappointed in the very expensive appliance in one way or another.
I wonder how much there is to the net ecological impact of energy/water saving mandates he mentions in the video.
Idk, I’m happy with my new appliances? (Dishwasher, Bosch and refrigerator, LG, no smart features) Like there was a manufacturing defect with the dishwasher but other than that they’re working great.
!remindme
105 years
You can’t afford the good ones anymore.
Look at the price of an old appliance when new, adjust for inflation and compare that to the price of a new appliance today. The old appliances were incredibly expensive compared to now.
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I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
