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I owned the Electrolux EW23BC85KS counter depth french door refrigerator for four years. I would think the issues apply to both wave and IQ touch models. Short version of this review: Do not buy this appliance. If interested in another Electrolux refrigerator, I would be very wary if the ice maker is similar to the one in this unit. I had issues with the ice maker for 3 of the 4 years I owned this unit. The ice maker would leak and/or stop producing ice very often. The warranty company serviced it twice. The second time, they decided the unit was NOT REPAIRABLE and sent us a check for $3000 to replace it. I'll be honest here. I was relieved when they said that. My warranty expires in about 10 months and I was dreading have to pay for all of these repairs myself. The good: - No problems with the compressor. Freezer was always at 0F, fridge at 37F. -There was what I called the "beer drawer" that kept at 33F. I thought that was fantastic. Beers and sodas were that much better. However, refrigerators at a lower price point put this into a separate door below the french doors (look at the Samsung models) and are almost $1000 less. - I really liked the ice that the machine produced. They were dome-shaped. The sliver-shaped ice that other machines made would tend to "bunch up" at your mouth when drinking a beverage, preventing the liquids from entering your mouth (I know this sound silly). But the dome-shaped ice from this fridge prevented that from happening. - For it being only a 22.6 cu ft fridge, I found that it fit a lot of stuff. Maybe it was the placement of the shelves that we chose, but I didn't feel that it was "that small." I could fit 5 gallons of milk on the bottom left-hand side of the unit. I think that is really good for that size fridge! - There was never any build-up of frost in the unit (expect for when the freezer door broke) Now for the bad: - After the 2nd year, the ice maker began having a leak. Water would drip down from the ice maker and out the dispenser. This would happen slowly, but about once/week, I would wake up in the morning to a puddle of water in the door dispenser. - Around that same time, the ice maker began to have trouble producing ice. It would work great for about a week, and then it would just stop making ice, even though the tray was empty. I would turn off the ice maker entirely, wait about 8 hours and then turn it back on, and then it would create ice again. - I got service for the ice maker problems last year. The tech fixed it, but it started to leak water into the dispenser after 6 months. This latest visit discovered that the ice maker (which is a separate unit) dislodged over time from the fridge wall - a common problem - which meant the cooler air from the fridge made its way into the ice maker - not good. As for the ice, a gear which churned it out broke - it was cheap plastic, and according to the knowledgeable service tech, very common. And the ugly: - "Something" happened to the freezer door. It no longer closes. I pulled out all the freezer trays, but I cannot see what the problem is. The service tech mentioned something happened in the back wall of the machine which caused the wall to bubble out, and dislocate the shelf. The door no longer seals. This resulted in a frost buildup inside the unit. - At the same time, the ice maker started to only produce crushed ice into the dispenser, no matter the setting. - We paid for the 4-year warranty on this appliance to cover repairs. After the technician came to check on it again last week, it was deemed "unfixable" and the warranty company sent me check to replace the unit.

I'm so ANGRY that GE would use this marketing/sales 'Gimmick' to justify TRIPPING the price of a good water filter just to STOP ALL COMPETITION!!!! SHAMEFUL! I own a new GE Profile Series refrigerator. (PFE 28K..) We enjoy the in-door water and ice dispenser with auto sensing and the display showing the Ozs. fill and, AT FIRST, the 'Countdown' timer for water filter replacement. When the timer showed "Replace Water Filter" and "Days Remaining", I ASSUMED this was based on some quantifiable, diagnostic new feature built into the water filter.......... IT IS NOT !!!!!!!! Is the filter good? Yes, it is EXACTLY the same as the GE RPWF filter EXCEPT they put an RFID tag on the back!!! What benefit does the RFID tag provide? -Does it help the filter measure percent of filter contamination? NO, IT DOES NOT! -Perhaps it measures the pressure drop as the filter becomes more clogged, alerting the owner to the problem. NO, IT DOES NOT! -Does it show a potential failure of the filter media, alerting the owner? NO, IT DOES NOT! -How about leak detection, preventing water damage to the refrigerator? IT DOES NOT! Then WHY is the RFID tag on the back of each filter....????? FOUR reasons: 1-Run a SIMPLE countdown timer (worth about 50 cents), 2-Turns on the "OVERDUE" light, REGARDLESS of the level of TRUE contamination of the filter. 3-Uses filter 'Serial number' identification to STOP the CUSTOMER from simply removing the RFID tag from the back of an old filter using the tag for a 'Non-RFID' tagged filter and PREVENTS the CUSTOMER from saving money! 4-MAIN REASON get the customer to PAY M-U-C-H more for each filter than it is worth and buy filters ONLY from GE!!!! NO competition, a MONOPOLY! ----Imagine if the car companies did that! You could ONLY buy tires from your local dealer for your make and model of car! Is there a way around this SCAM? YES. 1-Locate the 'Blank' filter by-pass plastic piece sent with your GE Profile Series refrigerator (found this from another reviewer noting there was an RFDI tag on the back of the by-pass). 2-Locate the label "BACK This side must face inward" and peel it off. (see the picture) 3-Remove the RFID tag under the label. 4-Open the water filter housing cover inside the refrigerator. 5-Place the RFID tag over the 'FCC' label on the back inside the filter housing near the screw, hold in place by re-using the label you peeled off the 'Blank' filter by-pass. (see picture) NOW you can install ANY water filter compatible with GE RPWF (NOT 'E'), saving from $20 to $30+ each!! --NOTE: 1-This fix will turn OFF the countdown feature but WILL leave ON the Oz. fill and 'Auto-Fill' features. 2-The front panel will now show "NOT FILTERING" when you fill a container with water or ice (even though you installed a new filter). This additional insult to the CUSTOMER can be simply overridden by: A) Removing the two screws (inside the upper opening of the dispenser in the door) holding the display on the door. B) Removing the circuit board connectors C) Removing the Torx screws holding the circuit board to the display. D) Placing a small rectangular piece of black tape over the "NOT" word on the display. (See Picture) E) Reassemble. This 15 minute 'Scam Work Around' will save you from $20 to $30+ each time you replace the filter

The machine works great. I would have given it 5 stars if not for a few things.... I think for the price, it's a good deal, but there are some major safety issues that you should note, especially if you have kids running around wanting to get near it. Safety Issue #1- The claw has sharp pointed metal spikes that have no protection from fingers. Warn kids to stay away or there will be no shaved ice. It's worked for me. You can't be too careful with this thing. You don't want to take ice out of the freezer and immediately use it. Your ice will be too cold and brittle, and most likely crack the second you try to use it in the machine. They key is to "temper" the ice, meaning when you pull it out of the freezer, let it sit at room temperature for about 10 minutes. This really helps. Don't bring it outside in the heat. It will not temper right, and the shaved ice will be mushy. If you store ice in a cooler, that works too. Leave it in the container it's frozen in while tempering. Tempered ice has a nice clear glass-like appearance around the outer parts of the ice. The middle will still be white/opaque. Safety Issue #2- I don't like that there's no included shield around the ice while it's spinning. It has proved problematic because if your ice cracks and breaks off, it goes flying. Ouch. It hurts when it lands on your foot. : / If your face is anywhere near it, you are risking the obvious. Keep your face away from the ice when it's spinning. Safety Issue #3- The Blade that shaves the ice has no shield either. I'm not a moron, and know to be careful, but accidents happen, and this seems like one that could easily happen at some point if you get distracted. Always start with no blade shaving the ice, and slowly twist the knob to start the shaving. Safety Issue #4- The bottom portion is made of plastic, which doesn't make a lot of sense. The rest of the machine is heavy metal. I move it around my house for parties and driveway fun. I'm worried that it will crack or break at some point while I'm carrying it, or eventually crack under pressure from weight of the metal. It's not that easy to just lift the part of the machine that's metal. You have an exposed blade to watch out for. There are many suggestions I've read in various places. They may or may not work, but thought I'd pass along.... There are some theories on the best way to freeze ice: -Some say add a tablespoon of sugar to each container you freeze. -Sticky sugar ice all over the machine? Not for me -Some say to slowly freeze your ice at 30 degrees and leave it for 3 days without ever opening the freezer door.-Not practical for recreational user I didn't use the included foot pedal on my first run. It's kind of an art, and when you're building your mountain of fluff, it really makes it more difficult to have to stop and start, pushing the on/off switch. Taking your hand away from either holding the cup or molding the ice with your other hand doesn't help your cause, trust me. There's only 1 speed, and if you haven't mastered it, you'll see how much more difficult it is. Overall, the machine works. It's not something you want kids around though. With trial and error practice, you can replicate Hawaiian Shaved Ice. Yes, the fluffy snow-like kind, but you have to practice. Getting the blade at just the right spot on the ice, and tempering, it works, but it might take you a few tries to get it right, maybe more. It's a fun challenge either way. Watch some videos of the stores in Hawaii making it. That is my ultimate goal. : ) True Hawaiian ice is fluffy snow-like with no trace gritty ice. It melts in your mouth, and your syrup does not melt the ice when you pour it on, nor does it end up in the bottom like a snow cone. I hope this helps!

Not much to review here. It's a brass orifice. The five stars is because I was able to get it on Amazon and install it myself, saving a bunch of money and time. Allow me to also give one star to LG for not including what is probably a $1 item for them with my $1,100 dryer (as well as not making it easy to find the LP orifice part number in their documentation), and another one star to Home Depot for not stocking a necessary part for the dryer they sold me, especially in a store that is in close proximity to a large number of propane users. Now to the installation in my DLGX8001. Before I received the orifice, I poked around on Youtube looking for how hard of a job this would be. I ran across one video that looked like it would be a snap if you went in from the back by removing the dryer vent tube. Let me tell you right now that having done this according to the instructions that came with the orifice, going in from the back would be a big mistake. Getting the orifice off and replacing it would be doable, but the video did not discuss the requirement to screw down a vertical teflon screw. Trust me, you would never be able to loosen that screw from the rear. I hope that was not a necessary step for his model, because he probably blew up his dryer if he didn't adjust it. There was also another video that made it look very easy, but what it didn't explicitly show was that they had removed the entire inner front panel and the drum, which made it very easy to get to the orifice and adjustment screw. I decided to follow the instructions that came with the orifice, which were ALMOST correct. There are two additional screws on the front panel that needed to be removed (it's obvious which ones). I had no trouble following the directions. Be SURE you keep track of which screws go where, because there are two stainless screws that get exposed to water and they need to be put back in the right place. Note to cat owners - do NOT place them neatly in order on the floor, then walk away and expect them to be where you left them. Just sayin'... The only trouble I had with this install is that there really is very little open space provided by the opening in the inner front panel for replacing the orifice and closing down the adjustment screw. You will need a fairly short open end 10mm wrench for the orifice. I recommend tilting the dryer back to get your hand in there easier. Don't forget to use proper sealant on the threads (there was sealant on the old orifice's threads). I don't remember if the replacement orifice came with any sealant (I had some anyway that was approved for use with LPG). Once the orifice is replaced, it's time for the really hard part. The large teflon screw is extremely hard to get any torque on with a screwdriver, and it is HARD to break loose if you can't get much torque on it (at least on my unit it was - it could depend on whether you get Hulk Hogan or a little old lady on the assembly line that day). I could not get sufficient torque on my stubby flat blade screwdriver because you essentially have to reach up through the opening to grab the handle and use a reverse grip. If you have a wide-bladed screwdriver with a short blade and long handle, you may be able to loosen it. I ended up having to find a thin piece of steel about 2" by 1" that would fit in the slot, and I got a lot more torque by putting one side of it in the slot and turning. So in summary, taking the unit apart and reassembling it is easy-peasy - replacing the orifice and turning the valve will probably occupy the majority of your time spent on this.

Got these as a christmas gift (opened early since my dad loves my cooking and wanted to make it easier for me since I cook for him). The Good: Set it without anything in the pan other than a little oil and it'll get to that temp in 10 seconds or less as far as I can tell (with their pans, of course). Deep frying is simple to do (not sure what everyone else is complaining about, and I'll explain later what I think their problem is). Because of all involved, I can easily clean a counter top that's flat than a stove top after frying something. Can take them anywhere you have power (cook something smelly outside to keep people inside happy and/or piss off that annoying neighbor that doesn't know how to cook anything but her garbage bags, from the smell of things, is a plus). If you don't have a stove top, this is a must, and perfect for anyone in college. Easy to clean everything. Practically rinse it with scalding hot water right after you empty the contents and wipe dry with a clean towel and you're done (if you wash pans after every use, in stead of that, they're going to turn to crap no matter how good they are) THE BAD: Nothing is perfect, had eggs stick to them twice on me, but after minor work with a plastic spatula they came off without any casualties, but that can happen on any non-stick since I had one before. The temperature settings are never going to be that accurate when liquids/volume cooking is involved, as I consider calling it. Pans can slide easily off of the surface if you lightly bump them (must be the technology, almost felt air hockey-ish when some olid was under the pan I didn't notice, while moving some food around. The heavier the pan, the flimsier the handle seems to feel on the 16 inch we upgraded to. It doesn't feel like it'll come apart as much as it may bend if you hold it far back on the handle every time, but that's the largest frying pan I've owned, so who knows, could be me. Last but not least, you will be confused on prep and cook time, because this will throw a major curve ball at you, at first. I was skeptical and burnt some oil a couple times on heat up time lol. in Closing: People complain about the frying. I deep fry in the saute pan or another I have like it. So far, I got a great crispy (yet overcooked, due to my first deep frying attempt ever) chicken, since I bread with egg, flower x2. Still tasted great. Second time came out softer when I worked less on the flower and cooking time. I also tried 350, which gave me a finished softer exterior, great for wings and pizza topping. That's a 25 degree difference. PEOPLE, wake up. There's no way you're going to deep fry in anything in a timely manner unless it's an actual deep fryer. Even then, they're not consistent (chalk up all those days you order wings and wonder why they aren't like last time... yeah. Those are industrial grade fryers too), I feel the problem people are having with these, like any other cook set, is they expect it to cook for them. Being a chef and a cook (as immature as I am in that field) is like being an artist, and no artist wants their canvas to paint for them. Never leave what you're cooking, even if it's a pizza. I stand there while deep frying and take out piece by piece. If you want convenience... order out lol. This rocks at steak/searing too, but I recommend using a black iron pan because it gives a different texture and flavor. Ours works on it, but I heard it's not good to use, so I'm not sure if they have one themselves or not. I haven't had to deal with customer service, been happy these past three weeks though, cooking too much to lose the weight I need lol

this is a perfect washer for a small apartment like I once had, or an ":emergency" washer for when you are waiting, as I am now to get my washer repaired. I am waiting for a part on my automatic, and let me tell you, this little washer is the best back up emergency washer I have ever used. I don't go to laundromats, i used to do my clothes by hand in the bathroom sink and suffer rashes from touching detergent, but I was bought this little washer, and I never had to do that again. Realize, that it is NOT an automatic, nor is there a pump and it can be a pain in the rear to empty into buckets and fill with buckets, but it sure beats hand washing. I currently use my panda daily, today i got the part for the waher and it was the wrong one, so i will probably use this every day in the back yard with a garden hose. This is a very very antique kind of washer that washes things very very differently. You use the same washwater for the entire laundry, just adding a dose of soap for each new load. It does use very little water. you can rinse it whie it spins if you want, or in the washtub, whichever you prefer. it's no harder to use than a wringer washer, and it cleans very very well too, as you can agitate a load for 4 hours if that's what you choose to do. Washing powder works much better than liquids in this, i use cheer. But if you expect a washer that washes rinses and spins all by itself don't buy this washer. When used correctly, they can be the best washers actually, but it's an eyesore to be flooding the backyard. I will say this: If this little washer broke, i'd definitely buy another one. it's so light i can lift it with two fingers yet it pulverizes the hell out of dirt like the old washers did with washing powder, It's very powerful, but it is shoddily made. already i've broken a knob so i have to use a butterknife to make it spin, and I've broken the right side where i could run water where it spins. They need a revisor to do the manual, whoever did it did not have good command of the english language. They don't even mention putting in water on the right side, which is a spray and very effective rinse. Mine broke, but the washer and spinner still works, as i'm using it daily for my laundry. i start with whites and i agitate them a good hour in a half cup of cheer because i can only use cold water with the hose and i'm in maine and the cold water is very cold here. DO THE TOWELS LAST or you will have lint all over your clothes. oh yes, the lint trap broke after three uses. As much as i love my emergency washer, it is very shoddily made, so face it, it's not really for washing your clothes every day unless you have no alternative. I have to give it four stars i think the fact that i can agitate for as long as i want warrants that, but i would not buy this unless the only alternative was the bathroom sink and your hands or a laundromat where they wash dirty diapers. Shoddily made as it is, I will buy another one when it breaks. Funny how some things are made so badly but we'd buy them again they deliver so much convienience. Right now I'd be using the bathroom sink, honest to god if i didn't have this for back up. I will NOT use bed bug infested laundromats where diapers and whatever else is washed at. gross, and you don't know what diseases they had either. For years handwashing did not bother me one bit, i did it every day, washed everything in the sink and hung it up inside, but i'd started to get hives from the soap powder being constantly on my hands, so i will not speak badly of this machine, just don't expect anything fancy at all

I live in an apartment complex where washer/dryer hookups are non-existent and you have to use their laundromat facilities; well, they recently raised the prices and it costs $6.75 to do one load of laundry from start to finish. Thats highway robbery and doing laundry every month was costing me an arm and a leg; I decided getting a portable washer was the way to go and that itd pay for itself in the matter of months. After doing a ton of research and watching a bunch of Youtube videos, I settled on this unit and Im so glad I did. Yes, this sort of washing machine requires more work and babysitting than your traditional large washing machines but Im more than willing to put the effort in if it means not having to go to the laundromat and being able to do laundry in the comfort of my own home. I truly love this machine and if it were to stop working on me Id buy a replacement without batting an eyelash. Below is my start to finish routine that Ive found works best for me (the instructions that come with the machine aren't great at all); this may seem like a lot but once you get the routine down its not a big deal at all: 1. Hook all hoses up and start filling the machine with water (DO NOT fill past the lint catcher thats in the machine or you're going to have a big puddle on your floor). 2. Add a SMALL amount of detergent; Im talking like half of a teaspoons worth. This machine produces a lot of suds and if you add too much detergent you're going to have to do a ton of rinse cycles. I also add my scent boosting product at this time. 3. After adding the detergent I turn on the wash cycle just for 15-20 seconds to get the detergent to mix well with the water. 4. Add clothing. This machine can hold a decent amount; I can wash 2-3 pairs of leggings and 2-3 shirts/blouses per load (depending on weight); I also wash my towels in this machine without a problem (I do one large towel and one hand towel per load). 5. Once the water is filled to the level of the lint catcher I put in the separate lint catcher that I bought here from Amazon (link below) because the built in lint catcher in this machine is totally and completely worthless. The separate lint catcher floats on top of the water and catches a ton of lint (I have 2 cats, so this is a necessity). http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NR295FY?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00 6. Close the lid and set the timer (I usually do 5-12 minutes; all depends on how soiled the items are). 7. Once the wash cycle is done I turn the dial to drain and start loading the items into the spin dryer (I usually fit half a load at a time into the spin dryer) and spin them out for about a minute while the machine is draining the water; once the spin cycle is done I put the items back into the washer for the rinse cycle. 8. Start filling the washer with water again and add fabric softener. 9. Once the water is at the proper level I put the lint catcher back in and turn the washer on for another 5-12 minutes for the rinse cycle. 10. When the rinse cycle ends, turn the dial to drain and transfer the items to the spin dryer and spin dry for about 2 minutes or until water stops draining from the hose. 11. Take items out and hang up to dry fully; the spin dryer on this machine does such a great job of removing water that most items dry completely in 2-3 hours. 12. When Im done doing all laundry I lift the machine up onto my kitchen counter and turn the dial to drain to get all of the water out of the machine (you need gravity for this); the machine is really lightweight, so its not difficult to lift it. 13. Once all water is drained I use a paper towel to dry the inside of the washing & spin dryer tubs; then I leave the lids to both sections open overnight to make sure the machine gets to air dry properly. Hope this information helps you!!

The facts: Unit arrives in a well packaged box, the outer-box does indicate 'washing machine' on exterior. I know that previous reviews state that the box was generic and only displayed the brand name; there must have been a change as mine arrived with the brand name and 'washing machine' written on the outer-box. Upon opening, the Panda sits sandwiched between two styrofoam pieces to insulate during shipment. Inside are some pamphlets concerning warranty and instruction literature. Quoted to wash 6-7 lbs, and dry 3-4 lbs. My experience: Yes, the unit smells like plastic upon first using. The smell dissipates quickly after a couple uses, this has no affect on clothing smell. The washer is a lot bigger than expected, the agitator is VERY powerful--clothing easy tangles with other items during wash. Using net-bags will just tangle the bags together, and in my experience it ruins the bags to the point where it breaks the threading. In most cases, when the net-bags are used, the zippers open and turn inside out. The washer works very well for small-regular items, things like jeans, shirts and sweaters. Larger items like towels, bedding and small-blankets are a different story. Since the bigger items have less space to move about, towels and larger cloths tend to bundle up--only cleaning the outside. I usually stop mid cycle and turn the towels inside out to get an even wash. The dryer extracts water very well. Although the specs say that it fits only 3-4 lbs worth of clothing, I've found that I can put all of the items from the washer into the dryer. On a normal cycle, this is what I wash: (size small) -2 button ups -1 t-shirt -2 pairs of socks -2 pairs of underwear All of the items get a thorough washing and drying and usually takes around 20 minutes for a 'full cycle'. Note worthy experiences: -The lint trap works, but not as good as I would like. Lots of lint is left behind while being drained. Lint will show up when articles fully dry. I noticed that if I fill the drum 3/4 of water, the lint trap is able to capture more lint (but not all). -I can wash queen size sheets, but duvets push the limit. Difficult to wash, even more difficult to fit into spin dryer. -An iron or steamer is necessary, as most clothing will dry with wrinkles throughout. -If too much soap was used, and suds did not fully drain, place a little fabric softener with water diffuses all of soap. -Unit is not too loud, but I have it sitting in the foam board is shipped in on top of two towels. (Just so my neighbors don't complain.) -In order for faster turn around times from each wash, I use a pre-filled bucket. (The hose that came with the unit, takes too much time and bottle necks each cycle.) -My normal regime follows: 1. Wash 2. Drain 3. Spin 4. Wash @ 6 mins with fabric softener 5. Drain 6. Spin I've had this unit for 3 months now and works very well with no problems. My only gripe is the lint issue, seems to get my nose itchy with the lint all over the apartment. Nothing too crazy though, I'm happy with this purchase. Room for improvement that would earn 5 stars: - Ability to change the agitate levels. Currently it only has one speed, and some articles need a more gentle cycle--so it would be nice to have a choice to have different levels of speed - The timers aren't 'real'. What I mean by that, is that if I turn the dials to 10 minutes, but then decide it should rather be 5--the cycle will continue for the full 10 minutes. - The water hose that hooks up to the faucet could use a better design or a reinforcement band to help it stay on--especially when hot water is used. - Sometimes I find screws that fell off of the machine, but don't know where they came from. Everything still seems to work.

I purchased this Fridge in January, 2014, even after I read the reviews which were not good. I thought, really how bad can this be.... This really needs to come with a Buyer Beware sticker. For some reason I thought the warranty of this unit was for 2 years, it is not only 1. We went 9 Months with out the water line hitched up. It worked great and I loved it. Finally we decided that the reason why we went with an in door ice machine and water dispenser was to use it. So we finally hitched it up. That was the worst mistake we could have made. It started making Ice just fine and was fine for the 1st 3-4 months. I went to one day to place ice in a glass and pushed the button to have the ice dispensed. It made noise but then didn't work. When we tried to pull out the tray that keeps the ice, it wouldn't move. After forcing it and trying to get it dispense the ice, we were finally able to pull the tray out. Low and behold to ice maker that was above it fell down into the ice and auger. Once we pressed to button to get ice, it jammed and that was why we had an issue with pulling out the tray. I called tech support, who was nice enough to sell me an extended service plan even though I was out of that window ($326 for 3 years) and they dispatched the local repair guy. He came out and ordered and installed a new ice maker (valued at $400). Problem solved, right..... WRONG! After the new ice machine was installed it worked great for another few months. One day, it started to make noise from the fan inside. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it, and called for service. The same repair person came back out to look at it, and found that it was freezing up inside. He rescheduled to come back out, with help to tip the fridge and check the drain line for blockage. He came out, snaked down through the drain line and didn't find anything. 2 weeks later, I had the same noise. Called back and rescheduled another appointment. This time it became progressively louder until it just shut down. We thought yay, no more noise. Everything was froze up and it wouldn't make ice anymore. Not a problem we have enough ice right now, at least the noise had stopped. Well, no noise, no cooling so everything that was froze up melted. Right out the door and onto my carpeted rug! Dumped the Ice to prevent more water from running out. 3 Days later, it started making ice again. So here is the cycle we are in now... 3-4 days of making ice, Starts to get noisy on day 4, noise will progressively get louder day 5,6 & 7. On day 8 it'll shut down, and defrost on day 9, 10, 11. Day 12 the ice machine will kick back on and it will repeat the process. Can you say fed up! I have contacted tech support numerous times. The local repair man doesn't know what is wrong with it, and has washed his hands with it. So tech tried to get someone else to come "fix" it. They were supposed to come this morning. I got the call and was talking with the guy, to only find out they do not service anything another company has "fixed". They were the only ones left to do the work. I have made a complaint to Frigidaire. They have now decided to replace the Fridge. I have informed them, I do not want another Fridge, just my money back. I am DONE with this aggravation! So, Unless you want a big Headache and a Fridge that makes noise and doesn't make or keep Ice half the time. Save your Money. This Fridge is not worth the Price tag for something that doesn't work. We are now looking to purchase a New Fridge, and guess what.... It will not be a Frigidaire!

I line dry my clothes, so four years ago I purchased a Charming Spinner for $230 and used it for three years. I was impressed with the stainless steel construction, both on the outside and the spinner basket. It seemed very sturdy. I loved this spinner, because it drastically cut drying times from several hours to about two. That was why I was willing to put up with several flaws in its design. It was tall and narrow, so one load of wash made three loads in the spinner. Even after carefully following loading instructions, if the load wasn't balanced just right, it would not spin up to speed. I'd have to stop and reload everything. When it was balanced, the spinner shook and wobbled across the floor. It was also incredibly loud. It started off loud, it ran loud, and it braked with a horrible screeching sound. I put up with all of that because my clothes dried so much faster. The fatal flaw was the locking mechanism. To turn the spinner on you slid a lever which locked the lid and started it spinning. To turn it off, you slowly moved the lever back, engaging the brake. Once the spinning slowed enough that you could slide it to the off position it would unlock. But the lock was plastic and got stuck often. I would pry it open, worried every time that I would break it. After three years I finally did. Why build a spinner out of materials meant to last a long time, but make a critical component out of plastic? I wasn't willing to replace it with that major flaw, so I spent over a year without a spin dryer. After drying clothes in the house for the second winter in a row, I was frustrated with all day winter drying times. I started looking at spinners again and found Laundry Alternative, which carried two spinners, the Spin Dryer with a design similar to the Charming Spinner, and the Nina Soft. Both sold for about $165 including shipping. I hesitated on the Nina Soft, though. The plastic construction concerned me, and the rpm was only 1800, compared to 3200 rpm of the other spinner. After watching what few videos I could find and asking questions by email which were answered promptly, I bought the Nina Soft Spin Dryer, and I'm very happy I did. Every issue has been addressed in this design. First, it is a bit wider, making it easier to load. I follow the instructions for loading and have not once needed to reload it to balance the clothes. It holds more, so the same washer load can be spun in just two loads. The locking mechanism starts the spinner, but it is completely different from the other design. To start it you just close the lid. To stop it, you pull a latch. I can't believe how quiet this thing runs. I sometimes forget it's running because I can't hear it. It may shake just a bit as it spins up to speed (not always) but it does not wobble while running because the of its wider profile and the three large anti-slip feet it sits on. Because of how well it runs the plastic construction is not a problem. I can see this spinner lasting many more years than the other design. My final concern about the Nina Soft was the lower rpm. It does not remove as much water as the higher rpm spinners I use the same washer and the same container to catch the water, so I can tell it removes only about half as much. Drying times are longer than they were with the spinner, but still significantly reduced over just line drying. In warmer weather they'll dry even faster. Overall I am incredibly happy with the Nina Soft Spin Dryer. The improved design at such a good price far outweighs the fact that it removes less water. I would recommend it to anyone. I would also recommend buying it directly from Laundry Alternative. Their customer service is very responsive and shipping was fast.

I just got this little washer a week ago. I had read reviews (for days) before I finally decided to purchase it, and I'm glad I did. I strongly suggest you watch this YouTube video on HE Top-Load Washers...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5hD_iuwn9o. It will explain a lot about how these types of washers work. My mother had a Portable Kenmore washer back in the early 90's, and I was half expecting my new machine to be the same. Boy was I surprised. The first thing I noticed was that the tub didn't completely fill. This worried me at first, and I was really skeptical about how clean the cloths would actually get. Secondly, these machines have no agitator, which made me twice as skeptical. To my utter amazement though, the cloths came out clean and very well rung-out after the spin cycle. Lastly, the instruction manual for this machine SUCKS MONKEY PARTS. It's of NO value at all. So thank the heavens for people who write great reviews and make YouTube videos! If you want to watch a few, just keep in mind that this machine is the exact same model as the Magic Chef 1.6 cu ft. washer. The only difference is the brand name. The greatest benefit to having this machine, besides not having to go to the laundromat anymore, is how quiet it is. I remember how loud my mother's portable was in the kitchen, and I was afraid my downstairs neighbors would hear it. I recall the spin cycle being especially loud on the older portables. They would literally wobble across the floor. You had to watch the thing to make sure it didn't find its way out the door and down the steps. Again, I was pleasantly surprised. This machine has a slight vibration, but nothing that would alert anyone to the fact that you are doing laundry directly above their heads. If you are planning to get this machine, PLEASE read the review by Michael C. He suggests things that are essential to making this washer work properly. First, you will absolutely need a Y Splitter if you are running this from a kitchen sink. In all the YouTube videos I watched, no one ever mentioned the need for one. YOU WILL NEED IT. When I ran my first load, the washer kept pausing and I had no idea why. After watching it for a while, I realized that even though I selected "cold" for the wash cycle, and had only installed the "cold" hose, the machine kept trying to pull water from the absent "hot" hose, causing the frequent pauses. I'm not a patient person, so I immediately went to Home Depot to purchase a "Y Washing Machine Mixer Hose". They didn't have one in stock (I think it's an online only product), but they did have a "Metal Y Connector" in the Garden section. It works fabulously and was only $10. (http://www.homedepot.com/p/Melnor-2-76-in-Metal-Y-Connector-9000/100178887?MERCH=REC-_-SearchPLPHorizontal1_rr-_-NA-_-100178887-_-N) Another suggestion was getting the Teflon tape. You will need this if you don't want your entire kitchen to get sprayed. I found it at Walmart in the bathroom/faucet section for $0.97. I think they call it "Faucet threading tape". It's easy to miss, so look in the faucet section near the shower heads. Because I'd never used it before, I watched another video that explained how to put it on. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6BOAF2M1E) This video explains how to apply the tape, how much to use, etc. The load capacity will take some time to get used to, but I think I have the hang of it now. Coming from an old large capacity washer, I had to adjust to not having as much space. But, because this washer is so awesome, I totally don't mind splitting my load in half and just running two loads instead. So now I am happily washing my cloths at home, in my kitchen. If you are thinking about getting this machine, stop thinking and DO IT.

My partner and I bought this washing machine because we live in a top-floor apartment with one coin-operated washer and dryer for all of the tenants to share. We found out after move-in that everyone in the building operates on roughly the same schedule and we needed to time the wash cycle literally down to the minute for fear of annoying the neighbors and getting our clean clothes dumped on top of the dirty dryer. When we consulted our lease and property manager, we were basically told that we could use something like this as long as it didn't cause any kind of leak and we didn't change any of the piping inside the walls (anything under a kitchen or bathroom cabinet was fair game). We looked at the different sizes for this brand but opted for the 1.6 CF size because the wet clothes at the end fit perfectly in a portable dryer that we bought to go with it. The dryer we got advertises that it can accommodate 9 lbs of wet laundry and the link/specs to that item can be found here: <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001SUDJIQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1>. I find that this machine washes an entire work outfit (pair of pants, underwear, socks, long-sleeve shirt, undershirt) and 1-2 additional items depending on size/shape. The washer comes with two standard water intake hoses and a faucet adapter (which fit our kitchen sink but not the bathroom sink). As noted in other review, the machine gives an error message and you could risk burning out the motor if there isn't water pressure going to both intake ports (hot and cold). If you are going to use the faucet adapter, make sure that it fits your sink and spend $10-15 on a Y-Connector so that you can use one hose/faucet with both ports. The washer has about the same footprint as a square laundry basket or hamper. For this reason, we ended up buying new water hoses with a 90-degree bend at one end so that we can back the machine up to the side of the bathroom sink. There is only about a 1.5" gap with the new hoses and the top of the washer is just above counter level. The drainage hose very conveniently hooks onto the left side of the machine if you are facing it and we just place it in the tub when we start a cycle. Our bathroom sink drains very well (ie - no clogs) but it didn't drain fast enough for the machine and would have overflowed if we didn't switch the drainage to the tub. In the end, we didn't want to sacrifice the convenience of a hard-wired washer so we actually cut the pipes under the sink and added compression t-connectors. We then added another small length of 0.5" copper pipe and put on a washing machine shutoff valve similar to this one: <http://www.lowes.com/pd_135578-34146-WMVCOMP+1/2_0__>. The pipes look and connect the same exact way they did before except there is a hookup on each side that can twist closed when we move out without needing to cap and solder anything. With this setup the only difference between this and a full-size washer is that we have to remember to place the drain hose in the tub or else our bathroom will flood. I do want to add as a disclaimer that you shouldn't attempt this unless you (1) have permission and (2) are comfortable enough with plumbing to do proper compression fits that won't leak. If you haven't done it before, either stick with the faucet adapter or get someone with plumbing experience to help you with pipe hookup because a lot can go wrong. According to the energy guide, this will cost $34/year to run assuming you wash 8 loads of laundry per week. This is definitely cheaper than the coin-op machine I was using before. I have also noticed that my tub needs less scrubbing to stay clean because the bleach water from the clothes does the work for me.

My front loading Frigidaire washer developed mold after several years of use, primarily because I didn't leave the door open for a day or two to dry out as recommended - my bad. I have an excellent mold killer developed after Katrina called MoldStat that can penetrate nearly anything (bleach can't kill mold in wood), but even that stuff could not get mold out of the rubber gasket. Last week after finding another buildup of mold due to debris clogging the drain ports in the gasket, I decided to replace it. I used to be an engineer, very mechanically inclined, but this job nearly got the best of me! Big Mistake: I tried to replace the gasket without taking the top and front panels off after reading here that it could be done - it was a nightmare trying to get the lip of the new gasket over the metal flange inside the washer. After fighting it for an hour, I gave up, exhausted, with bloody hands and bruises. My suggestions from experience: 1. After you tilt the washer to get to the bottom screws, leave it up on a couple scraps of 2 x 4's, makes everything easier to get to. 2. Remove the top and front panels! Gives you much better access to the gasket flange. Have a few scraps of lumber ready for when you remove the front panel - there is an electrical connector that will prevent you from setting the front panel on the ground with it tilted - carefully snip the tip of the wire tie holding the wire harness to the back of the front panel -it sticks out through the flange of the panel (do not attempt to snip it where it wraps around the wires!), then set the panel off to the side on the lumber. 3. Do not use dishwasher soap to lube the flange or gasket - made it so slippery I couldn't get a good grip on anything. I rinsed off the soap, dried out the gasket, then sprayed a garage door lube inside the gasket, let it dry overnight - provided lube inside the gasket without being slippery to the hands. Any sort of spray-on dry lubricant should work. 4. Reinstalling the inner spring that holds the gasket to the inner flange was beyond miserable - the two spacers that came with the gasket were too large, couldn't jam them in place to hold the spring at 12:00. Instead, I got some scrap wood ~ 3/8" thick, and used a C-clamp to hold the first piece of wood and spring in place at 12:00. Worked my way down both sides using additional pieces of wood and clamps until I got the spring to 7:00 and 2:00, at which point the clamps were preventing the spring from stretching any further, so I removed all the blocks/clamps except for the two at 7:00 and 2:00, then got the rest of the spring in place - was a huge struggle though - had to use every ounce of strength I had to stretch that sucker far enough and roll it over the flange. For some reason at this point the spacers actually fit, used them to slowly get the last bit of the spring installed a few inches at a time. 5. While it's apart, take the time to thoroughly clean the inside of the washer where the detergent/bleach dispenser resides, use cleaner of choice and an old toothbrush - found mold in there too - then reassemble/reinstall the panels. Use a wire tie on the right side wire harness you clipped off in step #2 to hold it in place and prevent it from rubbing on the panel. BTW, this Frigidaire gasket ($81) is identical to another one sold here under the Kenmore brand for $71, which is the one I bought - part number is the same - "Kenmore Sears Washer Front Load Door Rubber seal gasket 134515300-KE". Gave it 5 stars because the product is fine, although the instructions leave a lot to be desired.

