Last Updated on October 4, 2026 by Umar Farooq
The correct washer dryer stacking kit is the one your manufacturer lists against your two specific model numbers, and for a full-size front-load pair there is no universal substitute. A kit is a short list of steel brackets, clips, feet and screws that ties two appliances into one object — cheap, boring, and the only thing standing between a dryer and the floor when the washer below it enters a 1,200 rpm spin.
The mistake this page prevents is buying something else that uses the same words. Search “stacking kit” and most of what comes back is either a freestanding rack — a different product for a different job — or a listing naming a manufacturer’s part number without being that part.
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A stacking kit is structure, not a shelf
A manufacturer stacking kit has no legs and holds nothing up by itself. It is brackets that bolt to the rear of both cabinets, or guides the dryer’s feet lock into, so the two machines become one rigid object. The dryer’s weight still goes down through the washer to the floor; what the kit removes is the dryer’s ability to move independently. A washer in spin is the one appliance in your house engineered to overcome friction, and anything resting loose on top of it eventually walks off.
A stacking rack or stand is a steel frame standing on the floor, carrying the upper machine on a shelf. A genuine product with a genuine use — and not a kit. The giveaway is in its own instructions: a rack gets drilled into your wall, because it has no appliance to borrow rigidity from. An OEM kit never asks you to touch the wall.
The procedure for joining two machines is covered on how to stack a washer and dryer. This page is about getting the right part in the box first.
What is actually in the box
Whirlpool’s 27-inch kit, W10869845, is listed in its own accessory catalogue as hooked galvanized steel brackets, four levelling dryer feet, two clips and four screws, and it supersedes older numbers including W10298318 and W10761316 — which is why the part in an old forum thread may not be the one to order. The compact 24-inch equivalent, W10882520, is a different arrangement: pads, four lower and two upper brackets, four screws.
Samsung’s documentation carries the two instructions that matter most: “Two people are required to lift the dryer onto the washing machine,” and “make sure to use a kit that is compatible with your Samsung washing machine and dryer” (Samsung — install a stacking kit on your washer and dryer). Bespoke pairs take a different kit again, the SKK-9MCT, which adds a control link between the machines.
Bosch sells kits by assembly number rather than by inches: 00684998 contains the WTZ11311 bracket set, and Bosch notes this version “does not include pull-out shelf,” while other Bosch kits do (Bosch — stacking kit 00684998). The shelf is the part most people want, and it is not standard.
How to find the washer dryer stacking kit for your two models
This is the part every guide skips, and the only question you have. There is a documented method and it takes two minutes.
- Get both model numbers off the machines — inside the door frame, under the lid rim, or on a plate at the rear. Write both down exactly, trailing letters included; those carry the series, and kit lists change between series.
- Look the washer up on the manufacturer’s own site, not a parts marketplace. GE documents the lookup precisely: enter the model number on GEAppliances.com, open your model, and view the Accessories section under the Specs & Details tab. A stackable model lists its optional stacking kit there by part number. Every major brand’s site works this way.
- Check the dryer the same way and confirm the same kit number appears against both. Washer lists a kit, dryer does not: that pair is not an approved stack.
- If no kit is listed, the pair does not stack. A real outcome, not a search failure.
- Order by that part number from the manufacturer, an authorised parts dealer, or the retailer who sold you the machines.
Be prepared for the answer to be “discontinued”. GE’s 27-inch kit WE25X10028 is still listed on GE’s own site, which now states “This model is no longer being manufactured” (GE Appliances — washer/dryer stacking kit for select 27″ models). An authorised parts supplier with old stock is then the call.
The listings that are not the part they name
This is worth stating plainly because it is the specific trap for anyone searching a part number.
Checking Amazon’s live catalogue on 4 October 2026 for Samsung’s SKK-8K kit returned ten listings, every one titled something close to “SKK-8K for Samsung Laundry Stacking Kit for Front Load Washers and Dryers”. Not one was sold by Samsung. Each carried a different unregistered-looking brand name — strings of letters rather than a company — and not one had a sales rank, which for a part with real demand is odd on its own.
