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Posted by Taria on February 6, 2008, 6:52 pm
I hope she enjoys them and they serve her well Kay.
Just curious why you went the 100 on one and the 500 on
the other.
Taria
Kay Lancaster wrote:
> My mother-in-law decided on the Nexxt 100 washer/Nexxt 500 dryer
> combination, which was delivered in time that I got a chance to do a bunch
> of wash in it. We both like these machines a lot.
>
> It's a very quiet washer in comparison to my old Maytag Neptune set or the
> current pair of LGs. Cleaning is good; there are four basic cycles (handwash,
> delicate, permapress and cotton), and a choice of hot, warm or cold water
> settings for permapress and cotton. In addition there's a soak only setting,
> a spin setting, and another I'm forgetting. There are also buttons for adding
> liquid bleach through a dispenser, and an extra rinse. There is no countdown
> timer.
>
> Basic use is to turn the knob to the setting wanted,load some detergent
> into the hopper, and push the go button. That's one of the things I wanted
> for her -- an interface I thought she'd understand even when tired, and
> one that anyone else could figure out easily. There are not a lot of choices,
> which is probably good. She was a little intimidated at first, but soon
> decided that it wasn't going to be easy to screw things up unless you did
> something like packing the drum full.
>
> Dryer seems to be well constructed and easy to control, and does have an
> estimated countdown timer.
>
> I did a load of whites with the supplied Woolite HE and an extra rinse, and
> was really impressed that they went from grey to white -- she's in a very
> hard water area.
>
> Fabrics appear to be about as dry from this machine after the full speed spin
> as they are with my LGs, with a higher nominal spin speed, so I suspect the
> G-force during spinning is about the same between the two.
>
> The pedestals available for the machine are 8" and 15" -- they sent us the
> 15" instead of the 8 I ordered, and I sent them back because it would have
> put the controls (which are on a sloped front panel) too high for her to seee
> easily. The 8" haven't arrived yet, but should be fine for her. Sitting
> on the floor, the lower back portion of the dryer drum would be difficult for
> me to reach (I'm tallish, and don't bend well), and weren't the easiest for
> her, so I think the pedestal will solve the problem while still leaving her
> a good laundry folding surface on top. We could both reach the back of the
> canted washer drum without the pedestal, but I would be moaning about it.
>
> The dryer door hinge side can be switched, but not the washer. Her laundry
> room was set up for dryer on the left (as you face the machines), but the
> washer door opening made it more useful to have it on the left instead of
> the dryer. The supplied hoses were long enough to do a "crossover"
> connection to get the machines in the easier orientation.
>
> In the 10 days she's had them, she's called three times to tell me how
> much nicer it is not to fight with her old toploader. Oh, and when
> they pulled out her old machines, there was a bunch of oil and grease
> under the washer, which sounds like transmission was beginning to go.
>
>
> Kay
>
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