2 Washers and Dryers in new house...Crazy or Practical??

[FreshTressa]

My DH has the insane idea of buying two stackable washers and dryers for our new house to put in the laundry room so we can have two loads going at once to save time.

Is this crazy, or a good idea???

 

[ChrisnSteph]

I vote crazy! Good idea in theory, but not practical, unless you have a really enormous family!

 

[FreshTressa]

No, but we will have a really big laundry room!

We are wear once kind of people, so we do get lots of laundry.

And I'm a laundry geek...I only wash greens with greens, blues with blues etc.

Why is it not practical?? I'm trying to figure out what the drawbacks are. Washers and dryers aren't that expensive, and I have space.

He is starting to convince me...but I want to figure out what might be bad about it.

 

[Barb D]

How many kids do you have? Do you often have laundry really stacked up? Could you get a really large capacity set?

I guess if you can afford it and have room for it there's no real reason NOT to do it. You'd always have a backup in case one machine breaks down.

 

[Alice's Mom]

I think its a great idea! You would be washing the same amount of clothes so the only additional cost is the additional units. It could be a huge time saver.

 

[Barb D]

And I'm a laundry geek...I only wash greens with greens, blues with blues etc..

I honestly have never heard of anyone doing this. Do you do really tiny loads or just save up all your blue clothes to do at once? And what if something is multicolored?

 

[FreshTressa]

They are never tiny loads...I do laundry one day a week and wind up having 10-12 loads and it takes all day.

There are 4 of us....Me, DH and two kids.

There is always enough for a load of each color. Not sure how. Maybe we don't wear that many colors, lol.

I do mix *gasp* gray and khaki.

 

[Lyn5]

Wow, I give you a lot of credit to separate your wash so well. I separate into two colors...white and not white

In your case, being able to do two loads at once seems like a great idea. I do about 8 loads or more a week...so I can understand where your coming from

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

I say go for it. I would love this!! I spent all yesterday doing laundry.
And to be honest you aren't anywhere near as geeky as my sister. She washes underwear completely separate from everything else. After the undies load it has to be a white load full of bleach. She figures the bleach kills the residual urine from the panties.
Dsis thinks not doing laundry her way is the equivalent of washing your face with a urine soaked washcloth. You can't pick blood.

 

[clarabelle]

I am redoing my kitchen and have two dishwashers in it if that makes you feel any better

 

[FreshTressa]

I say go for it. I would love this!! I spent all yesterday doing laundry.
And to be honest you aren't anywhere near as geeky as my sister. She washes underwear completely separate from everything else. After the undies load it has to be a white load full of bleach. She figures the bleach kills the residual urine from the panties.
Dsis thinks not doing laundry her way is the equivalent of washing your face with a urine soaked washcloth. You can't pick blood.

..Uh oh...I do wash white socks and underwear separate from everything else. That is one load where colors do get mixed. Then, I have a black underwear load.

It is not for hygiene reasons though. It does not gross me out to mix them. But, I use really hot water and a bit of bleach with the white socks and underwear and would not want the white t-shirts to go on hot. Also, the white t-shirts stay whiter when you don't wash them with dirty socks.

Also, if you wash any color with denim, it grays it out and makes it look dingy. I know that is the style now, but DH doesn't like the dingy look of denim and wants the white part of blue jeans to stay white, so I wash jeans seperatly from blacks.

I tell you what, though....my insane washing habits get my kids clothes top dollar on ebay when I resale.

Laundry is like the one thing I get anal about. My house is a total sty, but my whites are always glowing, lol.

ETA: Just reread your post...um, isn't that what wiping is for...to get rid of the urine? How much urine gets left on underwear, lol. I never see any....and if I don't see it, it ain't there...

 

[LisaNJ25]

Go for it. We have 4 kids and hubby wanted to put in 2 dryers.

 

[momofmmsd5]

We are remodeling our house and I will have 2 laundry rooms!! One upstairs and on downstairs. We have 5 kids so there is soooo much laundry all the time the 2 washers and dryers are going to be great! I say go for it!

 

[aprilgail2]

I would do it if I had 12 loads to do in one day!! I dont seperate ANYTHING so it all goes in one washer. Only white things we have is a couple pairs of socks and when they get gray I toss them and buy new ones..other than that all the other socks, underwear etc is all colors.
As far as seperating them and loading with bleach to kill the urine I got a chuckle out of that because MY own stuff I don't care about but the thought of using a public washing machine grosses me out! When I vacation and have to use one I run the cycle through with just a load of bleach before my own clothes go in there!

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

I would love to have two sets in my laundry room.

I have double ovens in my kitchen. Love it!

Lori

 

[mickeyfan2]

How large is your family? We just got the new front loader washer and dryer. We now only do 1/2 as many loads was we did before.

 

[Ranatra]

If you have a lot of people in your house, I think it's a great idea.
When my thee kids were younger and still living at home, I would have loved that!

 

[mickeyfan2]

They are never tiny loads...I do laundry one day a week and wind up having 10-12 loads and it takes all day.

There are 4 of us....Me, DH and two kids.

There is always enough for a load of each color. Not sure how. Maybe we don't wear that many colors, lol.

I do mix *gasp* gray and khaki.

The new front loaders will result on only 5-6 loads and each load is about 40 minutes to wash and 34 to dry. So 6 loads is 73 minutes (1st load) and 5*40 for all the other loads. Thus it would take 4 1/2 hours total for all loads. That seems reasonable. Also our new washer lets you load it and then it will start up to 12 hours later, so you can load it, go to work and it will be done when you get home. So only 34 minutes later and you are done.

 

[mickeyfan2]

I am redoing my kitchen and have two dishwashers in it if that makes you feel any better

We put in two dishwasher over 10 years ago. This one is wonderful.

 

[N.Bailey]

I would just make sure to have an electrician set the electrical equipment up. Those dryers running on 220 might need something extra if you want 2 to run at once. I don't know much about it, but I'd definitely look into that if I ever intended to run 2 at one time.

I do lots of loads too. I separate EVERYTHING and get stuck washing loads with 1 or 2 items a lot. I never use a dryer for any clothing other than under garments. Well, that's not true. I dry them first, then put them in the dryer with no heat to remove lint and fluff em up. I do dry towels, linens and things of that sort though. I'd need TONS of racks and such to get everything dry if I wanted to wash 2 loads at a time.