Been doing a huge amount of work around the house lately in the holidays.
Currently power washing the pavers out back and filling the joins with sand. Should be more fun tomorrow.
Finally put up some shelving and wall mounted the dryer after living here for 5ish years.
87 Comments
gressen@lemmy.zip · 116 pts · 240d
Should the dryer be upside down?
bootstrap@piefed.social · 138 pts · 240d
I come from the land down under - its actually the house thats upside down and I rotated the image.
gressen@lemmy.zip · 70 pts · 240d
Ok, then tell me why is the washing machine upside down?
HowAbt2day@futurology.today · 93 pts · 240d
Coriolis effect.
plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 240d
At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within OPs laundry room?
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 28 pts · 240d
...yes....?
plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 240d
May I see it?
localhorst@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 240d
No.
HowAbt2day@futurology.today · 2 pts · 240d
Especially when set to medium heat.
bootstrap@piefed.social · 55 pts · 240d
So I can reach the controls
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 240d
It's not. The dryer need to be installed 'upside down' so the heat radiates down (from our perspective) to the northern hemisphere.
Myr@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 240d
It's so he can reach the controls while it's mounted! I guess anyway - Idk why really.
bootstrap@piefed.social · 62 pts · 240d
Yes thats correct, the official instructions tell you to mount it upside down and the kit it comes with only works one way.
I've always found it irritating on others I've done over the years but there ya go.
ccunning@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 240d
Never seen this done before. Glad to hear it’s a supported configuration.
siigna@lemmy.sdf.org · 26 pts · 240d
Same. I was genuinely scratching my head before I came to the comments. Reaching the controls didn't even enter my mind 😂. I've seen stacked/combo units before, but never a wall mounted dryer.
bootstrap@piefed.social · 49 pts · 240d
Maybe this is less dull than I thought - perhaps mildly interesting?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 240d
ccunning@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 240d
Definitely qualifies in my book
nomy@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 239d
We dull men are fascinated by your mounting the dryer, well done.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 240d
The dryer is mildly interesting maybe, but your original post on the shelves (good job, by the way) qualifies for this community lol
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 240d
Does this mean before you had it mounted it was actually upside down? Like the controls and all the text was upside down?
bootstrap@piefed.social · 3 pts · 239d
No it was sitting right side up on the floor
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 239d
I get that. But then were all the labels on the controls upside down?
bootstrap@piefed.social · 2 pts · 239d
Nah it was sitting right side up on the floor - they are upside down now
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 239d
But you said elsewhere it was intended to be mounted this way? I’m so confused.
Evilschnuff@feddit.org · 5 pts · 240d
As long as the heat dissipation still works correctly this way
bootstrap@piefed.social · 13 pts · 240d
The exhaust vent can be angled right towards the window, or alternatively, ducted out the window.
Defectus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 240d
Good that it's not a model with a reservoir. Probably wouldn't have worked as well
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 240d
I take it you don’t live in the sort of place where winter means it’s dry as hell for months such that using a dryer box (basically a trap filled with water to catch lint, but exhausting the damp air into the living space) is desirable?
A wall mounted dryer like this would actually be great in my space. We don’t have them here afaik, but it would allow me to put my dryer box in line with the units rather than taking up extra space off to the side like the stacked configuration needs.
Maiznieks@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 239d
It's alright, it's in Australia
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 239d
Dumb, but perfect.
Denjin@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 240d
My first thought as well
sausager@lemmy.world · 97 pts · 240d
I've never seen a dryer installed upside down before.. woah
annndy@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 239d
It’s Australia and super common in apartments here. INB4 everything up side down, down unda 😉
Cort@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 239d
Wait, so it's not a joke? Are all dryers upside-down mountable, or is it a special type?
annndy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 239d
I dunno about all driers, maybe not heat pump ones which have a reservoir for the steam / moisture to collect? But standard driers, yeah. Usually done in apartments with limited space for wall mounting above a top load washer (which are very common here), and let you reach the dial.
Anivia@feddit.org · 0 pts · 239d
In what year do you live that you don't consider heat pump driers to be the standard?
annndy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 238d
Yep, we’re all still banging around with sticks and stones down here.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 240d
Yeah, this seems like it would be potentially an issue if the idler wheels aren’t designed to support the drum weight like this.
Edit: looks like there are a couple brands that allow this, Electrolux being one.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 239d
Seems like a bad idea, but maybe it's kosher if the manufacturer says so?
petersr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 239d
Same. Kinda blew my mind
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 240d
Seems especially crazy since this looks like a gas dryer? How do the burners work?
bootstrap@piefed.social · 2 pts · 239d
Not a gas, electric heating element
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 239d
Leave it to lawyers to but a big ol bright picture of an open flame on an electric dryer.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 239d
That's probably the "don't put anything you washed in gasoline in the spinning box that evaporates fluids with a heating element" warning.
Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip · 54 pts · 240d
All the dryer-blood is rushing to its head
Wren@lemmy.today · 34 pts · 240d
Can we see your cat, please.
bootstrap@piefed.social · 34 pts · 239d
This is Sylvie
Wren@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 239d
She's beautiful, got like a mona lisa look. Thank you.
bootstrap@piefed.social · 13 pts · 239d
What about now?
