Tumble drier position

JuzaMum

I am planning on having a little laundry/utility room and getting a tumble drier. Due to space it will need to go above the washing machine. Would it sit on top of the worktop or should it be stacked?

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I'd be wary of standing anything on top of a washing machine, the vibration is likely to make it creep around and fall off, in the same way that the washer can dance around the kitchen floor.

On a worktop? Well that all depends on what's holding up the worktop. If it's cantilevered off the wall, you're pushing your luck unless you're using some really ginormous brackets and fixings. If it's supported from the floor it will be ok as long as you keep the supports close enough together.

Witless

jack_pott wrote: »

On a worktop? Well that all depends on what's holding up the worktop.

Mine has been 6" above the washing machine on a 'worktop' since 1998.

3" x 2" on the 2 walls supporting 2 sides of the doubled up square of 1" plywood (2 pieces of 1" ply screwed together) and the other 2 sides supported on 30" steel brackets.

Hard to describe without a pic but it's supported on all 4 sides, from memory the brackets were rated 75kg+: brackets and wood secured to walls with 4" fixers. 'Worktop' is screwed to the wood with 4" screws and secured to the brackets with 3" bolts.

TBH that's probably overkill: now you can get brackets from the like of Screwfix that are rater 120kg+.

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Witless wrote: »

you can get brackets from the like of Screwfix that are rater 120kg+.

The brackets might be rated at 120kg, but the load they will support is dependent on the fixings.

I have a worktop supported on the wall at the back and one end, with the opposite corner cantilevered. The support for that is a cupboard hung on the wall with two 10mm x 75mm rawlbolts. It doesn't carry anything other than me resting my elbows on it when I write a shopping list, but after 30 years the rawlbolts are working loose. The problem is that the brick is too soft, so tightening the bolts just crushes the brick.

getmore4less

get a proper stacking kit.

The dryer won't go anywhere.

Properly levels and loaded washers don't move around.

JuzaMum

Thanks for the replies. Are the stacking kits specific to the washing machine/dryer or universal?

missprice

JuzaMum wrote: »

Thanks for the replies. Are the stacking kits specific to the washing machine/dryer or universal?

I have googled and you can buy universal kits