I just finished this repair job yesterday on a Maytag Bravos Quiet Series 300 washer. Here's a few tips to anyone attempting this repair: 1) Complete list of tools needed - putty knife (to depress spring clips), adjustable wrench (for lock nut and to use bearing tool), vice grips (to hold shaft when removing lock nut), pliers (to remove spring clamp on drain hose), 3/8" drive ratchet, 1/4" allen socket (for bolt holding rotor bell), 7/16" socket and extension (for bolt holding basket), 3/8 socket (for bolts holding stator), hammer (to knock out shaft and to use a punch when removing old bearings), phillips head screwdriver (remove screws holding the basket hub and to keep rotor bell from moving when bolting it back down) and finally a large paper clip or stiff wire (to clean out weep hole near inner bearing). Optional but nice to have - LED headlight (always helps to have more light to see), a roll of shop towels (to soak up water and clean up parts), a block of wood (hit it instead of hitting the shaft during installation to prevent damage). 2) Rent the bearing installation tool online for ~$25 plus shipping back. You can futz around with attempting to make your own with a threaded rod and washers but why risk the bearings being set out of place and having to do the whole job over again to save a few bucks? Hitting the bearings with a hammer to install them also seems like a quick way to ruin them. 3) If your washer has this problem, replace the bearings sooner than later. My washer just started making the "jet engine" sound a few weeks ago. When I started this repair and looked at the factory installed bearings, I noticed that they were already significantly corroded. I can only imagine how much more difficult it would be to remove the bearings if I put off the repair for later. I also got lucky and did not have to use the jack trick to remove the basket. 4) The spring clips to remove the washer top are much stronger than expected. You'll need a stiff and strong putty knife to get them to budge. 5) Expect to set aside some time to clean up any mold that has accumulated underneath the wash plate cap, on the bottom of the wash plate, and finally the outer tub itself. It was quite disgusting to see all the black mold hidden in the nooks and crannies on the underside of the wash plate. You'll need some q-tips and some vigorous scrubbing in a sink to get rid of it. I use bleach with every load of whites and keep the washer top open when done washing and mold still accumulated in the washer over the years. 6) Set aside at least 24 hours for the Pliobond adhesive to cure before testing out the washer after the repair. Also be sure not to apply excess adhesive. It'll slowly settle near the shaft and that could risk the whole bed of adhesive ripping off in one piece when the shaft spins. It also helps to keep the area you are working in well-ventilated area when using the adhesive. Pliobond gives off quite a strong smell and isn't healthy to breathe in according to its MSDS. 7) Remove and inspect the drain trap in the inner tube while you have the basket off. I didn't find anything in mine but it only takes a few minutes to remove the cover (two 1/4" bolts that can be removed with a multibit screwdriver without a bit in it) and check. 8) When putting the washer back together, be sure to fasten the bolts and screws attaching the stator and basket hub in a criss-cross pattern like when you change a wheel on a car. This distributes the attachment force evenly. The Youtube videos of this repair show people attaching bolts on one side and that way risks parts being misaligned. All in all, this is not a difficult repair, just a very tedious one. I now understand why labor costs on this repair are so high. If you're getting your spouse to do this repair, be sure to show a lot of appreciation when the repair is done.

Our old washing machine broke a couple of months ago; and, even though we could have fixed it, we decided it was time to go with a new front loader instead. The main reason we wanted front loading machines was because of the space savings when stacked. After a week of research, we settled on either this LG model or the comparable Samsung, based on reading pretty much every review we could find - we settled on the LG because of price. Aside from the fact that these are extremely heavy compared to our old top loaders, the installation was fairly straight forward. The water hoses are a couple of feet longer than a typical washer hose (even other front loaders), which was great for us since we ended up stacking them a few feet from the water inputs. They are also very easy to setup and use. At first we were a bit nervous about the height of the machines when stacked, but those fears were completely unfounded. I'm 5'9" and I can access both the washer and dryer with ease. The washer tub is actually tilted upward to make it easier to access when it's sitting on the floor instead of a stand. As a quick reference, if you're worried about the height, the bottom of the dryer opening sits at 54" when stacked, the center of the dryer control knob sits at 76", and the top of the dryer is at 79". Aside from the obvious space savings, here are the things we've really liked about this washer: 1) It runs very quietly with no noticeable vibration. I was worried about this after reading reviews for other front loaders, but it hasn't been a problem at all - even with both the washer & dryer stacked and running at the same time. 2) It gets our clothes at least as clean as our old washer ever did; but it uses a lot less water to do it. (It's supposed to be easier on the clothes too, but I have no way to verify that.) 3) The controls are intuitive and easy to use. 4) We can fit an amazing amount in each load. Our old washer was a high capacity top loader, but this thing can probably clean almost twice as many clothes in each load. It is especially nice when it comes time to clean bedding that didn't even fit in the old washer. 5) I love the load sense feature. This is one of the things you should read the manual to figure out how to use; but it is definitely worth the effort. Basically, it tells you how much detergent you need to add in order to get the clothes clean for that particular load - I use it to tell me when the load is full by just adding clothes until it says I need the full amount of deterget:). It really does eliminate a lot of guess-work. As usual, there are some things I wish I could change: 1) You can't use powder detergent with liquid bleach in the same load. You need to have either powder or liquid for both. 2) The controls don't remember settings, which can be a bit irritating since we use the same settings 95% of the time. Luckily they are easy to set, but you do need to reprogram it every time you turn it on. 3) The washer door only opens one way (the hinge is on the left), which is great if that's the way you need it to open. In our case, it opened the wrong way so we had to rearrange the room a bit. Fortunately, the long hoses made it possible to rearrange everything without a lot of extra effort or expense. Another thing I had read about the front loaders was that the door needs to be left open between loads. I thought this would be a pain, but it really hasn't been a big deal at all. The manual doesn't actually recommend doing that; but says to periodically run a tub clean cycle (I think it says to do it every month) to eliminate any odor. I figure I'll leave the door open as well just to be safe. Overall we are extremely pleased with these. I guess time will tell if they hold up as well as our old top loader did, but so far I'm pretty confident that they will. I highly recommend these if you're looking for a new washer and dryer.

I really like this ice maker for the one month I have had it. I give it only 4 stars because I haven't had it long enough to have experienced any problems keeping it clean or to evaluate possible reliability problems. So far it does what I wanted it to do. I also agree with all previous comments. The cubes are smaller than I would prefer and they do have holes in them. But the unit is compact, reasonably attractive as an appliance and produces acceptable ice. I haven't owned any previous stand alone ice makers but I find the quality of the ice acceptable as a substitute for the ice my refrigerator unit (no longer working) used to produce. I would say the quantity of ice produced is adequate for either a couple or even a family of four. Ideally you would store the ice made in a freezer and only use the IM200SS periodically. It does make some noise when the compressor is operating so placing it in a bedroom might not be advisable. But in a kitchen or living room it shouldn't matter. UPDATE 11/17/2014 I've had this ice maker for a year now and I'm lowering the rating I give it from four stars to only two. At the moment it is still making acceptable ice but there have been problems. The first was that a brown scum would accumulate in the area under the ice bucket. I assumed that some metallic part in the ice maker was rusting but it may be something else though I can't imagine what that would be. I cleaned that tank. Oddly the ice itself never seemed to be affected (no odd taste.) Then it began making ice that was too thick to eject into the bucket. I turned it off and allowed it to reach room temperature and then only partly filled the water reserve tank. That fixed that problem. Next the controller that limits the amount of water from the reserve each ice making cycle stopped working and all the water in the water reserve tank would flow into the tank under the ice bucket and flood the ice. Not good. Again I even more severely limited the amount of water I would put into the water reserve tank and also contrived to raise the ice bucket about an inch using small button magnets attached under the ice bucket to adjust the height. This last so I could use more water and not have to refill the tank as often. But about two months ago I discovered that the limiter problem has now cured itself (at least for the time being.) Now only the brown scum and thick ice problems remain but they are only intermittent. Still, on balance, I am glad I bought this system because the ice it makes has always been very good. I appreciate that building an ice making machine this compact is challenging. But no more than two stars for this one. UPDATE 7/17/2017 The problem of keeping the unit clean became progressively more difficult. The brown scum continued to appear and must be rust from some part of the system that should be made of stainless steel. At times the residue in the bottom of the ice reservoir (that is, below the ice bucket) would take on an oily/slimy feel. I just wish they had put more thought into the materials that were in contact with the water. I finally sent the unit to the trash bin about a month ago. In the preceding four months I was needing to clean the unit every two weeks or so. And, although my taste buds aren't what they used to be, I believe I could detect an odd taste to the ice. I started to worry whether I was doing damage to myself using the ice. That together with the difficulty of keeping it clean led me to dispose of the unit. Final conclusion - if you are willing to buy a new unit every couple of years this is the unit for you as initially I found the ice to be of high quality. But I would hope for more from such an appliance, maybe five years between replacement. So I've lowered the rating to (now) one star.

I fixed my own freezer! Wish I had known this info before I did it, as I would have saved about fifty bucks. If you have a freezer that *isn't freezing*, it is often because it isn't defrosting. (The frost buildup blocks the airflow past the cooling fins.) #1 The Defrost Timer ( Frigidaire 297318010 Defrost Timer) is VERY likely to give out eventually. It is just a mechanical timer, so it has a small motor that can go bad or its metal contacts can get fouled by the normal arcing that happens as it switches from refrigerate to defrost mode and back. This is super easy to get to and replace from the back of the refrigerator/freezer. It's about ten to fifteen bucks, so it's a cheap easy fix. (To diagnose, look for the little dial that you can turn. If you turn it, it will click and the freezer should turn off, then turn it just a little more and it should turn back on. If that happens, the contacts are fine. (If it doesn't turn the freezer off and on, then the contacts are fouled - so replace the timer.) If the contacts are fine, next mark a line on the dial and move it to the 12 o'clock position. Wait a few hours and come back and check it. If it is still in the 12 o'clock position, then the motor on the timer is dead, and you need to replace it. If however the timer has turned to, say, 2 o'clock, then the timer is still good and it is very likely that there is a different cause for the freezer to have stopped. #2 The Thermostat ( Frigidaire 297318010 Defrost Timer ) is located inside the freezer, behind the bottom back panel, near the heat exhanger that looks like a radiator. (On mine, it was at the upper left corner of the heat exchanger.) The thermostat is fairly easy to get to, and you can replace it for about ten bucks. (Especially if it looks bloated or like it came apart at all, just replace it.) To get to it, remove the shelves, and unscrew the panel. Pull the dial for the temperature selector straight off, and unclip the temp selector from the panel. There will likely be a LOT of ice behind it, if you haven't already defrosted the unit. If you still have to defrost it, unplug the freezer and place a fan inside of it (up on a couple boards to keep it out of the melting water). Leave the door open and the fan going for a couple hours and the ice will all be gone, easily, except for the water all over the floor... I'd defrost it in the garage, or outside if possible. #3 The defrost heater / heating element ( Frigidaire 216730700 Defrost Heater for Freezer ) is located under the heat exchanger, and is attached with some thin aluminum strips. It shouldn't really go bad, so I'd try replacing the above two items first. But if they don't fix it... well here's another forty or fifty bucks to throw at fixing the problem. Be careful with the aluminum strips that hold the defrost heater in place, and you can re-use them. (If they break, do NOT use a non-aluminum wire to hold it in place, or you could ruin your freezer!) Other diagnostics: (I haven't done these, but they came up in my searches and fixes.) If the fan doesn't run inside, that's a fairly obvious thing to replace, and looks to be pretty easy. Be sure to cycle the defrost timer to check it. If there is just not enough cooling, but there is no frost buildup and the fan works, then the temperature selector might be the problem. If the compressor doesn't run, there is a capacitor that I've seen come up as a replacement part. If nothing works at all - no lights, no fan, no compressor, then you might have had a power surge that blew out the computer board.

Every once in a while you get a bad item but the one I got was flawed from the factory, flawed from amazon, and likely damaged by the previous owner (yeah, I ordered new). The box arrived looking okay. Some holes here or there but that isn't uncommon. What wasn't normal was that the manufacturers seal had clearly been cut and the box re-taped with clear shipping tape. Not a good start but hey, I don't need the tape, only what's inside. When I opened the box the items inside seemed to be thrown in. Another indication it had been previously "owned". You get the point...maybe Amazon re-shipped a return? I've had good luck with Amazon, everyone makes a mistake. I'll ignore that...this review will be manufacturing quality since that was what I was concerned about when I was reading other's reviews. Once out of the box, I inspected the item. Even up close it's a great looking hood (design-wise). The flow, the material...nice. The workmanship and finish is where this hood really hits the dumpster. The spot welds used to hold the thing together are minimal and have very little holding power. The way they finish the edges removed too much material and created cracks in the edges where the material/welds were finished causing a weld to fail and then whatever filler (could just be weld) they use to fail as well (either too thin or too much stress as a result of the failed weld). The result is a visible crack in the front left of the hood along a formed edge about an inch and a half long). It's obvious that someone hand sands the corners. The sand/scuff marks don't go with the grain of the stainless so it actually looks discolored as if you rubbed it too much in the wrong direction with a fine brillo pad. Since both front corners are finished the same, you can see a noticeable difference in color form just a few feet away (so painfully obvious as you walk around in the kitchen because you always walk by it). In more than one spot there are little subtle dents where the material had gone through the brake (how the edges are formed) or a result of handling. These little dents don't look like customer abuse dents but more handling defects created during the manufacturing process (from experience from a past life ;) like one would expect from a piece of material that was adjusted before welding or clamped in a fixture when it was slightly out of shape. The "filters" are nothing more than stainless sheets that have louvers cut into them in opposing directions. Simple and effective i would guess but one of mine actually had a screw inside of it "floating around". From the previous owner maybe...or the manufacturer? All of the parts on the fllters are made from the same gauge material. Because of how they fit into the hood itself, they'll likely need tweaking from time to time after washing because the tabs will likely get bent - all 3 of mine needed to be corrected just to put them in the first time. Not a big deal I guess but I could see a tab breaking off over time. Are replacements available? Previous reviewers say it's tough. Oh...even though the ad doesn't say it, it does have a squirrel cage blower assembly which is a good thing. I get it, half the price of other hoods. I can understand why some might say "awesome for the price" or "what a deal" but I'm guessing they got one that was more perfect than the one I got. What I wonder, after inspecting one in person, is if there are quality issues with things I didn't even inspect like the blower assembly, electrical...I'm suspicious. Just visually, the discoloring of the corners due to sanding/scuffing during the manufacturers finishing process isn't acceptable and the crack I can't live with. The product looks nice and they've got the right idea. I'd recommend spending just a little more money and improve their finishing process even if that means making it $50 more. The price point would certainly allow it.

4-of-5 stars because the temperature control isn't as tight as it could be, and the leaking keg coupler. Would have been 3 stars due to the CO2 leaking problem, but the customer service was great! I decided to purchase this make and model for several reasons. Reviews of other kegerators such as Danby and EdgeStar were commonly full of complaints about inability to get the temperature down below 40F, while beer should be stored at ~35F. Since these residential keg coolers are only modifed food fridges, that makes sense. However, the Kegco model had reviews where folks shared that they were able to get down to freezing with no problem. Second, the inner dimensions should be large enough to store any size of keg, while others will not be wide enough to store kegs from Anheuser Busch or Miller. I'm a craft beer fan so I won't probably ever touch the light beers, but I don't want my options limited. I elected for the 309SS-2 because 1) this is going to be in my house so I wanted the nice look of the stainless steel door, 2) the ease of setting the temperature on the front, 3) the double tap will allow me to have two different beers on tap using two 1/6th-barrels so I can have keg beer and variety, and last but certainly not least 4)the super-chill mode to get a new keg cold faster. The superchill was attractive because to me it implied that the compressor and cooling system were strong enough to take a heavy load for 24-hours without failing, which I found important because other brands failed under that condition. I decided not to get more expensive brands based on simple economics. Doing research in many areas, common issues with kegerators are foamyness on initial pour because the tower isn't cooled, sticking faucets, and poor temperature control. Most people were able to solve these issues by making modifications on their own. Initial foamyness on first pour = tower cooler $30-40, sticking faucets = replace with Perlick 525SS $50-60, poor temp control = external temperature monitor and control $80-100. So for another $100 bucks I can get a perfect poor every time, and if I even want tighter temperature controls I can add that too. The new unit shipped in about 10 days and was in good condition. The instructions to setup the fridge weren't great, but all you are doing is putting on four casters and then mounting the tower with the included screws. The fridge had all holes pre-drilled and treaded so all I needed was a screwdriver. The CO2 system was daunting, but that will be for any kegerator. I followed the setup instructions and ended up wasting two bottles of CO2 because one of the keg couplers was leaking. I called up BeverageFactory and one of the technical service reps guided me through identifying the leak. At this point I was VERY frustrated with losing $50 of CO2. Within an hour a customer service rep from Beverage Factory called me and asked me to send a picture of the leaking part (bubbling soapy water) and he would send out a new keg coupler, AND they are sending a new cleaning kit to compensate for some of my losses. The temperature control isn't that great. While set at 36F the fridge moves between 30 and 38 using a seperate temperature measurement and a cup of water to calibrate the indeed when the device read 31F and below that the water started to freeze, which it did. Not perfect temperature control, but I've not had any foamyness from freezing beer in the first 3 weeks of use, so I probably won't mess with it. I did make my own tower cooler by simply looking up online and following utube videos. It was easy enough and took parts from radioshack and my ace hardware helpful hardware man. Within 30 minutes the beer poored perfectly every time because the tower was now cold. I am going to order the new perlick faucets now.

Did your Frigidaire Affinity Dryer throw an E66 code? Did your screen say open door or heater? Well, here it is, this baby is 1 of the possible 3 sensors for that code (farthest sensor on the bottom **your left** while facing the machine, just behind the 2nd sensor). I will give you the quick and dirty (but proper solution) solution if you want to read on. For those who don't, the part fits exactly and worked fine. My dryer is up and running. For those who want to know how I figured it out: to get the code, get your dry out of standby by twisting the knob or pressing the start. Immediately after hold start and cancel at the same time about 3 seconds. Write down the codes and anything else the screen may say. E66 states heater, but the unit still didn't register the door as being closed. How to open your dryer: - unplug it first!! - 2 screws on the back hold the top panel. Opening that will give you access to the main control board (black or white control box on the top right of the drum). 137260140 Frigidaire Appliance Control Board - I found mine for cheap and my original board and some blackening on the relay so better safe than sorry, ordered a new on for about $100. Still 50% cheaper than what a repairman will sell it to you for. Trust me. - On the front control panel (button controls), you only need to take off 2 screws, 1 on each side of that metal bracket connected to it. Nothing else, you can lift it away and set it on top of the drum without pulling plugs. Then you can reach down and see the door trigger. Simply put pressure and push the door switch out front so you can multimeter test the metal tabs. The meter should give some reading if it working at all when switch is pressed and when released, the tester should read zero. If not swap probe contacts and try again. If not then there's on part you need to replace. (mine worked) To take apart the front simply remove the top 2 screws, the 2 behind the door (dont have to remove the door, just open it), and then 2 on the very bottom. Lift slightly up and pull out. Second: do the same for the 3 thermal sensors. One is located behind the duct running from the front to back of the machine. It is a blind reach unless you really feel the need to take part more. I just lined up the probes with my index and middle finger tips and felt around for the metal contacts. Got a reading. Then on the left side, there is a smaller duct and you will see the next 2 sensors next to each other. I tested the 2nd closest to me, got a reading. 3rd is a little bit of a game of arm/hand twister but not bad (sorry, larger forearms will not squeeze past, you will have to remove the side panel to even test it or employ child labor - j/k haha ). Of course, I did not get a reading for the 3rd and farthest sensor. This is the part I am reviewing. You do have to remove the side panel unless you have a miracle trick to unscrew it in such a tight and awkward place. ***Note the markings on the old, don't think there's a right way to position the new on but I still put it word upright as the factory did on the original. Screw it back in and done! Temporarily put back the front control board and plug back in. Test to see if the dryer will let you past the error code and start spinning the drum. If it does then Viola! permanently close it up. UPDATE: 10/10/16 with baby #2 out, thank God I fixed this myself!! Been ripping through loads of laundry and it has been working spectacular. I hope everybody has the same luck.

My wife and I just got this delivered on Sept. 22nd, which I believe is the first day it was available for sale as it's a new model. She's always wanted a double oven, and we don't have the space for the typical wall model in our condo. I must say it's quite the impressive sight. It looks expensive - and it should because it is expensive for a non-luxury brand. But you get what you pay for - the quality is there and you can see and feel the difference between this and your typical $1,400 range. It comes with an iron grill/griddle that runs on the center 5th burner (the existing grate must first be removed). The iron grates are much lighter than many stoves, so they are easy to remove for cleaning. GE has an excellent reputation for its gas ranges as per Consumer Reports, and I expect this one to be no different. The cooking performance has been excellent on both the stovetop and the oven so far. We haven't tried the convection function yet though, so can't comment on that. It has a tri-ring burner which is basically three burners in one. It's kind of hard to explain, but really cool once you see it in person. You have separate controls for both ovens on the keypad, which is really easy to operate with just a touch. It can be locked for cleaning or to keep children from playing with it. The upper oven is the smaller one. It's good for pizzas, cookies, cakes, and other smaller food dishes. It's probably the one most people will use most often. The lower oven is the bigger one you'll use for roasts, turkeys and other bulkier foods. The upper oven contains the broiler, while the lower oven has convection capability. A few notes of caution about this model: 1) You give up the storage drawer most ranges have, so be prepared to store all your pans elsewhere; 2) If you have problems bending down or picking up heavy food trays from down low, this model is not for you. The lower oven is basically on the floor and can be hard to access; 3) This model is slightly deeper than many ovens - be sure to measure before buying to ensure nearby cabinet doors and drawers will still open without hitting it; 4) Lastly, understand that this is a slide-in model, which means the sides aren't finished and you'll have a gap between the back of the range and the wall if your space isn't made for this type of range. All said, this was a fantastic purchase, and we're very happy with it so far. At the time of this writing, according to GE this range is a one of a kind - it is currently the only double oven slide-in gas range made. There is a stand-alone version in gas/electric (finished sides and backsplash) and an electric slide-in version of this model for those who prefer those types of ranges. People who desire Wolf, Viking, Dacor, etc. need not apply, as this is not a wanna-be pro range meant to compete with those, as they start at $1-2K more. But it compares favorably with GE's higher-end Cafe and Monogram lines. If you're shopping for the top of the line of a mid-tier brand and you can afford one, I highly recommend this model. *UPDATE* - after living with this range for nearly 18 months now, I can update people on the reliability of this range. It has been rock solid without a single problem. However, it scratches unusually easily. We have a few ugly scratches front and center despite being very careful with it. So beware of that issue. Also, the black metal caps on the burners permanently stain if just about anything but water spills on them. So watch for that as well. Other than those two things, we have not a single complaint.

I ordered this unit because of it's advertised high capacity air handling properties and the price. Although having to wait a couple months for delivery after ordering this unit, I believe wait was worth it. During the wait period Amazon was excellent in communicating with me about my order without prompting from me. The hood was packaged extremely well with what appeared to me to be expensive soft foam packing on the inside and high density cardboard supports to protect the outside of the box. I was pleased to see that there was not a stray mark, dent, or any other imperfection anywhere on the unit. We done Z Line!!! Product Summary: This thing really moves the air. I very much appreciate the fact that the two large fans do a good job of removing steam and smoke from the front burners of the stove which is a huge improvement over my previous hood. The robust air handling does come at a cost however - I find the unit more noisy than expected. My kitchen is part of a combined dining and living space. Consequently, the hood fans create enough noise to mask low volume music and normal voice conversation in the room. If my kitchen was separated from the rest of the areas, I don't think I would mind the noise. Installation was not that hard but was complicated by the fact I had to fabricate wooden mounting rails under the cabinet to accommodate mounting screw holes on the hood. I was very pleased that the supplied rectangular ceiling vent hardware was compatible with my existing vent so this eliminated the need to purchase more vent hardware and reduced installation time. Installation required a second person to assist. The hood performs very well so I do recommend this product to others. Here are a few observations about the Z Line stove hood. I like the: * Fit and finish of the hood. All parts are manufactured to close tolerances so you don't see gaps in the seams. The stainless steel is beautiful and feels like industrial quality. It is thick enough to tolerate moderate pressure when cleaning without denting or creasing. * Two halogen lights. The lights provide bright and even illumination on and around the stove top. * Controls. The controls are simple with three fan speed buttons and one button that controls the lighting. * Dimensions. The unit fit perfectly in my 30" wide space and is thinner than my previous hood giving us more height in the cooking area over the stove. * Appearance. It just looks great in our kitchen and complements the other appliances. There is no brand logo on the unit to conflict with brand badges on your other appliances. * Performance. As mentioned above the hood sucks gases from the front burners of the electric stove top and does so very well at a height of 25 inches. I did not like the: *Cryptic Instructions. I realize this is a tough area for all manufacturers but as a weekend warrior DIY guy I need lots of pictures and instructions. The instruction book left a lot to be desired for me. Others with more skills might find installation goes easier. The instructions might help the less skilled user more if there were more step by step details included. Schematics in the instructions need to be updated as mounting screw location measurements in the instructions were not consistent with the mounting hole measurements on the unit that was shipped to me. While planning your installation I recommend that you do your own measurements to confirm. * Lack of lighting options. This is admittedly nitpicking but you only get an on/off light button with the unit. There is no high/low light setting available. That said, the 20W halogen bulbs provide a satisfactory level of light intensity. * Fan noise. I wish the unit was quieter but I'll settle for the high capacity air extraction as a compromise. All in all, I am very pleased with Amazon's service and the high quality product I received. I hope this helps future buyers as well as Z Line as they consider future improvements in their products.

Ice backup better than "insulated" buckets, driving time, gasoline waste, overpriced bad ice? Giving 5 stars only temporarily in order to report in phases a more holistic impression of this solution to ice outages, thanks to a Samsung ref. design whose fickle ice maker requires a backup unit like this. Unit was selected b/c: it was in the highest bracket for owner reviews on Amazon & Best Buy no store locally had this (or any other) counter ice maker Prime shipping in stock @ Amazon available next day ~ same price as a replacement freezer ice maker (well, except for shipping markups + expedited) You MUST wait the 4 hours mfr demands if unit shipped or unboxed out of level (depend on this!) THEN First ice comes out in 8 minutes flat, selected as "large" BUT the ice bucket catcher has a center hole EXACTLY this size to allow some to dive back into the water pool reservoir .... ?!?!?! This is because the 9 metal rods haven't gotten cold enough = tiny, tiny ice at first. Placing the shovel in the bucket is a temporary solution but it takes up space for ice; remove it later or when running at full tilt. Second ice dumps in 8 minutes flat! Size & quantity is not impressive BUT calculations indicate x1.7 faster than -14F freezer ice maker when Large ice bullets chosen (Tiny bullets might form faster). Contrary to Specifications @ "27#/24hrs" ~1#/hr. Beats fetching store ice thus far & rich in ice ... until tested by visitors coming next month ... so wait & see. Third dump ~8 minutes = more exciting than freezer ice every 90 minutes (even if much larger dump). Comment made - is there water boiling in the kitchen? Does it seem that loud? Dishwasher seems that loud, freezer ice dump louder but deeper, muffled sound & no sound when running. Next morning 2 hours = 1 quart mug filled with "large" ice ~1 pound Indicator "ice full" is because it needs you to push ice away from dump site, your reward is at least two more loads; will try to see if 1.5# in specs can actually be true with a little ice pushing help ... seems a stretch. Freezer ice maker on the door hold 7.5# and dispenses the oldest ice at bottom! That day, the production rate stayed the same, sometimes filling up with ice but heavier duty ice; it seems the 9 metal rods don't respond immediately to commands like start or switching from tiny to large cubes/bullets. consistent with startup SOP. Even 30 ' away some will find the drone (not to mention the ice drops) noises to be competitive, so placed with a buffer between, carpet/other materials nearby is a plus for everyday use. If a surplus of ice is achieved due to having another ref/freez maker, know that dumping these soft, moist bullets into that freezer bucket WILL freeze together, form a block, then this logjam must be ice picked to insure normal ice dispensing. Saving them in a tray in freezer = ice picking out what you need. This ice is the next friendliest soft ice to shaved ice for your teeth - ask your dental tech next visit about that if you chew it. Have drained it once to insure fresh filtered water and didn't make too much of a mess as a newbie - TIPS: have more than 4 cups catcher, better is over sink; refilling up to max. level only if it's turned off - otherwise will become too full and up into ice basket above water reservoir. Waiting for a sale? HA! These don't last long & NONE were stocked locally here in Mudville (pop. 200,000). Yes, I refer this for modest extra ice, ice maker backup and fun toy gift to guys into bartending, kids big on "soda fountains".

Can't believe how LARGE this is- more than enough for my needs (I'd estimate large enough to hold at least a month's worth of frozen food). Glad I didn't get the 3 cubic feet one. It holds MUCH more than the photo (or video) suggests (more below). Well-packed, in perfect shape. Indeed, as the instructions assert, if the freezer isn't level the door doesn't stay closed. I'd never done this before, have poor manual dexterity and it took me quite a while to adjust the feet on each side, using a level horizontally and vertically (checking the side to side tilt and the front-to-back). It wasn't difficult, but it required time and patience. The instructions say turn each foot (two at the front corners) to the right to lower, to the left to raise, which confused me a bit but it translates to counter-clockwise to lower, clockwise to raise. Once I finally got it level (I have a wonky surface in my travel trailer), the door closed tight. At one point I tried locking the door with the key and THAT did the trick, so if it ever becomes an issue (like when traveling) nice to have a surefire method for ensuring that the door remains closed. Note- I got it all situated, THEN read the part about initially setting the temperature knob to 5, the highest it will go, so had to pull it out again and set it (see photo of the back- the white round dial on the left). SO, all ready to go, plugged it in, and put in an ice cube tray of water. It took less than TWO hours to freeze solid! (I read reviews of other freezers that said it took overnight for ice to freeze initially). To give you an idea of what can fit in the freezer (I experimented), it can hold 39 full-size Banquet TV dinners + 2 smaller packages, like Lean Cuisines, + 4 small frozen juice containers + 8 smallish burritos, like Don Jose's. I've checked repeatedly, and regarding a large bag of ice, there's none of that slightly melting and then re-freezing again, which results in ice that's congealed cubes and requires an icepick (my house fridge does that). Ice cubes remain frozen solid and separate, and ice cream is as hard as a rock, the way I like it. [UPDATE: The thing about the ice not slightly melting I've found is only true if you keep the ice on the bottom shelf. If you place it on the top shelf it does slightly melt, requiring an ice pick. But ice cream kept on the top shelf is always rock hard, as is other frozen food, so it seems the effect is slight and of little consequence, my house fridge/freezer does the same thing. I've kept chicken, fish, etc. frozen on the top shelf for months at a time, no ill effects whatsoever and cooks up fresh. Also, for what it's worth, we had a power outage of 10 hours and everything still seemed to be frozen solid. After five months of use still LOVE the freezer.] I was unable to upload the video of the freezer from the Whynter site for some reason, you can go there to see it (but it also shows those little containers/cartons of Haagen Dazs-type icecream, which don't provide an accurate impression of how MUCH it holds). You can also download the owner's manual (note: the freezer is listed under refrigerators, for some reason). FYI, the owner's manual states that the freezer draws 75 watts, .88 amps. It comes with a small paper sticker on the front that removes easily after soaking for a few minutes with dishwashing lotion. So quiet, you can barely tell when it's running. And it's BEAUTIFUL. Couldn't be happier with this freezer! If it malfunctions or dies I'll update my review.

I just saved the cost of a new dishwasher - hooray! I installed our Kitchenaid dishwasher in 1971, over 40 years ago. It still works fine, but the vinyl covered racks had numerous places where they were rusting very badly. Obviously, racks are no longer available for such an old machine, but even if they were, they'd be too costly to justify instead of just biting the bullet and replacing the dishwasher. In some spots, the wire was rusted more than halfway through. Some of the spikes were an inch or more shorter than original because they'd rusted away. In short, the racks were in HORRIBLE shape. I found a bottle of ReRACK at a hardware store and since it was only 7 bucks, I figured there was not much to lose. The only color in the store was white, I later found out Performix also makes gray, but it didn't matter since my dishwasher racks are pale blue. White looks way better than rust! There were so many rusty spots, I decided to sandblast the racks. If you don't have access to sandblasting, you could start with 50 grit sandpaper, and move to 120 to finish, or you could use a grinding wheel in a rotary tool. After getting rid of the rust, clean the surfaces carefully twice with lacquer thinner to completely degrease. This is a better solvent than the rubbing (isopropyl) alcohol they recommend. Most rubbing alcohol is only 70%, meaning 30% is water, which is a lousy grease cutter. If you use rubbing alcohol, try to find 90% which is a better solvent for grease. Use clean paper towels and Q-tips for this job. Let dry thoroughly. Apply several thin coats of ReRACK, letting it dry between coats, approximately a half-hour or more. For the worst spots on my racks, I put 5 coats on, so it requires some time and patience. Tilt the rack using some blocks of scrap wood to allow even application. You'll find you need to reposition the rack several times to gain good access to all spots needing repair. Our bottom rack needed about 120 spots repaired, the top rack only about 30. One bottle did the job but there was very little left over. The solvent (mostly acetone) evaporates very quickly. If your product thickens up, you can thin it with acetone or with Plastic Wood Solvent, which contains acetone, methyl ethyl ketone and toluene. Add just a little solvent (less than a cc), replace the cap, and shake thoroughly. Do this until you have the consistency you want. If you over dilute, you can just let it sit for a while with the cap off because the solvents are very volatile. Make sure you replace the cap tightly while you are examining the rack for more areas to repair, and also while you are repositioning the rack to get access to all repair areas. Some people will object to the odor. I didn't think it was as terrible as some others. If it bothers you, do this job outdoors, or in the garage with the door open. I did it indoors but had a fan on low to blow fresh air past me. After curing in a warm dry place for 24 hours, the racks can be returned to service. Our dishwasher is working great and no more rust. The repairs were done several months ago and are holding up perfectly. After a month, I did find a few tiny spots where rust was starting to bleed through. I simply cleaned those areas with solvent, let dry, and reapplied a couple more coats. Worked great. Couldn't be happier with the results. This stuff is amazing. Just remember to read and follow the directions carefully. Lots of people don't and you don't want to waste your time to get poor results. Do it right and you'll be delighted and save a lot of money if your dishwasher is working fine otherwise.

