Laundry heaven

I can finally close the file-folder on our whitegoods purchasing experience. As you may recall, gentle reader, we’ve been looking for a good front loading washing machine and accompanying dryer for many many months now. About a month or two ago, we settled on a certain pair, and two weeks ago, we [actually went and bought them](http://jurgen.ca/2006/06/18/we-just-spent-2600-and-all-we-got-for-it-was-four-bits-of-paper/)  .

They arrived last weekend, sans stacking kit. So while we had fun with the front-loading machine (1200rpm is very very fast, kiddies!), the set was not complete. Two blokes arrived on Saturday with an unassuming bit of plastic, and successfully stuck the dryer to the top of the washer. Hooray! I’ve never been this excited about laundry before.

The dryer is the niftiest part. Most driers exhaust warm moist air, and thus need to be ducted to the outside, lest the walls get moldy. Not so with this model! It’s a condenser dryer! I hadn’t heard about them until we started looking around, and then it became the natural choice. Warm air still comes out (which is good, because there’s no heat in the laundry), but all the water is mysteriously caught in a kind of longish bottle thing. See below. It’s very nifty, and the clothes (and towels mmmmm) come out lovely warm.

For the record, I was close to the right answer about the place of manufacture of the dryer: Poland.

And now, the pictures:

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The compleat set.

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The condenser.