Compact Clothes Washer and Spinner. Great for off-grid and small living spaces.
If you are living off-grid with a limited amount of electricity, limited water pressure, limited space, or living in apartment where you have to haul clothes and pay coins to do laundry, a compact clothes washer and spinner with built in drain pump may be useful for you.
For the electricity limited, it uses a low amount of power. The wash cycle is 210 watts, the spin cycle is 135 watts. I usually set the wash cycle for 10 minutes, the spin cycle for 5 minutes. That electricity usage is next to nothing for the solar panels on a sunny day.
Easily moved around with one hand when empty, the washer is 31" wide x 16" deep x 31" tall. The price for the washer is around $100 USD, in Canada we paid $150. We've been using ours for the past 5 months with no hint of troubles. With a simple design, I expect this washer to last for years.
If you have indoor plumbing, attach the included hose to a bathroom or kitchen water faucet for filling. In warmer weather, we had a rocket stove boiler up the hill from the cabin for our gravity pressured hot water. In cold weather, we hand fill it with pots of hot water from the boiler on the wood burning stove.
We have no water drains in the cabin, so we put the drain hose into a larger hose that goes out the door, down the hill to the compost bin (we don't use soap, just piping hot water, stains are washed separately).
This is how my wife used to do laundry - a restaurant sized salad spinner. Those spinners are tough enough to spin when empty, this wash spin cycle was a work out! She resisted the idea of a compact clothes washer, said it wasn't necessary. One day I saw she was exhausted from the laundry, and the clothes were still piling up. The next day we ordered the washer. The only regret is that we didn't buy one sooner!
For a future laundry project, I just saw a post today that would be perfect. A post from @canadianwoodguy shows how to build a laundry basket organizer.
Check out his post at https://steemit.com/woodworking/@canadianwoodguy/what-s-on-the-bench-today-one-of-my-most-requested-pieces-the-laundry-organizer
Have a great day!
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STOPthis is awesome! we live off grid and haven't figured out a good washer situation so we still take it to town. i have a hand cranked one that i never really took to. we do have solar now that could handle the wattage you mentioned. what is the name of this thing and how to i get one? LOL! 100$ done! thanks for sharing.
Here's one on amazon.com that looks closest to mine. If the link doesnt work, just search amazon for "washing machine", a few pop up, a a few items down. Enjoy! Thanks for checking out the post :) .. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01ALBMIEI/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1517356243&sr=8-6&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=clothes+washer&dpPl=1&dpID=410%2B-LcG94L&ref=plSrch