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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.
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.
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
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.
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?
We dull men are fascinated by your mounting the dryer, well done.
Definitely qualifies in my book
Does this mean before you had it mounted it was actually upside down? Like the controls and all the text was upside down?
It's alright, it's in Australia
Dumb, but perfect.
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.
Til : they do sell dryers that can be installed upside down
Cant wait for the follow up post where things keep falling off the shelf into fresh cat shit.
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 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.
The best thing is that now the room works both ways up in freefall.
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.
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.
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:
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.
