I work with air compressoers and use vibration pads under the feet to eliminate "Walking" and to reduce tank welds cracking if bolted directly to the floor.

I could see this being a benefit for washer noise and "Walking".

The ones I use are 7/8" high x 4" x 4". Ribbed rubber on top and bottom with cork between.

Any more info needed let me know- btunell@msn.com

river-rat4

we tried these under out FL washer. It did not help vibration. :(

we tried them, too. They helped with vibration but caused the machine to dance uncontrollably. Our machine was on top of a pedestal, which we've removed, and we also reduced the rpms per load from 1200 to no more than 800, which helped. Good luck

austinbean,

That surprises me as rubber/cork are vibration abosorbing materials.

I think wash loads are not consistantly loaded/distributed, and/or leveling of the machine is needed.

neetz,

Vibration absorbed, but dancing tells me that there would be uneven load or uneven settling pre spin cycle.

Think of the wheel on your vehicle, they put on lead weights after spinning them on a balancer, if they did not there would be a noticeable difference with handling like vibration or steering wheel pulsing back and forth.

Okay, think of a kid, going down a hill, in a tractor tire- woob woob woob. I can't think of a better description at this time, but try to visualize it.

The only other thing I can come up with is that if the "Dancing" is on a second floor, I would say that the base/floor/joists are not level/sturdy/solid/sound and are flexing.

To sum this up- If the unit is level, loaded evenly and there is not a "defect" in the washing machine it should not "Dance" and vibration would be very minimal.

river-rat4

I would like to add that if tha unit is dancing on a pedistal, that will compound the problem, not cause it.

machine is not on a pedestal. I have leveled it using carpenter level. ceramic floor tiles in laundry room.

river-rat4- I understand your point and you may be correct. We had our floors reenforced once I read about vibration issues and these were improved once we removed the pedestal (although not by a whole lot. We also probably got used to it. We can accept that a certain amount of vibration will occur but I have a problem with the machine inching over, if not dancing over, so that it's banging against the dryer.
This shouldn't keep on happening. I may try the anti-vibration pads again but basically what I want at this point (aside from a new machine) is for it to stop inching over. Given that I'm not going to move my laundry area from the first floor, or re-reenforce the floor again, or buy a new machine just yet, I'm at a loss about what to do aside from call my repair guy for yet another visit...