Its really expensive, and it just couldn’t perform on the normal day-to-day cycles that I put it through. After running many loads on the TR7, I decided that this was not a washer that I wanted to sell to my customers. I also started doing a type of “VLOG” review on machines I tested. A lot of people wanted to actually see how the machine performs during a real wash cycle. Several months ago I started publishing full wash videos on my YouTube account. Every part is over built, and nothing in this washer feels “cheap”. Im sure that SQ left no stone unturned here. Looking at the guts of this machine, I really can’t see any weak spot in the build. I truly think this washer can last every bit of 15 years before needing any kind of service. It has very few moving parts, rock solid electronics, and a lot of heavy steel components. This washer is the best built washer I have ever seen. This washer does not perform very well.Īt around $1100, this washer is more expensive than the previous generation, and also more expensive than better performing models by other manufacturers. 90% of the loads I tried were flat out unacceptable. I washed a variety of different loads, including whites (underwear and undershirts), shirts, pants, a queen set of sheets, a queen comforter, a load of hand towels, and more. Thinking I made a mistake loading, or perhaps I tried the wrong cycle, I retried this same test 4 more times. I tried washing 5 pair of my fleece lined work pants, and I got zero “turnover” (clothes circulation), and worse, I wound up with soap stains on my pants after the load was complete. Its when you start doing full loads and stiffer fabrics that this machine basically falls flat on it’s face.

With small loads and flexible fabrics, this washer does OK. It certainly performs better than the first two “Agi-Tubs”, but that is just about where it ends. The TR7 is a slightly different version of the same thing. Frigidaire came out with something back in the late 70’s, and again around 2012. This method has been tried many times in the past. During agitation, the spin basket and the agitator move as one single unit. The new Queen uses an “Agi-Tub” design, meaning that the agitator is physically bolted to the wash tub.

The new washer does not agitate like a traditional top loader. At first, I was very optomistic about the new design.

Speed queen top loader washer