Reply #26: The only thing I would want added to the Profile Harmony line [View All]

[jmowreader]

is a front-load washer. Front-loaders use less water than top-loaders to wash the same amount of laundry.

My appliance guy and I were discussing this particular subject one day. He mentioned that you have to be very careful when putting a really large washer in an older house. It seems that older houses, like mine, have a 1-1/2" drain pipe for the washer. Plumbers are starting to put 2" washer drains in new homes because the new high-capacity washers are taxing the abilities of a 1-1/2" drain. "But front-loaders," he continued, "work very well with a 1-1/2" drain because they don't use much water."

Maytag has a front-loader in their Neptune line, and it's pretty damn sweet. But the sweetest appliance on the market, bar none, is Maytag's Neptune Drying Center. That's the one that has a tumble dryer with the drying cabinet above it. They want a thousand dollars for it, no one stocks it (Maytag has a factory-trained technician deliver and install it) and we sell, on average, two a day. Hell, I've sold three myself and I don't work in that department. The appliance sells itself.