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D Smith wrote:

This isn't to say that people that report problems here are wrong -
just to say that some of us have front-loaders on the main floor (not
concrete) and don't have shaking problems. It probably depends on just how
much flex there is in a particular floor.

Understand and agree

I probably live in a rental apartment that has a very
"flexy" floor

But given that you never know what the floor will be
like in any rental unit I still am going back to top
loader next time. That's just me of course

Now if I owned my own house....and could do something
abt the floor.....Id stick with FL

FWIW, my washer is on a section of floor that is only a few feet away
from the outside wall. (We own the house.) There is a definite springiness
to floors in the middle of large rooms, depending on how far away it is
from some sort of load-bearing support in the basement.

I think it's a good idea to consider the shaking factor in any main
floor laundry installation, but there are probably lots of places on a
mian floor that would do, and it's probably possible to make some sort of
prediction on stability if you can get inot the basement and see where the
structural support is located.