I started using this today and it seems ok. I filled it using a pitcher. It has a small hose to connect to the faucet, sort of, but it’s way faster using a pitcher. It doesn’t rinse, so I guess I will have to manually drain it and then refill it if I wanted to rinse them. The dryer will only work without that plastic thing removed. It is supposed to be there but it won’t spin correctly with it in. In this combo, only two items of clothing will fit in the dryer. There are separate portable washers and dryers sold so they might work better. I believe this one leaks a small amount so I will just put it onto a rug. I am just putting the drain hose outside to drain. I tried putting it into cinder blocks so that I could drain it out of a window but they didn’t work well. It would have to be some sort of table that is higher than the window sill. Also the dryer only dirt of dries them. I thought heat would blow into that but it doesn’t, it’s a little warm because of friction. It just kind of spins them sort of dry. A large blanket will not fit, but I found some queen sized gray blankets from Walmart that were 10$ and one of those will fit into the washer/dryer. The washer holds 11 gallons of water.
Instead of buying a separate dryer, for now I am using this
I didn’t have the idea on my own, I was looking online for a portable dryer and Walmart has one that is a little box that sits on the floor and it pumps the air into a dry cleaning bag. The clothes are hanging which is a really good idea, but I threw away my hangers several months ago! Sometimes it pays to be a hoarder!!! So anyway this actually works and I already had this portable air conditioner. When you use it as an air conditioner it pumps out a lot of warm air out of the hose in the back. Put it on the dry setting and it will stay on.
One year my heat wasn’t working. I had a larger Hisense then. I have a wall heater in my house that does not work anymore. I took off the front grate to the wall heater and I positioned the front of the air conditioner so it would face the wall heater and then I took silver insulation and wrapped it around the front of that so that all of the cold air would funnel out into the wall heater. Since it’s made for the air to circulate through, then it was ok. Then I turned down the thermostat to 65 degrees so that it would always want to cool the room down to that. That forced it to stay on. Then the hot air coming through the hose comes into the room and acts like a humongous space heater. It heated the room very well. Since heat rises you can just leave the hose on the floor, directing wherever you want the hot air. It worked the whole entire winter! I have seen them as air conditioners and heaters but the Lowe’s here does not carry them so I had to improvise.
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