Do not buy any appliances that are Samsung or Sears Kenmore because Kenmore slaps their name on defective Samsung appliances. (Please, stay with me, I know this isn't a Sears Website) I am writing a review on Amazon concerning the most expensive refrigerator Sears sold four years ago. It was made by Samsung. And I would like to forewarn other consumers that Samsung is not on the up and up regularly. If you call Samsung they deny making the refrigerator I purchased. In the four years we have had this piece of expensive crap it has broken down six times. Six times translates into many repairman visits per breakdown incident because they do not know how to fix this refrigerator. It has a plethora of design flaws. Sears knows that they sell defective products and obviously do not care. You must buy the extended warranties or you will be laying out huge amounts of cash for the repairmen to come out only to ATTEMPT to solve the puzzle of what is wrong with this piece of crap. You pay by the hour for repairmen if you do not have the warranty. You pay for the parts if you do not have a warranty. You pay with multiple days of inconvenience and many people have to take days off from work to be home and present when the repairmen come. It's winter so I have been putting my food outside. The refrigerator, this time, has been out of commission for over a month. I have lost far more food than the $250 check Sears sent to cover the cost of lost food because the weather has been fluctuating. It's 55 degrees outside right now and promises the same for tomorrow. A good refrigeration temp is 38 degrees. The repairmen are here right now for their sixth visit for this one breakdown incident. And. resentfully, I pay $260 each year for the extended warranty. How insane to have to put out that kind of money yearly for a new appliance!!!! The first year we had this thing the repairman made his first visit when we had the fridge for three months. Two years ago the one repairman was so confounded that he went and re-took the Sears repairman training class for refrigeration. He did this so he could be instructed on the repair of my refrigerator model. The Kenmore Pro. The class instructor has no knowledge of this refrigerator and so could not instruct the repairman as to how to fix it's many problems. Sears sells a product they know their repairmen cannot fix. Sears sells a product that the manufacturer denies making. So, essentially, it's a shell game. Isn't that nice? I have gone through Thanksgiving and now Christmas without a refrigerator. The new parts arrived here a week ago before Christmas and I let Sears know the parts were here and they made no attempt to make a new attempt to fix this piece of crap before Christmas. How they do not care about their customers!!! I always read reviews before making a purchase here on Amazon. Our toaster died a week ago and in the toaster reviews one person wrote something very wise. She wrote advice to just buy the cheapest toaster because there are bad reviews for all of the toasters regardless of the pricing. For me, that pretty well sums it up about most appliances. I've spoken with so many friends and associates about this problem and the general consensus is that it is ubiquitous. I have a friend who bought a new fridge four years ago. So many repairs later...they just bought another refrigerator to replace the four year old fridge because they got no where with the manufacturer or the seller. The same friend has replaced her furnace twice in seven years. There are so many accounts and I'm sure any one of you readers could come up with your own library of accounts known to you. Our government allows these manufacturers/sellers to get away with ripping off the consumer. It's time for a consumer revolt. Really. Really. I will never, ever buy so much as shoelace from Sears ever again. We sold our other home four years ago and moved to this new home. We left our old refrigerator at the old home and the people who bought our old home love the refrigerator that came with it...it's almost 30 years old and works like a charm.

Update - Been using this for about 6 months now and it was such a great purchase. The delayed start and fresh hold settings make doing laundry so much easier. On laundry day I start a load before I go to work and its ready when I get home. This saves an hour our of the whole process from my old washer since I do not have to worry about wet laundry sitting around all day. -I also wash cloth diapers with this and it does an amazing job cleaning them. - My water bill has dropped quite a bit - I commented below about long wash times but drying times are much faster now so the total wash / dry time remains the same as before. I am also saving money on the dryer since my clothing is not as wet. As to the bad reviews about clothing not being as clean. I have not noticed that at all over 6 months. Original Review This thing is amazing its a good buy if you want a high efficiency machine. Background This unit replaced an standard top load washer that was at most 10 years old. It still worked quite well, we just wanted an upgrade. I still have the old dryer, which works better now when used in conjunction with the high efficiency washer. General Comments This is an amazing washer and if you are looking for a good high efficiency washer this is the one to get. For some strange reason I enjoy doing laundry more now because this thing is so high tech. It also is big enough that it washes everything I can throw at it. I have washed a king size comforter with this thing no problem, I can also run larger loads then before. The Bad Reviews I want to comment about the bad reviews, several people talk about how their clothing is not clean enough due to the low water usage. I have not noticed that issue at all. My clothing comes out as clean if not cleaner than my old top load washer. Additionally, there are several stain settings with increase the water usage if you feel that is an issue. Pros - Delayed wash. This is a nice feature as I often put in a load before I leave for work and with the delayed wash feature its ready when I get home - Clean hold - If you know you might not be back in time to move a load from the washer it spins the washer every few minutes to keep things fresh. Also since the washer is a completely sealed system their would be less water evaporation anyway. - low water usage. This does not just save you money on water but it takes much less time to dry my clothing now as well saving even more money. - Low energy usage. The energy sticker states that the washer uses $18 of energy a year, with hot water. That is next to nothing, and even if I ended up using double that it is still low. -MADE in AMERICA. I am not a huge made in America person, and often there is not even an option, but I do feel better if I bought a made in America product. - Highly reviewed from other sources. If you read a lot of professional reviews this unit is in the top 5 high efficiency washers to choose from. - Faster drying time. Since it uses so little water drying times are faster. Also clothing comes out less wrinkled because there is no high speed spin cycle that compresses everything. Cons - Wash times are very long. This is not an understatement; even the smallest load is 45 minutes. Large, or very dirty loads can take up to 2 hours. Fortunately, the delayed wash and clean hold features limit this issue. Also drying time is much less so the total time for a complete wash and dry is not as much more, and as I said before I am not using a newer high tech dryer. Overall this is the unit to get if you want a high efficiency washer. Its priced lower than many of the other models out there, gets very good professional reviews, is made in america, and comes with enough features to make cleaning that much eaiser.

My experience.. We use the dishwasher once or twice a week at the very most so it has seen light duty.. Pump motor is shot after about two years.. ER03.. I also agree with many of the others.. The dishes are always drenched with water after after a wash.. We have to rack them for a while or dry them by hand.. Dish soap often will not release but we did discover that the preformed all in one tablets seemed to have cured that. It smells at times.. A little bleach in the bottom over night and a rinse cycle now and then seems to take of it for quite while. As I said in my title.. High Price Low Quality and short on warranty.. Save your money and buy something else. Update: 10/20/11.. While replacing the motor I made a few other discoveries others should know about. When you order the motor also get these items. 4 Motor mount grommets - black 3 Motor panel grommets - yellow They are made of low quality rubber/plastic and are very easily damaged while replacing the motor. They are also expensive for what they are and if you can find equivalents at your local hardware store for a fraction of the cost you will be better off using them. In addition to the motor and grommets also plan on replacing at least hose #50 as well. The quality of the rubber in this hose is such that once it has been compressed by the factory hose clamp it is highly unlikely to properly seal when remounted after replacing the motor. When this connection leaks you will see the infamous ER01 leak error code. As with the grommets if you can find a hose replacement elsewhere and adapt it you may be much better off in the long run. Think auto parts store etc. For those of you who are having difficulty with clearing ER01. I have a simple solution for you. Open the door and remove the plastic strainer in the floor. This has a small finger handle and will just pop right out for you. Then push a towel or sponge into the chamber and absorb the water and lift it out to the sink or some place. You will have to do this maybe 5-6 times or more to absorb all of the water. Once you have cycle the power and the error will clear. This is a tried and true method and I am sure you can come up with many variations on it but what ever you to be sure to get all of the water. After going through this our dishwasher has been running as well as it ever had. As soon as I have a chance to dissect the failed pump motor I will let you know why it failed and if it is something that you can do to repair it yourself. Update: 10/07/13 It has been two years since I wrote the last update on this product and I wanted to complete the entry. Since replacing the hose as described previously the dishwasher has run for 2 years without incident. The pump motor damage everyone has been experiencing has been confirmed to be the result of the hose collapsing when the pump turns on. This restricts water flow and among other things allows the pump to run hot reducing its life considerable. Not only does this hose contribute to pump failure but it is also the root cause for the poor rinsing and washing of the dishes others have described. Replacing the hose with a non standard substitute not only saved the new pump but improved the overall performance of the washer. I would recommend to anyone experiencing a pump failure to replace the hose with one from the local automotive store and not a factory part. You will be much happier with your dishwasher. Just bring the old hose with you to get the closest match and trim to fit. And just one last side note. The hose I selected was 1/3 the price of the factory replacement hose. Electrolux should be paying me for this diagnosis considering how much these dishwashers cost and the quality they boast. Good luck to all.

The biggest complaint most people have with these units is the Celsius readout. But the circuit board has a location for a jumper (solder blob) to be added to switch them to Fahrenheit readout. Opening the units is probably the hardest part of the whole procedure. Slide the battery compartment open and remove the two button cells. Get a small flat-bladed screwdriver and insert it into each of the four holes on the back of the unit, one at a time, working your way around, and pushing the little latch tabs inward until you can disengage the tab from the hole it locks into in the front part of the case. Once you get them all loose, you can separate the back from the front. As you remove the back, notice the orientation of the circuit board within the front half of the case. Notice also the "zebra strip" that connects the display to the circuit board when the unit is assembled. These zebra strips have alternating slices of conductive and insulating "rubber-like" material made into a sandwich. You can see the alternating black and translucent slices if you look very closely. Anyhow, the zebra strip is rubbery and conductive at every other little slice. The idea is that a row of contacts on a circuit board can be connected to a corresponding row of contacts on an LCD by simply squeezing the zebra strip between the PC board and the display. So when the unit is assembled, the PC board is pushed down against the zebra strip hard enough to squeeze the zebra strip into good contact with both the display and PCB. Now, when you pull the PCB completely out of the front piece, and turn it over, you will see the row of contacts along one edge, that are meant to connect to the zebra strip. So it's easy to get the board back into place the right way by observing those contacts and knowing that they must be in contact with the zebra strip when you put it back together. OK. Now, look at the green side of the PCB. You will find a set of three contacts near one corner of the board. One is marked "F" and one is marked "2S". The third (middle) contact is not marked. It's presumably the common for the other two. By bridging across between the middle contact and the one marked "F", the display will read in Fahrenheit. The idea is for you to just put a blob of solder in place to bridge the two contacts. That's easily done if you have any experience soldering circuit boards. The other contact, marked "2S" probably speeds up the rate of update for the display. That would cause the unit to read quite a bit faster, which might be good in some applications. However, it would also probably reduce the battery life. So that would be a trade-off you'd have to decide if you wanted to make. I haven't had time to fully test the units I got, but they both read out to within 1/10th of a degree C of each other, so that's encouraging. Then again, they may both just happen to be off the same amount in the same direction! I will likely test them and maybe even see if there's a way to calibrate them by changing the value of one or two of the resistors on the PC board. But in the mean time, I give them four stars for being pretty good for the money. Edit to add: These read the same at temperatures near room temp. For example, now that I've modified them both to read in Fahrenheit, they're on my desk here, and both reading 74.3 degrees F. But I tested them in a properly prepared ice slush, and where they should have read 32.0 degrees F, one of them read 34.7 and the other read 34.3. So they're both off by several degrees F, and not identical at that temperature. They may well be off at room temperature, too, but just happen to agree with each other. Further testing, and some investigation into whether they can be calibrated is warranted.

I bought this at Lowes actually lol, because they had one in stock at my local store and were able to deliver the next day. Long story short, a rat got into my house, i was able to trap it in one of the kitchen cupboards. i created a path out the back door and opened the cupboard, but what does it do, it runs under my oven. So to scare it out, i turn on the oven, and what happens next??? You'd think a rat would come running out and scamper out the door. Nope, i smell burnt rat hair or flesh, so i turned off the oven and i think the rat died in the hot air vent that leads up from the broiler to the oven. So gross, so not wanting anything to do with my old oven i bought this one haha. So far this oven has been great. I love the large metal knobs, they ignite easily and are at the high setting at first, and you turn the knob left to go down the lowest setting which is a very small flame. So don't forget to turn off the burner, sometimes i think it's off but it's on it's lowest setting. But i do like the range of settings for each burner which should give you good control of your cooking heat. There are 5 burners, a large oval burner in the middle for stock pots, or an included griddle. This range doesn't come with a wok attachment, but there is a whirlpool one available here at amazon for 32 bucks i think it was, and fits. I just ordered it, so looking forward to doing some stir fry soon as well. The electronic oven panel is easy to use, it's pretty intuitive once you try it. It has 3 avail self settings so you can program things you cook the most, which is convenient. It has 4 presets like pizza, bread proofing, slow cook, and dehydrate. It has a bake/broil button, and a convection bake and broil buttons as well. I tried the convection oven to bake some bread and it worked well, evenly browned, i cooked at 25 degress lower then normal on the convection setting and it came out well. It has a timer setting, clock, or you just set the bake time, temp, and you can set a pre time, to bake at a later time, in which it turns on the oven at that time, bakes your food and turns off. The oven works great in my opinion, and some have stated the edges and sides get hot after an hour of baking. Not even, all my oven handles, burner knobs were still safe to touch, but the oven vent is centered right under the control panel display, so if touch the metal under the display, it's burning hot. The panel itself stayed relatively cool, and i was still able to touch it without being burnt. I also like the large oven, for when i cook my thanksgiving turkeys, can't wait to try the convection setting on it this year. Oh and the oven has a burner at the top to do broiling in the oven, the bottom drawer is just storage. The range burners are set deep, like down an inch or more, so if you spill it gets trapped and the black surface was somewhat easy to clean so far. The panel is a fingerprint magnet, so is the stainless brushed areas, seems to like finger smudges, but overall the oven looks nice, the sides are black, the top of the range is black, the whole front, doors, and display panel are brushed steel look, so it's attractive. I think the only thing i didn't like is, the autolocking oven door. I have to read up and see if i can disable it since i don't have kids in the house. After baking some bread, the door was locked until it cooled down to a safe level. Well, i wanted to take out my bread at that moment, not when the ovens save to open lol. So not sure if there is a bypass for the lock, but that's the only thing i didn't like.

update: have had this for a little while now (a month or two?) and am still very happy with it - more than anything, happy with the filter. i take care of dogs and have a cat, and the filter catches A LOT. in fact i just took out all my winter clothes that were stored away and there was a fleece winter headband covered in cat hair and dog hair - i washed it and it came out with all the hair washed off!! the filter caught the hair - i was NOT expecting that and it was a miracle, now i don't have to tape all that hair off. i wish i could fill the machine more than 3/4 but that's ok. it's so much fun to be able to do laundry at home (i hate schlepping all these pounds of laundry to the laundromat) and i find it grounding and comforting. love it. **** just got this yesterday, hooked it up today and used it for the first time. at the nyc laundromat, my boyfriend and i used to do one month's worth of laundry at a time and bring huge bags (that's right, we went once a month and used multiple machines at once). now, using this for the first time, still with a month's worth of dirty laundry each, we're having to do a few loads just because there are two of us and we haven't done laundry for a month, but oh what a miracle it is to do it while i'm reading a magazine and watching tv :D i know we'll be doing laundry biweekly now (or whenever we want, naked if we want to!), and i'll stop buying more clothes just to have something to wear. this thing is super quiet. i accidentally set it on heavy, which makes it go too long with two rinse cycles, now we're doing a "normal load." the spin cycle works super well and the stuff comes out NOT dripping wet, so i can hang it up in my apartment and NO water is dripping whatsoever. directions r a bit confusing, never mentioning when to turn on the faucet! i watched a youtube video (just go to youtube and type in the model number) to see what one user did. she had leaking, we had no leaking. in the video, the woman mentions she had read that you're supposed to use "high efficiency detergent" - well the directions actually say you're supposed to use POWDER HIGH EFFICIENCY DETERGENT. i had already brought ultra downy liquid high efficiency detergent, but it still worked great. the clothes smell AWESOME. the woman in the video just used norrnal liquid detergent and was still fine. the dierctions say to use less than usual but i want to smell the detergent for once in my life - and tat's what i did. large loads with a normal amount of detergent and they smell great. the dirty water that comes out into the sink is truly dirty so you feel like your clothes are really getting washed. i never brought a dryer - we don't have space for it and don't need it. once day, if we buy a house, it'll be nice to have toasty warm towels etc but whatever. right now my aprtment looks like a gypsy camp with long strings strung up and clothes hanging off the strings to dry, but it's not bad. all this is still better than hauling 40 pounds of laundry to the laundromat. love it. recommend it. i haven't tried to move it yet - the wheels are tiny and as everyone mentions u have to tily it sideways to move it. i don't want to have to tip it as it weighs 90 lbs so i'm going to look for cheap casters to store it somewhere when not in use. i agonized over using this v the sonya and ended up buying this one bc it's amazon prime so it's covered if any problems. also, delivery was great. this is going to make doing laundry a lot more convenient. and that soft whooshing laundry sound (VERY soft) is very calming.

DO NOT BUY A FRONT LOADER!!! We did and hate it; sour clothes and reliability issues. It simply doesn't use enough water to get things clean and you end up using strong scented detergents to mask the sour smell or running the same load twice. They try to convince you that you are doing the world a favor by using less water but I think the laws of physics dictate that YOU NEED WATER to do the job. You're better off going to the toy department and buying a sparkly fairy wand if you want to magically clean your clothes without water or if dry cleaning everything is not an option. Prior to purchase I thoroughly researched our model using Consumer Reports, we follow all the recommended maintenance steps from the manufacturer and also use those mysterious cleaning tablets. Washing clothes has never been so complicated. I've come to the conclusion we are just trying whatever we can to make up for design flaws in the machine. Pros/Cons: Front Loader vs. Magic Wand - Very shiny (so is the magic wand) - Expensive to purchase and maintain (A good magic wand can be purchased for less than $10 and is totally maintenance free, ribbons can be added for extra wonder power) - Using less water makes you feel good about yourself and your contribution to the environment (using a magic wand just simply makes you feel awesome about everything!) - Single wash cycles can take over two hours (magic wand is instantaneous or you can spend as much time as you want if you're really enjoying your newfound magical awesomeness) - Clothes will frequently smell sour, especially dark colored clothes for some unknown reason. If you have clothing articles that will be ruined by torching them in the dryer y'all gonna STANK like you've been sleeping on a park bench a couple weeks = not good at all for your (surrounding) environment. (Magic wands won't make your clothes any cleaner or smell any better but sane people are sure to keep a safe distance and won't notice your musty smell from over there. Also, magic wands never discriminate based on color or textile properties as does the front loader and results are consistent and 100% predictable) - Front loaders are "energy efficient". Although I'm sure that's probably not true since you have to run your loads multiple times to get clothes clean. (Magic wand uses zero electricity and zero water. The only energy used is the calories you burn, which can be significant if you develop a good routine. May be worth considering combining with your Zumba class for added health benefits) - Front loaders are of relatively recent (70 or so years?) technology. (Magic wands have been around for thousands of years and are just as effective today as ever) When we first bought our (very expensive) front loader we would watch through the little window and marvel how amazing this machine was and how it didn't look like it was doing anything and it was oh so quiet. Turns out, that machine really ISN'T DOING JACK. It gently rolls the laundry back and forth a little, puts a spritz of water in the mix and then sits long enough that you figure that it must have done something. True story: I recently went to our local Sears and told the appliance sales guy that I wanted to see their machine that uses the most water possible. At first he gave me that "I don't know what you're talking about" look. But after I kept pushing he finally gave it up and admitted that "those front loaders" don't work well at all. It was as though I had finally cracked the code and he proceeded to show me their high capacity top loader. Then, looking around nervously in case the water police were nearby (yes, that's really a thing here in California) he quietly showed me how the low water level function could be overridden. Now, we have yet to replace our front loader with a proper washing machine but only for two reasons; 1) we spent a fortune on this shiny machine. 2) I would feel bad selling it to some uninformed sucker on Craigslist. If you still feel the need for a front loader washing machine then I've got just the one for you.

I love my Panda! This is a semi-automatic washing machine that requires your supervision to complete laundry. I have a Bosch Nexxt 500 series that needed several new parts and I had laundry backing up because the parts were on back order. That machine has since been repaired and is working well once more. I have learned a lot about washing in my Panda. First of all do not place your Panda in a bathtub to do laundry. There are air intake areas that will cause the machine to malfunction if water is drawn into the motor area. Do not raise the drain hose higher than the tub of the machine. With my setup I can drain it directly into my commode and it pumps fine. It needs about a 1/2 teaspoon of liquid HE detergent to clean very well. Do not allow your control timers to get wet as this may cause machine to not work. I keep two hand towels and mop up water on the edges of the tub when I transfer my laundry to the spinner. I only fill the spinner 3/4 full and only set it to 2 1/2 minutes for the most wet items. Place your heaviest item in the spinner first. If it is a bulky item such as jeans or a corduroy shirt I only spin that item. You can tell if you need an additional minute of spin time if you are still having water flow from the drain hose when it stops you need a little extra spin. I use laundry mesh bags for delicate items. I have not had any clothing that was damaged in my machine. I do not fill it above the M for medium near the lint filter. The machine is plastic and the agitator is very strong for the durability of the machine consider that water and wet clothing weigh quite a bit. I recommend you wear gloves to reach into the wash tub side to move articles of clothing to the spinner detergent is very drying to hands. I recommend you wash the clothes you need to wash and then drain and rinse your clothing in the tub and spin again. It takes very little time to dry the clothes in my dryer afterward. To cut down on lint on clothing wash like clothing together and don't drain your washtub until the clothing has been removed from washtub and spun. Purschasing a Chinese mesh lint catcher works somewhat, but I had to put mine back together because it fell apart in the wash. If Panda was to redesign the lint filter I think one like Samsung or LG use on their washers sold in Asia and India it would be a win win situation. Also if there was a tub within a tub it would be a sturdier design. My only complaint about this machine is that it leaks from the top portion of the tub at the rear it feels as though there is no material to seal that section. It is not a deal breaker. It is a tiny amount and is due to the force of the agitation. I just use my hand towel and mop it up when noted. For my application I need a longer fill hose mine works but you have to be at the machine when it fills. You cannot use super hot water not over 115 degrees. I like to wash my towels and sheets on hot. If I used the machine for towels I would soak my towels in hot water and bleach and then move them to a prefilled warm wash two to three at a time and wash. Otherwise, I love this work horse it is 38 lbs and I would not want to pick it up and move it long distances. I love to watch the clothes wash and the water get dirty. The spinner gets clothing to a lightly damp state and is amazing! It beats the laundry mat hands down! I would buy it again. Just know that you as the operator must do part of the work of the wash as it is not fully automatic. I dry it out and leave the lids up so it will not mold. As a New out of the box machine I did note that there was an industrial smell from the plastic that is gone now. I will give an update at a later time.

<div id="video-block-R1OZ77967VHW26" class="a-section a-spacing-small a-spacing-top-mini video-block"></div><input type="hidden" name="" value="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/E108mhTbvaS.mp4" class="video-url"><input type="hidden" name="" value="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71%2BEJ2rdwqS.png" class="video-slate-img-url">&nbsp;Update: I've added a video about how the machine looks/works, but I didn't catch it during a cycle. This shows what the machine looks like, and some of the things I say in my review. It also shows how quiet indeed the Panda dryer is, since I heard it, but not in the video. Upfront this is about the Manatee 12 lb washer, which is made the exact same way as the Panda. Basically Manatee and Panda are made by the same manufacturer as far as I can see. The Manatee is just a different color schemed washer. I also got my washer for $180 instead of $240, a savings of $60. I got my washer on ebay. I just got this washer to replace my Koblenz agitator, I liked the koblenz, but I really just wanted a washer+dryer in one unit so I wouldn't waste my time with buying a separate spin dryer. The washer just arrived on the 24th of December in time for Christmas. Pros: Semi quiet, easy to use and figure out, drains clothes easier than any gravity based model, Light as a feather! Cons, Short short cord, hard to get the washing hoses connected and working right for my sink. Lint trap is too small In depth: I washed my towels first and the lint trap seems to work fairly well. It's just too small for it I will be buying a lint trap such as http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MUVT4MM The drain worked really well! I tried using a bucket like i've seen, but my bucket couldn't hold the flow, so I just used the bracket on the hose that holds it to the unit to hold it over my sink. Honestly I finagled it a couple of times and I'm worried about how this hose will hold up. The unit iself is super light, and top loading so it's not stressful to add clothes. Maybe I can replace it with an actual hose part from a washing machine. The washer itself is powerful and fast. I do a wash and a rinse cycle and my clothes smelled really great. It fills up really fast and it drains fast too. Because the washer side uses a motor to empty the tub you can clean it really easily. I just filled it up with water and a little vinegar. I was disappointed with how super short the cord is on this unit. I have to use a power strip for it, which doesn't seem conducive for putting this unit anywhere near a sink. Filling it up with a bucket might work, but all the options just feel a little strenuous. Putting it next to the sink and linking it up to a countertop plug works if you're just washing clothes and putting the unit away which is zero problem for me. The spin dryer is really cool, holding on to the unit while it starts up is recommended since it's a little unstable as it gets going. The spin dry works with a switch, you turn the switch to drain and turn the timer on the spin dry side and let it go. 2-3 minutes gets the clothes damp, but not wet. They can be hung or put in a dryer. The spin dry side is a little small, meaning you may have to split up the clothes in drying, but it's no big deal to leave some clothes in the wash side for a few minutes while it the others dry. The little plastic tube that came for my washer to fill the tub doesn't work for my sink, but my sink at my current place is slightly odd. I just used my custom hose for it and it filled up fine. Overall I'm really happy with this washer,I love it, but the plug is just a problem it's a 4.5/5 for me.

Amazing, beautiful piece of absolutely useful technology. I cannot praise this machine too highly... for my uses. Your mileage may vary, so be clear on how and why this machine is so useful, and why many people love it so much and so overwhelmingly. First off, you probably will not be very happy with it if it is your sole machine and you have a large family or a lot of dirty, greasy clothes (like a mechanic or farmer or such). I live on a farm, which means I get muddy, greasy, do lots of carpentry, get covered with weird chemicals and such, and I DO NOT use this machine for those types of loads. I have another old conventional washer that I do that stuff in to save my baby LG from having to deal with such uncouth, loutish elements. :) At the price of this machine, I don't want to stress it too much! Seriously, this machine is best for small families, apartment dwellers (ventless and 110V), empty-nest retirees, etc. But it cleans very well, leaves the clothes beautifully supple and "finished," and does so quietly and at any time I choose to have the load done. And no changing out loads, washer to dryer! And it's an extremely cheerful little wonder! Makes me smile every time it plays its little tunes. Ok, you probably won't be happy with the machine if you don't match the guidelines above, but there are some setup and operational guidelines that, if not understood, will also cause you problems with the drying portion. First, understand that this machine doesn't blast incredibly hot, cloth-destroying, costly air through the tumbling clothes in order to dry. It uses a much more refined process that WILL dry your clothes, and WILL save you a boatload of money, but ONLY if you make sure that you set it up and use it correctly. 1) I can't stress enough the importance of not overloading the machine during drying. I weigh every load and NEVER load more than seven pounds of clothes - that's around half a load of dry towels, or somewhat less of things like jeans. Since I sussed to this and started weighing my loads, I've NEVER had a load that wouldn't dry on the MORE DRY setting (I use that setting for everything EXCEPT small loads. Word to the wise.) 2) When I first received the machine, it would not dry a load, no matter how long I let the dryer run. Puzzling. I had the drain hose running UP to a drain standpipe like you find for conventional washing machines. Fortunately I have another drain at floor level (the machine is in a barn my father built, and I have no idea why he had two drains there). On a lark I moved the drain hose to the floor-level drain and WHAM! my clothes came out dry every time. Oh, the humidity thing... I think that it does raise the humidity some in the immediate vicinity. Mine is in an open area, so I can't swear to it, but it stands to reason that, if you have it draining into an open drain, some of the moisture might aerosolize or just mist back up into the room. Probably best to have it in a place with some airflow - after all, it's not like it makes a racket and needs to be hidden from polite company. Another word to the wise: You hear it over and over and for things like appliances you never do it... well, people, READ THE MANUAL. You will NOT be sorry, especially when strange symbols like "O" or "I E" begin appearing on the screen (O means its time to run the tub-cleaning cycle. I'll let you discover the wonderful world of I E yourself... and no, it doesn't mean fire up Internet Explorer). If there is ONE key to unconditional love for this machine, it is understanding its foibles and idiosyncrasies. You husbands out there will understand... :) In summary, just let me say that you'd BETTER NOT come around and try to take away my LG! :) Peace, hope this helps...

I purchased this washing machine and dryer locally about one month ago. While my family is small (just my husband and myself as well as my toddler grandson part time), I needed a set that could wash my king size quilt collection adequately and quickly. My prior Whirlpool washing machine was a nightmare - it could never find its balance and took hours to complete the smallest loads. After three years of struggling with it and having repairmen tell me it was not something that could be fixed, we bought this new machine for our Christmas gift to ourselves. We bought the white set as it was less expensive but must admit the gray set is stunning. If it would have gone well with our house, we probably would have spent the extra to get the beautiful look. The machines are essentially the same - the color of the body is gloss white and the color of the electrical panel is silver rather than dark gray. I got the machines for a little less than the advertised price and had the local company install it. I was concerned that it might make my laundry room a little tight but in the end, it gave us more space across the room. The machines are wider and taller than a standard machine. Also, the opening is lower to the ground. I purposefully did not get the pedestal as I have had problems with them in the past. I was glad I did not as it would have made the height uncomfortably tall for me (I am 5' 6") as I would be reaching up to put the detergent in. You need to be sure that the opening to your laundry area is at least 31 inches. Our laundry door had to come off as the opening was only 30 inches unless we removed the door. It took only a couple of minutes to remove it and then reinstall it. I have been able to wash larger loads - including my very largest and heaviest king size quilts with no issue at all. There are so many options that I have not been able to use them all but I can say that my laundry day went from a nightmare of at least one full day a week to less than a day every other week. I'm thrilled to get my time (and sanity) back. As with my two prior front load machines, I keep the door of the unit open after wash day until the machine is completely dry. I've never had a mold issue using this routine. The dryer has a huge capacity and dries my largest and heaviest quilts in less than 1.5 hours. That sounds like a lot but my previous Whirlpool took 3 to 4 hours to do the same task - plus I had to stop and move the quilt around several times during the dry cycle to make sure all the wet spots were exposed to heat. With this Samsung, I don't have to reconfigure the quilts at all. Just wait until they are dried and then fold them and put them away. While these machines are stackable and the dryer door opening can be changed, be sure you understand how tall this will be if you stack it. The dryer would be on the top and would be around seven feet off of the ground. I would do it in a new house if I needed to in order to have the capacity but I would also have to have a step ladder handy in order to set my dryer preferences. I chose not to get the pedestals for these as it would make putting detergent in an uncomfortable exercise. I am 5'6" so if you are taller, that may not be an issue for you. I like the steam features and have used them a couple of times to get wrinkles out. It is a nice feature to have but it does pretty much what putting in a damp washcloth did before. Nice to have but wasn't a necessary item in making my choice. I really think that capacity is what these are all about. If you want a lot of space these may be just the thing for you.

I had read many reviews, and had some concerns, but since I wanted a compact refrigerator of this size with no freezer, I decided to order one. I bought the 4.4 cu ft model in stainless steel finish, all refrigerator, no freezer, no defrost necessary. The packaging and delivery were fine. Some reviews described flimsy packaging or damaged product at delivery or after opening the box. Mine was delivered with a sturdy outer packing carton of heavy corrugated cardboard, which was not damaged. We opened it at the top and discovered it had a layer of Styrofoam under the cover flap and all around the interior carton. We opened the outside carton down the side, so we did not have to lift the unit up out of the box, or tip it sideways to pull the refrigerator out. Inside we found a manufacturers carton. It lifts off, and the refrigerator is sitting on a small pallet of Styrofoam and cardboard. We lifted it off. We found no damage or dangling coils as was described by some reviews. There was a tough plastic film over the stainless finish on the door. It was difficult to remove, but I suppose it served the purpose of protecting against scratches. The shelves were heavily taped, I suppose to keep them in place during shipment. We moved it into place and let the unit stand empty for about two hours, as recommended in the booklet. We found that there was only one leveling foot, and it looked as if the design intending only one, a situation that puzzled me. We moved it to its final position under the counter in the wet bar, and adjusted the leveling foot to its maximum position, but could not keep it from wobbling. We inserted a shim under one corner and it is now steady and firm. After letting it rest and acclimate, we started it empty at the coldest setting, again as suggested in the instructions, and let it run for a couple hours. It seemed to be sufficiently cool. I then adjusted the coolness dial to a position in the middle and placed objects in it. A few hours later, the contents seemed appropriately cooled. The dial to adjust the temperature is at the front of the unit, at the top. It is a flat found dial, with a slot in it. I could find no way to adjust the temperature except to use a coin or a small screwdriver turned sideways. It was not convenient, but I do not intend to adjust it often. It is a quiet unit; it makes only a quiet hum when it runs, and I do not notice any particular sounds as it cycles on and off. I admit it is not where I am trying to sleep, but is not as loud as our central air conditioner or ceiling fan, as a comparison. I like the design of can storage, where a can may be removed from any slot, to allow a variety of beverages each readily removable. The shelves adjust easily, and seem convenient for me. If one wants to store a gallon of milk, it has to be on a main shelf, and not in the door. I like: * size - it fits under the counter in the wet bar, and provides the maximum space possible; * contains no freezer which wastes space and is not useful to me. * does not have to be defrosted; * was packaged well and arrived without damage I would suggest the manufacturer improve: * add another leveling foot or similar mechanism * change the design of the temperature adjustment dial, since it is difficult to change. I did not do any temperature measurements, so cannot comment on its actual temperature. The items in it are not critical for temperature to me. In conclusion, I did not experience many of the problems of other reviewers, and I like the functions and size of this compact refrigerator. I would buy it again, and recommend it to others, especially if they want a unit without a freezer.

Ambient Weather WM-3 I have been using the WM-3 for a little over a week now and so far no problems. I like to read reviews before I buy things, and I check several sites like Amazon, Ebay, Walmart, Best Buy and places like that. I also like reviews that are a little more than "great product, highly recommended", so I will try to give an honest opinion of whatever I review. The WM-3 I received worked perfectly right out of the box. It is very easy to use and requires no setup before use. Well almost none. The users guide that came with it tells you how to calibrate the unit if you feel the need to. I have a personal weather station, purchased from ambient several years ago, and I have been comparing the readings from the WM-3 with the readings from my station and they are very close. I check my station readings with the readings from the Weather Nation, the Weather Underground and others so I know that my readings are very accurate. If you look around the web for handheld wind meters you will find dozens of options any where from $20 dollars to well over $300 dollars. So, what do you get in the high priced units that you don't get in the WM-3. I really don't know. This is my first time to use a wind meter. Maybe more bells and whistles. Some of the high dollar units have a lot of buttons, and will give you wind chill, heat index, barometer, dew point, text messages, your horoscope. OK, maybe not. Personally I think most people looking at handheld wind meters just want to know what the wind speed is and maybe the temp, and don't want to press half a dozen buttons to see it. The WM-3 has 3 buttons and they are very easy to understand. A power button to turn it off and on, a set button to show Max, min, and average wind speed, and a units button to select how wind speed is displayed, mph, knots, km/hr, etc. Temp is displayed in degrees "F" or "C". It also has a backlight feature that I like. It comes on when you power the unit on but goes off after a few seconds. You can override this and have it stay on until you power the unit off. The users manual tells you how to do this. The unit will power off after 10 minutes of non use and this is a good thing to save your battery. I know, I can hear someone out there saying, why buy this gadget when I have a weather APP on my smart phone. I also have a couple of these on my phone. But keep in mind that this data is for your local area, probably your zip code, and not the very spot where you are standing, which may be very important if you are a hunter, fishermen, golfer, high rise construction, or other outdoor activity where knowing the wind speed my be very important. Myself,I just like weather gadgets. The uses manual does not say anything about being water proof or water resistant, however, a little common since is in order. The battery cover does not have a seal and the unit does not appear to be water proof. A light rain should not be a problem, but I don't think it will float. As for max wind speed the manual says not to operate above 67 mph. I did a little test using my backpack blower. Seriously, I really did this. I set the blower on a workbench and with it set to fast idle, I held the WM-3 several feet away and moved closer until I reached a reading of 73 MPH. The users manual says that wind speed above 67 mph will be displayed as"---". Probably just minor variation from one unit to the next. I realize that this is a little extreme and that no one would want to be out in a 70 mph windstorm, but the WM-3 held together just fine. It still works.

