9 out of 9 people found this review helpful.
Takes a long, long, long time
Date of Review: Nov 20, 2007
The Bottom Line: I've tried everything to make this machine dry my clothes in a reasonable time, but no solution yet.
I wonder if anyone else's Maytag Epic drier is drying normal loads ridiculously slowly?
I bought a Maytag EPIC MGD9700SQ gas drier a month or two ago. It was taking upwards of 90 minutes to dry my clothes. I clean the lint screen with each load and I tried venting it out of the window in case the exhaust vent was blocked, but no improvement. It is not pushed too far back against the wall.
Maytag's agent visited and said the thermostat kept turning off. The local store I bought it at ordered another drier, same model.
This one doesn't seem any better. It also takes well over an hour to dry a regular load of laundry, the same kind of load that my 18-year-old Maytag drier used to dry in about 50 minutes.
I thought that the fact that I still had my old Maytag washing machine, which was top of the line 18 years ago but is NOT high tech and doesn't spin the clothes any special way, might be affecting the performance of the drier so drastically? (If the answer is yes, then shouldn't Maytag let buyers of their driers know that they have to upgrade their washing machines at the same time?)
So I threw out my old Maytag washer and ordered the matching new Maytag Epic washer in desperation -- to try them together.
The load I washed earlier tonight consisted of 1 bathsheet, 3 bathtowels, 1 handtowel, 2 thin bathmats, a queensize sheet, and a light cotton tablecloth. That's a normal load, I think?
I presume the new washer spun the load very well -- it should have because it took 10 more minutes than my old washer, even on RAPID WASH.
I started the drier on NORMAL cycle, which uses medium heat and should take 34 minutes. After 90 minutes (!), everything was still very damp.
So I took out the sheet and tablecloth and hung them to dry over the door (not the sight I expected to see when I bought a high-powered drier) and I started the Heavy Duty cycle, which uses a HIGH heat setting (I didn't want to use the HIGH heat but I got desperate).
At the end of the 27-min cycle, the 7 mixed-size towels were still somewhat damp. I started another Heavy Duty 27-minute cycle and finally found them dry enough about halfway through.
TOTAL TIME: 2 hours and 10 minutes.
Can anyone recommend a decent front-loading drier? I've got to give this one back to Maytag.
Recommended:
No
Amount Paid (US$): 900
Rainbow Appliance
Rainbow Appliance
