Small kitchen, washer dryer, fridge freezer

olb81

Just bought a small house with tiny kitchen
. Got space for two under counter appliances.
1. Washing machine or washer dryer
2. Fridge or fridge with freeze draw
Have a separate cupboard I could potentially put another appliance but would prefer not to.
Any advice on what to buy?
A washer dryer is cheaper than a separate washer and dryer.
Same with a fridge with freezer top draw, rather than buying another freezer.
Just wondered if it makes sense

Brie

Well it's a kitchen so you need a fridge.  And I wouldn't want a fridge that didn't also have some freezer capacity.  Even if there's room for a small pack of frozen peas and a single magnum that's fine.  No freezer really limits one.

And I would never buy a washer/dryer.  They don't work well.  Inlaws had one and only used the dryer function in extreme emergencies and even then it would take hours for a tiny load to dry.  A decent washer (second hand can be great) with the space to hang things to dry should work just fine.  Maybe accept that occasionally (mid winter) you might need to take the bed linen and towels to the laundromat.  

Cairnpapple

How many people in the house?
One person, maybe two: I'd do the freezer drawer.  More: plain fridge for more space (and you'd be more likely to use up a tub of ice cream or bag of peas in one go).

I'd do washing machine rather than washer dryer like the person above. 

flaneurs_lobster

Second @Brie's comments, unless the technology has advanced significantly in the last 10 years, washer/dryers are pretty hopeless. 

Albermarle

If you have a house then should be some outside room for drying clothes in the warmer months.
If the washing machine has a decent spin speed ( 1400 rpm minimum ) the clothes will also reasonably quickly dry in the house even in the Winter, although you need to keep it well ventilated to avoid condensation/mould.

doingitanyway

I have a small kitchen too. I have a washing machine in an upstairs cupboard next to the bathroom. I like it out of the kitchen actually. Why not?

No room for a washing machine and dryer, and not sure I would want one anyway. Don't like washer-dryer combo...had one once, never again. 

Fridge with a freeze drawer

I chose a dishwasher and a fridge (small freezer) all in one as my two appliances...

sheramber

How much washing do you have D be to dry?

I live alone and my weekly washing can dry overnight on an airing the living room.

Set it up when  I go to bed and it is dry in the morning. My heating is not on overnight buy the room is heated during the days . 

My DIL uses a heated  dryer with a cover. For the family wash. 

Dryers are expensive to run.  

ic

I always had a washer dryer when I didn't have room for separates - the dryer was invaluable for drying bed sheets through winter - just make sure you get as large a model as you can (my last was 9kg wash, 6kg dry) - smaller models have less tumble space, making them easy to overload.  I now have a separate heat pump dryer and use it a lot as its cheap to do so.  Heat pump washer dryers are available, but prohibitively expensive.

grumpy_codger

Brie said:

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And I would never buy a washer/dryer.  They don't work well.  Inlaws had one and only used the dryer function in extreme emergencies and even then it would take hours for a tiny load to dry.  A decent washer (second hand can be great) with the space to hang things to dry should work just fine. ...

flaneurs_lobster said:

Second @Brie's comments, unless the technology has advanced significantly in the last 10 years, washer/dryers are pretty hopeless. 

A washer-drier is better than no drier at all. Drying washing in a house, especially a small one, means extra moisture, condensation and probably mould.

Having said that, we dry washing outdoors all year round as we have a passage with polycarbonate roof.

gwynlas

Dependent on size of household I would go with an undercounter fridge with icebox and a dishwasher.

In a previous tiny kitchen I had a side by side under counter fridge and freezer

Washer dryers have limited capacity as already stated.

You would be better off with a utility cupboard  where you  could close the door on washing machine noise

MyRealNameToo

sheramber said:

Dryers are expensive to run.  

ours uses 0.7kw to do a 9kg load so 20p isnt much to me and if you were on a rate with discounted night electricity it would be 6p. 

flaneurs_lobster said:

Second Brie's comments, unless the technology has advanced significantly in the last 10 years, washer/dryers are pretty hopeless. 

Third, our last one was 7 years ago and they were still hopeless then, can't say if they've improved much since then but it was expensive to run unlike our new heat pump type one and would take hours. The other advantage of seperate is they both have the same capacity and can run at the same time. 15 hours of washing/drying has been reduced to 3-4