I purchased this primarily to use as a beer fridge and have been very happy overall. Pros: Maintains a constant and low temp, looks more expensive than it is, versatile under cabinet or standalone options Cons: Reversing the door isn't as easy as it should be, not super quiet but could be worse Temperature: The biggest reason I purchased this compressor-style fridge over the quieter thermo-electric ones is for temperature control. I've owned thermo-electric wine fridges in the past and the temp was good enough for storing wine but they generally had trouble maintaining a temp below 45-50. For beer I wanted a lower temp, I've got this fridge set on 40 and it has no problem keeping it there while the average room temperature is 75. Capacity: Obviously if you use it to store bottles instead of cans you're not going to fit 92 in there, the best configuration I've found is to put 1 shelf in the lowest position and another a couple of notches up. This gives you 2 shelves of bottle-height storage (approx 24 bottles per shelf) and a small bottom area to store 3-4 large bottles on their side. One issue I had was that the spacing on the wire shelves was a little far apart and it made the bottles want to tip over unless you carefully placed each one on the shelf. I fixed this by getting an 11x17 acrylic sheet (intended for a picture frame) and placing that on top of the shelf, it fits perfectly, is virtually invisible and gives you a smooth shelf surface. Noise: This fridge has a traditional compressor for cooling so it is not nearly as quiet as the thermo-electric wine cooler sitting next to it but far quieter than the kegerator this unit replaced. I haven't pulled out the decibel-meter for it but it is approximately as loud as my full size kitchen refrigerator. The compressor doesn't make any extra rattling when it turns on but there is no mistaking when it is running and when it's not. There's a little extra noise on top of the compressor noise since this uses a fan to circulate the air out of the front of the unit. All in all it's still quieter than my old kegerator and since I have mine located in the kitchen it doesn't add any noise above and beyond what my normal refrigerator does. Door Reversal: This was ridiculously more complicated than it should have been and I can't imagine this was designed to work like it did, so it's very likely there was a defect in my unit. If you're happy with the handle being on the left then you're in luck and will never have to deal with this, if not, proceed with caution. The door reversal process is a bit of a pain but for the most part pretty straight forward. You essentially have to unscrew all of the brackets/hinges and switch them to the other side. The issue I had was the bracket that attached to the bottom of the door itself. There are 2 screws on the bottom left that you have to remove and then use to attach the bracket to the bottom of the door. The "trick" is that when you remove both screws, the nut that was holding those screws falls out of place and somewhere into the hollow door frame. From there you get to spend the next hour playing a game of shifting the door around and listening for the nut until you're lucky enough to have that nut line back up with the holes. Again, I can't imagine this was working as it was intended so maybe my unit was missing the bit of glue supposed to hold that nut in place but it was an absurdly frustrating experience and is the only reason I didn't give the fridge 5 stars. Other: One final note, this wasn't explicitly spelled out in the instructions but to attach the door handle, you need to pull off the rubber seal from the inside of the door where the screw holes for the handle are. I was a little skeptical when I did this because it takes a good pull to get it off but it doesn't damage the seal and it pops back into place fairly easily.

So I am changing my review from 5 star to 2 after using this more. First it is advertised as having a new easy-close drawer in Spring of 2015 but after one week of use ( I ordered near the end of May) the drawer was pretty useless, it takes about 11 tries to shut it, which brings too cool much air into the food if you are checking on your food and don't want the cool down. Second, when I looked at Youtube videos for other air fryers and then compared some personally (which I had to to figure out recipes to make with this one since it does not come with a cookbook and tells you to "Google recipes on the internet"), they seemed to work far better without any oil, or with very little oil. I feel this one is not as meant to be used with no oil. And actually it says so. For example, it has one recipe in the instructions which is for french fries, and it tells you to use 1/2 Tablespoon of oil. That's lots of calories not including the potato! . For everything else air fried, although it does not provide recipes, it does have a chart that says all should be cooked with 1/2 tablespoon of oil--even hamburgers already loaded with oil! That said a lot to me that you have to use that much oil in this one whereas you don't in the other air fryers. I suspect slower air circulation and less tightness in the air circulation or more air escaping because where other fryers advertise very little aroma, this one fills your kitchen with it. Not sure it keeps all the hot air in to mimic frying..which would be why you would need so much oil in the air fryer. To me this is like cooking in an oven--you get dry food and need oil to get the crispness. And yes, it also dries my food out, badly, more than baking in the oven even. Unless I use lots of oil I was initially impressed when doing some vegetarian prepared foods but the more I used it the more I realized I just had food baked at a high temp that looked nothing like the videos I saw of the other air fryers and did not perform as well as the ones I saw in person, and a drawer that took so many tries to close that the temp cooled down on the food. For that reason I exchanged it for a different air fryer. I went with the Philips, more expensive, but one reason it might work so much better is that after this one preheats, it shuts off. Or if you pull out the drawer, it shuts off. That's a huge issue when you are trying to mimic high temp frying. So you get it preheated, pull the drawer out, put your fries in (on the Philips you will hear the sound of sizzling when you add the food, you won't on this one.) then slide the drawer in (takes about 8 times) by then all the preheating is out the window and you know how badly that works for fried food. With the Philips, it keeps the hot air going (and circulates it way faster) so it's still hot when you start. In the end, this baked things and got some items more crispy, but even potato wedges were dry unless I followed their instructions for lots of oil. If I need to do that, I can just use the oven and have nothing on my counter, so I will try a brand that has some better features. Including a drawer that opens. Note that it says the way this fries is by circulating the air all around it. Well, if that worked you could just lay something on a shelf in the oven with holes in it. You need a very powerful motor that rapidly circulates the air..which this does not, to mimic the fried crispiness but keep the moisture in. The slow circulation of this just means you crisp the outside some and dry out your food.

I received a free item to review. And I cant think of a more accurate description: the ice cubes are shaped like hollowed-out rounded cones, not the semi-circular solids many refrigerator built-ins produce nor the classic cube shape you get with plastic trays in the freezer (I can remember when the trays were aluminum, with a pull-up release lever). Ive had these cone-shaped cubes with drinks before and one advantage is theres less displacement in the glass so you get more of what you're drinking. And some people enjoy the mini-frosted-mug effect. The downside is if you enjoy sucking on, sloshing around, and biting down on your ice cubes, the cone shape tends to break down quickly as the rounded walls thin down. It takes just over a 6-cup Brita pitcher-full of water to fill the icemaker to the max indicator its nice that the indicator doubles as a ledge for the cube basket and is easy to see rather than a raised line I have to squint or feel around for. The compartment lid stays open by itself so pouring is comfortable. Its very easy to operate the start/standby button displays either a solid snowflake icon (standby) or a blinking one (running). Select from three sizes of cubes that are noticeably different (although all are cone-shaped). Theres a Set button for the clock and auto-on/off timer function you program similarly to digital clocks on stereos and microwaves. Unfortunately the buttons are press tabs rather than actual buttons, but they protrude enough that the response is adequate. Youll have to read the instruction page to identify the other warning icons and to troubleshoot: low water, jammed cube, etc. Theyre not intuitive and not terribly easy to see with the lit-LCD screen facing straight out, but I didn't encounter any if the handful of times Ive used the unit so far. Speaking of facing, of the three icemaker models Ivation offers in this class, this one closely resembles our Japanese rice cooker in shape and color and makes for a nice pairing on our storage island. That said the ice maker is quite big sitting on our countertop larger than our rice cooker and deeper than our coffeemaker. Its the kind of unit wed expect to haul out when entertaining, while we rely on our refrigerators built-in for everyday crushed ice and small cubes. It took about two hours to make medium and small-sized cubes using just about all of the water Id poured in. The unit will detect and go into standby when the basket is full so theres no worry about overflow. I emptied the basket twice, the first time at about the one hour mark. One thing to be aware of: changing cube sizes in the middle of a run (after youve emptied the basket and resuming with water still in the unit) doesnt take effect immediately. With about half the water remaining I still got mostly medium-sized cubes before the small-size finally kicked in. The drain plug is positioned in the back lower right side corner and its easy to tilt the ice maker over the edge of a sink and twist the cap off and pull out the little push seal. I suppose that makes for a more secure seal with the unit typically on a countertop, but theres no mention in the instructions and it took awhile to figure out why the water wouldnt draining! An extra push seal is included underneath the basket along with the cube shovel. The noise of the compressor is slightly less than what I hear with the refrigerator door open. Theres no detectable vibration while the unit operates. The intermittent sounds are water flowing into the evaporator chamber and the cubes themselves clanking into the basket. Bottom Line: The ice maker is well-made and attractive though too large to keep permanently on our (not so large countertop). The hollow cone-shaped cubes are an acquired taste but if you entertain a lot and need to crank out more ice than the fridge can handle (or you don't have a built-in), its a handy and easy-to-use addition.

If you are looking to invest in a great ice maker this is an excellent option. This portable ice maker is about the size of my breadmaker and sits easily on the end of my kitchen counter. You have to make sure the air outlet is 8-10 inches away from the nearest wall or object. This is easy to do if you place this on the end of a counter. What I like about this particular ice maker is that you can watch the entire process of ice making through a see-through window. What happens is the ice is made in a little tray. The water is put under the ice basket and is sucked up into the ice tray. The ice forms around metal and is then released into the ice basket with a little mechanical shovel. To fill up the ice basket it takes 77 minutes so one hour and seventeen minutes later you have three large glasses of ice. Once you empty the basket it will then continue to create ice for another fifty six minutes. So to make a gallon bag of ice takes 133 minutes and uses up a little less than two quarts of water. This is actually a lot faster than most freezers produce ice. I personally like the large sized ice but there is an option for smaller ice too. I noticed that the ice this initially makes tends to be smaller than the ice made a little later. So each time the water is colder and produces bigger ice cubes (well they really look like little hollow thimbles). Setup is easy once you've read the directions. You simply fill with water and push the start button. Then each batch of ice takes about seven minutes to make. You can use tap water, filtered water or bottled water. Whatever you prefer. The taste of the ice will change with each option. I made some ice with tap water and it tasted OK in a drink. What you don't want to do is use this to make ice ahead of time. If you put the slightly wet ice cubes in the freezer they do tend to freeze together. It is best to use this as a source of ice that you are going to use on a consistent basis like at a small party where ice is needed for an extended period of time. Remember you are going to get about three large glasses of ice per hour. You can however remove ice for smaller glasses at any time. The hinged lid opens easily and does not restrict taking ice out even if the ice maker is in operation. I would however recommend caution as this does have moving parts. You want to keep your hands only on the ice scoop and take ice directly out of the basket. So my only real caution would be that this ice maker should be kept away from children. It is not a toy! Even if it feels like it is. One thing the directions don't state is what to do with the leftover water in the ice tray once the low water indicator comes on. I simply tilted the entire ice maker so the water ran down into the water container. Then I drained out the water leftover by removing the plug while sitting the ice maker over the sink. It was pretty easy. If you were making ice for a party then you would have to refill the water quite a few times over a period of hours. You have to refill the water approximately every 133 minutes. The ice maker will stop once the basket is full. The minute you remove the ice it starts making it again. You could keep extra ice in an ice bucket. I found this ice maker great fun to use and I loved the shapes of the ice. I made myself some ice tea with the first batch of ice and it was great. I can see myself using this a lot in the summer although this ice maker is not for outside use. You should also keep it out of direct sunlight as that will cause the infared sensor to malfunction. Also this does make a little sound mostly like a fan running. It is fairly quiet. The loudest noise you will hear is when the ice drops and is put into the basket. ~The Rebecca Review I received one ice maker free for review. This review is my honest opinion.

My wife bought this on a lightening deal last year, and I just got around to setting it up. The manual is actually written in very good English, not the horrible random characters that frequently accompany Chinese products. It took about thirty minutes to read the manual, unpack, clean, set up, fill with water and start using. The product is almost all plastic inside, though it appears to be decent quality plastic. Here's how it works: The ice maker fillis the top compartment with water. The "large" cubes are made by filling the compartment higher, and a lower level produces the "small" cubes. There are nine or ten metal rods that protrude down into the water. The rods cool, and the water freezes around the rods. After a few minutes, the tank drains, a rake retracts and the rods heat up, dropping the ice that has frozen around them. Here's what I don't like: --The inside is not cooled, so on a warm day the ice melts (but not as quickly as I'd expect). --The ice cubes are partially hollow, shaped like those erasers that fit over the top of a pencil. This creates ice with a surface area nearly double than that of a cylinder. The ice will cool a liquid faster than a straight cylinder. If you're drinking water, this is acceptable, but not if you're drinking anything else. --The water tank is on the bottom, and the finished ice is in a tray on top. Heat rises, so the air inside circulates backward--warm air rising toward your ice and cooler air down onto the water. The design should have a tank on the side, in my opinion, though there is one benefit---the melting ice drips through slots in the ice tray into the water storage, so there isn't drainage. After the first few cycles, ice has much thicker walls, presumably because the water it uses is getting. It appears to me that the best thing to do is to run it for a while (maybe an hour?) then empty tthe tray into a container put it tnto the freezer. I noticed that some reviewers are complaining that mold (mildew?) develops inside. According to the manual, you should empty the tank after 24 hours. I think I'm going to empty it nightly, wipe it down and leave the cover open. At first glance, this appears to be worth the money we paid for it. I'll try to remember to update this review after using the icemaker for a while. Update 1:: 9/3/17. After I had it on for about two hours, I went to check it and found that the "Tray Full" light was on and, indeed, the tray was full. I removed the ice and poured it into a container. The cubes on the bottom were half-melted, as I thought they would be. I left the machine off for fifteen minutes (the manual says to wait three minutes before turning it back on to allow the coolest to settle), then turned it on to make some more. Fortunately, I watched it instead of walking away. The machine began pumping water into the ice maker, but didn't stop when it was full. Instead, the water started overflowing and dropping back into the reservoir, never turning off. I turned the machine off and checked the date we purchased it (December, 2015) to see if it was still under warranty (nope). I opened the door to let it dry, in the hope that it might start working again. I looked inside to see if I could clean or clear the water-full sensor, but I couldn't find the sensor. I'll contact Amazon to see if I have any hope of a refund, but I have little hope. I'm going to take a picture of the ice cubes it made and my wife and I will each have a $50 glass of ice water.

I've had several weather stations over the years. For the most part, they're life expectancy seems to be about 3 years on average. Then they start to give screwy readings or just die. Every once in a while you run into something when shopping that technology just hasn't been able to tackle as far as reliability yet. This seems to be the case with home weather stations like this. There are hardly any on Amazon that has a good proportion of solid positive reviews. So far this one at the time of this wrting is about average... As for my own evaluation of it, I have to admit I didn't have any problems setting it up, and actually found it quite easy. Either the direction booklet that comes with it has been redesigned, or some people just didn't receive one. For I had this up and running with the settings adjusted in about 15 minutes. Admittedly I haven't messed with the alarm part of it for I never have any intention of using it as one. Nor have I looked into using the memory feature. I have never used either on any weather station I have had in the past. But setting the time, zone for the weather forecast, and the overall set up of the outside sensor was easy and worked just as described. Though the sensor and home unit paired very quickly, allow plenty of time for the sensor to adjust to the outside temp as to its being an accurate reading. I set this up outside, ( on a screw I installed myself. No hardware of any kind is included with this) and it took over an hour for the temperature to lower itself to what it really was outside. Since then it has given an accurate temp compared to other readings in the area. Also, no batteries came with this either, and it takes 5 AAs altogether....And although I have seen others mention a humidity readout, I can't find it on mine. But that is no real importance to me. Everyone that is truly into weather knows its the dew point that is the true measure of how muggy and uncomfortable is outside, and the humidity statistic doesn't really mean squat. No loss there as far as I am concerned...Lastly, I have to agree with some of the other reviewers here that so far the forecast icon is nothing to depend on for sure. It's been showing clouds during several days of bright sun, and vice versa. But once in a while it manages to get it right.... Although this weather station has a back light on it, its activated by a button on the back. That's kind of a pain and it would be much easier if it were in front as part of the base or something, but at least it has one. My biggest complaint with this station is the fact that you cannot wall mount it. It is set up with its wide base as a stand alone table top unit with no flat back for mounting on a wall. This is a big miss for me since I have the perfect spot for one on a wall and it can't be used there. Maybe some people like these things on a desk or table but I prefer the wall and that's out with this thing. Opinions may vary but I am taking one star off for that. It's not mentioned in the description that its limited to a table or desk and one has to rely on reviews for the info. That being said, overall I am so far satisfied with this unit for the price, which is one of the cheaper ones on Amazon. As for its reliability, time will tell. If this unit fails for any reason within what I consider an unreasonable amount of time I will be back to update this review. But for now it was easy to set up and is working perfectly.. Recommended... Free sample provided in exchange for an honest review... Update. The outdoor sensor on this has quit working after less than 3 months. It no longer is sending the temp, and it is in a protected area and the battery is fine. I've seen this happen often in cheap units and there is no excuse for it. No longer recommended by me....

Have been looking at this brand for years. Serially frustrated with my HE washer dryers. Purchased stacked Maytags front loaders when we moved into our house in 2001. Constant problems leaking, towels smelled like mildew. Multiple repairs required. Renovated in 2010 and purchased Electrolux IQ series. Washer constantly broke. Easily 8 repair visits - multiple leaks, broken soap dispenser, ripped gasket and of course smelly towels and mildew all over the gasket. The washer finally could not be repaired in 2016 so we replaced with Speed Queen washer dryers with electronic controls about two weeks ago. So far, could not be more thrilled. Towels don't smell like mildew, my Under Armour (sp?) work out clothes no longer smell like sweat after having been washed. In general everything comes out smelling fresher than ever did with HE machines. Machines are quiet enough. The dryer dries. The washer drum is plenty big - I am not sure what it can't handle but it looks big. There was a layer of grease in the washer which I cleaned out with windex - note, the directions do recommend cleaning the washer and dryer drums out before operation. I would not have known about this issue but for my reading of reviews online. I don't normally read directions on anything before operation. I have attached two pictures. One is a before and after of a rust covered rag I used to wipe out all of the standing water and rust in a galvanized metal tray the Electrolux was sitting in. I hit the rag with spray and wash before washing in the new Speed Queen. I took out and hit with more spray and wash and washed again. You can see how almost perfect this rag looked after doing that with an incredibly difficult to clean stain without using bleach or trying really hard to clean it. I have also attached a picture of me ecstatically taking in the bouquet of a very fresh smelling Speed Queen washed hang drying work out shirt. No sweat odor at all. Purchased from Marsillios in Fairfield CT. They are now selling hundreds of these machines a year. Also, this machine is not particularly rough on clothes. Seems to be about same as previous HE models. I have seen rough in some vacation homes we have stayed in; this machine is not rough. I hate to say this and it sounds paranoid, but I think Consumer Reports, which says these machines clean less well than HE models, is biased on this issue and this is reflected in their review. They love HE because it saves water. 2 Month Update Sadly, am tempering my initial enthusiasm in that the machine has already broken down. It stopped draining one day. Repairman came 5 days later and had to order a part. Hopefully, that will arrive soon and that will be the end of problems. Revising my rating downward to 4 stars. I will revise upward if the machine is consistently reliable after this fix. Further Update Part was installed. It was a new pump. It turns out that a sock was stuck in the pump. This did not surprise me because it was one of the issues suggested in a Google search when washing machines fail to drain. Instruction from the repairman, was do not over fill the washer. On a related note, there was an instruction in the install manual but not in the user manual to put a quart of water into the tub prior to first use to prevent the pump from overheating and degrading its gaskets. I did not see this instruction and I don't recall my installers pouring water into the tub. That apparently did not cause the issue but it could cause one. So, that's another caveat when operating one of these machines. I will update this review at some point, hopefully to the upside "when" the machine operates without further issues for a length of time.

I recently purchased this Speed Queen AWNE92SP washer and I'm completely impressed with it after two months of use. The washer weighs a ton and is built in the USA by a company that has built reliable washing machines for decades. Forget about buying a throw-away top load HE washer from another manufacturer. The other brands have all kinds of digital lights, sound effects and stupid features but they aren't made to last more than about 2-4 years. Read the reviews on Amazon and then read the Speed Queen Reviews. The other HE washers don't even use enough water to clean and rinse your clothes properly. Pros: - The Speed Queen fills up all the way to the top. - It uses HOT water (same temperature from the tap) and doesn't MIX hot/cold like the other machines (except on ECO cycle!) - Never use the NORMAL/ECO mode as this mode doesn't give you true HOT water, gives you a spray rinse and a SLOW spin cycle. - Commercial & Heavy Duty Machine, you can feel the quality - No Lid Lock (you can throw in a sock or extra towel after the machine has started) see YouTube videos on how to defeat lid lock - Quick wash cycles (The WHITES and HEAVY DUTY CYCLES are finished in 30-40 minutes.) HE machines take 70-100 minutes for a wash cycle and your clothes are still moldy and dirty. - The Wash Timer is accurate. Most HE machines I've used have inaccurate wash timers. - You can defeat the lid lock feature and watch the cycle run through with the lid open. Just put a clothespin on the trigger on the back. - On BULKY cycle, it provides a slow and solid agitation that doesn't ruin your clothes - You can see your clothes rolling in the water instead of grinding around. - Use WHITE or HEAVY DUTY for sheets, towels, kitchen rags, etc... This provides a fast agitation and fast rinse agitation, fast spin cycle. - No Musty mildew smell inside - This machine actually uses sufficient water to wash your clothes. Other HE washers just grind your clothes up with barely any water. - All Rinse cycles (EXCEPT NORMAL/ECO) are a FULL TUB COLD RINSE with full agitation. - the timer feature is amazing and allows you to put clothes and detergent in with a start delay. Clothes don't sit in the washer wet all night. - This machine has 2nd and 3rd rinses for allergy sufferers who are sensitive to detergents. - I have read online of some people adding TSP (TriSodium Phosphate) into the machine to improve cleaning performance. I haven't tried it yet. The government also took Phosphates out of our detergent, but TSP can be added in small quantities to keep your whites clean. Cons - With the Lid Lock feature defeated it can be dangerous with the lid open during a spin cycle. Don't even think of sticking a hand in there or you'll end up with a broken arm for sure. - The machine isn't super quiet. It makes a soft humming sound when agitating. Much less annoying than the clicks and grinds that the HE machines make. Mine is mounted in the garage so it's not a big deal. You won't regret your purchase: If you are fed up with your current HE machine that take forever to wash, breaks down every few months, leaves a mildew scent on your clothes, doesn't take out stains, wears out your clothes by grinding the fabrics against each other with no water, leaves your clothes with detergent residue due to inadequate "energy saving" rinse cycles, ties all of your clothes in a knot that is almost impossible to untie. The list goes on and on for these HE machines. In Summary, Speed Queen - Excellent Product that focuses on what the customer needs reliability and clean clothes. It's old school, but built to last.

Hi Everyone, My family and I recently purchased a Speed Queen Top Loader AWNE92SP113TW01 and it has drastically changed our lives for the better! We previously owned a High Efficiency LG top loader and at that the time we were researching washers...this LG was highly recommended with raving reviews including an editors choice award at Consumer Reports and various positive reviews around the internet. Needless to say, we were hopeful and all considering...it performed satisfactory for a few months. We even got an extended warranty just in case. Unfortunately, we soon headed down a path of endless frustration (including the dreaded UNBALANCED error). I could easily sit here and recount our horror stories with this washer, but I would only be repeating similar stories mentioned by others....so let's get to the good part! Speed Queen! Allow me to first and foremost point out the most significant advantage (In my mind) of a Speed Queen washer. It is the MANUFACTURERS WARRANTY. Not an extended warranty from a 3rd party! These 3rd party service providers are in business because they profit more from obtaining extended warranty contracts than paying in services rendered. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with this but there is a HUGE difference between an Extended Warranty from a 3rd party provider and a REAL MANUFACTURERS WARRANTY where the company who actually makes the product is putting their money where their mouth is and truly guaranteeing quality and reliability. Just the other day, I walked in Home Depot and Loews and I looked closely at every single warranty for every washer on the floor...from the cheapest to the most expensive. Everyone one of those washer had a manufacturers warranty that was no longer than 1 YEAR!!!! Sure, the top end washer had a big sticker on it that said 10 YEAR WARRANTY but then in fine print I discovered that the 10 years was for the motor only which they don't even make! At best, the manufacturers warranties are 1 year parts and labor. So you're telling me, that if I spend $1500 on a washer and use it exactly as direct by the operators manual and maintain it in pristine condition, the manufacturer can only promise that it will work for ONE YEAR???? I find this absurd. Enter - Speed Queen. Let me get to the point here.... When I found out that the MANUFACTURERS WARRANTY for a Speed Queen washer was 5 YEARS including ALL PARTS and IN-HOUSE LABOR, 15 years on the motor and transmission, and LIFETIME guarantee on the wash bucket (UNDER COMMERCIAL USE CONDITIONS! that's more than 10,000 wash cycles)........I WAS SOLD. Not to mention, that it actually works incredibly well! Clothes are clean and cycles are FAST (just under 28 minutes). It is built like a tank, probably weighs more than double your average washer, and will remind you of the appliances of days gone by! You know that old saying, "They don't make them like they use to!" In this case THEY DO!!!! Its called a Speed Queen and they are made right here the USA! It's a real American home grown company. Now, they're not cheap but they're certainly not the most expensive either. I paid $875 for the latest Top Loader (see above model #) - so not bad. PLEASE don't be discouraged by the tub size at 3.3 cubic feet. Our LG was 5.0 and to be honest we don't miss it and we have a big family! We have 4 boys and the in-laws under one roof...so that's 8 of us and the Speed Queen out performs all of our previous washers by LEAPS and BOUNDS in every category!!! It may be hard to believe, but I am not an employee of Speed Queen, nor do sell them or get a single penny for what I'm saying here today. I'm just a Dad who was at the end of my rope with my family's disenchantment with the modern day he washers, but those days are thankfully now behind us! The SPEED QUEEN love affair.......you just have to own one to understand!

My title sums it up and here's the logic to support it: First, I'll address the quality issue: The OEM Samsung brand filter, which is made in Mexico, a country with which we have direct involvement in the manufacturing of products that are exported to the U.S versus this brand, which is made in China, a country with which we have zero input into quality control. Let's look deeper: What do we control, regardless of where it's manufactured? We control, through the FDA, labeling. The Samsung brand filter clearly states the filtering capabilities on the package. This filter makes no water quality claims whatsoever. The Chinese are not stupid. If they made a superior product that sells for less money, the details, including the filtering data would be plastered in big print on the packaging. If you think you're getting an equal to or better filter then you're living in Fantasyland. Second is the warranty issue: If you read your Samsung's refrigerator owner's manual thoroughly, you'll learn that using a non Samsung filter voids your refrigerator's warranty. If you bought an extended warranty this could be an important issue. Finally, so many people write reviews claiming they buy these things thinking they're brilliant because they're saving so much money. Well, I suggest they sit down and do the math. On the day I'm writing this review, this filter is selling at Amazon for $26.99. The Samsung brand "Samsung Da29-00020b Refrigerator Water Filter, 1-pack" is selling for $33.27. Now, let's do the math. $33.27 minus $26.99 = $6.28 more for the Samsung brand. Assuming we buy one of these every six months that works out to less than $1.05 more per month for the Samsung brand ($6.28 divided by 6 months = $1.04666667 more per month). Looking closer we divide 30 days into $1.05 and Voila! buying this product will save us less than a whopping 3 1/2 cents per day! I don't think that saving would even be meaningful to a homeless person. So, if this is truly a meaningful savings to anyone, I suggest they find a container or sandwich-sized Zip Lock baggie and put a nickel a day into it for six months. When it's time to buy your new higher quality Samsung brand filter, not only will you have more than enough money to pay for the difference in price but you may even be able to buy a few sticks of chewing gum as well. Please stop with the reviews with outrageously extreme views that are not supported by data and accept the fact, that in this instance, you may not be as smart as you think you are. My intent is not to be rude but rather to show, that when reviewing products such as these it's not at all difficult to use common sense, logic, and basic math skills to prevent oneself from making claims that simply do not add up to meaning much of anything. I'm no genius but I do have a college education with a degree in accounting, finance, and my favorite class in college was logic and favorite activity was participating on debate teams. I'm retired now but worked for thirty years as a finance estimator for a Fortune 500 company and made countless presentations on whether or not it made sense to pursue a project from a financial standpoint. Providing supporting data for conclusions was always required. Blanket statements that "we should do it because it's cheaper," just don't fly without common sense support. So, while I may come off as a snob; I'm really only trying to show the value in critical thinking and not making blanket statements based upon emotion as opposed to fact. Another example I've seen on these pages is "The water quality is just as good because it tastes just as good and is just as clear". This is another fallacy. Water quality cannot be determined by looks or taste; When we're talking about PPM (parts per million) of things, which is precisely what we're alluding to with water quality, have the water tested; something that's relatively inexpensive, before making such claims about water quality. Ciao for now!

The filter does look a bit different from the original 4396508 that I was using but I was able to install it. My refrigerator is a Kenmore (actually a Whirlpool) side by side 106.53332300 (purchased back in 2003). I was concerned about reviews regarding this filter not working so I wrote to the company and I will include their response to me in my review. I've attached a photo of what the manufacturer info says on my filter package and as you will see from the response from Whirlpool, the filters made by 3M may be an issue for older refrigerators. -------------------------- Thank you for contacting Whirlpool Consumer Direct Sales through our website. I am happy to assist you with your water filter questions. You are correct. Your replacement water filter is EDR5RXD1. That being said, we have noticed that older model refrigerators in the 8-10 year old range or older have had some issues with one of our newer filter. We do have two manufactures for this filter and with these models we have noticed that one will work and the other will be very difficult to install. It is possible but very difficult. Our engineers are working on a solution to this issue. If you order directly from us, our warehouse will ship what they have in stock and we have no control over which one they ship. If you are purchasing your filter at the store you can differentiate which one you are purchasing. On the bottom left side of the box you will see where it says "manufactured for Whirlpool" then it will say by.. and it will either say Kemflo or 3M for the manufacturer. If you look at the old filter you have been using you will either see it is flat at the top or has cut out notches in the top. One of these two filters will match the one that you have been using. I believe it is the one made by Kemflo that is working with the older models. We do have a 30 day return policy and a 90 day warranty so if you do order by phone and get one that doesn't work we would replace it for you. As of right now we just have no way to know which one the warehouse will be shipping. We hope to have a better solution for you soon. I do apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you for your email. Have a great day. If you have any additional questions or concerns, you may also reach our retail parts department at 1-800-901-2042 and choose the water filters option. Our hours of operation are Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m.to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. You are a valued Whirlpool customer and we appreciate your support of the Whirlpool Brand. Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to assist you today. Have a good day! Sincerely, Billie P. Whirlpool Consumer Direct Sales ------------------------------------- The reason I gave 4 stars instead of 5 is because I find it very upsetting that there is this manufacturing issue where if you order the filter on any online source even through Whirlpool you can't know if it will fit until you get it!. With the original filter I never had to worry about that because it always worked. I sincerely hope Whirlpool will take this seriously and solve this engineering issue soon. ---------------------------------------- New Update, The filter I got from Amazon was the one made in Mexico. Although I was able to install it (it had a rounded top), my refrigerator had small water leaks at the dispenser for the 6 months that it was installed. It was minor or I would have changed the filter sooner but still annoying considering it is supposed to be the correct filter. Now I have the correct filter that I had to spend more money to purchase in town, made by Kemflo that has the notches on top and fits correctly. I downgraded my review to 2 stars because of the problem with having 2 manufacturers that make this same filter different causing fit and use issues. Basically, you will be taking your chances buying this filter online because you won't know which one you will get..

I purchased the "Wonder Washer" because my washing machine is out of commission, and I need something for those in-between trips to the laundrymat more bearable. As it turns out, this little washer meets my needs quite nicely, and I will continue to use it even well after the washing machine gets fixed. So, here's the deal: * The Wonder Washer is not a substitute for a washing machine. No, seriously, it's not. * The thing is made of cheap plastic. Handle and store with care. * It's essentially a giant blender, without the fancy modes and buttons. The first button, "Timer", gives the option of setting the time for up to fifteen minutes. The second button, "Program," allows you to set this puppy to "Standard" or "Gentle." * Oh, and there is no, "rinse cycle." How to use: * Add dirty garments; don't overcrowd. * Add water; don't go over the line. * Add dollop of detergent. * Once it's plugged, adjust to desired settings. * It'll turn on, spin, turn off, then spin the other way. It's okay; it's supposed to do that. When it's finished, manually drain the bucket (that means lug it to the bathtub and pour down the drain), wring your things out, and proceed to stuff them in the dryer or hang to dry. Now, lets talk about what kinds of things you CAN and CAN'T wash. Things you CAN wash include: bra's, boxers, underwear, undershirts, camisoles, socks and gloves, tights, leggings, tee shirts, summer dresses, skinny jeans, baby garb, pet costumes, tea towels, and doilies. Essentially, if it's small or lightweight, you can wash it in the Wonder Washer. If it's big, thick, or bulky -- forget about it. That means outerwear is out of the question. Most women's wear shouldn't be a problem, since women's clothing is usually lightweight (thin, often no lining for jackets etc.); however a lot of men's clothing tends to be much thicker and bulkier. Super plush hoodies or thick, heavyweight jeans will be too big for the bucket's 7-10 Liter capacity. Personally, I've been using this little dude to wash "delicates" -- bras and panties, leggings, tights, scarves, and my lightweight dresses, blouses, and skirts. It does the job, leaves my clothes smelling pleasant enough, and hasn't really given me any issue. Is it easy to use? Yes and no. Usage is fairly straight forward, however lugging the bucket back and forth can be bothersome, but that's just me being lazy. Nice product, glad I purchased. UPDATE I (06/04/2014) After using this item on several more occasions, here are some more follow-up thoughts and advice: * The base (where all the electrical components and good stuff is located) has the potential to get over-heated after doing several loads. If this happens, remove the bucket and allow the base to cool. I pointed a fan at it, and it cooled and functioned instantly. * For stains use a spot remover before dropping your clothes in this little guy -- makes a huge difference! (Though you should also use some spot remover with your normal washing machine anyway, for the same reason; just my two cents, anyway). * Do not overfill with laundry. If the bucket it too tightly packed with your clothes it won't spin properly. I can't tell you how many times I had to stick my hand in a bucket full of soggy slimy clothes to loosen it up. * Do not overfill with water. Nope, nope, nope. If you do, then water will be spinning out everywhere and it'll be madness. * On a final note, you do not need to use a lot of detergent. You don't want it super suddy. Personally, I don't do a rinse cycle (I'm lazy), so I don't want my clothes super soapy. Still, adding too much detergent has yet caused any real problems so I wouldn't worry about it too much. UPDATE II (one year later): It's been a year since I've had this little machine and it's still kickin' hard. Great purchase!

