Product review (5 stars): Love our little bosch washer and dryer!
We built a little cottage on the water to replace our river house after it was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.  Got the plans from the Lowe's website in August 2008 and built the little 700 sq ft cottage we now live in. Because of the dimensions, we were very limited in what kind of appliances we could put in.  The Bosch washer/dryer set stacked together exactly perfectly in the very small closet we had downstairs.  They remind me a lot of the washer and dryers you run across if you spend much time traveling in Europe or the Middle East.  Because of the cost of utilities overseas, these systems are designed to be extremely energy efficient.  They're also the quietest systems we've ever owned...they need to be, because not only are they in a tiny house, they're stacked in the closet immediately outside of our bedroom.  We never have trouble sleeping while they're running, as long as we're not washing or drying something like dog collars with a lot of metal parts.  They are unique for an American to use...unlike the dryer I grew up that just blasts heat non-stop, this system will take longer to dry your clothes, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.  It uses a little more gentle heat, and rather than running continuously, it runs silently for a few minutes, stops to let the heat it's built up continue to dry the clothes without motion for a few minutes, then runs again.  That's what makes it so energy efficient.  We've had ours for about four and a half years and have done nothing other than clean the filter with each load.  The only downside I've found with it is that we'd like to buy a new lint filter because the filter light is starting to stay on, and the bosch website is fairly useless for providing detail on how to purchase what I would assume would be the most often touched/highest wear and tear part.  You can find every single nut/bolt/spring on this device on the bosch website, but you apparently can't buy the filter there...that seems like more than a minor oversight.  Anyway, I would rate the dryer a five star for our situation.  I'd give the washing machine a four star, primarily because no matter how much you clean the gasket on the door, it develops large mildew spots quickly if you don't dry out the gasket, and if you ever decide to take the gasket off to try to clean it more, you need an SEC football offensive lineman to help you get the spring that holds the gasket in place BACK on to the machine.  Other than that, it's actually fairly easy to service a lot of the things yourself, and I've never thought highly of my ability to work on appliances.  We're building a bigger house now and we're going to go all Bosch on that one as well, although we'll look at getting a larger Bosch washer/dryer if they make them...but if it comes down to it, I'd buy the exact same ones again.