Posted: 10/27/2011 5:05:24 PM EDT
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The husband would prefer to buy a new washer over fixing our now broken Whirlpool Duet.
I don't know where to start. Anyone here work on them and know what is reliable and what isn't? Front or top loader is fine but I need a large capacity for our king size bed linens and children who wear too many clothes. I appreciate the help!!!!!! |
| I bought a samsung front load washer at best buy. It was expensive at $700 or 800 and it has been one of the best purchases ever for our family. Clothes and sheets have never felt as clean and smelled as good. I hated to spend that much but would buy another in a second. |
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We have one of the Maytag top loading energy efficient type. I forget what it is called, but it is the one that uses little water and does not have the adjudicator in the middle. We have had it for a few years now and it has proved to be real reliable and does a great job cleaning the clothes. The top loaders do not have the mold issues as the front loaders because of a different gasket configuration. It is real entertaining to watch the clothes go through the wash cycle because the lid is made of glass. I know what I said sounds strange, but when we have guests, they too are fascinated my the motions of the washing machine.
ETA: Our machine is a Bravo |
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Basic Whirlpool with a mechanical timer.
Do your quilts and such at the laundromat. Linens are fine. Don't overload because if the clothes can't agitate, they don't get clean, overloading may seem faster but the dirt and detergent that remains in the clothes due to poor rinsing attracts dirt and they get dirty faster. With the lack of phosphates in laundry soap now, front loaders are going to perform poorly washing dirty clothes due to the smaller water requirements and a top loader like a Whirlpool is going to work better due to the use of more water to dilute the soap and remaining dirt and to rinse it away better. |
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I was travelling the last few weeks - a golf trip followed by a couples trip. Two things encountered on the trip relate to your questions. I don't normally do much laundry but wanted to get my sweaty golf clothes cleaned before driving to meet up with the wife and other couples. The guy who hosted us had a Bosch front load washer that I used. It was the damnest thing, it uses so little water that you don't expect clean clothes to come out of it, but they do. People in the know rave about the Bosch machines. I had no problem with the job the machine did. Second was meeting a guy from LG who was attending a conference in FLA. I asked him what LG stood for and he said 'Life is Good", I then asked what it really stood for and he said the merger of the "Lucky" and "Gold Star" companies. My experiences in the past were that Gold Star was crap so I probably wouldn't go that direction.
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Do not buy a front loader. Our LG always has to be cleaned and if clothes stay in it for more than an hour after it runs they have an Oder. I also will never buy another LG product. We have a washer that smells, an LG dryer that has been through 2 mother boards and our LG fridge had to have recall because they catch on fire due to 2 60 watt bulbs and a switch that fails in all of them. Ours failed and ruined a fridge full of food when the lights didn't go off but at least it didnt catch on fire like the ones that are in the class action now.
I would buy a top load HE if I did it all over again and NOT an LG |
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The one that is broken is a front loader.
I had read the reviews about odors and simply left the door open when not in use. It never developed a smell or any other problem other than the clamp on the bellows failing and leading to it destroying the bellow. (spelling of bellows is a w.a.g.) I don't care if I replace it with a front or top loader as long as it has excellent capacity and a longer life than what we had with this one. |