Washing Machine?

[nickdutch]

If you were to go off grid, you personally, what would you replace the washing machine with?

[bulldogeagle]

If you were to go off grid, you personally, what would you replace the washing machine with?

a sink of hot water, its what i used in a council flat before i got married.

[preppingsu]

This
http://www.amazon.com/The-Laundry-Alter ... B002C8HR9A

Just need to save some pennies

[the-gnole]

Interesting project to look into should there ever be a need

http://www.appropedia.org/HSU_Bike_powe ... ng_machine

http://inhabitat.com/cyclean-bike-power ... g-machine/

[Attack Warning Red]

I used a bucket when I was a student!

If you wanted to be prepared, probably best to get the old kit your grandma had: washboard, scrubbing brush, mangle, flat iron etc....

[Ian]

One of these:

http://tinyhouseblog.com/tiny-furnishin ... g-machine/

[jean405]

A washing machine which ran off the solar array and wind turbine I'll have in the back garden

Or a bucket with a lid, with a hole in the lid, and a plunger with 3 holes cut into it and put on a broom stick. Thread the broom stick through the hole in the lid, fill the bucket with water, soap, clothes, put lid on bucket and use the plunger as an agitator. Now all you need is a mangle.

[maxilaura]

plenty of hard work washing everything by hand in a tub/bucket

[bulldogeagle]

plenty of hard work washing everything by hand in a tub/bucket

there will be plenty of hard work after the power goes off.

[maxilaura]

plenty of hard work washing everything by hand in a tub/bucket

there will be plenty of hard work after the power goes off.

And your point being? Sorry, I don't get what you are implying.

If I had to live off grid, with no washing machine, I am pretty sure it will be back breaking washing clothes by hand. And that goes without saying whether I choose to live off grid, or the power goes out long term for another reason.