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captain ron (Captain_ron)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 9:59 am: | |
I was planning on using a splendide washer/dryer but after talking to another bus guy here in fl. he said he used a stackable set. any of you guys go this route or plan to? are the sets 110v or 220v? how about cost difference? pro's and con's of each. I know the splendide is small and told it doesn't dry the same amount as it washes, or at least very well. the stackable set takes up more room. |
Cory Dane
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 10:28 am: | |
I want the Splendid w/d.
You have to consider a few things.
the Splendid is HALF the height of the stacked unit, only a 24" footprint, great for space considerations.
The Splendid has to cycle wash, then dry so takes longer to complete a load, about twice as long.
The splendid I looked at is 120vac and vents outside. There is a spledid that vents inside but uses up water like a racehorse after a hard race.
I have the stacked unit at home. It comes in 12ovac or 240vac, will only vent outside and has all the convieniences of any home unit, only stacked.
It is purely a judgement call on this one Cap'Ron. Since you are putting it in a bus, I'd go with the best space saving unit, in YOUR judgement.
CDane |
Donald Lee Schwanke (Dontx)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 10:44 am: | |
I would recommend nothing except the stacked units. In my opinion the Splendid is pretty much of a joke for the crowd that wants to say they have a washer, but don't really use it. Down here in RV country, about a third of the RV people have one of them, and never use it. The stacked unit, ONLY with the 220v dryer is my recommendation, and is the way I finally went, after shit canning several small imitation units. I never found ANY 130v unit dryer that could really be called a dryer. If you are still unsure Ron, go talk to full or half timer types that have one. Oh yeah, talk to the person that actually does the washing, not the person that bought it. |
Brent Coursey
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 10:50 am: | |
We bought a Frigidaire stack unit at Lowes. 220V, PVC vent thru the floor, thru the corner of a bay and thru the bay floor. We just got it, so have not tried it out yet, but many people discouraged us from getting an all-in-one machine because of the longer dry times...hey we have 4 small children...laundry is almost a 24/7 job!
Brent
84 Eagle 10 |
Geoff (Geoff)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 12:56 pm: | |
How much room do you have? I bought a Sears 240v stacked unit for my bus, but never installed it because I didn't have room for it. It is a very tall unit (6'3") and can't go flat against a curved wall. It is also 32" out from the wall and 27" wide. How do I know this?-- I ended up using it in our new home. It works great!
--Geoff
'82 RTS AZ |
Skip Sahler (Skip102dl)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 1:07 pm: | |
We have 10 yr. old Splendid. Big pain since day one. We want to install stacked set with 240v dryer, but have not found a dryer sallow enough to fit in same area AND have room to run a vent. Bottom line,stay away from single units if possible! Skip |
JimH
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 2:22 pm: | |
I took out a stack unit (propane dryer) and put in a combo -- wrost thing I have ever done!! It will not dry EVER! Well maybe one pair of shorts evey two days. The propane dryer was GREAT. In my new bus -- I am wiring and plumbing for a washer and dryer BUT not installing one. We -- GF and I have found it is just too easy to go and use the washer dryer at campground once in a while or a local laudrmat. Quicker, easyer, less pain. Just my way -- your mileage may vary.
JimH |
motorcoach1
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 4:51 pm: | |
Ron i went to rent a center and asked if they had a referbed Kenmore W/D in stock and yeppers they did both heavy duty apartment size 120 volt and have 24w X 27d in foot print stack or on floor mine work great for 3 years. there booth under my hanging closets out of the way. the dryer had 2 drawers side by side and hang closet on top no problem. washer is with out drawers and has ample room to hang. oh the splendid unit i put on the side of the road for free sign on it and some good Samaritan picked it up. |
motorcoach1
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 6:00 pm: | |
Ron mine actuly say Portable -heavy duty . the price was right 200 for both units. and get parts from sears . only thing i had to buy was a washer discharge line. |
Stephen Fessenden (Sffess)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 8:37 pm: | |
There are apartment 120 volt driers as mentioned by motorcoach above. I see no reason to put in a 240 volt drier. You might only have 120 volts and at $2.50 per gallon for fuel, running a generator to run an electric drier would be expensive. LP gas would be a good choice for the drier, but you have to pay for LP and sometimes electricity is already included in the RV site rate.
120 volt drier will be either do smaller loads or be slower. But if you want to put in the big new front loaders you will have no room for a kitchen and bathroom. It is an RV, not a large second home.