Read those titles again: “SKK-8K for Samsung”. That is a compatibility statement, not a claim to be the Samsung part, and legally it need not be. Behind it are unbranded brackets of unknown gauge and tolerance.
For most aftermarket parts that is a reasonable gamble on price. Not for this one: a stacking bracket holds roughly a hundred pounds of appliance at chest height above a machine that generates violent rotational forces every week, in a room people walk into barefoot. A hose clip that fails leaks. This does not leak.
What a real one looks like is instructive. Summit Appliance’s LWSTACKKIT carries the manufacturer’s name in the brand field, its part number as the model, a stated scope — “compatible with Summit units” — and a named appliance retailer behind it. Four things, all absent from the ten listings above. That is the pattern to look for.
Two products here that are actually what they say
The OEM kit, if your brand is a compact specialist. Summit Appliance’s LWSTACKKIT is a genuine manufacturer kit for Summit’s own washers and dryers, and it includes a full-extension pull-out rack rated to 35 lb — the shelf Bosch charges extra for and most kits omit. It is 24 in. long, instructions in the box, sold through a named appliance retailer. Rank 62831 in Dryer Replacement Parts: low velocity, and exactly what a correct part for one brand’s compact range should look like. Buy it if you own Summit machines. If you do not, it will not fit yours — and that sentence is the whole point of this page.
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The rack, where no kit exists at all. The other legitimate product solves a different problem: portable or compact machines that were never designed as a stacking pair, so no OEM kit exists for them.
The BLACK+DECKER BWDS rack is unusually honest about its limits. A steel frame 50.8 in. high, built for BLACK+DECKER’s own portable washers — the BPWH84W, BPWM09W, BPWM16W and BPWM20W — with the lower bay sized for any washer of 22.75 in. by 20.24 in. and 48.9 in. of height, and an upper shelf of 24.57 in. by 21.5 in. Two anti-tip brackets and non-slip pads included; assembly needs a drill for the wall brackets. Rank 175 in Standing Dry Racks.
Now the number that decides everything: the upper shelf is rated for a compact dryer of 60 lb maximum, and a full-size electric dryer is comfortably over a hundred. This rack cannot physically be an alternative to an OEM kit. Right answer for a small flat with two portable machines; wrong answer for everything else.
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Whatever you fit, level the washer first — you cannot get a level onto the top panel afterwards, and a stacked pair amplifies every bit of rock. How to level a washing machine has the method.
FAQ
Can I use a universal stacking kit instead of the manufacturer’s one?
For a full-size front-load pair, no. Hole positions, cabinet depth and foot geometry are specified per platform, and a universal rack is a different product with a weight limit well below a full-size dryer.
How do I know which stacking kit fits my washer and dryer?
Look both model numbers up on the manufacturer’s own site and read the Accessories section on each page. GE describes exactly this method and other brands list kits the same way. The same part number must appear against both machines.
Can I stack a washer and dryer from different brands?
Effectively no. Nobody certifies their brackets against another company’s cabinet, so there is no approved kit and no warranty position if something fails. With a mismatched pair and no floor space, a rack rated for your dryer’s actual weight is the only safe option.
Do I really need a stacking kit, or can I just put the dryer on top?
You need the kit. Nothing but friction between two painted steel panels holds an unbracketed dryer in place, and a washer entering spin is designed to overcome friction. LG calls buying the kit mandatory — unusually direct language about an optional accessory.
What if my stacking kit has been discontinued?
It happens — GE’s 27-inch kit is listed on GE’s own site as no longer manufactured. Try an authorised parts dealer for remaining stock, quoting both model numbers.
Get the number off both machines first
Almost every bad outcome here starts with somebody searching the words “stacking kit” instead of their own model number. The words return a wall of near-identical listings with no brand behind them, plus a rack or two that cannot take the weight. The model number returns one correct answer, or an honest “this pair does not stack”.
So: open both doors, find both plates, write both numbers down, look them up on the manufacturer’s site and buy what it lists. Less satisfying than clicking the first result, and the difference between a stacked pair still fine in ten years and a dryer that came down.
If you own Summit machines, the kit above is your part. If you have two portable machines with no kit in any catalogue, the rack is the honest answer for that case — within its 60 lb limit, bolted to the wall as its instructions require.
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