My mother-in-law decided on the Nexxt 100 washer/Nexxt 500 dryer combination, which was delivered in time that I got a chance to do a bunch of wash in it. We both like these machines a lot.
It's a very quiet washer in comparison to my old Maytag Neptune set or the current pair of LGs. Cleaning is good; there are four basic cycles (handwash, delicate, permapress and cotton), and a choice of hot, warm or cold water settings for permapress and cotton. In addition there's a soak only setting, a spin setting, and another I'm forgetting. There are also buttons for adding liquid bleach through a dispenser, and an extra rinse. There is no countdown timer.
Basic use is to turn the knob to the setting wanted,load some detergent into the hopper, and push the go button. That's one of the things I wanted for her -- an interface I thought she'd understand even when tired, and one that anyone else could figure out easily. There are not a lot of choices, which is probably good. She was a little intimidated at first, but soon decided that it wasn't going to be easy to screw things up unless you did something like packing the drum full.
Dryer seems to be well constructed and easy to control, and does have an estimated countdown timer.
I did a load of whites with the supplied Woolite HE and an extra rinse, and was really impressed that they went from grey to white -- she's in a very hard water area.
Fabrics appear to be about as dry from this machine after the full speed spin as they are with my LGs, with a higher nominal spin speed, so I suspect the G-force during spinning is about the same between the two.
The pedestals available for the machine are 8" and 15" -- they sent us the
15" instead of the 8 I ordered, and I sent them back because it would have put the controls (which are on a sloped front panel) too high for her to seee easily. The 8" haven't arrived yet, but should be fine for her. Sitting on the floor, the lower back portion of the dryer drum would be difficult for me to reach (I'm tallish, and don't bend well), and weren't the easiest for her, so I think the pedestal will solve the problem while still leaving her a good laundry folding surface on top. We could both reach the back of the canted washer drum without the pedestal, but I would be moaning about it.The dryer door hinge side can be switched, but not the washer. Her laundry room was set up for dryer on the left (as you face the machines), but the washer door opening made it more useful to have it on the left instead of the dryer. The supplied hoses were long enough to do a "crossover" connection to get the machines in the easier orientation.
In the 10 days she's had them, she's called three times to tell me how much nicer it is not to fight with her old toploader. Oh, and when they pulled out her old machines, there was a bunch of oil and grease under the washer, which sounds like transmission was beginning to go.
Kay