Bought the 2487 steam washer, the 7118 steam dryer, two 15" pedestals, and Best Buy's extended warranty. The machines are red, the dials light up, and in short, they are wonderful. I never bend over, and I have a real snazzy laundry roon now. The pedestals have enough storage capacity that I was able to take my old shelf down and now I don't have to look at the laundry supplies at all. I put up pictures of Paris instead.

I started out without reading much in the manuals, I just wanted to get the machines running. It turns out that these machines have every option that one could ever want. The possibilities for changing or modifying the cycles are nearly endless. I am still discovering new options. You can get things going without reading the manuals, but if you really want to tailor the cycles to your specific needs you do have to spend some time reading.

Both machines have a neat little tune that they play when they are done. Way better than my old buzzer which I used to grudgingly refer to as my mating call. I loved the tune, but it bothered the dog, so I turned it off. I thought that I would have to remember to turn it off again each time I did a load, but these are smart machines - once you tell it to be silent, they remember.

We have had NO vibration at all, but we are on a slab. The Best Buy installer, Jesse from Chino, was fantastic. He even made quick work of our installation which I thought would be complicated because our water supply is on the right, behind the dryer. No problem for Jesse. It seems like he just brought the machines in and before I knew it they were all lit up and working. I had no idea that they had blue and gold lights on the panel. Oh the things you can't see in the store! Such fun if you are like me and have a thing for appliances.

The only confusion I have had has to do with the steam. I don't even know if it is the steam that caused it, but at first some of my colors ran. I put my husband's dark blue golf towel in with our usual towels and everything turned color. Then I put a new black pair of pants in with the general wash and turned my underwear blue. I haven't heard of anyone else having this problem with steam, but now I really watch out with very dark colors on things that I haven't washed before. I remember that my mother used to have that problem, but gee, that was 40 years ago. I think that I am using hotter water than I did in the old washer. I actually used to wash my clothes (not towells and sheets) on cold thinking that I was using less water heater capacity and wouldn't fade out the colors on my cotton clothes. That's probalbly what caused the problem and I need to work up my nerve to try the steam again. I do use it on the steam fresh cycle, and I love that.

The only thing that has been hard to get used to with the front loaders is that when I move wet clothes out of the washer I often drop a sock or something on the floor. these machines have a really big capacity, much bigger than my former machines, so I just have to be more careful. It wouldn't even matter, except the dog's bowl is right in front of the washer and if something clean falls into the bowl then it has to be washed again in the next load.

As I think about it, my problems have been so different that the problems that I read about and had expected, that I just have to laugh. The things that almost stopped the sale (vibration and reversed hookups) have turned out to be nothing at all. I am so glad that I didn't let that keep me from buying the LGs. Our clothes are clean, the machines are quiet, Charley's Soap is good, and the machines are fantastic.