Best of the Two Basic Chassis Produced
Pros:
Quiet, efficient design, solid construction and workmanship, large door, easy lint screen in front
Cons:
GE is expensive, but returning cheaper one, with restocking fees, cost even more.
The Bottom Line:
I believe it is the best 120 volt electric dryer on the market
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Author's Review
Needed a 120 volt dryer for my apartment.
This GE is more expensive than those other ones but worth it, and you'll save electricity. It is much quieter than the other brand too. The GE heated air enter the tumbler from a large rear grating and exits the front door, forcing heated air through the clothes before it exhausts the machine.
Tried one other brand of 120 volt electric dryer, which is very similar to all others on the market. They all look the same and all other I looked at had air entering in the left rear of the tumbler and exiting the right rear of the tumbler. That kind of design makes the heated air simply bypass the clothes, exit the machine, and the clothes just take forever to dry. Also, with the other brand's design you have to reach inside the tumbler to get to the lint cleaner. You have to reach into the rear of the tumbler to get, and take it apart to see if the lint needs cleaning.
The GE design puts the lint cleaner in the front door.
My GE was made in Mexico, which is much better than overseas for quality control, materials. Also, toxic fumigant are not necessary when trucking from Mexico, as they are needed when shipped in containers from Asia. The quality and workmanship in my GE dryer (from Mexico) was better than the other dryer (which I returned,) which I believe was made in USA.
I am very sensitive to toxic odors from paints and materials and this GE machine had hardly any. So I was pleasantly surprised. The other dryer I tried had an fresh paint type of smell, that sometimes gave me headaches.
The GE also has a timed air fluff cycle and an automatic cycle, which I haven't tried yet.
UPDATE DECEMBER 29, 2007: Soon after we started using it, I had to drill four screws in the dryer door to install a metal door handle on the dryer door. I used nylon insert lock nuts on machine screws, so my handle will never come loose. The reason I had to do this was because we were getting arthritis trying to pry the door open. The dryer door needs to be very tight, since the rubber stripping around it needs to keep it airtight, because the door holds the lint filter and exhaust port. This is good design for cross ventilated drying, as stated above, but to open the door you have to get our hand behind the door to pop it open. There is just a recess, pressed into the design of the chassis door frame, to pry it open. It is hard, maybe impossible for an elderly person. To make the prying even more tedious, the location of the latch is offset from the location of recess in the door frame, so some of your prying force is diverted, twisting the door hinges, before it pops open. Putting a metal handle on the door, as we did, directly over the latch, was tremendous help. It was tedious handyman surgery, but we have been very happy with the dryer, since this improvement.