I gave this four stars because it is simple and just what I needed. The only improvement would be to be a small agitator in the shape of a ball that you could throw into any bucket or sink and take anywhere with you. This type of washer is good for me because I'm single and do not have large loads and would rather wash my items frequently rather than have big piles of dirty laundry sitting around. Also, the wash in my apartment building is really tough on clothes and doesn't spin the water out well. Laundry mats are even more expensive and inconvenient. So, I had been washing by hand with the rapid washer, but sometimes get lazy. I think this will help motivate me to launder more frequently. There are newer versions of this size of washer out that have automatic rinse cycles and hook-ups, but I hesitated to get one. 1) The more complex, the more things can break. 2) I already have a nice spin dryer. 3) I like to rinse my clothes twice, since my skin is sensitive to soap. 4) I like the idea of using my wash water for a second or third load to save water and soap. This washer is simple, small, and effective. I can rinse a load in a five gallon bucket with the rapid washer while the second load is washing. So, I figure two loads (one light and one dark) with rinsing and the spin dryer, followed by a quick ironing session and then onto a hanger and I"m done for a few days. Easy peasy! Less than an hour, no quarters needed, no trips outside of the home, and much easier on the clothes. I also tried one load after going away for a yoga weekend. I could throw in my yoga pants, shirts, socks, and underwear. One load, two rinses, spin dry, and hang up to dry and ready to wear tomorrow. Awesome!! In this case, I poured the water out and used the same container to rinse my clothes twice. I found it really easy to lift from the base and pour into the bathtub with the holes in the top of the cover. My cover stayed on just fine. There are two tabs that you simply rotate to under the handles and it locks the cover on. It was also easy for me to pour out and then just put the clothes in the spin dryer. I think this version of a washer is just as good as some of the more expensive versions that don't have an automatic rinse and it allows me to either rewash or rinse as I want. I have about average strength for a woman and didn't have any trouble with the weight or pouring at all. I also like that the base and bucket can be stored separately or that the base can fit right into the bucket. I can use the bucket as a laundry basket. When it is full, it is time to wash. It is also easily transportable. Although my rapid washer might be an easier fix for out of the apartment portable washing needs. Lastly, for the pro's even though it is plastic, it seems like it will hold up for a while. I hope to get a year or more out of it. It would be good to be able to just replace or fix the base if something wears out. Cons: I can see that the bucket filled with water might be heavy for some without average strength to lift. This was not a problem for me. Some might also want the automatic rinse and spin. I didn't see this as a problem since I could rinse and spin the light colored load while the dark colored load was washing to make the whole process quicker with a better rinse than most small machines will allow. The separate laundry alternative spin dryer is also better than a regular washer spinner, so it saves electricity and time. The last con is that I do sometimes like a dryer to shrink clothes that are stretched out a bit and get the wrinkles out, but that really has to do with the drying process rather than the washing.

Well 800 gram isn't much weight, it's = to 1.25 pds which is basically the weight of the water you put in it, yes socks and underwear may not weigh that much when there dry, but they do when there wet, its a different ball game for it haha. I'm a big dude that wears size 42 everything so my shorts (wet) probably weigh just as much as say... a size 30 jeans would weigh. Basically to make a long story short... it hated my clothes lol. If too much weight in bucket, it like to spin around fast at times when the machine is in cycle, and to no lock of some sort at the bottom of bucket to keep it from doing that, I ended up using one of my belts to keep into place as I was afraid that the bucket would spin off the machine and I would have to deal with water everywhere. My clothes also must be dirtier... if that word exist... anyways because I've heard ppl on here say they reuse there water sometimes....First of all....EGGGHHHH tha hell wrong wit ya'll, I wouldn't even do that with a regular machine if it let me lol. That's the other thing that was a work out for me, never had to squeeze the water out of my clothes which were soaked. doesn't really do the trick that well either as all it does is spin your clothes around one way, stop for about 5 sec, then spin the other direction which I noticed is what makes the bucket spin.. see the water is still spinning in the last direction it was going before the machine goes the other direction which makes your clothes and water stop suddenly and making the bucket lean and tilt at times and making it spin around really fast., that's what my belt was for, but it doesn't exactly save on water as U go through a lot of it rinsing out your clothes afterwards, not to mention this one wasn't quiet. Sounded like the motor was whining up, (working hard) so it wasn't quiet I should say, quieter than a regular one but still, was kinda annoying to hear. I don't think it was worth the money I spent on it as I'm in the process in getting a refund right now, if you have very little small light clothes then your all good, but if you have size 42 thick underware, and size xx large socks that are thick in materials like I do lol.... you minds well forget it. The machine will hate U lol and make you work hard to get your clothes clean, its almost like if your really dirty from working at a construction site or something and U come home to take a bath, well that bath water is going be pretty nasty by the time you fill the tub up just from U sitting in it, well that's how my clothes where, hell U could see the water turning right there before even turning the machine on lol, like well let them soak for a moment, then I'll change the water out. Might find yourself changing the water several times for one small load. O yeah... use like a freakin teaspoon of detergent too, because you'll find yourself spending the next 20 mins sitting over your tub hand rinsing out soap and bucket, of course if ya'll already have those kinda machines in your house that's rings them out 4 U then then hell your cool. But sorry, I didn't like the product so I'm returning it. Also U would think since U have like a gallon and a half of water sitting on top of a motor that's using 120 volts at about 3 amps and god knows how many watts, it would at least have a 3 prong plug at the end so it had something to ground out too, (if the house/apt is equipped with it). I know houses come with circuit breakers now a days but even those have been known to fail, and doesn't say anything in manual about having any of a circuit breaker built in, I mean I don't want to get shocked if water happens to go spilling everywhere lol, anyways I think I've said more enough of pros and cons about it.....well more cons then pros but... anyways that's my opinion on it

I have been ordering from Amazon for years and with over hundreds and hundreds of order, I cant remember ever writing a review...until today. I have had this wonderful washer for almost a month and love, love, love it! Did I mention I love it? Well I do! I have been searching for a portable washer for a couple of months. I live in Hawaii so shipping is generally not offered on large products such as this. I also live in a studio condominium. Units here do not have washer hookups and it is further prohibited to change existing plumbing so our options are few to none. It has been far too many years of going up and down in the elevator to the laundromat and has become too expensive in my eyes to pay $10 to wash and dry a load. Most of the time, my clothes are still wet, which takes longer to dry and once dried, well, not freshly clean smelling. I work from home a lot and have a pet, so the convenience of doing laundry at home became very important to me. I did have one of those Panda small washers for under $100 and a spin dryer about the same several years ago. It broke down after a year. It was time consuming and if time is money, then maybe I lost out somewhere in the equation. I would not order such a product again. So recently I started my search and was reluctant to go down the path of trying another washer. After a month of comparing models and reading and re-reading reviews, I chose the RCA. (was only $209 at the time I purchased with free PRIME shipping). It arrived on time and no damage. It did have pictures of the washer on the outer box and description. The Fedex delivery guy was quite impressed with it and had a lot of questions for me. I had it unboxed, hooked up and was doing my first load in 30 minutes. It actually holds more than I thought it would. I can also do a full bed sheet set in one load (fitted and flat sheet and 4 pillow cases). I can usually do 2-3 loads for a weeks worth of laundry. It has been a long time since I have been so impressed with a product. I would easily give this washer 10 stars if I could. This unit spins clothes very dry. I use a non-scented detergent and I have not had clothes come out actually smelling so amazingly fresh since I was a kid and my grandmother was doing my laundry! Very quiet operation. If it broke down tomorrow, I would order it again! HAHAHA Folks, there are no further words for me to describe my satisfaction with this gem. Get it, you won't be disappointed. Additional: Anyone who has one, what is the black plastic large square piece in the box for? The instruction manual is not very detailed. For instance, there is a soap dispenser listed in the manual but I haven't been able to find it. I just pour my laundry soap on top of the clothes as the water is added. Absolutely no issues with this process. I would give the manual a 2-star rating. But this should not take away for the excellent quality of the washer at all. Also, I was initially looking for a unit that I can add water to. Didnt want to bother with hooking up to sink. I am so glad I took a chance on this purchase! The set up is way too easy and once done, you load machine and turn it on, you can walk away. There is no babysitting with this machine! UPDATE: 2/21/17 I cant believe I have had this gem for almost a year and a half now. Still no problems. I use about 4 times a week. Incredibly, I think this is the best and favorite thing I have ever bought from Amazon. LOL I honestly didn't expect it to last a year. No leaks, or loud banging. Total confidence and if it broke down today, I would have another one ordered within minutes! Life saver!!! :)

1st Pic is the Whirlpool - 2nd pic is the PURE The Not So Fantastic -This product is rated for 200 gallons NOT 300 gallons as stated in the Amazon description. -Costs .20 cents to filter 1 gallon..some may find this excessive ( I do ) - $40 per filter as advertised 200 gallon rate. We are paying for convenience as the filter replacement process is 1 2 3... There are much cheaper alternatives if you wanted to partake in some plumbing work and filter the water prior to the frig -I have noticed a slight reduction in water pressure. Nothing major. The exact statistics follow -This product does not have a flow rate of .78 gpm. My calculated flow rate was .55 gpm. I filled a 16 oz container in 13.8 seconds. -This product actually reduced my frig water pressure. The prior filter in use was a MORE Pure Filter rated at .5 gpm. This filter dispensed a flow rate of .61 (measured at end of lifespan so I suspect the flow rate was even better months ago) and filled a 16 oz container in 12.5 seconds. PLEASE NOTE - Filter flow rates will vary greatly when the frig line is connected to a saddle valve. If you are bothered by your low flow rate from your frig and you have a saddle valve it does not matter which filter you get.. your flow rate will suffer..!!! Get ride of that saddle valve The Shame On Me -Shame on me for ever taking an Amazon description seriously. The description below the title specifically states this Whirlpool filter is rated at 300 gallons. However, upon further review the official Whirlpool description states 200 gallons. If the Whirlpool description was not displayed on this product page I would have deducted another star for sure. However, shame on Amazon or who ever is responsible for their shoddy descriptions below the product title. It does cause everyone, including myself, an big inconvenience when you want to make a quick purchase and are always doubting if the specs and or descriptions are accurate The Not Too Shabby -The filter claims to filter 23 contaminants and is NSF 42 and 53 certified. The only reason why I was so suspect of this was Whirlpool claims the filters flow rate is better than its competitors that do not filter as well. In my opinion this makes NO SENSE as higher quality filters filter out more contaminants therefor will be more restrictive. Since this filter actually reduced my pressure I wasn't bothered by it. B/c of this slight reduction I am more confident that this filter does indeed filter out more contaminants that my previous More PURE filter. -The water tastes good. I have not not noticed a taste improvement vs the old filter (More PURE filter) but thats not a bad thing. This filter apparently filters out more impurities than the PURE but who's to say those impurities even have any sort of taste :) The Final Verdict My reason for a 1 star deduction was a combination of high price, incorrect description (200/300) and the filter not holding up to the advertised .78 gpm** The way my family uses water I suspect I will use 3 filters per year which will cost $10 per month. B/c of this price I will surely find cheaper alternatives (filter the water prior to the frig) once these filters expire. But with this said, I am content with this product as it is a very convenient way to filter your water for drinking use. I do wish the pressure was a little better than it is but with improved filtration usually comes more restriction so I've accepted this trade off. If you value convenience I would recommend this filter. If you value the dollar and consider yourself handy I would not recommend this product. ** - Please note my frig water dispenser is not connected to a saddle valve. This 1/4" line is directly tapped off a 3/4" with a 1/4 turn shut off valve.

UPDATE: I've used the washer for 7 months now and it's still working great! Because I like fabric softener since I often hang my clothes outside to dry, I've started to add the fabric softener along with the detergent in the wash cycle. This way, I don't have to babysit the machine and catch the rinse cycle. It works! I'm moving across the country at the end of the week and really hope the washer makes it through unscathed! I'll be adding the small dryer when I'm in my new home. I received my washer today and have been merrily washing since we set it up. I LOVE it, it seems well-built but, in case something goes wrong over time, I did purchase the extended warranty. My washer was delivered within the shipping window and arrived in perfect condition. I had read the manual online so I knew what to expect and had arranged my bathroom so that it had a permanent resting place within 3 feet of the faucet/sink and within 4 feet of an electrical outlet. I also had removed the bottom piece/aerator from the faucet. When the washer was delivered, we were good to go! And it literally only took a few minutes to set up. The washer comes with a piece to screw into the bottom of the faucet (remember that the aerator needs to be removed). We tightened that with a wrench and hooked up the water inlet hose to the top of the machine and the other end to the faucet adaptor. After that, we attached the draining hose to the bottom of the washer. I decided to remove my sink's drain plug thingy and put the end of the washer's hose securely into the drain, hoping it would be secure when the washer pumped water out. (It is! This works perfectly!) The washer comes with a hose clamp but the shape of it and the hook didn't work with my sink or vanity. We plugged in the machine and ran a test wash with 2 old hand towels. The manual suggests running an initial wash without clothes but I figured putting 2 small towels in would help clean the machine and help remove the "new washer" smell. We set it on a quick wash and the water level on medium, added detergent, and let it go. The machine performed flawlessly. I then started to wash clothes, sticking with the "Quick" wash. That cycle lasts 23 minutes and gets clothes very clean! It uses less water and electricity, too! I did another medium load consisting of 10 pairs of socks, 10 pairs of undies, a good hand towel, and 2 pairs of jammies. I also did a large load and it fit 2 pairs of sweatpants, 4 sweatshirts, and 2 t-shirts. (If this helps, I'm 5 feet, 6 inches tall and wear a Size 6 so smaller people could fit more of their clothes and larger people fewer clothes, I guess.) I am delighted with how well this little washer cleans my clothes, how much it fits in a load, and how efficient it is! There are 2 lint filters inside the machine and it's amazing how much lint accumulates in them. (Well, maybe it shouldn't be. I do have pets, heh.) The manual recommends cleaning them after each load and I'd agree. It's simple to do. There's only one drawback -- no fabric softener dispenser. It wasn't mentioned in the manual so I just keep an eye on it and add fabric softener to the water during the rinse cycle. The Quick cycle only does one rinse so that's easy enough to figure out without having to watch it constantly. I bought this washer after my full-sized front loader broke. I'm going to be moving later this year, building a cabin and using solar power so I decided I may as well buy a washer that would work now and also be an energy-efficient, smart appliance for the cabin. This is a winner and I hope it lasts a long time!

A few years ago I bought a 1 cubic foot Haier from Amazon and was so happy with it that when it stopped working I decided to upgrade to another Haier and get a dryer too. Of course, I bought it at Amazon because their customer service has always been outstanding. One thing that I would recommend is to make sure who is selling the item to you. I bought the dryer from Amazon and the customer service response was very different than for the washer which was sold by a third party. First off: the previous washer was delivered right inside my apartment, so I was expecting the same delivery. I do not remember who made the delivery four or five years ago but it was neither UPS nor FedEx because the man was not wearing any uniform. Anyway, the washer was brought upstairs. This time the machine was left curbside by FedEX. This meant I had to hire a mover at $75 hr, one hour minimum to bring the washer upstairs. And this was after I had taken delivery of the drier two days prior under the same circumstances. ( In addition, I had to spend $40 on a dolly because the machine has no wheels. I take some responsibility for this. I should have read the reviews more extensively and noticed the mention of NO CASTERS. I thought I would use furniture sliders, but at 66 years old I don't want to risk throwing my back out, so a dolly it is. Amazon did give me a $62 credit, but I spent $190 dollars trying to make this washer have the same portability as the smaller one, so I am still out of a chunk of my Social Security check. An expense I had not budgeted for. I am not saying Amazon is responsible to deliver what they call in my neck of the woods in a "white glove" way, but I am putting it out here so that other buyers can make an informed decision. This is a small machine but it is still heavy. Apart from those isssues that are not per se the washing machine's, this seems to be an even better machine than the smaller one. Installation of the hoses was a cinch. And there was no leakage whatsoever. I had several towels at the ready just in case and there wasn't even one drop leaked. The drainage water output is bigger than with the 1 cubic foot one. On that one all the water poured directly into the drain with no accumulation in the sink whatsoever and with this 1.5 cubic foot the water goes up maybe two inches in the sink but as long as there is nothing to prevent free flow I don't think there is the tiniest risk of overflowing. Last observation is about the noise level. I have read many reviews saying how quiet it is (also some people complain of screeching but that is another matter) but I find the noise level is like any normal washer. No more but certainly no less. I would not comment on it except that too many people here and elsewhere how said how quiet it is and since my washer is in my apartment as contraband I was excited about how quiet it was supposed to be. Not so. In fact, it is a tiny bit louder than the smaller Haier. Again, it is not noisy. Just not as quiet as I was led to believe. I would highly recommend this washer. just be aware of what needs to be done in order to make the washer truly portable. (I have done only two loads and if there are any problems I will come back and update.) UPDATE: I have been using my washer for almost two months now and I am still very happy with it. Love all the water level and cycle options and most of all I like the larger size. I would give it five stars if it weren't for the no-wheels situation. I bought a Stalwart telescopic dolly, which is working great, but it means that I had to spend $42 in additon to all the other extra expenses mentioned above. But all's well that ends well, like the man said.

Well, my homemade kegerator I used to keep my homebrew finally gave up the ghost (bad compressor), and after looking at options it was clear that it was more economically feasible to get a new unit rather than try to repair the old one. I was torn between this and two kegerators that had the fittings included...both the EdgeStar model and the Nostalgia. Ultimately I chose this because I already had the tower, lines, and gas canister, plus I didn't want to give up my Perlick 630. So in case it isn't clear, this is the refrigerator ONLY. You will need to add all the rest of it. Fortunately, EdgeStar makes it fairly easy, though there are some hiccups. I'll start with those. I really like that the gas canister is outside the unit - believe me, force carbonating with chilled gas is a pain. There is a predrilled hole in the back for the gas line, but it's just a tiny bit on the narrow side if your gas line is already attached to a fitting. So you will either need/want to run a new gas line or, in my case, remove the plastic gasket/lining which will give you another couple of millimeters of clearance and just -barely- let you run a line with a fitting attached. Again, this is something to keep in mind if you're transferring gear from an old setup to this new unit. Another thing to keep in mind...the top is tapped and drilled for installation of a tower. The four screws were set such that my existing tower didn't line up with them. I ended up making a collar that fit the predrilled holes, then installed my tower on top of it. It works, and it satisfied my DIY urge that buying a premade kegerator didn't really satisfy. Assembly and setup was otherwise intuitive. I really suggest letting the unit sit upright for 24 hours after you set it up, to be sure the coolant has settled properly. You will need to put the unit on its side to install the casters, so mind that 24 hour rule. As I'm using this for homebrew the major thing I wanted to know was...how many corny kegs will it fit? It will fit TWO corny kegs comfortably. With these kegs though, you will NOT be able to use the included shelving in the unit...the corny kegs are too tall. If homebrew isn't your thing, it will fit either one full size keg (not an oversized), a pony keg, a slim quarter, or two sixths. Temperature control is easy. At the coldest setting my probe thermometer says it hits 34 degrees after three days of being on. The warmest setting (setting 1) was hovering around 41 degrees. The temperature spread between setting 1 and 6 seemed pretty uniform. I was interested in this because temperature is one of the key variables when it comes to balancing the draft system and making sure the beer line is the correct length. Other reviews are correct when they say this unit is quiet. I every so often hear a quiet -thunk- when the compressor engages, but other than that it's really a discreet system. The casters make it easy to move around if desired. My unit came with a selection of hardware (washers, hose clamps, etc) which I thought was odd since there were no fittings to install...but I'm country, so I'll roll with it. Overall, I don't think I could be happier with the system. I admit to a minor headache with the tower installation, but I got to use my improvisational skills to make it work, so it was a one time thing. At the end of the day, this thing makes it ultra easy for me to relax, not worry, and have a homebrew. It's a good unit and I'm glad to have it.

I researched and waited for three years in my home (built in 1940 so no plumbing or wiring for a built-in dishwasher) before I finally was able to purchase a countertop dishwasher and let me tell you, it was THE best decision I have ever made. I have fibromyalgia so my back and upper body strength is not at all what it used to be, but I was able to get the (rather large) box inside and up six steps on my own without too much trouble. Pulling the dishwasher out wasn't a hassle either. The exceptionally frail, however, will need some help with this. Setup wasn't difficult at all and only took a few minutes. Do be careful not to overtighten any of your lines. The fit will be snug, but you won't need to struggle with it to get it tight enough. If you're struggling, or using any tools to tighten further, you're doing it wrong. Regular-sized dinner plates fit just fine, and I'm actually using the "cup rack" for serving utensils, spatulas, anything with long handles, and coffee mug lids. Deeper bowls need to be loaded upside down, which will cut back on how much you can put in per load, but that's fine with me, honestly. Coffee mugs need to be loaded on the bottom rack as well - they will NOT fit on the cup rack. One review mentioned that a hand sprayer started shooting water because of a pressure build-up, but I have a hand sprayer on my sink (and it's nothing expensive or nice, just your run-of-the-mill sprayer setup) and I haven't had a single problem with it. I prepared for the possibility, but there hasn't been any problem. If you're thinking of getting this but aren't sure about having a hand sprayer, I'd recommend trying it first (just put a pot over top of the sprayer during the first operation) to see if there's a problem before you go out and try and replace your faucet to accommodate this. I used Jet Dry Finish rinse aid and am using Cascade Platinum pods as the detergent. The manual does say these are easily accommodated, but that one should run one of the longer cycles (Normal or Heavy) as sometimes the pods can take a while to dissolve all the way. No trouble at all. The manual also says to prewash your dishes to avoid clogging any filters, but that's mostly just for larger food particles, just like you'd do with any other dishwasher. Smaller particles, sauces, oils, beverage residue, etc are fine to leave on there and your dishes will come clean with no problem if you're using a good detergent. Be smart with what you put in there and you won't have an issue. This unit does take up quite a bit of counter space, but it will fit on a standard-width counter without hanging over the edge. If you don't have a lot of spare counter space, you may want to find a cart to keep it on (one with casters works best) and roll the cart back and forth when you need to use the unit. Operation is surprisingly quiet. The only time it's noisy is when the dirty water shoots into the sink, but that's to be expected, amirite? I am INCREDIBLY happy with this dishwasher, and wish I had been able to afford/accommodate it sooner. Three years of washing dishes by hand was QUITE enough! Large dishes will still obviously be washed by hand, but that's maybe ten minutes at the sink rather than two hours to do a few days' worth of dishes. If you like doing dishes by hand, then, y'know, you do you, but if you're like me and dishes are your arch-nemesis, GET THIS THING. It is SO worth every penny to be able to put in a load and leave it for an hour or so!

The SPT SD-2224DS countertop dishwasher is a fantastic addition to any singles or small families without a dishwasher. Simply put, it does a great job at washing dishes... which is what (I hope) you're looking for in a dishwasher. As a twenty-something bachelor living solo in an apartment, I sometimes suffer from "Anti-Dishwashing-itis". It's a terrible condition really. Thankfully, the SPT SD-2224DS has been a cure for me, and I'm no longer showing any symptoms of it. So why is it so good? Well, it does its job well. It leaves dishes, glassware, silverware, plastic storage containers, and all that other stuff looking great. While I haven't compared different detergents to see if the effectiveness varies, I've used my trusty Cascade powder detergent and rinse aid combo that I've been using for a while. Why fix what ain't broken? This dishwasher has a great feature set, with different settings which include normal/heavy loads, light loads, and just glasses. It has a warning indicator for when you should refill the rinse aid, and the LED display is a great addition. The default normal load takes just under 2 hours, and the lighter loads take about an hour and fifteen minutes. If you're someone who operates on a tight schedule and likes certain things to be ready at certain times, you're in luck; this dishwasher has a delay start feature. While that feature isn't important to me, I used it to test it out and it works great. The machine is rather quiet; I have it in a position where the kitchen meets the dining area and living room area (open-concept apartment), and it doesn't disturb me at all. The only time it really makes any noise is when it is ejecting the used water into the sink. It also looks sharp. I think the silver looks rather similar to stainless steel and fits right in if that's your decor choice for your kitchen; the black accent at the top is a nice touch, and it allows the contrasting white LED display to show clearly. The dish-rack works well for the most part. It rolls out, and it has slots for your different items, as well as a tray for your utensils. However, it is also rather prescriptive. What I mean by this is that there are a lot of slots, which has its pros and cons. The pros being that it can hold plenty of items, but the cons are that those items tend to be more specific (e.g. these are your dinner plate slots, these are your bowl slots, etc.), so it can be difficult to figure out some oddball items like crockpots when there are so many slots sticking up. It works, but it doesn't work as well as it could. I also had the SPT SD-2201S dishwasher, which is an older model, but I loved it (there was nothing wrong with it, I just moved and sold it). That model had a different dish-rack with fewer, but more large slots. Again, pros and cons. The only other issue I have with it is the faucet adapter isn't a perfect fit for my faucet, so it still leaks water. It works fine, and it's likely a user error, and not an issue with the adapter itself. It's just an annoyance. I wish I could do half stars, because this is definitely a 4 1/2 star machine. I think 4 stars is a bit too harsh, but 5 stars is giving it a little bit more credit when I have a slight preference for the DS-2201S. Regardless, if you're looking for a countertop dishwasher, you won't go wrong with this machine. SPT makes solid dishwashers, and my sink is now always empty and looking clean.

WHY I bought THIS PRODUCT over other SIMILAR and CHEAPER products: 1) Exact replacement for my model GHW9100LW! (slightly different numbers: old-46197020167 new-46170228513) 2) 4 blades instead of the others with only three blades, which to me means less stress on the motor 3) Electrical connection cover same as original while others had no cover at all that I could see (not a good idea to me when there could potentially be water leaking out somewhere). 4) This product has the same power rating as the original while others had a higher power rating; IE others use more power, and potentially higher than the machine is made to handle, possibly making something else break. 5) My original pump which looks exactly like this pump lasted me 13+ years! Well worth the extra 20 dollars if it means it will last me a long time again. 6) After receiving product, packaging plainly stated this pump is newer and better than several previous models, which I assume now to be the ones I did not buy, including not buying this:&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Maytag-Whirlpool-Water-Drain-Pump-Motor-Only-P-n-8181684-ONLY-MOTOR/dp/B00RY3MXAG/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Maytag Whirlpool Water Drain Pump Motor Only P/n 8181684 ONLY MOTOR</a> SHIPPING: Excellent quick shipping from Appliance Express Service! Order showed estimated delivery to be 5-15 days from purchase, mine was delivered in 3 days via USPS Priority 2 day Mail! [I could have paid up to $12 more for faster shipping, but it only changed the estimated delivery closer by a few days... not worth the money to me, plus USUALLY Amazon free shipping does not disappoint (I live not too far from a large city with shipping hubs)] Packaging: Came inside USPS Priority packaging with product box inside. The box had the item wrapped with bubble wrap and fitted snugly inside box along with instructions and web addresses for installation videos etc. INSTALLATION: For me VERY EASY. (Suggestion only, take all normal and regular precautions, use at your own risk) 1) Unplug washer 2) Suck out all the water you can sitting in washer with a wet vac held up tight against the drain pipe, then wet vac tube against bottom of filter cover as you remove cover SLOWLY. (turns out for me most all the water came out while suctioning the drain pipe) 3) Remove three screws from bottom of lower front cover (7mm socket), slide cover straight down and then out of the way 4) (On my model replacing pump only) Absolutely no need to remove any hoses or clamps. Simply pop up the electrical connector cover (if you have one) and gently pull electrical connection out and remove wiring from small routing clamp on side of pump. 5) Working around the shock absorber and wiring harness: remove three screws on pump using a short handled (hopefully magnetic) Phillips screwdriver (my screwdriver was just under 7"long), you should be able to see the screw on the top left of the pump (closest to the front of the washer), and the one on the bottom. The other screw is on the upper right somewhat behind pump, same position as the upper left, I just got it by feel. 6) After removing the three screws, gently wiggle and pull pump away from plastic filter housing section; it may resist some like mine did, just gently work it off-no need to go hercules on it. Be sure old gasket comes out/off as well. 7) New pump came with gasket already in place, otherwise be sure to put gasket on. Then reverse order; screws in snug but not over tight (it's going into plastic after all) clean, replace and tighten filter cover if you haven't already, Now SAFELY check for leaks by opening the door to the washer and pour some water in.

Installed fairly easily, but we nearly had a no-go with the installation. We have some of the newer water valves that only rotate 90 from "off" to "on," not the old style faucet handles that twist several rotations between fully closed ("off") to fully open ("on"). The long tab on that valve stem would not clear the large brown sleeve around the connection at the water-supply end of the hose. I had to twist that on a bit tighter than "hand tight" as the directions require, in order to get the gap between the four little tips that are designed to help your grip around the faucet end of that fitting, to line up just right in order to allow the faucet stem to rotate out between the little tips on that sleeve (see the close up view of the end of the hose fitting to see the four tips around the end). One of those tips was perfectly aligned, when fully tightened, to keep the valve stem from rotating out the full 90 (full "on" water pressure). Presumably that slightly greater than hand tightening did not hurt the connection, but just be aware that it's a potential obstruction due to that fitting being much larger in diameter at the four "tips" than a standard hose fitting. Second, these hoses are only designed to last five years. The instructions emphasize replacement in five years. At $50 for a pair of hoses, that's a bit steep! But the cost of a burst hose while you're away or at the other end of the house would be much higher than that with all the potential water damage. I just question the price of the hoses, to be honest. Having been in a situation where a hose burst under our dish washer, I'm particularly sensitive to this issue (fortunately we were home and avoided much more significant water damage, but not before figuring out where all the water was coming from and getting the shut off valve for the entire house turned off). We've now got a water sensor as part of our home security system in case it happens while we're away, so we can at least call someone before catastrophic water damage occurs. This is a nice fix - assuming it works as advertised. Note that because of the construction of the shutoff valve end of the hoses (the end that connects at the supply lines from your home), this will cause your washer to sit a little further out from the wall than before, depending on the water supply line configuration at your wall. We've got the room, but it just doesn't look as nice when the washer and dryer aren't lined up in front, or else the dryer has to also sit out further from the wall in order to line up with the washer. Finally, note the 90 fitting at the washing machine (output) end of the hoses. That causes the hose to also stick straight out further than "normal" hoses would if the fitting was in line with the rest of the hose. If you've got the room, great. And if your washer already will have to sit out further from the wall because of the other end of these hoses (the long valve assembly at the supply line end), then again, no problem. While there are some negatives, the concept could save users HUGE repair bills if a washing machine hose burst while away from the house. And along those lines, check with your security alarm company to see if they can supply you with a water sensor that can be mounted down at floor level behind your washer in case of a burst line (or other leak). Having "been there, done that" before, we now have one, and feel better protected. (We use Simplisafe, which uses non-wired sensors and permits text messaging of any problems at the house. We've gotten text messages when power has gone off at home while we were away within seconds of the interruption, and would get a message about a water leak also within seconds if one happened. This could allow a neighbor, relative, or friend to get into the house to shut off water - or even shut it off at the curb if they couldn't get in. We have no connection with Simplisafe, other than being customers. Presumably other alarm security companies have similar devices.)

<div id="video-block-RMQCUUMZLSB9Z" class="a-section a-spacing-small a-spacing-top-mini video-block"></div><input type="hidden" name="" value="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/C1lMf1p9LCS.mp4" class="video-url"><input type="hidden" name="" value="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/819T0hOQwBS.png" class="video-slate-img-url">&nbsp;If you need ice in a hurry, this machine is for you. In under 10 minutes, you will have enough ice to fill your glass. Operation could not be more simple. After un-boxing, let the machine sit for 30 minutes before turning it on. That's very important, because the refrigerant has to stabilize. And if you've had an ice maker before, you might forget the important step. Anyway, after a quick wash of the machine, all you do is fill it with water, select the size cube you want, and let the machine work its magic. One thing about this, and any ice machine, is the importance of keeping it super clean. Even restaurant ice machines often have high levels of bacteria. You can avoid that by regularly wiping this machine clean. If you don't use it for a while, make sure that you dry it as well as you can, and leave the lid open in order to air dry even more. The cubes are bullet shaped and hollow. If you like to crunch ice, use the setting to make small cubes, or should I say, bullets. Another nice feature about this machine is the long cord. When entertaining, I like to set up a table with beverages. The cord is long enough to go down the table and into the electrical outlet. As the video shows, it doesn't make a lot of noise, and certainly will not interfere with a party where music is played and people are having fun. My freezer is generally too full to store ice cubes, and it never fails. Whenever I make hard boiled eggs, they go from hot water to ice water, and of course I don't have any ice cubes. With this, while the eggs are coming to a boil, the machine makes enough ice to chill the eggs when they are done cooking. UPDATE: I've been using this ice machine everyday for almost a month. In the early evening, I start up the machine. Within 10 minutes, of course, I have enough ice for my glass, but then I keep the machine going and it fills up in a few hours. Now there is enough ice not only for the whole evening, but I unplug the machine and keep it filled with ice. In the morning, the ice is still there. A bit melted, but there is enough insulation in this machine to keep a full load of ice until morning. For me, and perhaps for you, that is huge because I have no room in my freezer. As stated in my original review, the following is of the utmost importance. Every few days or so, in between the morning iced coffee and the evening start up, the water is emptied, and I use a very weak (one half teaspoon to a cup of water) vinegar solution and a lint free cloth to wipe the interior clean. Then the lid is left open to air dry. Always empty the water and do this if you don't plan on using it for a few days. You can turn the machine on its side to get every last bit of water out, if you like, but remember that 30 minute rule to let the refrigerant stabilize. It sounds like a lot of maintaining but it isn't. This machine is wonderful for ice-a-holics like me! And I admit to being overly cautious. DISCLOSURE: Product received at no cost or at a discount, with the option to review. Views and opinions are my own. I have no affiliation with any manufacturer or distributor other than choosing to review their item. No financial compensation is EVER accepted for a review, and after six months, most products are donated, destroyed or returned to the vendor. Nonprofits are encouraged to inquire at the email address on my profile.

My new AWN432 was delivered at about 9:15am this morning. I am still trying to clean out a residue from the wash tub so I can use it at 2pm. Alliance says it is a polishing compound residue and told me to clean it with Simple Green. They admitted they have an issue at the factory with these machines going out like this. I have run 2 hot cycles after wiping with Simple Green, washing with Simple Green and washing with Simple Green and ammonia. It seemed to be getting a little better and I'm running white rags thru it now. However, I just wiped clear around the top edge of the stainless steel basket with a white paper towel that came out nearly black. At one point it threw some black stuff across the floor in my laundry room. My old Maytag broke down 4 days ago and I eagerly awaited the arrival of this on Monday, so I could wash my clothes again. I'm still cleaning my washer at this point. ________________________ Why, oh why, is SQ telling people to run Simple Green and/or a petroleum distillate product thru this washer to clean it. On my 2nd phone call they offered to send a clean, shiny, replacement tub (for a brand new washer) and then I could arrange to get it replaced under warranty with a local company; or try a petroleum based product. I can't sit home day after day to deal with appliances. I am now on the 7th cycle overall, and the 3rd one using just ALL Free&Clear and hot water. I think it may finally be clean and the ALL seems to have done more than Simple Green. We'll see. ____________________________ I did finally get it cleaned out with the laundry detergent (which I wish SQ had advised me to use)and it is a good washer. I cannot rate the product and ignore the issue I had, so 4 stars instead of 5. But it cleans the clothes well, has lots of choices for cycles and 2 spin speeds that are preset with the different cycles. There is also a way to easily override that annoying lid switch if you want to see the agitation begin so you know if you have enough water/detergent. Look up under the back edge of this machine near the drain hose while opening/closing the lid. You will see a moving lever. Wedge a piece of cardboard in there to keep that lever down and you can open the lid while its running. I'm going to fit mine with some kind of handle I can reach to just trip it when I want instead of having it set all the time to run with the lid open. When this washer first starts the initial spin it can be loud when the spray rinse hits the side of the metal tub. After that, it spins pretty quiet and does not vibrate. I can write on a piece of paper on the top of this washer while its spinning. My old one shook the house and would sometimes walk across the floor if it got off balance. After many loads this past week to get caught up on laundry, this one has never had an issue. It spins out without a hitch even if a few things bunch on one side of the basket. I saw at least one review, maybe more, on this washer about the delicate cycle being problematic. That cycle works perfectly on mine. When started on the normal setting, it agitates, pauses, agitates again, then it starts the slow speed spin, sprays, and continues to spin out, fills for the rinse and spins out again. It surely does not just drain the water without spinning at all as someone stated, not even if you put the 2nd rinse button on. Some people have complained this does not fill all the way up for a large load. Mine fills pretty high on its own and you can easily override that by holding the reset on. It will fill till you let go. Most of my loads are not large, full loads. If this is the "water-saving" requirement this washer had to meet, I'll take it any day over something that decides how much water my clothes need to wash, locks the lid, and attempts to decipher clothes washing with it's computer rather than my brain.

