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.
Now this is what the internet is supposed to be for! Cat photos
Cant wait for the follow up post where things keep falling off the shelf into fresh cat shit.
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
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?
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.
Quite common in Australia and New Zealand.
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.
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.
Thanks!
Well to try and answer your questions:
- It does work
- Its not really unreadable so its fine
- I think it dries the same, I’d have to ask my other half
- The lint trap still works well because its vented so the air still passes through it
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!
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.
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.
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 😂
