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CLEAN

A few weeks ago the washer started leaking and so we decided that was enough money trying to rehab.

Went today to buy new units and settled on a midrange solution.

Samsung.

Top load washer, front load drier. The washer is plungerless. It has some kind of waterfall thing that also turns the clothes around for better cleaning or something.

I deferred to John on the extra cost color of platinum. Good name that.

The drier will be gas. We discovered that we do have a gas connection. A guy is coming today or tomorrow to put the right fitting on the pipe so that when they install they can do the whole thing.

It is hard to romance washers and driers but they have tried. The units are good looking and for only about a hundred more apiece we get a bunch of features and larger size.

We are finding that the older you get there is more washing.

Please don't ask me to explain that.

Here is the thing. Of all the units for sale, the best selling and the best looking in this range are LG and Samsung. There are no Whirlpools or other familiar US names.

They have been lapped.

It is not too astonishing.

The last units we bought new were at the old house. We got Fisher Paekel. Very nice. More expensive. But when they needed repairs the guys had to call the headquarters and work a computer to get to the solutions. Not nice at all.

There are electronics on these machines of course but they are not the complete computer driven things. There are mechanical interfaces which seem friendly.

John does the wash but I may participate for awhile.

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