Elektra Delivers!

I don’t believe it! Elektra’s delivery person brought my washer this afternoon around 4:30! I was in shock! Thank goodness I’d already given the laundry room the scrub I’d promised it it would get once a washing machine would be incoming!

The man was on his own and brought it on one of those little motorcycle things with a flat deck. I was able to let him into the yard through the third garage door, which took him most of the way to the laundry room, and he had no trouble shuffling it the rest of the way, where he unpacked it for me as there is cardboard on the bottom that would have been difficult to remove on my own. He flat out refused a tip for doing that, saying it was included in the service. Can’t say I didn’t try!

It fit perfectly in the space for it. I can’t believe the landlady fit a dryer directly in front of it. No idea how she manoeuvred in such a tight space!

Setting up the washer was easy — just hook up the hose to the water supply (remembering to add washers!), pull out the drain hose and put it down the drain pipe, plug it in, and then scan the instructions.

Of course, I immediately put a load on! It won’t dry overnight, but it will at least give me a head start tomorrow since each cycle is quite long — not as much as with a front loader, but still more than with a traditional top loader. This seems to be a bit of a hybrid model between the two that I think I will like. It doesn’t have much of an agitator and it weighs your clothes to determine how much water to put in the machine.  It is a bit loud (may be helped if I better level it — the built-in level (!) says I’m close, but not quite there), but once I have my headphones on, I don’t hear it.

The capacity is much more generous than I expected. I brought down what I expected to be two loads of clothes and it wasn’t even a half load!

Here’s what the instructions say equals about 16KG:

A regular load of 5 pairs of dress trousers (ie. not jeans), 7 shirts, 8 tee shirts, 2 sweatshirts, and 12 pieces of undies. Sounds about like a typical load for me, with my dresses being equal to a pair of trousers plus a blouse.

Or a load of linens that has 3 sheets, 5 pillow cases, and 3 towels. Again, sounds like a typical load for me. I never have three towels at one time, but I have a bunch of washcloths and my bath mat.

A friend of mine in Canada has a washer that’s similar and I thought, “My goodness, that sounds nice, but way too fancy for my budget!” Funny how things work out!

4 thoughts on “Elektra Delivers!

    • It is indeed. After two decades of mostly hand washing or laundromats unless I was in someone else’s home, this is a luxury I wouldn’t do without.

      (I still can’t get over how cute and fancy it is for only 250USD/315CAD! Really didn’t expect anything this nice.)

      Interestingly enough, though, my stance on dishwashers has changed…

    • Isn’t it?! When my friend told her about hers, all I could imagine were dollar signs. At the price I paid, I was expecting to find something like the washer I had on Isla or at the house here in Chelem, traditional all mechanical top loader, not this cute little space agey model. 🙂

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