Stacking

Setting the dryer on top of the washer. Vertical clearance was a little tight.

The new clothes dryer showed up at John's house this week a month after he ordered it. The first one got mashed enroute, so it went back and we had to wait for a replacement to show up. The house is small, so the dryer is going to be stacked on top of the washer. Should be easy to do, right? While clothes dryers are big and bulky, they don't weigh much because they are mostly empty space.

The washer and dryer were supposed to show up with a stacking kit that would include whatever bits are needed to secure the dryer to the top of the washer. You don't want it walking around up there. The kit didn't show, so off to Lowes we go to pick up a kit. They have three different ones, all in brown cardboard boxes and all costing about $60 each. We do some checking and pick one and off we go.

Holes in bracket do not align

The kit is absurd. It contains two angle brackets, 8 screws and 4 little rubber feet. Couldn't have been more than $2 worth of parts. That would have been okay if everything had worked as it should, but nothing did. The stick-on rubber feet didn't stick even after we cleaned the oil off of the foot pads. We ended up securing them with masking tape. The brackets were just as bad. Either we got the wrong kit or bracket people didn't talk to the washer people. We had to drill new holes in the washer for the screws.

Once the stacked washer and dryer are all connected to the outlets in the wall, they need to slide into their hole in the wall. The dryer doesn't weigh much but the two of them together are kind of hefty and they don't want to slide. We cut a piece of cardboard to go under the washer's feet. That allowed us to to slide it into position. Don't know how we will get that cardboard out.

So all the new appliances and installed and working. The kitchen cabinets still need some shelves and doors installed. It's taken us nearly a year and a half and bucket of money to get this far, but the end of phase one is in sight.