LG Washer/Dryer Combination Unit

My daughter has one. Works well for their needs. Not what I've buy if I had four kids and lots of laundry.

I'm pretty sure the combined washer/dryer deal has been one of these "brand new every five years" but of marketing.

Of course, this one has inverter motors and heat pumps, but the basics, if my memory isn't playing tricks, have shown up in the past.

Says it takes 2 hours for a load. If you had separate machines, you could do two loads in that time, one washing and one drying. Actually for me it's 45 minutes to wash and 20 minutes to dry the sta-press.

Stacked units have been around for decades. I've personally not seen an all-in-one unit in the past.

All-in-one washer/dryers have been around for ages. They've overall developed a reputation of being poor at drying clothes.

Very common in the sixties / early 70s - Simplicity I believe was a common one, Maytag had one too IIRC GE made them -so did Kenmore and Bendix. The Simplicity? was a compact portable.

I don't know when it was made, but I got it around 1978, a NON-compact portable. It was the same size and basically the same model as a full-size whirlpool washing machine, but there was a 3-foot lever in the back and you pulled 45^ and hooked it on to something that kept it pulled, and wheels came down so you could roll it around your kitchen. The apartments in my building and others in the n'hood built around the same time had double sinks in the kitchen, with one side of them as big as a laundry tub is now.

I didn't roll mine once I got it to my apartment, because I had room next to the sink, but other people would have put it out of the way and only rolled it up to the sink when using it.

I found it on the street in Brooklyn and used it for 5 years, and didn't have anyone to give it to who lived in rolling distance when I left town. It was too heavy for me to put in the car and I guess I still wouldn't have known anyone.

They're still popular in high density urban areas where real estate prices and rents are very high and interior square footage needs to be used most efficiently. In my area, even 1900+ square foot condos and apts commonly have them. We wanted full sized washer/dryer machines as a must have when we moved into a condo 6 yrs ago. We were lucky to find a unit where the previous owner converted a closet holding a stacked washer/dryer into a linen closet. They took the tub/shower out of a second full bathroom, converted it to a 1/2 bathroom and installed a full sized washer and dryer adjacent to each other where the tub/shower used to be. Perfect for our needs.

I would be concerned with durability and cost of repair and availability of parts. Appliances are becoming more complex and do not last as long today.

Yes, and that's the traditional setup. Neither George Washington nor any of the founding fathers had those small stacked washer/dryers.