My new AWN432 was delivered at about 9:15am this morning. I am still trying to clean out a residue from the wash tub so I can use it at 2pm. Alliance says it is a polishing compound residue and told me to clean it with Simple Green. They admitted they have an issue at the factory with these machines going out like this. I have run 2 hot cycles after wiping with Simple Green, washing with Simple Green and washing with Simple Green and ammonia. It seemed to be getting a little better and I'm running white rags thru it now. However, I just wiped clear around the top edge of the stainless steel basket with a white paper towel that came out nearly black. At one point it threw some black stuff across the floor in my laundry room. My old Maytag broke down 4 days ago and I eagerly awaited the arrival of this on Monday, so I could wash my clothes again. I'm still cleaning my washer at this point. ________________________ Why, oh why, is SQ telling people to run Simple Green and/or a petroleum distillate product thru this washer to clean it. On my 2nd phone call they offered to send a clean, shiny, replacement tub (for a brand new washer) and then I could arrange to get it replaced under warranty with a local company; or try a petroleum based product. I can't sit home day after day to deal with appliances. I am now on the 7th cycle overall, and the 3rd one using just ALL Free&Clear and hot water. I think it may finally be clean and the ALL seems to have done more than Simple Green. We'll see. ____________________________ I did finally get it cleaned out with the laundry detergent (which I wish SQ had advised me to use)and it is a good washer. I cannot rate the product and ignore the issue I had, so 4 stars instead of 5. But it cleans the clothes well, has lots of choices for cycles and 2 spin speeds that are preset with the different cycles. There is also a way to easily override that annoying lid switch if you want to see the agitation begin so you know if you have enough water/detergent. Look up under the back edge of this machine near the drain hose while opening/closing the lid. You will see a moving lever. Wedge a piece of cardboard in there to keep that lever down and you can open the lid while its running. I'm going to fit mine with some kind of handle I can reach to just trip it when I want instead of having it set all the time to run with the lid open. When this washer first starts the initial spin it can be loud when the spray rinse hits the side of the metal tub. After that, it spins pretty quiet and does not vibrate. I can write on a piece of paper on the top of this washer while its spinning. My old one shook the house and would sometimes walk across the floor if it got off balance. After many loads this past week to get caught up on laundry, this one has never had an issue. It spins out without a hitch even if a few things bunch on one side of the basket. I saw at least one review, maybe more, on this washer about the delicate cycle being problematic. That cycle works perfectly on mine. When started on the normal setting, it agitates, pauses, agitates again, then it starts the slow speed spin, sprays, and continues to spin out, fills for the rinse and spins out again. It surely does not just drain the water without spinning at all as someone stated, not even if you put the 2nd rinse button on. Some people have complained this does not fill all the way up for a large load. Mine fills pretty high on its own and you can easily override that by holding the reset on. It will fill till you let go. Most of my loads are not large, full loads. If this is the "water-saving" requirement this washer had to meet, I'll take it any day over something that decides how much water my clothes need to wash, locks the lid, and attempts to decipher clothes washing with it's computer rather than my brain.

Our old Whirlpool finally gave out and I ended up buying this one. Didn't know anything about Speed Queen washers and just took our local appliance store's word for gospel. They came and set it up and I was good to go. Please understand that this comparison is to my OLD washer, which I loved. I did not have an HE model. This washer has some things I like and some I don't so much. First, I hate, hate that you can't open THE TOP anymore without the agitator stopping (it's not locked, but it turns off if it's opened). Just an example of all the over regulation going on within our govt (but that's another review). I have found a way around it by opening the lid about an inch and sticking a flashlight inside so I can see if there's enough soap or water. Anyway, still hate this, but I think all the new washers have to have this amazing 'life saving' safety feature. Next, the NOISE, it is way louder than my older machine. The slower speed for the gentle cycle is extremely hard to endure and if I put my head lower and closer to the machine, it is over the top annoying. I just don't do that! I just run it and close the door behind me so it's something I've just dealt with over the past couple years. The higher speed is tolerable. I love the speed of the SPIN CYCLE! That is way better than my old one. I just wish the gentle cycle had the faster speed too. Sometimes, a delicate load comes out too wet so I then put the clothes through the spin in the regular cycle. I appreciate the switch for the EXTRA RINSE. It was an option and cost me 50 bucks I think, but totally worth it. I use it quite a bit. It lengthens the load's time a bit, but it's just handy to have when you have an extra dirty load. My old machine delivered HOT WATER so that's no different on this one, but it sounds like most new machines 'water down' the hot water. That's dumb. This machine just won't go out of BALANCE! I love this about my washer. My old one could, at times, act like a bucking bronco. This one has never so much as moved a tiny bit across the floor. And I've washed some pretty big loads including comforters. I don't like the AGITATOR. My old one would take the clothes down into the machine very quickly. I have to wait on this one longer and combined with the stupid way you can't lift the top without it stopping, it just makes for more time fidgeting around with doing the wash. I wish it pulled the clothes in better, but I can live with how it works and I suppose it is easier on the clothes this way. Still.... We did have a REPAIR person come out once. This was pretty early on. I had washed a crocheted blanket and I am theorizing that it ended up being very heavy with water (or it got caught somehow, although there was no evidence of this). The machine stopped working, leaving a tub full of water. I kept trying to get it to turn back on over the course of the day, but it just sat there. A repair person came to check it out and by the time he arrived, the machine started working again! This happened one other time since then, but I know now to just let it sit for a day. The repair person did not say it had an automatic shut off, but I really can't remember what he said right now. That was a couple years ago. I would recommend this washer to anyone who is not overly concerned about the noise level (and maybe mine, for some reason, is just louder than other reviewers' machines). I don't consider the problem with the rinse cycle as anything to worry about. I think it might be 'user error'.

Our old Whirlpool finally gave out and I ended up buying this one. Didn't know anything about Speed Queen washers and just took our local appliance store's word for gospel. They came and set it up and I was good to go. Please understand that this comparison is to my OLD washer, which I loved. I did not have an HE model. This washer has some things I like and some I don't so much. First, I hate, hate that you can't open THE TOP anymore without the agitator stopping (it's not locked, but it turns off if it's opened). Just an example of all the over regulation going on within our govt (but that's another review). I have found a way around it by opening the lid about an inch and sticking a flashlight inside so I can see if there's enough soap or water. Anyway, still hate this, but I think all the new washers have to have this amazing 'life saving' safety feature. Next, the NOISE, it is way louder than my older machine. The slower speed for the gentle cycle is extremely hard to endure and if I put my head lower and closer to the machine, it is over the top annoying. I just don't do that! I just run it and close the door behind me so it's something I've just dealt with over the past couple years. The higher speed is tolerable. I love the speed of the SPIN CYCLE! That is way better than my old one. I just wish the gentle cycle had the faster speed too. Sometimes, a delicate load comes out too wet so I then put the clothes through the spin in the regular cycle. I appreciate the switch for the EXTRA RINSE. It was an option and cost me 50 bucks I think, but totally worth it. I use it quite a bit. It lengthens the load's time a bit, but it's just handy to have when you have an extra dirty load. My old machine delivered HOT WATER so that's no different on this one, but it sounds like most new machines 'water down' the hot water. That's dumb. This machine just won't go out of BALANCE! I love this about my washer. My old one could, at times, act like a bucking bronco. This one has never so much as moved a tiny bit across the floor. And I've washed some pretty big loads including comforters. I don't like the AGITATOR. My old one would take the clothes down into the machine very quickly. I have to wait on this one longer and combined with the stupid way you can't lift the top without it stopping, it just makes for more time fidgeting around with doing the wash. I wish it pulled the clothes in better, but I can live with how it works and I suppose it is easier on the clothes this way. Still.... We did have a REPAIR person come out once. This was pretty early on. I had washed a crocheted blanket and I am theorizing that it ended up being very heavy with water (or it got caught somehow, although there was no evidence of this). The machine stopped working, leaving a tub full of water. I kept trying to get it to turn back on over the course of the day, but it just sat there. A repair person came to check it out and by the time he arrived, the machine started working again! This happened one other time since then, but I know now to just let it sit for a day. The repair person did not say it had an automatic shut off, but I really can't remember what he said right now. That was a couple years ago. I would recommend this washer to anyone who is not overly concerned about the noise level (and maybe mine, for some reason, is just louder than other reviewers' machines). I don't consider the problem with the rinse cycle as anything to worry about. I think it might be 'user error'.

There are several detailed reviews on here, so I'm not repeating everything already written. Just wanted to note the following. I had a TL Maytag Neptune HE washer that I loved. It washed everything we had and lasted at least 13 years. Last week it stopped spinning and draining - called Maytag and had service man come repair it (this was the first time I ever had to call someone to repair it). Unfortunately he informed me that it would cost a bit over $1,700 to repair. Even though I loved the machine, I'm not about to pay that much to repair a well used washer. So we began a long, painful search for a new washer. I was used to the big tub with no agitator taking up space as well as the 1000 rpm spin that made it easier to dry the clothes. I wanted the same quality or better on a new machine. Stainless steel tub, minimal noise, high speed spin, quality, and good looks. Unfortunately, after reading reviews and complaints, etc online for days (and long nights) - The only machine that kept coming up with the quality I wanted was the Speed Queen. It wasn't pretty, had a smaller tub, had an agitator and the spin speeds were lower. Kept searching hoping I could find a nice looking machine that was quiet, didn't tear up clothes and had a good warranty and all the other things I wanted in a washer; but it no longer exists. Apparently I can't have my cake and eat it too. So late last night I finally gave up and decided I would just have to get the speed queen. One of the biggest concerns I had was whether or not it would be able to wash my king size sheets and bedspreads. (I don't have comforters - they are great until they need to be washed and then they get lumpy - can't stand that). Anyhow, I figured that I would either have to go a laundrymat to clean my bedspreads or dry clean them in the dryer. But to get a reliable washer for everything else I had to go with speed queen. I called the local appliance dealer back this morning(spoke with several over the coure of several days - all said go with speed queen). He had his delivery guys come within the hour and install my new washer and take away my old one (definately can't get that kind of service from the big box stores!). Cleaned out machine after they left and started a load. Haven't adjusted water level yet. The clothes came out dryer than I was expecting; but man was that thing louder than my maytag. Ok, finished that load and decided to see if my king bedspread would fit. Put it in (it fit), set it to slow agitation and fast spin and held reset until water level covered it. It washed fine. Onto 3rd load now, testing a load of whites. I think this third load has started before my maytag would have been finished with the first load. Something else I noticed that I wasn't expecting; my clothes actually feel softer. We do have a water softener and I always use dryer sheets, but I don't recall our clothes feeling this soft. Hmm, starting to think this might be better than our maytag was. Oh, and I'm using HE detergent. Had a bunch left and I'm not going to waste it. And I haven't had issues with the agitator. It was easy enough to get used to. As far as sound, as long as I shut the laundry room door, it's not bad. So far, my fears were unfounded, except for the way it looks - but since I don't actually have to look at it (after all I can just shut the door) that's not really a big deal. I might have actually made a really good decision going with speed queen. Thought I would have serious regrets after having a larger HE machine for so long; but for now, I'm actually happy about it. What a relief.

I bought a similar thermometer/hygrometer last summer for our equipment room in our basement. The equipment room contains all of our home theater equipment and gets pretty hot. The amplifiers, Blu-Ray player, Processors, Computer, etc, all produce a lot of heat and it has gotten up to 84 degrees in there. Some equipment has even shut down. So we need to keep tabs on the temperature until we can get a room AC unit, which is next on the never ending to-do list. The previous thermometer was similar to this model, but it wasn't until about a month ago I realized it would cost more to replace the battery than it would to simply buy another unit. The old one takes a very strange little battery that closely resembles a Tootsie Roll and since our local Radio Shack went out of business, I don't even know where to begin looking for a replacement. While I was searching for a new thermometer that took regular batteries, I came across this one available at a discount in exchange for my honest review so I jumped on the opportunity since it appeared to be exactly what we needed. I cannot say for certain it is accurate, but we have yet a third digital thermometer/hygrometer we purchased for the home theater itself and the temperature matches quite nicely between that unit and this new one. The humidity isn't exactly the same, but within 2%. The only thing is, I don't know which one is off. The old one or this new one. I suppose Id need a working third one to be able to tell. Its close enough for us, though, and we mainly need accurate temperature readings, which this seems to offer. This is an extremely easy to read LCD screen. Our old one would have to be tilted a certain way to be able to read it, but this one can be read from about any angle, which is a nice surprise. It isn't heavy, but feels like it is well made and durable. The old one was about the same size overall, but the readings were smaller because on the main home screen, it displayed the current temperature/humidity and the 24 hour min-max on the same screen. In order to see the min-max on this one, you have to press the min-max button. This is strictly a personal preference, but I do believe I prefer seeing both on the screen at the same time. I already have to walk into the room to see the readings, so taking another step closer to be able to see smaller numbers (but more information) isn't a big deal. Again, thats a personal preference. You may very well prefer seeing only the current temperature and humidity, so I won't mark this as a con. The battery this model takes is easy to find. Our local Dollar Tree had an 8 pack for $1.00 so I should have enough batteries to last a lifetime! For reference, it takes an LR1130 round, flat, battery. Ive heard this referred to as a watch battery before, too. Ive not had this device long enough to know how long the batter will last. Our old one lasted about one year. We have another that has lasted 21 months, but it takes two AAA batteries. Its still going strong, though. I will update the review when this battery dies or if there are any other problems or issues. Out of the three digital thermometers weve had in the last year or so, none of them have stated a warning that this one has. Im a bit concerned, too, because it has to do with the accuracy. The manufacturer states, Instrument performance may be affected if operated within a high frequency radio field such as near a mobile phone, or if subjected to an electronic shock. This device sits on top of an equipment rack and in a room full of electronic equipment, so that could be what is throwing off the humidity sensor and Im afraid over time it may not display the correct temperature. All I can do is monitor it and compare it with our other device every now and then and I will do just that and update this review if I find there to be any performance degradation. For now, though, Im happy with this purchase. Its digital, easy to read, looks nice, and is sold at a great price. What more can you ask for, really?

Husband bought this for me (here at Amazon as well) as a Christmas gift (2015) after 7 years of looking and wishing I will find one like this at an affordable price. At the time of our purchase, there was not a single review about this machine so we were like "We'll see, maybe it will surprise us!". And surprise us it did! WHAT'S GREAT ABOUT BUYING THIS WASHING MACHINE? _DELIVERY is great! _If you live in a condo or apartment and is getting tired of hauling your laundry to the laundromat..(with kind, not nosy neighbors. Know that this machine makes a noise that some people may find annoying. Being on the ground floor will be a plus for you) _It DOES the job if you are looking for *A great alternative and help than hand washing your clothes and hauling laundry to the laundromat is like "giving birth" each time or that you are concerned of the "unknowns" in these laundromats.... _The NORMAL cycle is very strong and can really make the clothes clean and smelling fresh! Soft cycle is great for delicate fabrics but works just as great. _Drain pump is working just fine for me (contrary to some reviews here). _The spin dryer is a plus! *DO not expect the spin dryer to dry your clothes like automatic dryers (with heat) in the laundromats because it will not. If you like air drying your clothes minus the drips, then this is perfect. WHAT THIS MACHINE CAN HANDLE? 1) 8-10 shirts or 4 cargo shorts and 4 shirts 2) 2-3 pairs of jeans (can push for 4 if you are petite) 3) A set of bed sheets (queen size: fitted and flat sheets in + pillow cases); fitted and flat sheets only if flannel sheet set as these get heavier when soaked in water 4) 2-3 towels (large) 5) 2-3 standard size throw blankets (i use mostly fleece blankets) 6) 1 queen size quilt cotton comforter or coverlet (fluffy or thick comforters will be too heavy for this machine) (Suggested) CARE FOR THIS MACHINE: _Make sure that the you can hear the the water splashing in the washing tub each load. This means that you have just the right amount of clothes in that cycle. It will make the motor run efficiently and not forced. _Never set to the max minutes of each cycle (washing or spin drying). 9-12 for washing should be enough and 4 in the spin dryer is just right. _Be gentle when you are turning the knob from the wash cycle to drain - this is crucial to the system connected to the pump (from personal experience using a similar twin tub washer back in Asia) _Use liquid detergent soap - easy for the machine and you will use less water as well. _Wipe it dry after each use. Why I am giving this a 4-star rating only? _When it arrived and while opening the box with glee, an "awful" smell from the washing tub welcomed me. :( The washing tub was wet - which may be from testing the machine during manufacturing but it should be wiped dry before shipping it to buyers. I am not sure if the machine we got was returned reason why it was wet inside like someone had used it once at least. _This is a great portable washing machine (having an extensive experience using twin tub washers like this growing up in Asia, I can honestly say this is a great lean cute machine!). However, the hose to connect from your faucet to the washing tub is too short and the spout doesn't really fit American design faucets. So I had to be innovative - bucket became my BFF! (5 buckets (5L size of bucket) of water for each full load every cycle: soap in (9 mins), 1st & 2nd rinse (6 mins each), 3rd rinse with fabric softener in (6 mins). _Do not attempt more than 80% of hot water in any cycle as the plastic (especially back part) will get so soft it almost looks "bloated" to me now. It works fine though with 50/50 temperature of water.

<div id="video-block-RJ19DRHQINAJX" class="a-section a-spacing-small a-spacing-top-mini video-block"></div><input type="hidden" name="" value="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/E14vMb1v3uS.mp4" class="video-url"><input type="hidden" name="" value="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81zsSXuMC8S.png" class="video-slate-img-url">&nbsp;UPDATE 3/31/16: Another small issue I ran into was the fact that there is no inner lip to prevent the drop-in filter from falling through completely, *if* you are not careful. Twice now I have accident dropped the entire unit through the opening right into my freshly filtered water. The typical use case is to just leave the filter there after filtering, but if you saw my second demo video (search for "Ki5BjvXYK_c" on YouTube), The pitcher didn't fit under the water dispenser so I had to hold the filter at an angle while dispensing the water into the pitcher. When I was placing it back it slipped into the pitcher completely, requiring me to pour out the water and repeating the effort. Anyway, just something for the folks at EveryDrop to consider fixing in their next revision. UPDATE 3/25/16: I found that the filter has progressively gotten faster and faster, however the water has tasted worse and worse as a result. This really is nothing more than a charcoal filter, and the flow speed directly impacts the taste. Here's a YT video I recorded of the filter working at phenomenal speed, filtering literally as fast as the dispenser at my work can fill it. LINK: [...] If the link above doesn't work, you can just do a search for "Ki5BjvXYK_c" on YouTube. Original Review: I hope you find this demonstration video helpful. Take aways: 1. Filter is very fast, indeed much faster than other gravity-fed filtration units, such as the Brita, which I've owned. 2. Water TDS level nearly unaffected. Filter is largely focused on improving taste, as the primary proponent is charcoal. 3. Water taste is marginally improved, but a far cry from the taste of Brita filters. 4. Reservoir is highly impractical for filtering large quantities of water. At it's fastest (with the reservoir topped off) takes 40-45 seconds for 2 cups of water. This is a reasonably short period to for a single serving. But to fill the entire pitcher, it'll take almost 5 minutes standing there pouring. 5. Maximum quantity of filtered water in the pitcher is 12 cups. 6. Even after initial wash (with dish soap), the plastic pitcher and funnel had a chemical smell to it. 7. After opening the filter in the plastic pouch, handling it left a very slick substance on my hand from the plastic. It's a residue of something but I assume it's safe. Nonetheless I would prefer no residue whatsoever in a water filter unit. 8. Water can get into the handle, despite no access to clean the inside. The handle is clear so any dried water drops or buildup cannot be cleaned. Final thoughts: Overall a terribly designed product, despite the innovative filter. I'm shocked at how a product this poorly designed can make it to market. It seems they did not put it through any real usability testing. The whole thing looks cool, but it turns out to be pretty gimmicky at best, and also a let down for most folks that actually buy it. From my experience--if you want fast filtration, get sink-mounted PUR filter unit, which filters under line pressure. If you want purest water, get an RO unit or Zero Water-- both filter water very slowly though. For the best tasting water, stick with Brita or PUR--both are about the same in taste. Personally I use my RO system and add Contrace trace elements to improve taste, for my all my coffee brewing needs.

This cooler really solves a problem for me. Before now I had a super insulated cooler that was quite large that I would bring with me to camping. Even though ice would stay frozen longer than most coolers, you still needed to replace the ice every few days. Ice melts and food gets soggy. Not to mention all the room the ice takes up. I thought of getting a mini fridge, but they are heavy and what about the food while you are traveling? This cooler seems to have solved all of these issues. It is light weight, has wheels and can keep things cool while you are traveling. It is about the size of your average large cooler. Only difference is that you don't have to take half the room up with having ice in it to keep everything cold. There is plenty of room in there. I added some pictures for perspective. As you can see, I have two gallons of water in there, a pack of tangerines, and a dozen eggs. There is still plenty of room for more food. I am not going camping until next month so I did an experiment with it when I first got it. I put several items in the cooler to see how it would do. I did not let it cool down first before putting anything in there. I put an already refrigerated jug of apple juice, a room temperature beer, and frozen solid bottle of water. The directions say that it is not meant to cool items down but keep items that are already cold at a cold temperature. I checked the cooler a few minutes later after I turned it on. The walls had already gotten cold. About two hours later I checked on everything. The apple juice was about the same as it was when I put it in there. With the bottle of frozen ice, some of the ice had melted. The room temperature beer, however was now cold. Not ice cold but certainly drinkable. Had I given it more time I believe it would have gotten colder. One thing I love about this cooler is that it has both the option to plug it into a cigarette lighter or a wall outlet. Other brands I have looked into only have the cigarette lighter option and you must buy a separate adaptor if you want to use it in a wall outlet. I plan to use this in my tent. So now I can go on a long trip, I can plug the cooler in while I am driving. When I get to my destination I can transfer the cooler to the tent and plug it into an outlet. Other features that it has, two handles, one is extendable so you can use it with the wheels. It also acts as a food warmer instead of a cooler if you wish. I really don't plan to use it as a warmer so I have not tested this out. It also comes with a divider as you can see in the picture. Only negative you can even call it that, I wish the cigarette lighter cord was a bit longer. I will have to strategically place the cooler in the car so it can reach my lighter on the front dash board. I can always use an extension cord for the wall outlet cord. I received this cooler at a discount in exchange for my honest and unbiased review. ****Update as of 05/16/2016****** Well I just got back from two different four day weekend trips. I have to say that I am really impressed by the functionality of this unit. First of all, I can fit so much food in here. I purposely got more perishable foods than not since I have the cooler. Everything says cold and fresh. I really like the dual cords. I have used it both in my car on the way and when I arrived. My first location was a bunkhouse cabin. My second location was in a tent. It worked well with flying colors in both places. Every now and then if the cooler got really jostled, the fan would make a bit of noise, however it would soon quiet down. All in all I am so glad I got this. No ice, more food, light, wheels, handles, two different ways to plug it in. Love it.

**** These Binoculars were given to me for free in exchange for an honest review. Our goal is to give you more information about this product than you would normally see in the product review. This review is informational only and does not reflect on the longevity of the product. **** ***UPDATE 6/16/16*** I took these to the lake and dunked them just to test the Waterproof aspect. This is what a proper reviewer should be doing - fully testing every possible outcome of a product and when it says it's waterproof, I had to test it. Well, they failed to be waterproof. They are water resistant for sure, but couldn't take a full dunking. That said, the manufacture immediately changed the description and appears to have taken the item down until they can change the word "waterproof" to "water resistant". They will be shipping me another pair once they get them back in stock. Again, this is why we test products - to find these kind of issues so the average consumer doesn't have to. If anyone ever complains these kind of reviews, remind them that occasionally things break and the manufacture has to make things right. Being that they changed the listing, I will leave these at 5 stars because other than the waterproof aspect, these binoculars are very good. I've also uploaded some pictures. ****End update**** ****UPDATE 6/29/16**** Maozua sent me replacement binoculars. They are 100% of what the first pair were. Still says Waterproof, but they assure me they are working to get that changed to "Water Resistant". I'm very happy because even though I received these for free, I *really* liked them and was very disappointed when they were waterlogged after I dunked them! Thanks to Maozua for standing behind their product! ****End update**** Binoculars were received in excellent condition. No issues with the shipping. They are very small but seem to be quite adequate. Some folks may find them a tad too small if you are used to the large variety of binocular. The field of view is decent for a binocular of this size. In fact I was somewhat impressed with how well they did. They were very easy to use and easy to hold - more so than I expected. They fold up into a compact unit that you can also fit in your pants pocket (not quite). They would easily fit in a coat or jacket pocket or a medium-sized pocket on a backpack. The quality of the materials used seems to be very good. There is a rubberized coating over much of the binoculars. The lenses appear to have an anti-glare coating of some sort but don't have the characteristic pink hue that comes with some coatings. The controls are very solid with no wiggle in the mechanisms. The way the binoculars fold and unfold is tight so it doesnt move easily once you get them to the right position. Adjusting the eye piece to synchronize the both eyes was someone problematic. I had a bit of trouble getting them to be completely in focus. Im not sure if this was the binoculars or if it is my extreme correction. There was enough adjustment room to get it set to my eyes without my glasses, but I seemed to have issues getting it perfect. Once I got it close though, and then opened both eyes, it was fine. I think the trouble I had may have something to do with my stigmatism. For the record, I have issues with most binoculars over this issue. :) One thing I have not tested is using the binoculars in wet conditions. They seem to be sealed fairly well, but until I can actually use them in the rain or otherwise get them wet, I cannot comment on this feature. Overall, I am very impressed with these binoculars. I intend to take them on kayak fishing trips. Since Texas has been having floods I haven't had good opportunity to go fishing with them. I hope to take them this weekend and will report back if they fail the dunk test. :) Thanks! Mike @GeeksFishToo

6-week update: This unit is now my favorite washer. Why? I have full control over the washing and spinning process. I have used it for almost all of my washing needs. I wish I had purchased one of these long ago. I scoffed at them and dismissed them for a long time. If you think this thing is a toy and not a 'real' washer, you're greatly mistaken. ---------------- I wanted a second washer so I ordered this unit. I kinda considered these things a joke so I was a bit weary but the online reviews and YouTube videos kinda pushed me. Well, I was so pleased with everything that I also ordered the smaller unit, with drain and spin from Della, for my garage and Airstream. The intake hose, although it's not necessary, was too short in my situation but was easily fixed with hoses and fittings from my junk bin. The output hose was long enough, but just barely. The best part, I can fill with all hot water unlike my large home unit which starts filling with cold water that's in the line. Every function of this machine has exceeded my expectations. I like it better than my X-large Cabriolet washer and dryer. I have full control over the entire washing/spinning process. - I can use much hotter water now (max water temp is 130 degrees). - I can have a soak cycle as long as I want. - I can add/remove pieces whenever I want - The wash timer can be stopped, decreased, increased at any time. - I can stop the wash and skim the top water for debris. The spin cycle works better than my Cabriolet. Clothes can be as damp or dry (almost) as you desire. I can get most items so dry that my dryer time is greatly reduced or they can be air dried in just a couple of hours. If I use the clothesline outside (and it's only March now), most items are dry within an hour. If you open the lid of the washer while it is washing it does not stop washing. You must return the washer dial to zero to stop the wash cycle. If you open the door to the spinner while spinning, it pauses the spin and it resumes once the door is closed. The pump does a great job of removing the water. If the washer is sitting on the floor, you can drain into a sink, tub or toilet. The end of the drain hose does not need to be below the level of the unit but if it isn't, it takes the pump a bit longer to drain the unit and a little water remains in the bottom/hose. So, at the end of the pump drain, you can place the drain hose on a big, thick towel on the floor to completely drain the last bit of water. Note: Lowering the end of the pump hose as much as possible or even below the level of the bottom of the washer, will most likely increase its life. It will put much less strain on the motor. The agitation is quite strong but there is a gentle cycle too. Love, love, love the gentle cycle! The max capacity is much greater than I expected. I soaked 19 thick men's t-shirts plus a bath towel in one load but I separated the load by half to do a wash cycle. The machine agitated the load just fine but I felt such a heavy load might put too much strain on the motor. I prefer 'play it safe' and protect the motor. Very pleased with my Della washer. ========== Negatives: I had a problem with severe tangling (some items were a huge, knotted ball) at first but using the gentle cycle helped a lot. I did a little web research and discovered some people found plastic balls helpful. Lots of small balls didn't do much. Six baseball sized waffle balls during a regular wash cycle have eliminated almost all tangling. The knobs can be very difficult to turn if my hands are damp/wet.

Big capacity - as of 12/2016 it is the biggest twin tub washer available to the US market. Panda sells two 19lb models but they have been out of stock and their distributor tells me they aren't receiving any for a few more months. So as of now, this Della is the KING of portable washers! Great washing action. Uses very little laundry detergent like a super high efficiency machine. The biggest issue is the water inlets being on the back of the machine whereas others have them on top. Having them on top is a better design. When they are in the back, water tends to leak due to gravity and the flimsy hose which is far from water tight. Nothing major but expect a few drops on the floor. Considering this Della is almost $100 less than the 19lb Panda, it's a small hassle. Filling the wash tub takes forever. If you have a 5 gallon bucket, filling it in the shower and then dumping it into the washer would be much faster. I just do it the intended way and multitask while it's filling. PRO TIP: Because it takes so long to fill, I generally wash my whites first since they won't bleed and reuse the water for subsequent loads. PRO TIP: Rinsing is done in the spinner. The manual doesn't cover this but all you do is connect the water hose to the spinner side and let the faucet run for a minute or two while it's spinning. Turn off the water and let it spin another 2-3 minutes to dry. Easy peezy. PRO TIP: Don't overload! The clothes should be able agitate freely in the wash tub. If it has any trouble moving around, you either got too much clothes or too little water. In general, I don't fill past halfway and the water level should be above the clothes. PRO TIP: The drain hose is meant to hook over the ledge of a sink but the pump is a bit weak and definitely benefits from having the hose low, especially when it comes to draining out that last bit of water. If you have the ability to drain into a bathtub, that's your best bet. I find it a bit loud. Having the lids closed cuts the noise some but it's not quiet. I live in an older building with thin walls and floors so maybe the vibrations are amplified. Having some sort of rubber mat underneath would help. The plastic lint filter is worthless. My advice is to visit your local dollar store, or Daiso if you have one nearby, and pickup the floating lint filters that you just drop in with your load. Something like this:&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Flower-type-Washing-Machine-Floating-Lint-Mesh-Bag-Hair-Filter-Net-Pouch-Blue/dp/B015FN1ACS/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Flower-type Washing Machine Floating Lint Mesh Bag Hair Filter Net Pouch,Blue</a> Other than that, it works well and is heaven sent if you live in a small space or don't have washer/dryer hookups. Don't expect the spinner to get your clothes completely dry. It's more like 70% dry and you hang dry the rest. Blowing a fan or space heater towards them helps if drying indoors. Running a dehumidifier at the same time, even more so. If drying outside, nothing to do other than let Mother Nature run its course. UPDATE - 12/2017: I've had it a year now and use it at least once a week and it still works like a champ. The one thing is sometimes the water doesn't drain from the spinner and it causes the spin to come to a complete stop. To fix it, I turn off the timer, turn on the drain on the wash side until it starts to drain, then switch back and that always fixes the issue. I've read about "priming the pump" and I believe that's what this is referred as.

Ok, My wife wrote the review and I agree that it's nice to have. VERY NICE, but the screen isn't working right. I had debated getting the one without the fancy screen but I tried this one instead. We've both been busy and away unable to catch up and contact the seller about the problem with the screen, and soon as we know how that is handled, we will update this. Even if we get no help, and it stays like it is, making ice reliably, I can handle no auto timing. I really like this and it was too cool to get it literally the day before our ice maker in the refrigerator quit due to a leak. This one did literally outrun the built in ice maker 3 to 1 the first day when they were both running all day. So If you're interested in one of these, they are great. Save your money though and get one without a screen and go with the simple one with size of cube selection. Wife said: This is great for people that do not have an automatic ice maker or go on trips and have to purchase ice frequently. We go on trips a lot so figured we would get this to help fill our coolers. A couple days after getting it, our automatic ice maker stopped working. So this came in handy. It makes a cupful of ice every 9-10 minutes and fills the interior bucket each hour, needing emptied. Although it is not a big basket inside to hold ice, it does the job. Every 2 hours it needs refilled with water. There is a timer that you can set for what time to start making ice and when to stop as well as an option to make small, medium or large cups of ice. Sadly, After using it for only 3 days the display on the outside has malfunctioned and is not working properly, however it still makes ice, but I cannot set the timer or the clock on the outside. *Disclaimer* I received this product at a discount or in some cases for free for my evaluation, use and subsequently my HONEST and UNBIASED review. I REFUSE to rank something 5 stars just because it arrived on time and in good condition. That to my understanding is for use with the seller rating system and I shall reflect such ratings where deserved there. I myself have not found a program that does not require you to review the item you get. So if someone says they do not have to review the item they got discounted or free, Id question their honesty If you have rated something on Amazon yourself, if you hover the mouse over the stars they each reflect a suggested level relating to your like or dislike of said product. I will reserve 5 stars for something that I genuinely think people of similar interest will love. I will not review items the day I receive them and actually use them a few days to get a feeling of how well they are constructed and how well they work before sharing my experience. Though Im glad theres a system in place for people to get discounts to review products, I feel that the feedback on amazon is becoming littered with people simply sharing 5 star reviews disingenuously in exchange for free or cheap goods. It is due to this flood of reviews I feel the need to create this disclaimer since many glowing reviews are simply glowing from the sparkle in someones eyes at getting a good deal. I will not post photos on a review just to get credit for posting a photo review. If there is a lack of photos or I feel a photo or video is needed to convey a pro or con that was unexpected with the product, then and only then will I add such to my review. Likewise if the product differed from the listing photo, I'll add a photo if there are none at the time of my review. It is in the interest of being open and honest that I feel the need to include this disclaimer with my review. If someone has stated an item is great just so they could get a freebie, it does no help to fellow amazon shoppers. I value my time and I am not going to waste time putting bogus reviews up. Your time is just as valuable, so I would like to thank you for reading this completely so you can be enlightened when you see other reviews that were the result of a product/review exchange.

