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Nobody wants to do laundry. A premium laundry product already exists - having somebody else do it. I think that competition is tough. Plus, having to separate my laundry and my girlfriend's laundry to have different scents means double the laundry loads.

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Agreed on not wanting to do laundry! But the vast majority of our customers actually enjoy laundry just a little bit more (or hate it a little less) when using FREY. And your GF might love us too, 30 - 40% of our customers are women, and some of our best reviews have been written by women.

Very true. I'd settle for a washer/dryer combo machine that actually works. (i.e. you don't have to transfer the clothes, it all happens automagically.)

this would be pretty awesome, maybe that's next =)

They already make them, they just don't work very well! :P

The optimal tub volume to wash a load is significantly less than the minimum volume to properly dry the same load with blown-air tumble drying. It's possible that without a leap to a different drying technology the dual-purpose laundry appliances will never work well.

In the UK I believe domestic washer-dryers outnumber standalone washing machines with standalone tumble dryers. I assume this results from smaller property sizes than the US. If you live in a city in a newer property - there is no room for two appliances rather than one.

Isn't less better when hot air drying? In my experience when I've had very small loads due to accidental spills they dry quickly. I do understand that more water dilutes detergent, though.

> Isn't less better when hot air drying?

Yes. That's the point. The volumes I was referring to were the volumes of the appliances' tubs, not the volume of the load. The assumption is that the load is constant since it needs to go from washer to dryer.

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