Wren@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 239d
Sly queen. Very authentic.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 239d
Now this is what the internet is supposed to be for! Cat photos
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 240d
Cant wait for the follow up post where things keep falling off the shelf into fresh cat shit.
morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 240d
OP can avert that catastrophe with a covered box
I've got a nice kind that you roll to the side to collect the clumps
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 239d
i've always heard bad things about those covered ones holding in smells and making your cat less like to use them.. especially with the roll ones?
bootstrap@piefed.social · 3 pts · 239d
Ill update if that happens but I like to think I'm pretty good on the tools to avoid that.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 240d
Is that drier made to be hanged like that or have you improvised?
I have a condenser drier but it does have a hose outlet to connect it to a drain. I wouldn't trust it to be on its head though
bootstrap@piefed.social · 31 pts · 240d
Made for it - comes with a kit to wall mount if required.
em2@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 240d
Quite common in Australia and New Zealand.
Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 240d
Pretty cool. I hope the vibrations wont lead to a problem tho.
bootstrap@piefed.social · 14 pts · 240d
It doesnt really vibrate much, simple belt driven barrel and a heating element.
The thing is 40kg fully loaded so it would take a fair whack for it to come off the mount which is supported across 3 studs.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 239d
The best thing is that now the room works both ways up in freefall.
twinnie@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 240d
I absolutely hate putting shelves up. Something about the amount of measuring required, and it’s so unforgiving if it’s even slightly wonky.
bootstrap@piefed.social · 10 pts · 240d
The wall on the left is out of level by about 15mm bottom to top. However I have a laser level and it makes life very easy when needing to do any of this stuff.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 240d
Second vote for a laser level. It’s still miserable, but easier.
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 240d
Nothing quite like lining things up with the ceiling, getting out the level, and realizing your house isn't level.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 239d
I didn't know you could mount a dryer on the wall, and I really didn't know you could install it upside down. This is an educational day.
Krill@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 240d
Is that a condensing dryer? Or vented?
bootstrap@piefed.social · 6 pts · 240d
Good ol' vented - didnt know condensing ones existed
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 240d
Condensing ones do exist, but I guarantee you one of those won't work upside down so it's probably a good job that's not what you've got. They have a catch basin in them for the extracted water inside someplace, and the results would be predictable if gravity were inverted. A heat pump dryer also wouldn't work upside down (to put it mildly) but one with a regular resistive element obviously will.
Was the manufacturer kind enough to give you a sticker with all of the control markings written upside down as well?
bootstrap@piefed.social · 4 pts · 240d
They absolutely were not but its just a dial with numbers and a hot/cold toggle, nothing too dramatic.
chefdano3@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 239d
This is the opposite of Dull. This is one of the most interesting things I've seen today.
First off, building laundry shelves is awesome, I've been dreaming of making improvements to my laundry room for almost 5 years now, and I still haven't done it. So heck yeah man that's awesome.
Secondly, that upside down wall mounted dryer is blowing my mind! Like what the heck! I didn't know you could do that! Does that work? Do you just get used to all the labeling being unreadable? That's insane! I mean, I get it, it puts the door closer to the ground, but I never would've thought that would work. Does it dry better or worse than if it were right side up? Does the lint trap still trap lint as well or do your clothes end up a little more... Fuzzy? Idk how to even tell if one dryer leaves more lint on clothes than others.
I'm so intrigued.
bootstrap@piefed.social · 4 pts · 238d
Thanks!
Well to try and answer your questions:
We've been using it the right way up for years so lint had collected in the botton of the actual unit and when I mounted it upside down that all fell through the unit body. It did cause it to smell like burning fabric for the first 30 mins running it upside down down but I just stood next to it with a fire extinguisher until it "burnt off" the smell you could say.
Now been running perfectly with no burning smell for 10ish loads of laundry!
chefdano3@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 238d
Hah! That's funny that it had to burn off the old lint. That's pretty dang cool that it can be used that way.
HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 240d
That's really exciting to me! Not dull at all! Congrats! I'd leave the post in this community tho, plz mods don't delete it just bc I'm excited by space-saving stuff 😂
redlemace@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 238d
Til : they do sell dryers that can be installed upside down
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 240d
Where did you get the shelf boards and how much were they, if I may ask?
bootstrap@piefed.social · 2 pts · 239d
All from Hammerbarn, I think 20 bucks a shelf I cant remember. Rails were 20 each and the shelf arms were a few bucks each.
ironcrotch@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 239d
So weird, but not since this is very Australian, seeing a laundry just like ours, even the crown molding. I too haven’t done anything to ours besides some cupboards.
qupada@fedia.io · 1 pts · 239d
You'd find almost the exact same items here in NZ too, though "Omo" detergent is branded "Persil" here.
bootstrap@piefed.social · 1 pts · 239d
You must live next door
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 239d
I thought it was an AI joke at first, had no idea this was even possible. Is it not annoying having all the knob labels upside down?
In north America we usually just get a front loading washing machine and then stack the dryer on top of the washer if we don't get the side by side ones.
bootstrap@piefed.social · 2 pts · 239d
Front loaders tend to have smaller capacity and harder to keep clean / sanitary so we opted for the top loader
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 240d
Good Job! The struggle is real
Buffalobuffalo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 239d