<div id="video-block-R3QVEZYPMBE3DA" class="a-section a-spacing-small a-spacing-top-mini video-block"></div><input type="hidden" name="" value="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/E1PwZHaLsyS.mp4" class="video-url"><input type="hidden" name="" value="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71NHI3FitwS.png" class="video-slate-img-url">&nbsp;* In the first 2 minute 50 seconds (no music or voice, just the ice maker), you can hear the ice maker run in case some wants to know how loud it is. It's as loud as those Primo water coolers that you put 5 gallon bottles on * * If you wonder how I got crystal clear ice? I use pure filtered water that I purchase in the 3 gallons bottles. The water is Reverse Osmosis and has 0 ppm (parts per million), that means has no metal or any impurities in the water. The reason why you get white colored ice is because the water has metals and minerals in it and is not filtered to it's purest. * I've always wanted to get one of these portable Ice Makers when it first came on the market but that time there were too many that had problems. Now years later, technology has improved in the portable ice makers. There are so many on the market today, many of them are pretty much the same, run the same, has the same internal parts, only difference is the design and styling of the ice maker. Since this is my first ever portable ice maker, I wasn't sure what to expect from this unit. I also wasn't sure which color I like the best, so I order the Silver and the White one. I really like the LCD display. You can set the size of ice you want this machine to produce. You can also setup a timer for it to start and end, great for when you are about to head out on a trip in the morning, have the timer run at night and wake up in the morning with a few pounds of ice. When you first do the initial setup, you want to set the ice size to the LARGE. The reason is that since this is the first time the unit has been run since it was put together at the factory, the refrigerant has not been through the ice tubes. So selecting small will lead to poor results on the first few ices. I started it with a small and it took 3 loads of ice before it would produce perfect ice. Since I purchase 2 of these ice makers, I setup the 2nd one with the initial setup to produce large ice first and it went perfect on the first load. When you first run it, the pump will only pull in a certain amount of water and it will start to beep, thinking you don't have enough water. So all you have to do is run it again and the 2nd time and it will recognized that you have enough water and began the ice making. When you see the "Snow Flake Blinking" that means that it is making ice. When you see the icon next to the snow flake blinking, that means that it needs more water. Here is the amount of time it took to produce the ice size... Small - 6 minutes. Medium - 7-8 minutes. Large - 9 minutes. There is also a drain that is located in the back of the ice maker. Just unscrew it and remove the plug to drain. This ice maker also comes with an extra drain plug. It's very tiny, so don't loose it. Overall I am impress with this DELLA Ice maker and have no problems with them at all. I have attached some Image / Video, it might not show up right away. Amazon has since change the way how they process these and when it will show up on the reviews. Please be patience. Thank You. I was offered this item at a discounted price for evaluation, in exchange for an honest review. (I know you hate to read that part, but my reviews are always honest, if the product isn't good, then it won't get the stars it deserve).

We bought this because we were looking for a: --dual fuel --built-in downdraft --with convection oven --in black We needed a range we could use in our island. I know we could have sprung for a separate downdraft unit or an overhead vent, and gone with any number of other drop-in or slide-in ranges, but that option costs almost again as much as the range itself. Downdraft Jenn Airs are famous for giving you the flexibility of doing your cooking in places you wouldn't otherwise be able to cook. And this it does. And while I'm on the subject of flexibility, this Jenn Air is modular (like many other Jenn Air cooktops and ranges). The down side is that means you can easily spend a few hundred dollars more on additional modules. Still, we decided to buy them, and we're glad we did. The range comes standard with a grill, which we really didn't want, because we have mild weather and we grill outside year-round. But there it was. So we bought the griddle element that goes over the grill burners, and we have found that to be a real blessing. We do pancakes and french toast and eggs and bacon and panini sandwiches several times a week--and we really don't miss the other two burners all that much. But if we did need them, we have them too, having also bought them. The other reason for buying this range was because we didn't want stainless; we were re-doing our kitchen with black appliances. And the "floating black glass" goes very well with Kenmore or Whirlpool or Kitchen Aid or any number of other glossy-finished appliances. And our kitchen has a "period" look (pine plank floors, glazed cupboards, etc) and the range isn't fighting for attention. I know about the plethora of comments criticizing Jenn Airs for being unreliable, for having an underpowered fan, even for having underpowered burners. I know that the convection oven doesn't have the third element in the rear that would make it a "true convection" oven. As Pat Paulson used to say: Picky, picky, picky! But seriously, folks, in the real world, the vast majority of appliances work as advertised and we don't do flaming cherries jubilee on the cook top. But we do cook two meals every day, and the thing works marvelously. The gas burners cook like gas burners should. The high (16,000) BTU front burner gives heat immediately--we rarely have it turned on its highest setting. The back burner can maintain a low simmer, which is convenient for keeping things warm. The fan gets the bacon smell out of the kitchen. Meanwhile, the oven allows you to bake, broil or roast and has both standard and convection modes. The oven has a rapid pre-heat function that really is rapid. And we have found the convection oven to be very useful. We have baked cookies using convection and they came out uniformly brown--but with no time savings. (You do have the option to bake multiple pans at once, so that would in fact save you time.) Then we roasted prime rib using both convection mode and the built-in temperature probe, and it worked just as it should. (We browned the roast on the cooktop in a dutch oven and then roasted it in the same pan at low (200 deg) temperature, and the prime rib was crusted on the outside and moist inside. Perfect!) If you want your range in an odd place (like an island), if you want black appliances, and if you are willing to spring for some extras to really put the "mod" into your modular range (buy the griddle--you'll love it!), this range is a solid contender. We do plenty of cooking at our house, and it works like a champ. And while it would be nice to have four burners, a griddle and a grill at our disposal in an instant, in practice, we enjoy the two burners and a griddle every day, knowing that the other modules are just a couple minutes away.

We bought this dishwasher when we were forced to repair our kitchen when our Whirlpool malfunctioned (drip-drip over two years ruined hardwood floors & cabinets). So being that we are an 8 person household, I wanted a RELIABLE system and figured we might need a commercial system but instead, we caught our breath and bought this system. And boy were we glad we did!!! In an 8 person household, when I get the chance to sit and relax after all the kids are in bed, the last thing I want is racket from a dishwasher reminding me of the work I just did. Noise pollution is annoying. This system does the trick. And unlike some of the other reviewers, we've now had it a year and I feel that we are a good control group since we use this system DAILY--at least one full load a day. By the way, my kids are bad about rinsing the dishes off--IF they put them into the dishwasher, the dishes are pretty full of grime. BUT, we've had our ups and downs with this unit as we learn what it needs to keep it functioning. #1 our water is hard, so we have to put the salt tablets into the unit (never had a system where this was required before)--but when the system needs more of these tablets, it just stops working. It had been a bit finicky (by that I mean you press start and it runs for about 5 minutes then gives you "done" signal though it hadn't even gotten started)and I had no idea why??? I've finally had the chance to look into it (six kids, no one seems to care; my husband tried to figure it out and threw his hands into the air thinking of calling someone in but I am more dedicated). So I tonight, after two weeks of having to restart the system after it auto-cancelled, I looked into the salt reservoir and saw that it was pretty low so I refilled the salt tablets and now the system is working and again running smoothly (and quietly--I had to get up and check the light it shines on the floor to see if it's on since I can't hear it running). #2 one of our sons cooks lots of fatty foods (bacon is his favorite) and seems he may have put very oily dishes into the unit (Yeah! He put his dishes into the dishwasher!!!) I think this is his way of passive agressive destruction because lots of parts are now clogged (as is our sewer system) up to the point that the unit wouldn't drain properly. Now I am sure this isn't Bosch's fault. I hand cleaned much of the interior with soap and water to break the oil up and had to hand clean the prefilter by soaking it in a tub of suds and scrubbing it up. I really should have made the son take care of it but this is one of those times when passive agressive behavior deserves more passive agrressive behavior. I will stop buying bacon and let the kid know he can't cook it in the house until he pays the plumber to come clean our sewer line. Oh, but my little scrub job worked. The Bosch runs again, and smoothly too. #3 you do have to clean out the pre-filter (with us, we can't seem to keep up with this part) pretty frequently and it doesn't tell you when. You just have to figure it out by the stinch or by the clunky noise when the system is choking on the rinsewater. All in all, I believe that this system will last us just as long as the system was pre-engineered to last. Probably just outside the warranty! But, while it's working, I'll be keeping the salt reservoir filled and keeping the food particles tossed from the pre-filter so it doesn't clog up--oh, and my 18 year old son will be able to get his own place if he wants more bacon. Now I wouldn't say these things are dealbreakers. Most of these issues arise by the full force we give this system. But I enjoy reading the reviews and thought I'd chime in about my own.

I recently bought a larger home with a ton of kitchen space. Having ambitions to renovate the entire kitchen to a cooks paradise, I made my first purchase with this refrigerator and the matching freezer. I have had it for four months now and could not be happier. I selected this model for it's size and simplicity. I cringe at the "features" offered by other high end appliances... An ice maker that takes up 1/3 the volume of the freezer? No thanks! Without boring you with the other obvious differences you'll find with this model (window, etc.) I'll summarize some things I have noticed over the last few months of ownership: Sound. It's a little more noisy than I expected. Albeit a subjective observation, the noise sound of it humming along was noticeable the first few nights. I do not have the wheels installed, and do plan on enclosing it for a built in look. Glass design a non-commercial setting. Some of my friends thought the glass design would look too commercial in my home. Once they saw it installed they were blown away with how good it looks, especially next to the matching freezer. The light stays on and serves as a nice night light as well. There is a switch to turn the light off if you choose. Door closing. I read up on as many reviews as I could find prior to purchasing. Some people noted door closing problems. I have had none, and in fact noticed it closes itself well when the door is released (without any effort). FWIW, The door seals on the matching FREEZER are very good. Once you close the door, you can hear the pressure equalizing for 10 seconds. During this period it's VERY hard to open. So if you grab something, close the door, then decide to open it again, you have to wait a few more seconds. ONE YEAR UPDATE: It's been a little over a year since buying this and I wanted to update everyone that I am still very happy with my choice on both this and the matching freezer. People continue to complement how impressive it looks in the kitchen. I have now made a habit of looking into the glass (rather than opening first) to decide on dinner/snack options- I never realized how functional the glass would be (as silly as that sounds). I almost wish I had glass on the freezer too. The freezer was left open overnight by someone in the house. Most everything in the front had defrosted with blood and water pooling at the bottom. Upon discovering the problem I closed the door and un-plugged the freezer. The compressor was burning hot and I wanted it to cool down. After setting up a fan in front of the compressor, and waiting an hour, I plugged it back in and hoped for the best. I waited half a day before checking it again and everything was back to normal. I do not know if I did any permanent damage to the freezer, but it has since performed flawlessly- Ice cubes freeze amazingly fast and ice cream is usually too hard to scoop. TWO YEAR UPDATE: Both refrigerator and freezer are going strong. I have had to break ice off the fan in the freezer on two occasions. Without the fan, temps will slowly rise. Ice had also built up in the back once, requiring some break up. The refrigerator has been working great. I still enjoy and use the window. I really enjoy how the shelf can canted at whatever angle you desire to display your food. This is helpful for the top few shelves, but impractical for the lower shelves. I have even aged several sub-primal sides of beef in the fridge. It seems the open air design with only wire shelves lends itself to aging meat. THREE YEAR UPDATE: The refrigerator has been working flawlessly. I really enjoy the luxury of extra space when I need it... like being able to put a 5 gallon bucket in the fridge for brining a turkey, or aging an entire subprimal piece of beef. The freezer required a full defrost about 6 months ago. I also disassembled part of the interior as ice had formed behind the top and back panels.

First, this has been a great addition to our kitchen/bar area. The kids love the easy access and my wife and I use it nearly every day as we store coffee creamer and other 'morning beverages'. She loves the separate wine storage areas, which do work great for parties. The unit looks excellent installed, and the two pull-out shelves shown in the pictures are stain-grade wood. I haven't stained mine to match our cabinetry yet, but it is on my to-do list! Using the fridge is as easy as setting the temperature dial, deciding what units you want the temperature displayed in (centigrade or fahrenheit) and loading it up. So far the unit has kept temperatures right at the design spec at maximum cool. The cold section remains 37 (98% of the time), the white wine drawer (there's only one of these) stays at 48, and the red wine section which is one pull out shelf and one crappy wire shelf at the bottom that comes out but not easily stays a nice 57 degrees. I have not put in my own thermometer to check the accuracy of the displayed temperatures, but by going on feel alone the wines and beverages are at the correct temperatures. The bottom shelf design is what keeps me from giving this unit 5 stars. It would have been so nice had Kitchenaid designed the fridge so that the bottom shelf pulled out like the two wood-front shelves shown in the picture. The two wood shelves slide out nicely on rails. The bottom shelf rests on the bottom of the unit, has rubber pieces on the sides, and is a pain in the rear end to pull out when loaded with wine bottles. There are two 'stops' on each side of the bottom that have to be overcome to get the shelf out far enough to read the bottle and/or get the wine out easily. Bad design, and really one of only two things I can find fault with. The second issue, which may or may not be by design, is that the temperature will rise on it's own (without using the fridge or adding room temperature beverages to it) to approximately 43 degrees in the cold section. It does this periodically almost as if it's a normal cycle to remove moisture. It doesn't stay at this temperature for very long, but it does do this on a somewhat regular basis. That being said, 98% of the time the cold section is 37 degrees plus 1 or 2 degrees occasionally. When loading the unit with canned drinks, wines or other beverages after a store run, it really doesn't take very long to cool things back down. The temperature will noticeably rise for a short time with the warmer items, but not for long. As I stated above, we're going on almost two years, and the fridge has been a wonderful, useful addition. I waffled back and forth about getting a wine refrigerator or beverage center, and I'm very glad we went with the beverage center option. If it keeps going another year or more without needing repairs I'll be happy. I have read a lot of negative reviews on wine refrigerators. Reliability does seem to be an issue, even with some Kitchenaid models. However, not even Viking or $3000 brands are without their share of negative reviews. Crossing my fingers that we'll get many more years use out of this great little unit. I'd recommend this to anyone refinishing a kitchen or simply adding an area for a bar. I would not use this outside even under a covered porch. It's simply not designed to withstand the elements in that way. Good luck in your search, and if it ends here I don't think you'll be disappointed! Update: December 3, 2012. The Beverage center is still performing well. The temperature of the cold section stays between 37 and 39 most of the time, but still rises to 41 for a short time every few days. Still pleased with the purchase, and I'd still buy it again.

I've had this range for about a year and a half, and it's been pretty good. We use LP as the fuel. I do like the convection; things bake faster with it. Although if I had it to do over I would probably go with straight gas and save the extra money the dual fuel costs. Oh, and the griddle is almost not worth the bother. It's too small and doesn't heat evenly. I'm better off with a couple of nonstick frying pans for cooking the pancakes. On the other hand, I love being able to exactly dial in the temperature of the oven, so I can easily cook something at 395 degrees or set it at 210 for the meringues. However, never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that GE would do what they did -- cheap out and put plastic knobs on the front that melt when you broil with the door open. My husband was broiling with the door shut, which I hate because it gets too hot in the oven, grease spatters everywhere and burns onto the surfaces inside the oven, and there is always the possibility of forgetting the broiler is on and maybe burning down the house. So I decided to show him how it's done; I did up some tri-tip very nicely in the broiler with the door ajar. "Are you sure you're supposed to do it that way?" he asked in panic. "Of course", I explained condescendingly, "that's why the oven door has a stop at partly open, so you can broil." The next day I noticed the plastic knobs were melted. They look like stainless steel but they are plastic. I looked in the manual and sure enough, it says "The oven door MUST be closed during broiling." I looked in a manual for a different GE Profile oven, and those directions were to broil with the door open! What is the difference? On that model, the knobs are located on the back panel, not above the door. So GE redesigns the thing to have the knobs above the door, puts on cheap plastic knobs, and finally changes the operating manual to instruct people to broil with the freaking door closed so the knobs won't melt! If that don't beat all, as my grandpa would have said. Wonder if maybe there are some aftermarket metal knobs? Or perhaps it's time to get a gas grill for the steaks. Oh no, here we go again, trying to find a straight-up, well built product. I do miss the days when American manufacturers made things here, and made them right. ******* After giving this some thought, it's a function of the dual fuel design. Old style gas ranges had the broiler below the oven where broiling heat wouldn't reach the knobs. Electric ranges have the knobs on the back panel where the broiling heat can't reach them. Dual fuel has the knobs on the front with the broiler element just below them on top of the oven. Metal knobs wouldn't work, I guess, because they would get too hot. So my bad (apologies GE), I will just get a gas grill for meat. You can get away with broiling toast or something that finishes in a couple minutes. ******** February 2012 GE sent me new knobs, which are much better than the flimsy old ones, for free. I'm changing my review to 5 stars for this reason, also because I really like my range. Here are a couple of tips: 1) Buying a square nonstick pan will work better for pancakes than the griddle. It's heavy and heats unevenly. 2) The convection oven ROCKS. Instead of cooking in a shorter time, though, it's better to set the temperature from 35-50 degrees F cooler than what the recipe says when baking, and it will bake in the same time as the original. Less likely to burn things. 3) Probably better to run the self-clean cycle oftener than once every 2 years. To clean the oven racks, Barkeepers Friend works really well, they scrub up like new.

Full disclosure - we did NOT buy these from Amazon, but as a frequent Amazon buyer I still want to warn Amazon customers about them. We bought these units in 2004 when we were redoing our kitchen. We thought we were so smart in buying a "budget SubZero". Whirlpool has always been great, and the rest of our kitchen is Kitchen Aid, which is made by Whirlpool. Since KitchenAid didn't make a version, we bought these. We returned the first pair because the doors were so wavy I was afraid of installation issues for our custom wood panels (more on that later). When the delivery man came with the new ones he came in and saw ours and asked me to come out to the truck and look at the new ones because he thought the new ones were worse than what we had. He was right. Once we had decided to put up with the waviness, we discovered that the units are so thinly built that they wobble whenever you open the doors. Most refrigerators are stamped like these, with some supplemental steel bracing to hold them steady and provide mounts for the wheels, adjustable legs, compressor, coils, etc. No unique design here, just really thin steel and not much of it. The freezer compressor in particular banged a few times whenever we opened or closed the door, and each unit gyrates around about an inch at the top. I began making welded angle iron bases but stopped. Next, they're not as tall as "real" refrigerators, so you stoop over more than usual to access them. Of course we had the upper cabinets made to fit above these shorties, so now replacement with something else means we have to order new upper cabinets. We also ordered custom raised-panel door trim from our cabinet maker, only to find there was no trim mounting kit available, so that needs to be custom made too - I don't happen to have a nice clean brake to bend brushed stainless myself. There is a trim kit now, nearly as expensive as we paid for each unit originally, and it's only usable if they're side by side, and maybe doesn't even hold custom wood front panels - I didn't investigate. The fatal flaw, however, is that the freezer defrost drain freezes up intermittently - maybe within a week or two after thawing it, maybe a few months later - but it freezes up again and again. When it freezes defrost water runs down into the floor of the freezer and eventually onto the floor. It takes maybe an hour to remove the baskets (not a good thing on a hot summer day), lower shelves, and back interior panel to gain access and thaw the ice - then put everything back together. Since the units back to our furnace room, I don't think it's because the units are in too cold of an environment. Maybe a heat tape around the top of the drain fitting would help, but it's just above the compressor and should be warm enough already. And this is a common problem that Whirlpool ought ot acknowledge and address. We finally gave up and moved them to an area where leakage is less damaging than our 2004 hardwood floors, which have now been refinished twice thanks to the leaky units. Yesterday I took the freezer outside to really defrost it well with no mess inside the house, and discovered that thanks to a cheap door liner design (holes where each of the flimsy container-holding bars insert), the door is full of ice inside too. I'm sure it's rusting as well. They still work, and would be fine in somebody's unfinished basement where water leaking from a frozen-drain freezer isn't such an issue, but we've replaced them with a single, French-door refrigerator. No way in the world will we again buy anything but top of the line with a long, full-coverage warrantee.

First off I'm not positive this is the exact model of range that we have---I can't find any model numbers on our range as I prepare to write this review----so check these facts against what you are about to buy. We have never had a gas range before----so didn't know enough to check some things about this one before we bought it. Of course the salesman told us it was top of the line---best quality product we could buy. MAYBE NOT. It does look good and we love the convection oven and the warming oven below the main oven---both electric by the way. The PROBLEM which we discovered right away was that there is is a SEVERE DANGER---particularly for those like us who have had no experience with gas. We had a pot of something boiling on a burner and it boiled over and the overflow water extinguished the flame. We didn't notice that the flame had gone out. The gas continued to flow filling the kitchen and adjoining rooms . We came back in to discover the house filled with gas. I turned off the gas flow from the valve outside. That was providence watching out for me because I discovered later that had I tried to turn the gas off at the range I might have blown myself , and the house, to bits. This is because TURNING THE RANGE CONTOL KNOB OFF WILL RESULT IN A SERIES OF IGNITION SPARKS BEFORE IT SHUTS OFF THE FLOW OF GAS. THINK ABOUT THAT! I called Customer service----they acknowledge that there is NO SAFETY MECHANISM WHICH WOULD AUTOMATICALLY SHUT DOWN THE FLOW FO GAS IF THE FLAME GOES OUT FOR ANY REASON. TRY THIS-----TURN YOUR BURNER DOWN LOW AS IT WILL GO----BLOW HARD AND BLOW THE FLAME OUT--NOTICE THAT THE GAS CONTINUES TO FLOW FROM THE BURNER---IF YOU NOW TURN THE BURNER KNOB BACK TOWARD ZERO YOU CAN'T SHUT OFF THE GAS FLOW BEFORE TRIGGERING THE ELECTRONIC SPARKING WHICH ORIGINALLY IGNITED THE FLAME. THAT SPARK WILL IGNITE THE GAS THAT HAS ACCUMULATED AROUND THE BURNER. I CAN'T THINK OF A BETTER WAY TO BLOW YOURSELF UP IF THE GAS HAD BEEN FLOWING INTO THE HOUSE FOR ANY SIGNIFICANT PERIOD OF TIME. We have written Customer Service about this--several times and to this date they have not given us the courtesy of a written reply. We have learned to be very very careful with the gas burners---it is possible to just 'nudge' the burner know when wiping the stove such that the gas begins to flow but the igniter is not activated---again an explosion hazard. If you buy one of these ranges be sure you ask about these things and be suer you are willing to accept this risk if they haven't addressed this problem One other con-----when we clean the oven with the self cleaning feature then the 'overload' breaker kicks out on the back of the machine and we have to pull the thing out, remove the back cover, and reset it manually by pushing the reset button. Customer service did send us a replacement breaker which was installed by their service man---but it works just like the first one. We still have to go to the trouble of pulling the range out so we can get to the back to remove the pan and to manually reset the thing before the oven will work ----and we have to do this EVERY TIME WE USE THE SELF CLEANING FEATURE. Except for the above everything works quite will----and the thing is quite attractive. --I'm told that other manufacturers have safety shutdown features that this one does not have. I give it two stars because it looks nice and does have some nice features associated with the convection oven.

This washer has several reported flaws. One reported by many folks and the only one we came up against since owning the washer (SN FR204563T) is the fact that towels do not complete their Rinse and Spin cycle properly. GE Service folks will not acknowledge this as a problem (nor are they able to fix it) despite four service calls and many, many others with the same reported problem. Here is what we consider the problem to be and why it is a lemon or a poor design or BOTH! We bought this unit in May, 2009 and have been struggling with GE to get it fixed since then. This matter is NOT RESOLVED. Bulky items like towels absorb more water in the wash and weigh more when wet. Because the tub is vertical the clothes always start on the bottom of the tub. The machine fights gravity when these items occupy the tub and the tub starts its cycle unbalanced. As it fills with a minimal amount of fresh water and proceeds to rinse and spin, the speed of the drum is supposed to increase step by step and the items inside are supposed to be forced to the circumference of the drum. The they are pressed to it by the ever increasing speed, centrifugal force of the spinning motor. That is the design of the product and is similar to other front loaders from what we found out. However, if the items do not float around in the rinse water agitation properly and do not move to the circumference of the drum to distribute themselves accordingly (perhaps because of their weight, bulk or other reasons), then the proper speed cannot be achieved because of an unbalanced load condition. The machine has a balance sensor that quickly detects a bad distribution of items in the drum. The machine then attempts to rebalance itself at low speed by reversing the spin of the motor/drum to shuffle the clothes to a good position. This rebalance cycle (stop, slowly reverse spin direction) is attempted up to five times. When that fails, the machine goes ahead to try to spin and rinse out the wash water anyway. The why of that failed distribution with a bulky load is apparently a contested issue between us, simple users of the machine, and GE the maker who claims to be cognizant of the issue. Thus far, GE seems incapable and increasingly unwilling to fix the problem. They have documented the crap out of the problem, reporting each time that they find no trouble. The technicians have been able to see the problem here in their visits and acknowledge that the problem "can occur". GE seems to feel that if the load matches (is either sufficiently full or sufficiently light for) their machine due to the bulk of the items and the water-infused weight of them, then they should cycle properly. And in the case of our load of two hand towels, a bath sheet and two standard bath towels, we can add another large bath sheet to the load to make it complete without errors. So, since there is "nothing wrong with the machine", their solution is that in the event of a balance issue, we should add or subtract "an appropriate amount of towels/clothes to prevent the error". We feel, not too surprisingly that the size of the load, as long as it meets the maximum rating of the machine, is immaterial and the washer should complete its job in its normal cycle regardless- without banging or rebalancing (which wastes water and energy and may damage our floor or walls by it's (the washer's) bouncing around. The washer physically moves at least 6" in any direction on the tile floor during this condition. We feel that this is unsafe, exceeds the claimed advantages of water, energy, and savings. It also affects the long term reliability of their product. Consumer Reports rated this product in January, 2009 as 'best buy'. Since that rating there have been 27 pages of complaints to the Consumer Union web site. GE has, thus far, refused the alternative we proposed: * Redesign the product and exchange this model for such new product, in effect a recall. * Fix the product. * Return our purchase price. We are continuing to negotiate with them in the hope of a favorable resolution.

This is a truly outstanding cooktop. I have cooked with electric, gas, and now magnetic induction, and magnetic induction has been the most enjoyable experience by far. It's really not even close. Prior to hooking this cooktop up I timed how long it took my (previous) gas oven to cook 96 ounces of water in an uncovered pot: 11 minutes and 30 seconds. When I hooked up this cooktop and tried the same amount of water in the same pot, it took 4 minutes and 45 seconds to bring it to a rolling boil. It is amazing how fast this thing cooks. I can boil water in a small saucepan in under 2 minutes. And not only does it heat things up amazingly fast, but it also allows one to bring the temperature way down to do things like delicately melting chocolate. Another huge plus about this cooktop is that the hobs ("hobs" is a more official word for "burner") are diagonal instead of the typical way they are laid out in strips of two each. This was the main reason I narrowed down to this particular induction cooktop (other than it being made by Miele, a company that makes ultra-superb products). By placing the hobs diagonally it opens up a lot more space for placing cookware. I've had all four hobs used up by relatively large cookware, without any of the pieces bumping into each other. This was also the reason I went with the 30-inch model instead of the 36-inch (well, that and the fact I would've had to do some cabinet rearranging to get the 36-inch model into place). Simply put, with the diagonal layout I didn't feel the need for a fifth hob. It's a breeze to clean, you can associate a timer with each hob to control when each shuts off (a great feature for, say, pressure cooking), the range of cooking temperatures is very wide, and it's great to know that when I hit "7" for a temperature that I get a rolling simmer and when hitting "6" I get a lower simmer--every single time. Also, provided you have a decent set of cookware (and likely even if you don't), say goodbye to hot handles: induction cooktops are so efficient that unless using cookware laden with very cheap handles (and I bet even cheap handles wouldn't make a difference) your handles won't heat up. We've been cooking with this cooktop for 6 months now and we have yet to experience a warm handle. I'll note here for people unfamiliar with induction cooking that the cooktop doesn't actually use heat to heat up the pan. Instead, it uses magnetic induction, which causes the cookware to heat up. Consequently, you need magnetic cookware in order for this to work--such as magnetic stainless steel or cast iron. One thing I should note is that I specifically bought a very expensive set of cookware to use with this cooktop: the Demeyere Atlantis collection. I mention this only because I have read that cheaper cookware may emit some buzzing or even popping when used with induction cooktops. The Demeyere cookware does not emit any noises, and I'd expect that because it really was designed for induction--though also perfectly capable of cooking wonderfully with gas or electric. So, if you're going to buy this kind of cooktop, I suggest going all the way and getting some quality cookware. I should also note that the Demeyere Atlantis cookware is incredible cookware...it is leagues above the cookware we had prior to getting it. You should see how it cleans! This is a wonderful, well designed product and I give it 5-plus stars. My wife and I love cooking with it and cooking is noticeably more enjoyable since we've had it. If you can afford to buy a Miele product you very likely won't be disappointed.

NOTE: I actually purchased the Sunpentown IM-101S, but it is the identical machine inside. PLEASE DO NOT LET OTHER POOR REVIEWS TURN YOU AWAY FROM AN EXELLENT MACHINE! I purchased my IM-101S Sunpentown Ice Maker through Amazon on August 26, 2011. I wonder why several people have reported machines with marginal reliability and broken parts after only a few months? Hard water? Maybe that's the key, I use soft water. It's easier on the parts. :) But seriously, I have had the Sunpentown IM-101S for just over THREE YEARS now. During that time it has not just sat around doing nothing. We have a family of five who use it 24/7. Our ice maker is never unplugged and never turned off. I originally bought it to fill in when the ice maker in our refrigerator broke. Although I knew I'd fix that one eventually, I wanted a spare ice maker since our family hates being without ice. After repairing the ice maker in our refrigerator, we decided to make THAT ice maker the backup for the Sunpentown. There are two reasons for that: ONE, the Sunpentown makes more ice than the refrigerator ice maker. TWO, the refrigerator ice maker can be turned off for long periods of time without getting dusty or smelling funny. The ice maker in the refrigerator only gets turned on once-in-a-while when we have company or when it's a really hot summer and we need extra ice. Other than that, the Sunpentown is our ice maker of choice. FINALLY - Just last week (October 5, 2014), after THREE YEARS of use, there was a failure. Yes folks, the machine broke. But this is a story with a good ending! The failure was easy to diagnose, easy to fix and very inexpensive. What failed? The plastic rotator pin on one end of the water tray that goes into the motor broke off. That meant the water tray would not rotate. The digital screen gave an error message saying that the "ICE SHOVEL CANNOT ROTATE". Although an accurate statement, it's not really the problem. The shovel is just the floppy plastic scraper attached to the front of the water tray. The reason the shovel cannot rotate is because THE WATER TRAY CANNOT ROTATE. Therefore, the part to order when you get this error is the WATER TRAY, not the ice shovel. Sunpentown sells the water tray for only $20 plus shipping (and tax if you are in California). I ordered two just to have a spare. They arrived just three days after I placed the order. Here is the website for the Ice Maker parts: http://www.sunpentown.com/paacforicema.html Here are instructions for replacing the water tray complete with step-by-step pictures: http://site.sunpentown.com/IM-100.101_watertray.pdf Using those instructions, it took just a Phillips screwdriver and 15 minutes to disassemble the machine. While I had it apart, I took the opportunity to clean the dust bunnies out and look over the inner workings of the machine. I am an aerospace manufacturing engineer, so I understand machines. Except for the plastic water tray, this is a pretty robust machine. Like a refrigerator, the cooling system should last for many long years. Keep in mind that even very expensive refrigerators use generic plastic ice makers that tend to need repair or replacement every two or three years. That puts this Sunpentown ice maker right on part with your expensive refrigerator. I reassembled my Sunpentown IM-101S ice maker in about 20 minutes (I took time to Loctite some of the sheet metal screws because they are pretty loose). My ice maker is now back up and running just fine and once again has become our main ice maker. I turned off the refrigerator ice maker to save for future emergencies.

In April of 2009 we purchased several Architect Series stainless steel KitchenAid appliances from a local authorized dealer including a diswasher, microwave, stove, warming drawer and a 36" cooktop and downdraft unit (~$10,000 of product). When the cooktop unit arrived it was installed by the local dealer's service technicians. During the installation we discovered that a number of pieces were missing from the cooktop including burner tops that prevented us from using the cooktop. After 3 to 4 phone calls to Whirlpool and about 2 weeks later we finally received the parts and discovered that Whirlpool (owner of KitchenAid brand) had sent the wrong parts. After several more phone calls we were finally sent what we thought were the remaining correct parts. After the technician arrived to install them he found that we were missing more burner parts from the high capacity burner and that using the burner without these parts had scorched the cooktop slightly. At the same time we discovered that the downdraft system activation button was not working correctly and more new parts for both items were ordered by the technician. A new cooktop was ordered and then installed about 3-4 weeks later by the local dealer. After the cooktop was installed we discovered that it was scratched badly and ordered another. About 2 weeks later the parts for the downdraft arrived and were installed by the technicians. The next day the downdraft system got stuck in the up and on position and could not be turned off. Another cooktop arrived several weeks later and was installed. I called the local dealer frustrated at having paid for a new cooktop in April and still not able to use it fully in late July and was told by the owner that we had to wait to have a Whirlpool authorized 3rd party technician come to our house to evaluate the unit before Whirlpool would do anything to replace or repair the downdraft unit. Meanwhile, after 4-5 phonecalls and being transferred around in Whirlpool's "customer service" bureacracy of divisions we tried to get a replacement unit and were told by Whirlpool that they would send us one but that they were on backorder and it would be mid-August before one could be delivered to our home. We asked them if they could find one at a distributor or retailer and have that unit sent to us and were told by the "customer service" person that they don't do that. They furthermore said that we could try to do that on our own but that they would only refund exactly the discounted price that we paid from the local retailer and not what we would have to pay to get one delivered from somewhere else in the country to our home. I run a manufacturing business that sells products in the same price range as these appliances through distribution to retail stores. We occassionally make mistakes as do all companies. When a customer has a problem, our customer service ensures that the customer is taken care of immediately either through a local retailer or directly from us. We see a problem as an opportunity to have customers rave about our service levels to other potential customers and realize that service attitude and responsiveness pays for itself several times over in the positive word of mouth versus the negative that would occur if we didn't do this. Whirlpool had a huge opportunity to have my wife and I telling a wonderful customer service story that would have positively influenced other potential customers in an affluent community where many of our friends and neighbors are upgrading kitchens. Instead I will be telling as many people as I can both verbally and online about my experience and the impact to their sales will be 10-100 times what it would have cost them to be nice to us and try to solve our problem. I hope that someone in the management of Whirlpool someday gets this message and uses it to change the company for the positive. Meanwhile, I suggest that if you can, you should avoid buying any of the brands that are made and serviced by Whirlpool.

We got this adorable little gas range for our new place this past autumn. Our old one was on its last legs, and even though it was a full size range, we decided to opt for this 20" model. We don't plan on cooking a 20lb turkey or anything, so this was plenty big for us (though some talented soul probably could pull off a 20 pounder to perfection in this thing.) Need More Room In Your Kitchen? Sure, there's only 10 inches difference in the width of this one compared to a standard 30" range, but sometimes, a small variance makes all the difference in the world. Getting this compact range allowed us to rearrange our kitchen so we could fit a compact LG Washer Dryer Combo, and THAT, my friends, HAS made an E.N.O.R.M.O.U.S impact on our quality of life for sure! All of which would not have been possible without this small and mighty range! To help you visualize it, just imagine a standard range with the 2 columns of burners, on the left and right. Between them, is the empty center column, which we all basically use for spoons and trivets. Well, if you remove that center column and then squish the 2 sides together, you get this little range. But don't let the size fool you, it's still plenty spacious in there. Yes, we do have to put our large cookie sheet in sideways now, but it still fits just fine. Inside Dimensions This range is deeper than it is wide, and it's just as deep as a standard range; only the width has been condensed. The approximate inside dimensions of the oven are: 14"w x 19"d x 16"h. It has 2 adjustable racks, so that gives 2 levels of cooking space. Perfect for us. Heat Accuracy & Performance The temp dial for the oven seems pretty accurate to the actual temperature. No, I haven't measured anything scientifically, but going by instinct and compared to the other ranges I've had in my life -- this one beats them all. I learned how to tweak my other ranges up or down to accommodate for variances, but with this little guy, 400 means 400; and so on, down the line of temps. We've had this about 4 months now, and use it daily. So we have plenty of experience with it and are very happy with how it has performed for us. Auto-Ignition Oven & Burners It took a couple of months before I stopped instinctively reaching for a lighter to ignite the burners for my morning oatmeal. This thing has an auto ignition that does NOT require a lit pilot; not for the oven, and not for the burners. Sounds like no biggie? Guess again. Those tiny little burning pilots go a long way in heating up the entire house during a blistering summer, which in turn, makes us ramp up the A/C. So not having any lit pilots that stay on 24/7 is a huge deal. These electric ignitions work like a charm, each and every time. It took 4 months, but I've finally stopped reaching for that darn lighter. Broiler Yes, this does have a broiler and rack on the bottom. We haven't used it much, but like that it's there. Oven Light Another H.U.G.E improvement! Our old range did have a window on the oven door, but no light inside; another 'little thing' that's actually a B.I.G thing. We love being able to look inside at what's cooking without opening the oven door. We use the light all the time. Fantastic! Bottom Line -- We LOVE our small and mighty little gas range. Amana has been around for years, so we trust our little gas range will be too. And it looks really good too. Nothing but love here for that little guy!! Thanks to him, we now get to do laundry at HOME for the first time in 25 years! Thanks little cutie; you've helped make a big difference in our lives!!

