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Level up your laundry with the smart, stylish, and efficient LG WashTower washer/dryer combination. Words Bec Summer F or decades, the laundry essentials in a house were tucked away to rattle, thump, and steam up windows on the way to control hub enables the units to ‘talk’ to each other; once you TOWER OF SMART POWER

This is where the remote magic happens, allowing complete control and monitoring from your smartphone. Having scheduling control at your fingertips brings those off-peak electricity

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begin a chosen wash cycle, the dryer will ‘read’ the load and automatically configure its settings to suit, drying

cleaning and drying clothes. Generally stored out of sight, the tech largely remained the same in these domestic necessities. However, a lot has changed in the laundry space over the last five years, including leaps in technology and greater attention to style. The LG WashTower is an excellent example of this. Aesthetically, the black steel version is a stunner – you half expect Angus Young to stroll up and plug in his Gibson SG before ripping into Highway to Hell – and an alternative forest green (dryer) and beige (washer) contrast combination is also available. Beneath this glamourous veneer is some neat tech.

accordingly. The only manual or thinking work involved is pulling the clothes from the washer and loading them into the dryer. And for added convenience, grey water from the washer and moisture from the heat pump dryer are both emptied via a single pipe. Despite the generous drum sizes, the LG WashTower is highly energy efficient, with the washer rated at five stars and the dryer at a

cycles into play. Providing the WashTower is preloaded with laundry, it doesn’t matter whether you’re in a hammock reading in the back garden or have just stepped off a plane in London for a conference, you simply start the relevant program from the app. And check this out – you can even download software updates through the app and new wash cycles to suit specific types of clothes and wear, giving you more options. The washer has a maximum spin of 1400RPM, and the TurboClean 360 wash cycle is a game changer, delivering a full wash in a fraction of the normal time required. This is a blessing for families juggling multiple loads of washing – and drying – every day. Moreover, the Wash-Quick and Dry-Quick cycles will have the dirty clothes you need cleaned in a hurry washed, dried, and ready to wear in just 59 minutes. If your lifestyle demands a compact washer/ dryer combo designed with the latest smart technology, the LG WashTower offers a flexible laundry solution.

whopping nine stars. The dryer even cleans itself via some smart engineering; the water extracted during the clothes drying process is recycled to clean the condenser. The heat pump is preheated during the washing process, so the dryer is prepped for the minute that the wash cycle concludes. At the smart home heart of the WashTower is the LG ThinQ app.

This all-in-one laundry solution saves on real estate where space is at a premium. To simplify things, a single panel controls both the front load 12kg washer and the 9kg heat pump dryer, and is positioned in the middle of the unit, so the vertically challenged won’t have to reach for the steps to start the dryer. This single

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