From what I have read, if you will do most of your camping where the water is icy, a ventless w/D combo unit will work, but if you try it with cool water, it will not dry well. Europeans have been installing ventless combo units for years and been happy with them. Americans don't seem to be happy with them. Probably because we do more laundry?
Steve Fessenden |
David Hartley (Drdave)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 10:35 pm: | |
The ventless uses extra water to extract the clothes somehow.
I got a Spendide Combo WD2100 series which is vented. Says it uses 66 gallons per full load. Runs on a 15 amp circuit. Full cycle with 12 lb load takes about 6 hours to wash & dry. ( Guestimate from Literature.) I use soft water so takes a lot less soap. I got that because I needed shelf space for an oversize convection microwave above the washer. Now If I can get it all hooked up that will be another essay... |
Tom Caffrey (Pvcces)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 05, 2006 - 1:02 am: | |
Ron, we've got a Sears RV/mobile set that came with our bus. The washer is easy on water and the dryer runs on around 250 watts. Both used to run on a 1200 VA Heart inverter and rarely tripped the inverter. The dryer is propane.
They're set up side by side inside a hanging closet. The washer is the clothes hamper; when full, it's getting near time to do laundry. Then we put laundry in the dryer until we actually get around to DOING the laundry.
Usually, we get around a week to ten days before we do laundry. By that time, we need to dump the tanks, so we usually dump, fill and park nearby, doing the laundry. When finished, we dump and fill again, then go on our way.
That lets us get two loads done, and we don't need to wait on the dryer to finish before we leave. It amounts to 65 or 70 gallons of water, total.
If we think that we'll be able to dump someplace convenient down the road, we do the laundry under way, instead.
We would not do ANY electric drying because it just doesn't make sense if you have a boondock setup and propane. Three ounces of propane will replace a 65 pound battery, more or less, for this purpose.
And even if you have a big generator, it can put you in a bind because you have to pick and choose what you can run on campground or other shore power, if you don't have 50 amp service.
We get by very nicely on a 15 amp outlet, with our power sharing set at 10 amps. We can even run one air conditioner, if we're careful.
For what it's worth.
Tom Caffrey PD4106-2576
Suncatcher
Ketchikan, Alaska |
motorcoach1
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 05, 2006 - 4:21 am: | |
Tom thats about what i get but the dryer is a little more and i run both on a 20 amp breaker if i run the Jaccoozie tub GFI all at the same time it will trip .. but real good wash and dry , just not me wash and walk lol ps 18 amp it static on the up side |
Gary Carter
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 05, 2006 - 9:58 pm: | |
We have been full timing for 6 years now.
First we dislike top load washers because they do a lousy job of washing clothes. We had an apartment type top loader in Newell and pulled it out and put in a front loading bosch washer and dryer. This is a 240 vac unit with no 120 vac, but in our case we almost always have 50 amp service.
In our 4106 we had the Splendide externally vented one piece unit. We loved it. Did a great job of washing and a little slow drying, but was also always set up half heat. You just have to adjust to it. Start the dryer and go to bed and things will be dry in the morn. And if you didn't get it washed in time, start the washer, set the dryer time and go to bed. In the morn you will have clean dry clothes.
Granted we winter in the dry south west. Here if you can blow air thru the clothes they will get dry, even with no heat. The Slendide has the most trouble getting clothes dry in a high humity enviroment. But then so does every dryer. |
CRANE
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 10:11 am: | |
Sometime SPACE considerations will take over from other desires.
In a bus conversion, there is limited space so you may not be able to install a double decker wash/dry unit. You also may not be able to place them side by side without losing all that valuable sotrage space which is so lacking in such a vehicle.
The Splendid is an option that is acceptable and takes the least space compared to the double deck or side by side.
The final decision will certainly be, HOW MUCH SPACE CAN I LOSE and still have a Wash/Dry unit. Remember, YOU STILL HAVE TO STORE soap, conditioner, etc etc. It all takes up space, a commodity that we have little of in the first place.
240v AC may not be a good option since a helluva lot of camps don't offer it, and won't for a very long time.
120v Ac is always availabe, go figure.
Even the simplest desire for the coach need to have some think time to get what is best for the space provided.
Good luck |
Richard Bowyer (Drivingmisslazy)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 11:03 am: | |
Think Laundramat!
Richard |
CRANE
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 4:48 pm: | |
---- Think Laundramat! ----
Yeah, now that the soap manufacturers have abondoned us Rv types and stopped making the soap in a pellet, we now have to carry our clothes, in a bag to the laundramat, oh and dont forget the soap box and measurer because most of the laundramats I have ever been to, didn't have any soap either
yea, thats a good time
Crane |