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.
Til : they do sell dryers that can be installed upside down
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.
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.
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 😂
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.
Can we see your cat, please.
Now this is what the internet is supposed to be for! Cat photos
This is Sylvie
She’s beautiful, got like a mona lisa look. Thank you.
What about now?
Sly queen. Very authentic.
I’ve never seen a dryer installed upside down before… woah
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 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.
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.
Same. Kinda blew my mind
Seems like a bad idea, but maybe it’s kosher if the manufacturer says so?
Should the dryer be upside down?
It’s alright, it’s in Australia
Dumb, but perfect.
My first thought as well
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?
So I can reach the controls
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.
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.
Good Job! The struggle is real
I absolutely hate putting shelves up. Something about the amount of measuring required, and it’s so unforgiving if it’s even slightly wonky.
Second vote for a laser level. It’s still miserable, but easier.
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.
Nothing quite like lining things up with the ceiling, getting out the level, and realizing your house isn’t level.
The best thing is that now the room works both ways up in freefall.
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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.
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.
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.
