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What’s up with the He washing machines? It’s supposed to use less water, but then you have to do an extra rinse. Who wants all that extra soap in their clothes and in their laundry when the wash doesn’t come clean. It’s so frustrating. I always put it on heavily soiled - so it’ll put more water in the washing machine. Arggg!
Only ever use my front loader on a.quick cycle as I'm running pretty low on water in my water tanks at the moment. Praying for some rain. Do an extra spin cycle to drain out more water then put my clothes on a drying rack in front of the combustion fire or peg out if the weather permits. Have a tumble dryer but only use it on the odd occasion.
Well, that’s an entirely different process than what I do. But good for you you don’t have to rely on all these stupid machines.
Well it's just the way my house is set up. I'm on a stand alone power system not connected to the grid at all and dryers drag a lot of power . Plus I'm on rainwater tanks so have to watch water usage. The advantages are I don't get any power bills or water bills ,the disadvantages are you have to be careful with what you use depending on how much is going into the grid and tanks. So I've had to adapt to suit the conditions.
This is the way.
Well, it sounds like to me you’re handling everything quite well. Carry-on, my Fren!🐸
I am not sure about washing machines, I still use one thats more than 8 years old, so not sure what shenanigans they are up to.
When it comes to dryers, there is a huge scam with the environmental friendly heat pump dryers. They cost 3x the good old tumble dryers, and we are told that these are much better and saves electricity.
In reality, the only downside to a tumble dryer is that it shoots out the moisture, and if your laundry is not ventilated, it causes moisture all around it. Simply opening a door is enough to get a tumble dryer working efficiently.
The new heat pump dryers on the other hand, suck the moisture and pump it through a pipe into a recepticle or to the sink. These dryers are a huge scam. After a couple years they start losing their ability to dry as dust keeps settling in areas that cannot be cleaned and eventually you will be running longer and longer cycles for just one load.
We recently threw away our heat pump dryer and bought a tumble dryer. Life has never been better.
All I know is, I do not like agitators. They ruin your clothing. The top loaders that are a big barrel that just spin around in circles kind of seem useless. I do like the front loader, but I don’t like that they don’t give you enough water.
I have never heard of the dryer that you speak of. I just have a regular old fashion tumble dryer. But what I hate about dryers now, is if you use any of the preprogram drying programs, the dryer will decide when the clothes are dry, and stop working. This happens a lot, and it really pisses me off because the clothes are not dry. So I always use time dry. That way it overrides any pre-programs.
Personally, I think whirl pool is crap for washers and dryers. We bought some and they sucked, and replaced them with Samsung. They’ve been working like champs. So the ones that we have at home are great. But I did a bunch of research to make sure I got exactly what we wanted.
My problem is that when I pet sit, each person has a different washing machine. It’s very frustrating, however… I like to wash all of my bedding, towels, and clothing when I’m leaving someone’s house. Everything has to be clean when I leave. Besides, why not use their electricity, water, and washing detergent. Lol!
Desperate times calls for desperate measures.
I never use top loaders. They are again a big "green scam". Front loaders ftw.
BTW, there is a funny book called Top Loader which is a nice military-spy-comedy story.
I like Samsung and also Fischer and Paykell. I normally only use one of two programs - standard (I use this 90% of the time) and something suitable for light clothes. If its stopping before its fully dry, you could try setting it to extra dry, but most probably you are not ventilating the laundry area and its getting confused with the dryness.
I used to do home repairs, so the ventilator for this dryer is directly out the side of the house. I check from time to time to make sure that it’s vented and not full of garbage. So I know that’s not the problem. It’s just a stupid dryers program. It’s so frustrating. But the dryer does work, if I put it on time dry. That’s my override.
Personally stopped using fabric softener. Realised it does nothing really, and just adds a lot of chemicals. I remember long long ago there used to be these little tissue sized fluffy sheets that you could throw in the dryer and it would soften the clothes. I remember those used to work well, but the liquid fabric softeners these days seem to be useless.
When we had our whirlpool, it was a piece of crap. We had a guy come out and work on it. He said that the. ‘he’ washers don’t need a lot of soap, and that you’re only supposed to put half of the amount in there. That’s probably because they don’t put a lot of water in. Lol. I figured that out right away.
I have heard of people using vinegar for softener. It’s supposed to work really well I’ve never tried it though, because I don’t want my clothes to smell like vinegar. I love the smell of Tide, I don’t care if there’s chemicals in it. It just smells good..! But I also put those smelly good roly poly ball things in my wash too!