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.
Should the dryer be upside down?
I come from the land down under - its actually the house thats upside down and I rotated the image.
Ok, then tell me why is the washing machine upside down?
Coriolis effect.
At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within OPs laundry room?
…yes…?
May I see it?
No.
Especially when set to medium heat.
So I can reach the controls
It’s not. The dryer need to be installed ‘upside down’ so the heat radiates down (from our perspective) to the northern hemisphere.
It’s so he can reach the controls while it’s mounted! I guess anyway - Idk why really.
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.
Never seen this done before. Glad to hear it’s a supported configuration.
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.
Maybe this is less dull than I thought - perhaps mildly interesting?
Definitely qualifies in my book
We dull men are fascinated by your mounting the dryer, well done.
The dryer is mildly interesting maybe, but your original post on the shelves (good job, by the way) qualifies for this community lol
Does this mean before you had it mounted it was actually upside down? Like the controls and all the text was upside down?
No it was sitting right side up on the floor
I get that. But then were all the labels on the controls upside down?
Nah it was sitting right side up on the floor - they are upside down now
But you said elsewhere it was intended to be mounted this way? I’m so confused.
As long as the heat dissipation still works correctly this way
The exhaust vent can be angled right towards the window, or alternatively, ducted out the window.
Good that it’s not a model with a reservoir. Probably wouldn’t have worked as well
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.
It’s alright, it’s in Australia
Dumb, but perfect.
My first thought as well
I’ve never seen a dryer installed upside down before… woah
It’s Australia and super common in apartments here. INB4 everything up side down, down unda 😉
Wait, so it’s not a joke? Are all dryers upside-down mountable, or is it a special type?
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.
maybe not heat pump ones [] But standard driers, yeah
In what year do you live that you don’t consider heat pump driers to be the standard?
Yep, we’re all still banging around with sticks and stones down here.
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.
Seems like a bad idea, but maybe it’s kosher if the manufacturer says so?
Same. Kinda blew my mind
Seems especially crazy since this looks like a gas dryer? How do the burners work?
Not a gas, electric heating element
Leave it to lawyers to but a big ol bright picture of an open flame on an electric dryer.
That’s probably the “don’t put anything you washed in gasoline in the spinning box that evaporates fluids with a heating element” warning.
All the dryer-blood is rushing to its head
Can we see your cat, please.
This is Sylvie
She’s beautiful, got like a mona lisa look. Thank you.
What about now?
Sly queen. Very authentic.
Cant wait for the follow up post where things keep falling off the shelf into fresh cat shit.
Ill update if that happens but I like to think I’m pretty good on the tools to avoid that.
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
Made for it - comes with a kit to wall mount if required.
Pretty cool. I hope the vibrations wont lead to a problem tho.
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.
The best thing is that now the room works both ways up in freefall.
I absolutely hate putting shelves up. Something about the amount of measuring required, and it’s so unforgiving if it’s even slightly wonky.
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.
Second vote for a laser level. It’s still miserable, but easier.
Nothing quite like lining things up with the ceiling, getting out the level, and realizing your house isn’t level.
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.
Is that a condensing dryer? Or vented?
Good ol’ vented - didnt know condensing ones existed
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?
They absolutely were not but its just a dial with numbers and a hot/cold toggle, nothing too dramatic.
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 😂
Til : they do sell dryers that can be installed upside down
Where did you get the shelf boards and how much were they, if I may ask?
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.
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.
You must live next door
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.
Front loaders tend to have smaller capacity and harder to keep clean / sanitary so we opted for the top loader
You’d find almost the exact same items here in NZ too, though “Omo” detergent is branded “Persil” here.
