Product review (4 stars): Great for smaller apartments and condos
I live in a 1 bedroom apartment and no laundry facilities are available where I live and none for over 12 miles from my apartment. So I decided to buy one of these compact washer/spin dryers to see if it could wash my clothes for me and do some sort of spin drying afterwards. This item weighs around 31 pounds and easy to move around when empty. I do not use the water connection hose when filling this washer tub up and just use buckets of water and pour it into the washer tub directly. It holds around 8 pounds of clothes in the washer and the spin dryer thingie really just holds a few pounds at the most and very picky when spin drying. But the washer works quite well and seems to do a terrific job washing my clothes in 15 minutes. It's pretty easy to use and a quick note, the instruction manual I got is not for this particular unit, it's for another unit. So, I tossed out the instruction manual and figured how to use this compact washer/spin dryer on my own....but it's pretty simple to use. I drain the wash water directly into the bath tub and for the most part, it works well enough. The spin dryer thingie works well enough but only handles a few items at one time or it will literally move the unit around when it's out of balance. But it does wring out excess water and partially dries clothes somewhat, especially smaller items. I gave this item 4 stars mostly because of the rather dinky spin dry tub compared to the washer capacity on this unit and the wrong instruction manual included.