Originally Posted by
onaemtnest
100% Agree, two words, Speed Queen. I absolutely love my Speed Queen, it's now two maybe three years old.
Selling our home and needing a new machine for our home that was being built I needed to purchase appliances, washer was brand new Sears Kenmore Elite (Maytag made for Sears) top loading HE machine. There are just two of us, so no heavy duty use so to speak. It lasted just two years we had to call repair four times during that time.
Speed Queen has mechanical dials, (no computer brains to fail) top loading, nothing fancy, really a plain Jane but I've never thought 'looks' matter in the laundry room :0). I choose water levels, how long soak cycles are etc. I don't find Speed Queen noisy, it's not on a concrete pad, the laundry room is above my sewing room and I only hear water being drained, in fact my gas dryer is noisier on tumble cycle.
Edited to say, like Alyce "Stitchripper" that we were told that the EPA was regulating water levels for washing machines and indeed since we bought ours you may not be able to adjust water levels. I can fill my washer and leave the lid up which allows me to stop the cycle.
Yes to everything in my experience...even sewing room below the laundry room! Oh, no gas dryer though. I love the Soak cycle...but that's because MrOK is a dairy farmer and well let's just say his clothes get very dirty...hot water, detergent and soaking gets the yuk out!