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cimoreneOUR WASHING MACHINE: Front-loading, easy to program, runs like a dream, 7 kg capacity, can fit a large hall runner, or a full set of bedsheets, made by LG, sings a little song when it's done, nicknamed "Washy", only a few years old, 59 cm wide
MIL's WASHING MACHINE WE INHERITED: Miniature (only 5 kg), cannot fit a hall runner, cannot fit all the sheets from our double bed at once, makes an obnoxious but not easily-heard buzz when it's done, loads from the top like this requiring two steps and two hands to open or close it because you have to separately latch a little metal panel on the top of the drum which is sideways and means you can't keep things on top of it or put a counter over it because the top lifts up, programming difficult to understand, no preprogrammed superhot cycle for sterilization, also a few years old but feels older because the top-load thing is old-fashioned and inconvenient, 40 cm wide
OUR BATHROOM (where the washing machine is supposed to go) DOOR: 58 cm wide
ALTERNATE LOCATIONS FOR WASHING MACHINES: The only other available spots where a washing machine can be put are in the basement on the other side of the house, accessed via the garage and (once our tenant is here and the wall is boarded up between the two houses) hence requiring one to go outside and around the entire house, unfinished damp cement space that smells like mildew
Wax was like "I guess something had to go wrong" (but she's not the one who usually launders all the throw rugs multiple times a week due to our cats and rabbits). Our contractor, tragically, was not super gung-ho to, I guess, take the entire door including the frame out of the wall, which would have been the only way to get the washing machine in and would probably have cost us several hundred bucks in his wages, so not exactly cost effective.
MIL's WASHING MACHINE WE INHERITED: Miniature (only 5 kg), cannot fit a hall runner, cannot fit all the sheets from our double bed at once, makes an obnoxious but not easily-heard buzz when it's done, loads from the top like this requiring two steps and two hands to open or close it because you have to separately latch a little metal panel on the top of the drum which is sideways and means you can't keep things on top of it or put a counter over it because the top lifts up, programming difficult to understand, no preprogrammed superhot cycle for sterilization, also a few years old but feels older because the top-load thing is old-fashioned and inconvenient, 40 cm wide
OUR BATHROOM (where the washing machine is supposed to go) DOOR: 58 cm wide
ALTERNATE LOCATIONS FOR WASHING MACHINES: The only other available spots where a washing machine can be put are in the basement on the other side of the house, accessed via the garage and (once our tenant is here and the wall is boarded up between the two houses) hence requiring one to go outside and around the entire house, unfinished damp cement space that smells like mildew
Wax was like "I guess something had to go wrong" (but she's not the one who usually launders all the throw rugs multiple times a week due to our cats and rabbits). Our contractor, tragically, was not super gung-ho to, I guess, take the entire door including the frame out of the wall, which would have been the only way to get the washing machine in and would probably have cost us several hundred bucks in his wages, so not exactly cost effective.
