I am building a new custom home, still in the early stages. We just got the rough plumbing in and will hopefully get the slab poured this week.

I am working on the laundry room design and I’ve been looking at all in one washer dryer combos. All I see are advantages:

-It’s not vented, so no need to cut a hole in the side of the house for the vent. -Since it’s just one machine, it takes up half the space -No need to transfer wet laundry from one machine to the next -More energy efficient -Less wear and tear on clothing

However, I don’t know anybody who uses these types of machines, so I feel like I’m missing something? What’s the downside? Would love to hear your experiences.

I’m located in the US. I understand that these types of washer/dryer combos are much more common in Europe. Why haven’t they taken off in the US market?

Thankfully there’s not too many to choose from but still a fair amount that have been released so far, such as: Lg all in one washer dryer combo, ge profile all in one, Samsung bespoke washer/dryer, and the whirlpool combo.

Out of all of those the best I’ve heard about were the Samsung bespoke and the ge profile. But those two also have trade offs between them. The ge profile is said to have the fastest cycle time (2 hours and 30 minutes to wash and dry) but the downsides are: the lint trap is said to get clogged even with cleaning it after every cycle, and the appliance itself is very big.

The Samsung bespoke had the second fastest cycle time (3 hours), and it has the benefit of being a lot more sleek/normal sized compared to the bigger ge profile. The biggest downside I’ve heard about it is that Samsungs appliances aren’t very reliable. Meaning sure it might be fine for a year or two but after that there’s a chance it’ll have a lot of issues or need to be replaced completely.

Anyways my main reason for wanting an all in one combo washer dryer, is because the laundry room in my house is very very small. So by just having one unit it would free up a lot of space for something useful like a shelf for the detergent/towels, or a dirty clothes hamper. Lastly I’ll be paying for it myself but since I still live with family I wanted to see which one would work the best. Because if I end up getting one that breaks within a year, or takes 6 hours to do a single load, then they’ll be very annoyed at me 😂. So any help is appreciated, thank you!