 10 out of 12 units in our building have FAILED |
| Review Date: November 4, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Mark Donovan, Boston, MA |
My wife and I live in a newly renovated condo building with all 12 apartments equipped with the Summit Washer and Dryer combo. So far this year 10 out of 12 units have failed. I'd rate this product ZERO out of five stars if Amazon let you submit a score that low.
Buyer beware:
1. The machine is LOUD.
2. The machine is very slow.
3. The capacity is tiny.
4. It WILL break.
5. When I dialed the first appliance repair company in the yellow pages, they instantly knew where I lived before I could even finish saying Summit Washer/ Dryer combo.
Please, please consider other choices and save yourself the headaches! |
Words fail me to describe how terrible this machine is. Never buy!
|
| Review Date: January 26, 2009 |
| Reviewer: redrocketb, Washington DC |
This machine is like that old Woody Allen joke about terrible food and small portions. The washer/dryer works terribly and then it breaks. Every single review on the internet I have found has been negative.
The trouble started at installation. During operation, the rubber gasket surrounding the door emitted a terrible, oily smell that filled the apartment and permeated the clothing. We checked--there was no plastic coating or anything of the sort on the gasket. It kept doing this for the first 20-30 wash cycles. I suspect that the dryer portion of the cycle getting the gasket so hot that it emitted the smell. It eventually went away, but not without sickening us for weeks. Other people in our building reported the same smell from their machines.
Speaking of the dryer cycle, clothes emerging from it are wrinkled and end up being covered in lint, in part because the machine has no lint trap! It has what the documentation calls a button trap, which has holes that are too large for lint, and which, when you clean it, leaks a good half-cup of water onto the floor because of its location.
After three months of poor operation, the machine broke. It refused to drain water. We called Summit Professional, who said they would call a service company. Twice within a week, we called back, and Summit said they'd call again; I asked for the number myself and when I called the repair service, they already knew about how terrible Summit Professional Washer/Dryers are. They ordered replacement parts immediately from Summit and those parts took one month to arrive. Another month and two W/D floods later (the replacement parts were defective and resulted in floods) and the machine still isn't fixed. I'm sure a replacement machine will have the exact same lifespan--three months--if not shorter.
You might ask why we stuck with this machine so long. Like others out there, this machine was installed in our apartment by a company hoping to sell the apartments as condos. If you see one in your prospective unit before buying or renting, put your foot down about not getting one of these. You will replace it within a year if you buy, or suffer for months like we have.
Buyer beware! |
Without a doubt the worst appliance I've ever bought
|
| Review Date: October 7, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Jebediah, Louisville, KY, USA |
Before getting a combo washer/dryer, I did a bit of research, and found that Haier models were a gamble. I bought the Summit as it seemed a decent enough unit. If I'd looked further, I would have known that the Summit is a repackaged Haier, and very poor quality.
Our first one had a failed heating unit after several months, which was replaced under warranty. Then the condenser failed, creating hot, very wet clothes after a drying cycle. Replaced. Then the heater failed again. We requested a complete replacement appliance. The replacement worked for about 4 months, then the condenser failed; we're through with it, a complete waste of money. |
Run, don't walk away from this CONtraption
|
| Review Date: May 11, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Michael G. Vance II, brooklyn, ny |
all of the reviews here are SPOT ON. Washer is OK if it doesn't flood the area it's in... the "Button Trap" thing is useless and I have no idea what it even DOES since it just seems to collect water.
the smell one reviewer here talked about WAS IN. SANE. It lasted for the first month+ of use and made our clothes REEK. Thankfully that is gone, but might not be if I didn't use liquid fabric softener??
the "Dryer" cycles are a waste of time. Clothes 99% of the time come out wet, wrinkly, hot and covered in lint. To get for example, a towel or pair of jeans dry, you probably will have to limit the load to 3 towels/2pairs of jeans in the dryer at a time and run them through 2 or even 3 dry cycles. RIDICULOUS. I'm scared (even though it's a 'condensation' dryer) that the thing is going to start a fire!
*** Our new construction bldg was also supposed to be sold as condos and then flipped to 8 rental units. just thought that was funny, cuz it shows how developers/mgmt companies cheap out on finishes to get a quick tenant and the money coming in
Now we're just waiting for it to break honestly! |
Worst machine ever
|
| Review Date: October 27, 2009 |
| Reviewer: David Cascino, |
Oh man, is this a whopper
I moved into an apartment building that came equipped with a washer and dryer. After we moved in, the management installed the summit 'professional' which immediately flooded 3 inches of water into our brand new unit. 2 mop buckets of sudsy water later, they finally they got it working. By working I mean they actually had to replace the entire unit. The building hallway is now littered with dozens of the rusting corpses of these horrible machines.
Clothes take forever to clean and when the dryer cycle kicks on, a horrible burning rubber smell fills the apartment. Maybe the rubber gasket is out gassing... After you open a few windows to air out your apartment, you are rewarded with the most wrinkled clothes I have ever seen. I mean you would really have to try to make clothes this crimped. Please do not waste your money on this hunk of crap. Unless you are a masochist, then by all means go for it. |
|
No details are available for this product
No video reviews found for this product.