I have owned this model for a few years now and cannot be more pleased. I live with my boyfriend in a small upstairs apartment. One day while taking a regular trip to our gross, ghetto Laundromat I was shocked to see that the owners raised the prices on the washers to $2.00 a load! This might not be much compared to other cities but the laundromat was not upgraded in any way to warrant a raise in price so the next day I went to Sears and purchased this washer. We have not been back to the laundromat since. I also have to tell you that my boyfriend works in construction and gets his clothes muddy, smelly, generally dirty and he has owns more clothing than me. This washer has never had a problem handling any of it. It has a great variety of settings; Heavy Duty, Normal, Permanent Press and Hand Wash. The two settings we use the most are Heavy Duty and Normal. The Heavy Duty mode runs for an extra cycle more than Normal. You can also change the water settings: High & Medium. (High = filled to the top, Medium = halfway filled.) There are also convenient places for you to put Bleach, Powder Detergent and Fabric softener so it automatically dispenses. Directions say to put regular detergent directly in the basket. A normal cycle will run about 25-30 minutes and while filling it is pretty loud. Once filled, depending on how much water you have designated it gets much more quiet. If you put the water level on Medium without a lot of clothing in it you will hear sloshing. The washer also shakes pretty hard when it hits the spin cycle and should be considered if you are putting this on tile/hardwood. I recommend putting a rug under it - the area we use it in is all carpet. I have read other reviews on this machine that people had to look for a special part or extender in order to attach the included faucet cap since you have to unscrew the one already attached to your faucet and screw on the one you receive in order to fit the tube onto your sink. Since we did not have this problem due to low-end fixtures so I have no comment on it but I'm just putting it out there just in case. Our clothes come out pretty dry and since we don't have the matching dryer we hang all of our clothes and most of them dry wrinkle free. I will say that my professional suit-style clothes will usually need ironed after being washed and then air-dried. One complaint I have is that the fabric softener area in the agitator is very difficult to clean. You pop it out of the agitator (we had to pull very very hard) and you can only reach so far in there to get any fabric softener goop out. I don't recommend Downy for the softener since it's slimy and leaves a ton of residue. What you pop off in the agitator also holds the little lint trap which looks like a basket. This is even more difficult to pull apart so we wash the lint trap with it still attached to the fabric softener holder. It's easiest to clean when the lint is completely dry. I have had no musty smells from the washer in part because we leave the top open always. However, for the few months of usage there was a strong plastic smell from the drum. It didn't bother us and it eventually went away and the smell never stuck to our clothes. I can't imagine still going back and forth to the laundromat, I will say I miss being able to dry my clothes but all of our clothes are completely air-dried after hanging overnight so it's not that much of an inconvenience. Once we move into a place of our own I plan on keeping this washer for washing other things like rags and stuff you generally would want to keep separate from washing your regular clothes in. I love this little washer and would recommend this to anyone who would like an apartment size washer or hates their laundromat. One thing I forgot to mention is that it comes with casters so you can move it around if necessary. I have no problems pushing it around on my low-pile carpet.

I love how quiet this dishwasher is! This is the first dishwasher I have owned with a stainless steel tub and I can really tell the difference! We replaced our Kenmore Ultrawash model that we purchased in 2007 because it was SO LOUD! We could barely hear the television in the next room and my husband wouldn't let me run it at night because it was loud when we were sleeping so I had to run it during the day. My review compares this new Bosch to the old Kenmore. Also, we had quite a time with Best Buy. We purchased the floor model so we saved a chunk of money. However, they forgot to give us the installation kit so we had no instructions and no parts. It should have been a 30 minute installation but after 3 hours, 2 trips to the hardware store, and one HUGE marital fight, we figured this out. At that point it was already installed (and we weren't speaking!). However, I discovered a week later that the dishwasher was leaking so I called Best Buy and told them my husband was on his way to get the installation kit. They didn't ask me any information about what we purchased but said they could sell us something. I told them we needed it for free. My husband got to the store and needed the model number. He couldn't get ahold of me, and for some reason they didn't/couldn't look it up in the computer, so he ended up going to Lowe's and spending another $30. Due to this, I would never buy the floor model again - but if you do, be sure to get the install kit with delivery!! Pros: *QUIET - yes, you can hear it, but it sounds like a soft rain. We can watch television and have a conversation in the same room because it's so quiet. That was my main criteria! If it wasn't quiet, I was going to return it. *racks slide well - my Kenmore felt really cheap because of the ways the racks slid out but this Bosch is great - the bottom rack doesn't come off of the track *stays clean inside - having a stainless steel tub means that it doesn't stain like the old white tub. I still try to add vinegar for most washes just to make sure *cleans fine - cleaning is not superb (at least for the general wash cycle) but it cleans just fine. I tried the pots & pans setting last time but my husband emptied the dishwasher so I don't know if the dishes came out cleaner. I still don't put in caked on dishes and definitely not dried cheese *makes dishes relatively dry - dishes are not perfectly dry when the cycle is done but they're good enough. I usually open the door and let them finish air drying overnight Cons: *Smaller capacity - this is likely due to the insulation but I will take this any day due to how quiet this machine is *Not the best configuration - I'm not really excited about the configuration in the racks. It seems really close together and it's not easy to put glasses or pans on the bottom rack. *Dinging when it's done - this is annoying and loud. I tried to figure out how to make it stop but I made it worse! Instead of dinging 5 times - twice - it dinged 5 times for at least 5 times before I shut the dishwasher off. However, I googled it last week and figured it out so no more dinging. (The only bad thing now is I don't know when it's done so I just wait a couple of hours before I open it up to let the dishes finish drying.) One other note: I read online today that the best way to clean stainless steel is with a little olive oil and a cotton cloth so I'll try that tonight.

I purchased this Frigidaire Professional 30" gas range (FPGF3081KF) to replace my parents' aging GE stove which barely survived the Thanksgiving holiday. We are a family of french cooks, including a professional executive chef with international cooking experience. For us, a good quality stove is important in any household. Prior to my purchase, I set my requirements based on the following criteria: Stove Requirements: * 30-in width, free standing * Middle burner w/cast-iron griddle/grill * Gas burners * Convection oven * Warming or baking drawer * Stainless * Reliable brand for daily heavy use * Budget under $1400 Initially, I was focusing on the GE Profile series. A close friend owns a GE Profile with the specs listed above and paid around $1900 for his. He has had it for 4 years and has been extremely pleased with it. Although I really liked the look and capabilities of the GE Profile series, the model I wanted was out of my price range. During a visit at my local BestBuy, I came across the Frigidaire Gallery and Professional series, and was impressed with the quality of the ranges. I began my research and was impressed with many of the reviews. Over the Black Friday weekend, I found a GE Profile floor model at BestBuy for $1299, and this Frigidaire Professional, brand new, for $1053. Comparing apples to apples, the GE Profile was not worth the extra $246, so I decided on the Frigidaire. Review - Positive Notes: (We have only had this stove for just over a week, but have used it heavily and have tested all of the features. So far, this stove has passed every test with flying colors.) * The overall impression is that this is a heavy duty and professional quality stove. Nothing feels cheap. * The continuous grates allows better control of the pots and pans on the stove-top, and seem to be of high quality. * The burners are very responsive and burn at a much higher intensity than our previous stove. * The burner knobs are made of metal (instead of plastic), which gives the stove that added level of professional quality. * The stainless steel finish is not a fingerprint magnet. The black stove top hides dirt when cooking, and is easy to clean. * The PowerPlus burner drastically decreases the time it takes us to boil water. The high intensity of this burner works very well with larger pots. * The customizable oven racks, including the slide-out feature of the bottom rack are really useful! Having that bottom rack slide out about 6 inches towards you as you open the oven door really helps reduce the chance of getting burnt. * Warming drawer is an added bonus, and kept a roasted chicken well heated at the highest setting, without drying it out. * The center burner with w/cast-iron grill allowed us to cook skewered steak to perfection! * The oven and timer controls are easy to follow, once you've glanced at the manual. Review - Negative Notes: * When using the oven at high temperatures, some of the burner knobs tend to get really hot. Although I did not burn myself figuring this out, it's worth noting for next time. * The oven temperature pre-sets buttons (Pizza, Nuggets) were less useful than I anticipated. The Pizza button is preset at a temperature of 425 degrees, which is not high enough for pizza. To properly cook a freshly-made pizza on a pizza stone, the oven needs to be set at 500 or higher. * As other users have indicated, the largest burner (17,000/500 BTU), does not have much mid-range. It's either very intense, or very low. I didn't see this necessarily as a negative, because we were able to adjust our cooking according to the stove's capabilities. Overall, I am very content with this purchase. Not only did I stay below my budget, but I ended up with a professional grade stove which more than serves our purpose. Let's just hope my positive feelings remain the same in a year from now!

The agitator on our 90's base-model Kenmore broke after about 12+ years of use. I couldn't justify the cost of replacing the parts to get it working again. We exhausted our research and came across all of the bad reviews on the high-efficiency issues of washers on the market as of 2011. People were complaining about less water, less clean clothes, less hot water, smell of mildew with front loaders, wash time, etc. I made mind to find for the most inefficient top-load washer I could find to mirror what we had. We were leaning on the top-loaders that filled 50% with water, but we were swayed by this Samsung when we saw an open-box unit selling for $620 at a big-box store. The previous ownerreturned it because of a minor scratch. We are delighted they returned it! We got a great performing machine and haven't experienced any of the reported issues most customer reviews scream about online. Complainers resonate the loudest to you when it comes to a big-ticket item purchase. We overlooked the naysayers and dived-in. Not only did the open-box sale price push us into this 2011 top-of-line model. The allergy certification swayed us heavily because our 4yo has major allergies (mites, pets, etc). The sanitizer option is fantastic! When compared to our base-model 90's washer, this thing is awesome! It is super quiet during the wash cycle. The only time we really hear it is during the spin cycle. When you use the extreme spin-cycle setting it whines-up like a turbo engine, but it sounds cool to me. I dig it! When it's done, it makes a silly musical jingle...we no longer get the end-game buzzer sound. The washer sounds so happy that it finished another load for us. Our clothes come out clean. They smell fresh. They're warm after the wash. The water-temp naysayers should change their hot-water tank setting. My wife's nursing uniforms no longer have lent-balls on them after a wash. The dryer filter is getting less lent too. We tossed half of the house into this thing the first week. It got stains out of our white living-room pillows that we just couldn't remove with the other washer. My son's bedding and other items were all sanitized. The washes don't take too long. Generally 40-60 mins under a heavy normal-wash load and 2 hours with the sanitize option. We can get others things done while its underway - why are people complaining about the time of a washer? Go watch a game while its on! We leave the washer door cracked to air-dry. Once a week I'll clean the rubber seal to prevent any mildew smell. A little pro-active cleaning and maintenance goes a long way. When you use the sanitizer be careful of your kid's teddy-bears. One furry little puppy teddy-bear hitched a ride on a load by mistake. He came out looking like a bald Chihuahua. We may need to comb it for a week to get the hair fluffy again! Put your decorative pillows on delicates not sanitize - you might see some fraying from the seams. Yes, I went overboard cleansing our linens after we bought it! If you buy it from a big-box store, be sure to make observe and review the installers work. Our installers stripped the plastic hot-water connection with a rushed job. If you can find this unit as an open-box then leap on it. I think you'll be VERY pleased with the deal and quality of cleaning you get you of this machine. If you purchase one at full retail price you should still be pleased with the results. Hopefully we won't experience any mechanical or computer issues in the future, but to date we're very pleased with our purchase. Now if only I could park a car in this thing to clean where the kids sit...

This is my 2nd GE Profile double wall oven. The previous one would have lasted longer but the appliance installer installed it incorrectly. That had NOTHING to do with the manufacturer and is a rant that wouldn't be helpful here. Suffice it to say that if he took the trouble to do the job correctly, it'd still be working. I use one or both ovens nearly every day and the temperature setting is accurate and heating is relatively even inside the oven. The great advantage of a double-wall-oven is that if you're working on a large number of dishes, and they need different temperatures, you're not having to continually jockey dishes in and out of the oven, changing the temperature, switching to 'broil', etc. Life is much, much easier. Especially if you're doing Thanksgiving for a large group, as I do. The top oven is convection-or-conventional, the bottom one is conventional-only. The controls are touch-panel on the top of the unit and are fairly intuitive (e.g. press 'Bake', then the number-panel for the temperature, then 'start'). There's a nice, big, easy-to-read display so I can see the temperature and timer from across the room. There are also lockout controls so you can set a numeric password and disable the controls if you have young children or special-needs family members who shouldn't be operating the ovens. GE has eliminated the pesky bottom heating element - it was a nuisance to clean round - and placed it underneath the oven floor. So the sides and bottom are unobstructed. That makes cleaning up large drips much easier. The broiler element is still exposed underneath the oven 'ceiling', but that's pretty much the same case with all brands. The ovens will automatically shut off after 12 hours - to avoid disasters from forgetful cooks. But there are instructions for overriding this. On my old ovens, the lowest I could set the temperature was 170 degrees. The new ones have a 'Warm' setting that's great for keeping things like pizza-still-inside-the-cardboard-box warm without scorching. Its also got great possibilities as a dryer if you need a dehydrator for fruit, vegetables, etc. GE has made both ovens the same size, which really helps when you're shuffling racks around. On the older ones, the bottom oven was slightly larger than the top, so the racks were different-size. There's a temperature-probe socket in the to oven (I recall you had to buy the temperature probe separately). I've never used it. It seemed prone to failure on the first GE Profile ovens I owned. I'd sooner go with a Taylor remote oven thermometer, which is inexpensive and foolproof. It will beep at you when your roast, etc. hits a specific, pre-set temperature. If you install this appliance yourself (as I did with the new one), there are a very precise set of installation instructions, including enclosure dimension, electrical connections, etc. The only thing I had to customize was making a temporary wood platform at the same height as the enclosure so I could finish wiring and then slide the oven into the enclosure. This is a really heavy appliance and having a 2nd set of hands available is a real plus. The only criticisms/complaints I have about this appliance are 1.) When you've got the oven AND the kitchen timer going, and the timer starts beeping, if you set 'Clear/Off', it turns off the timer AND the oven. You have to press 'Kitchen Timer' and then '0' on the number panel to reset it to zero and effectively turn it off. 2.) The bottom self-clean door-latch went out after a year and a half and I had to replace the part. 3.) Self-Clean still leaves little bits of gunk around the edges of the doors and the front edge of each oven. The only way I've been able to clean this is with conventional oven cleaner. Parts are ridiculously easy to locate for this oven. All you have to do is enter the model number in a web search engine and you can find an exploded parts diagram and numerous parts suppliers. Overall, if I had to buy a wall oven appliance again, I'd definitely go with GE Profile double wall oven

I recently moved into an apartment with this dryer, and like many other reviewers, I found it was completely worthless. According to the manual, this thing is actually designed to NOT completely dry clothes, since that supposedly damages them. However, I prefer my clothes to be mildew-free, so here's what I did to get this thing to properly dry my clothes: -Stop trying to clean the sensors with vinegar. It's a complete waste of time--use the vinegar to clean your coffee maker or espresso machine instead. - Next, open the panel below and to the left of the door and remove the plastic drawer-looking thing after twisting the two tabs on the corners. You won't be needing this thing anymore, but place it on top of the dryer or someplace nearby so it doesn't get lost/discarded. Someone else who wants their clothes to smell like mildew may want this at a later date.... - Next, don't close that panel door if you want to do laundry. Obviously, you can close it between loads, but you will always run the dryer with this panel open. If your dryer is in a closet with a door, carefully make sure the closet door closes without slamming into the dryer panel door when it is open. My unit is in a very small area and the closet door wouldn't close without hitting the panel door, so I cut a piece of string to a very specific length and then knotted it to make a loop so the panel door is open at about a 30 degree angle when looped around the panel latch and either of the metal pieces that make up the locking mechanism in the dryer door. This may take some trial and error, and you can do it anyway you want, but the panel door absolutely needs to be open when you're doing laundry. If you have a closet door, I'm just guessing you want that closet door to be closed, but obviously that is up to you. - Next, take out the lint screen, remove any lint, and wash it with hot water and shake it off to dry. Even if it looks clean, it may not be, so rinse it with hot water. - This next step is optional, but I found it severely reduced the "filter" light warnings I was getting. Turn the lint screen over and notice the screen mesh covers the hinged area in the base of it. Take a razor blade and cut through the screen at the base (i.e., between the plastic along the hinged base). This may not look like a big deal, but it will dramatically increase the airflow through the lint screen while still allowing the lint screen to function and collect lint. Again, this part is optional (and it does permanently modify the lint screen), but I found it significantly reduced the number of times that the filter idiot light comes on. - For regular maintenance, I only wash the lint screen with hot water and shake it out to dry when the filter light comes on. I think the mesh is so fine that it gets clogged by stuff that's hard to see, so don't trust your eyes. When the filter light comes on, take out the lint screen, remove any lint, wash it off with hot water, and shake it to dry. Also, I used to rinse off the metal condenser thing in the drawer behind the open panel, but I don't think that matters, so I don't even do that any more, but if you run into any problems, you may want to rinse that off as well. - Lastly, I always use the Regular/Cotton--Extra Dry setting, with the "Low Heat" push-button option selected. Unfortunately, it can take an hour or more, but it always dries my clothes that way. The clock is never right--it starts at 2:37 but then updates continuously and I'd say it takes about an hour or so, I haven't tried a lot of the other settings, but they may work as well. Hope this helps. Feel free to add your experience/comments/thoughts/ tips below.

If you have found your way to this review, it is likely that you have already discovered there are few options available for homes that lack the full 36" width needed to fit the wide variety of "big boys" available. So we landed upon this LG model as the best compromise of features and capacity to replace our 20 year old Kitchen Aid single door with bottom freezer (still working). In the process, we also discovered that newer models are slightly taller, so do your homework and be prepared to do some woodworking! The inside space arrangement is radically different from our old model, and requires some re-thinking of how you store things. At this point, I am wondering if we wouldn't be better off removing one of the shelves in order to accommodate more tall items. The biggest difference is the lack of door storage when compared to the old one with the longer single door. The ice maker occupies much of the left door, so things that might have been grouped together in the old unit now must be separated. The freezer space, on the other hand, is much improved over our old Kitchen Aid. It is both larger and more convenient due to the pull-out drawer. Performance-wise, the electronic settings and controls allow much more accurate adjustment than the older model. The alarm for "door ajar" is very handy when you have guests using it. Based on experimentation, this thing freezes items much quicker- I used the freezer last night to chill down some cooked asparagus, which is something I would never have even thought to try on the old fridge. Air circulation in the refrigerator sector is very good, and the full length drawer for meats and cheeses does a good job of keeping things fresh. I do believe we will realize a small savings from being able to store items longer while maintaining freshness. The lighting inside is good, although not quite as "pretty" as some of its big brothers. Things I don't like? OK, this is a pretty puny icemaker, so if you need a bunch you had better be emptying into a bin down below to stock up. The other issue I have noticed about it is it seems a bit inconsistent; almost fickle, about making ice, sometimes taking longer than other times to dump more out-haven't figured that one out yet; it may be related to the use of the cold water dispenser. While on the subject of dispensing, other reviewers nailed it- it just about throws ice at you, but it only takes a few trials before you see how you need to hold the cup to catch it. Same with the water dispenser- not very well thought out, but you will get used to it. Another dislike is the way you access the icemaker from inside the door; the latch and the way it closes is not very smooth. Lastly, as I mentioned earlier, the storage arrangement takes some getting used to; in particular where bulky and tall items are concerned. To summarize, so far we are happy with the purchase, although it is a bit of a personal disappointment to actually have to pay more for the smaller unit than a comparable wide model. ********UPDATE 11-2017********* We just finished a month-long ordeal with a "sealed system" repair. I had purchased a 36 month extended warranty under the theory that if it lasted that long it would go the distance; On month 37 I found out I made a bad bet. The details are not as important as telling you that LG does not have the support network in place in the U.S. to be able to take care of their customers, and that it took multiple attempts, multiple trips, and multiple waits to finally, FINALLY, get it going again. The "smart" features are not smart enough to let you know you have a freezer thawing out, and the fantastic alarm will tell you that the door is open but is in no way tied to threshold temps to warn you that things have gone awry. When you take into account the cost of the goods you are storing, not to mention the inconveniences associated with "camping" while you wait for LG to send parts, only to wait again for service scheduling, it is just not worth it. It's fairly common knowledge among the folks who service appliances as to which brands to avoid.

Wow. What a piece of junk. First off, when you pay $1800 for a range, it should work like an expensive Swiss watch. When you put "Made in the USA" stickers on it, you're shaming our country's craftsmanship.....or maybe that was a warning. Can you tell if it was built on a Friday? Got the stove in September. By October, the "safety" shutoff valve that only operates with current began to buzz. Its an electromagnetic plunger that will stop any gas feed to the burners if not powered. If you lose power, you cant use the gas. There is no override. Every time it was engaged, it would sound like a set of barber shop clippers and loud. I called Whirlpool and played them a recording of the sound, and the actual sound and they sent a tech who confirmed what I knew. It made me nervous to use the oven because this is a gas line component. The tech ordered the part, and proceeded to blow me off twice over the course of 4 weeks on replacement putting the repair AFTER Thanksgiving. I was forced to take it into my control. It took me all of 30 minutes to replace it, but I had to confirm the work would be warrantied since I had to DIY. I'm not sure how they expect to sell the warranties they push if they're not going to provide service at all. Tip: Hire people that actually care about doing a good job. Recently, the right 16k BTU mid-range burner valve froze closed (I appreciate it didn't get stuck open). I could tell the heat from the top oven was making something stick, but wouldnt you know that this happens a month out of the pitiful one year warranty they provide. The valve itself is $80, which surprised me. I guess I'll be on DIY duty for that too. This one failed right before Xmas dinner within its first year of use. If they start to get catchy, be ready to buy new ones. Its a stamped/cast part that cant be cleaned. Yay obsolescence and the throw away society! It doesnt get heavy use. Its me and the wife and we probably cook on it 3 times a week. The final nail in its coffin was when I washed the stainless knobs (which are too heavy for the valve spring actuation to work properly). Something in the back of the knob connection is water soluble because now none of the 5 knobs fit on the valve stems at all. I'm looking to source for lighter knobs so that the spring has a fighting chance. Cliffnotes: Avoid KitchenAid (or Whirlpool for that matter). They're made cheaply, they break easily and their service is awful. What kicks me in the gut is that I bought it through the "VIP" program. The one year warranty is a joke. They will constantly call, write, and email you about their warranty program, which costs about $100 a year (go figure). You'll need it if you buy one. 3 failures in the first year of use is unacceptable. They kept asking me if I had used the self-clean feature and wouldn't say why they were asking. I'm seriously afraid to that feature now. Stainless? More like Gillette thin razorblade construction with an appetite for fingerprints. The thing is very hard to keep clean, and it can cut you good if you're not aware of the edges. Also, if you don't have a in-wall 4 prong plug set exactly at the back indentation where the book shows, forget it. There is no bottom cabinet room for any kind of mistake and will never sit flush agaist the wall. That cost me another $120 in copper wire, an outlet, box, and an entire evening. This aint like the ones that sit over top of the floor mount box you find in a lot of homes. What happened to the days with something like an oven could last 20 years without incident? This stove is dangerous IMHO. I would send it right back to them for a refund if they stood behind their products.

Do you like to have your clothing randomly stripped of color? Do you like to waste water wantonly? Well, then, this is the washer for you! This particular model of top-loading Whirlpool washer offers the following benefits-- if you following the manufacturer's directions and add the laundry soap at the bottom of the machine (sparingly, natch!), then loosely arrange your full load on top reaching just above the center line of the washing basket, you can experience the sheer wonder of discovering your brand new clothes, sheets, your favorite sweaters and familiar unmentionables come out stripped of color wherever they touched your (natural, normally non-damaging) detergent or low-suds laundry soap! Would you prefer to keep your clothes undamaged and just wash them? Do you like to play guessing games? Well, you can do both of these things with your brand new Whirlpool washer! Try the following difficult trick: Add your laundry detergent after you've placed your clothes into the washing basket, but just before the washing cycle starts! Should you miss adding the soap in the crucial 5.3 seconds after the basket fills partway with water but right before the clothes begin to agitate, prepare to experience cries of joy while watching your brand new soap and water in the basket drain out and refill, causing you to start the process over six, maybe seven times today! Do you like to run? How about running sprints? Enjoy brief periods of exercise throughout the day by trying to wash your clothes without either damaging them or wasting water! Here's what you have to do to get the full benefit of the Whirlpool sprints-- a) Place your non-damaging soap in the bottom of the washing basket. b) Start the wash cycle, but do not add any clothes just yet. c) Plan to stand and wait three to twenty minutes as the basket fills with water. d) Get called away for a phone call, and forget about the running washer in the garage. e) Remember you are washing clothes just as the empty washer begins to agitate. f) Shout profanities into the phone while running as fast as you can down the hallway through the living room into the kitchen where you will fling the garage door open, careen around the corner to the washer and rip open the lid. g) Toss the clothes into the sudsy water in the basket, and spend the rest of the afternoon burning calories by worrying whether your clothes went through a full wash cycle or not. I never knew I could be so entertained by one Whirlpool appliance, which we purchased brand new with a full warranty just last year! Every item of clothing I own now features that distinctive Whirlpool color-stripped look, and the brand new 500-thread-count sheets that I carefully loaded into the machine last week look like they've been through the First and the Second World War in just one wash cycle! As you can imagine, I am still crying tears of joy! Call me wild, but I just love to read appliance instructions six, seven, or eight times in both French and English. By following Whirlpool's instructions, I've finally found the machine that will fulfill my dream of damaging any garment and household item that managed to survive our pre-Whirlpool washing days. I'd go back to using a laundry mangle or an off-brand washer, but I don't believe I'd get nearly as much exercise as I do with our current Whirlpool model, and I've come to relish the "antiqued" look this nearly-new washer offers to even the sturdiest fabrics. Plus, I've got calves to die for after all those afternoons sprinting back and forth to do the laundry. I would never have imagined that one washing machine could have so many benefits, but by golly, Whirlpool has gone and done it. Thanks, Whirlpool!

I recently moved from a condo that still had the 30-year-old dishwasher from when the place was originally built. It worked great. I ran it before going to bed, and when i woke up, the dishes were clean and dry. The amount of dishes that ever had stuck-on food was less than one percent. So I just bought a house and fast-forward need a new dishwasher. I figured technology has improved over thirty years, so the dishwashers they make now should be even better. I thought the better brands are GE, Kenmore, Maytag, and Whirlpool. I saw a GREAT price on this (WDF750SAYW) Whirlpool model and got it. Boy was I surprised. I've used it about five or six times so far, and I have had to re-wash about 85% of the dishes by hand. I have run the dishwasher in the evening/night, and when I unload it in the morning, the dishes are wet and dirty! I miss the 30-year-old dishwasher that I left in my old apartment! Buyer Beware: This dishwasher has a filter that lays across the bottom. What I realize is that any bits of food larger than a grain of sand will not pass through this filter and will splash around and get stuck on your dishes! So far, each time I have used the dishwasher, I ended up with dishes that were actually dirtier than when I put them in! The last load I did in this dishwasher, it couldn't even get yogurt off of a spoon! PROS: - very very quiet (although I did find the noise of the old dishwasher quite calming to go to sleep to) - energy efficient, supposedly uses less electricity than the average dishwasher - price point, this model costs less than a lot of other dishwashers CONS: - unless you have figured out the mystery of how to get this thing to clean your dishes, you have wasted your money - stupid silverware holder. It's supposed to hook on to the door, but you can put it in one of the racks instead. In any case, one side of it is solid instead of mesh, so water does not reach the silverware as effectively (this problem is made worse when you attach the rack against the door). Also, there are slots in which to place the handle of each piece of silverware. The slots are too small for most of my silverware. In the old dishwasher, I just used Cascade gel alone with no rinse aid, no problem! The manual for this dishwasher says rinse aid is REQUIRED! Also, it says it's highly recommended to use the single-use powder packs instead of gel. So I experimented with cascade gel and cascade powder packs (with cascade rinse aid every time). I have not overloaded the dishwasher. So far the results have continued to be unsatisfactory. I just read a review on amazon of, I think it was the same model but with stainless steel front, that says try using Cascade Professional. I will try to find some of that and also play more with the settings... if I find a solution to the mystery of how to get this dishwasher to actually wash dishes, I will update! UPDATE 6/29/14 I have had success with this dishwasher using the following settings: Sensor + HiTemp Wash - High Heat Dry + Sani Rinse (single-use powder pack plus rinse aid). When I forget to press Sani Rinse, the dishes still seem clean using the above. I wondered why Whirlpool would make leaving the dishes sanitary an option. It should be the default. On that note, evidently without using Sensor, the dishwasher will not think your dishes are dirty enough to wash them properly. I think it's foolish for Whirlpool to design the dishwasher so that the user must remember to select hot water. That should be default, too. Using "normal" for a load of normally soiled dishes should have worked, but instead it has resulted in a number of bad reviews of this model. I'm satisfied with the dishwasher now. However, I'm back on amazon to look for a normal silverware rack that has mesh on all sides for better water flow.

The "Whirlpool Gold Series WDF730PAYM" is designed to fit is standard 24" built-in under-the-counter dishwasher opening and it fit into our opening rather nicely some adjustments were made. The stainless steel unit is attractive, and relatively easy to use and operate and the features are nice especially the PowerScour (one of the reasons we chose this unit), which is designed to get stuck-on and or dried food off casserole dishes; and the delayed time start (another reason we chose this unit). Another reason we choose this unit was the attractive design. We liked having the controls on the front of the door and not the top where most manufactures seem to be placing them. We found this to be inconvenient, especially if you want to make (control) changes without having to open the door to get to the controls. For a little more green we could have opted for the stainless steel tub, but then the controls switched to the top of the door. We wanted the controls on the front, so...The Whirlpool Gold Series WDF730PAYM is Energy-Star compliant. Use We ran the first load of dishes through the Whirlpool Gold Series WDF730PAYM and not unlike our other Whirlpool unit, I was struck by quiet this dishwasher is. The lone exception is loud bang approximately 5 minutes into the wash cycle. I have yet to figure out what that is! The unit has 6 wash cycles; in normal use I usually chose Normal; however if I include pots and pans I will choose the Adaptive Mode. Each cycle completes in about 2 hours and I noted that the wash cycle turned off and on several times during the operation. Each control on the Whirlpool Gold Series WDF730PAYM has a small blue LED to denote its selection and when the dishes are washed and dried another blue LED illuminates next to a "clean" button. The control panel is dark grey with white lettering, which makes the various controls easy to read, and like I stated above, the control panel was another reason we choose this unit. As expected loads come out clean and debris free! There was a little water left on the top of the coffee cups (they are flipped upside down), but that is to be expected. At least the water was clean and not swimming with small food particles! Also noteworthy: our glasses actually look clean and spec free as they were meant to be. The Whirlpool Gold Series WDF730PAYM has about the same room as our other Whirlpool unit our old unit, but it is slightly more flexible in that some of the rack rows are adjustable and fold completely down in order to accommodate pots, pans, and other large objects. There is also a stemware holder on either side of the upper rack; nice touch; and clips that could hold more lightweight objects in place for washing. I like that the silverware rack/holder is on the door and can accommodate large utensils with ease. No more trying to find a place for them on the upper rack! And I like that the utensil rack/holder is removable and can be placed anywhere in the lower rack, including the front, which is where we usually place it. Closing Thoughts Overall we are very pleased with the "Whirlpool Gold Series WDF730PAYM." The dishwasher does what a dishwasher is supposed to do: get my dishes clean. Another cool feature is the delayed wash timer that allows us to load the dishwasher and delay the wash until early in the morning when the electric rates are lower and we are asleep. One complaint: the upper rack seems a little flimsy; when pulled out all the way it appears as though it is about to break loose. Perhaps this is due to the adjustable nature of the rack. Our other Whirlpool units' upper rack did the same thing, but as of yet the rack has not broken, so...

Hold that thought for a moment... Mr Stefan was too kind with his 2-star rating, considering his year long experience! It gets one star from me only because I couldn't give it the -5- star rating it deserves. The earlier review only tells half the story. So here's the other half: 1. Inside of the first week, the glass top was chipped in two places. It's been a year so you should see it now! Plus all the scratches, stains and burn marks. I probably should have prefaced my review by stating that I'm a charter member of the "I-HATE-TO-COOK-CLUB" and I make an earnest effort to avoid the kitchen as much as possible so I don't ever put my hard-earned lifetime membership at risk. That said, this appliance only receives light use at most. 2. Apparently, I wasn't as dazzled as my husband apparently was by all the fancy buttons, bells and whistles, all neatly hidden behind an inaccessible panel, any of which could fail when you need them the most. Sure enough, a month later, the "0" on the number pad stopped working. Not too bad...setting the cook time at 399 degrees when the temp needed to be 400 was but another annoyance to be added to the growing list. But a couple of months later, the 9 stopped working. Then the 8. Try baking a pizza at either 377 or 411 and see what you get! 3. As for the list of other annoyances, here are a few that began on day one. The settings interface is counter intuitive. The oven is confusing to set. I shouldn't have to guess whether I set the time first, then Bake, then hit a start button too. Or first hit bake, then time, then start..it's an oven, for goodness sakes. Turning it on shouldn't be a game of chance. Same with the burners-- hit 3-4 buttons just to turn it on? I shouldn't have to slog through a support website to access the user manual just to figure out how to set the clock. The cooktop is hard to keep clean because of a recessed inside groove, (presumably a "feature" to catch boil overs of liquid) lined with some kind of rubbery surface that takes a jack-hammer to clean out. Honestly guys...it's a SMOOTH cooktop for a reason. The oven never reached the setting when the READY sound beeped. To test, I put the food in immediately, then could reset the temp 25 degrees lower and the indicator showed the temp below the reduced setting and didn't beep ready for another 3 minutes. The small rear burner never got hot enough to boil water. Within 6 months, 2 others weren't much better. There's more, but I'm exhausted just listing it all! But, I saved the best til last. Chefs, man your fire extinguishers. Kitchen helpers grab your phones in case you have to call 911! We are about to self-clean this puppy. Lock, set and walk away. Easy enough. At the end of the cycle I expected to find a nice, neat little pile of ashes on the oven floor to wipe up with a damp cloth as I had done with all my prior ovens. But what did I find? A crusty layer of black soot splattered on the walls and CEMENTED to the floor. Took me over an hour to remove most of it. A couple hours later, when I set the oven to preheat ( 377 degrees, of course) I left the kitchen to take out the trash and returned to the chorus of ALL my smoke detectors and an oven streaming smoke. When I opened the oven, noxious fumes drove me outside for a gulp of air! The house was filled with smoke. Ok. First time use, but it happened 2 more times! My husband threatened to go out and buy ANOTHER range by himself if I didn't pick one out TODAY. Frigidaire, a legacy American company with a proud history, should be ashamed of itself. As a corporate tradition, it is now a public embarrassment to this nation! Do not patronize any company that has no respect for itself or its customers. They do not deserve your hard-earned dollars. Run away as fast as you can!