Posted on 11/01/2014 7:56:22 AM PDT by A Cyrenian
We have a Maytag Bravos washer and I hate it.
It takes to long to wash a load, no matter what the size of the load.
The lid locks and you can't open it until an undetermined time period expires (seems to take forever).
While doing a load of laundry, the machine just sits there and doesn't do anything. A complete waste of time.
What type of washer do you have and do you like it? Would you recommend it?
I do but when I proposed, it rejected me. Unrequited love.
I have a Whirlpool front loader and no, I don’t like it. O don’t think that it gets the clothes really clean and if you put it on whitest whites or sanitary, it takes an hour and a half.
Bypass the lid lock..
Buy an older top-loading Kenmore, Maytag or Whirlpool. The new front-loaders are an expensive scam.
We bought a new top loading GE last year and it’s horrible! Clothes just don’t get clean. One tip - detergent no longer has any type of phosphate in it. Add a tablespoon of TSP to your wash. It helps.
We have an LG set, front loaders for 18 months and no problems. The capacity is enormous and they are so efficient, they use less water and less electricity.
Even a comforter for a king size bed is no problem.
The model is WM8000 series. We got the storage pedestals to gain storage and to raise up the machines to a comfortable level.
They are slightly wider(and higher with the pedestals) than a normal set so check the dimensions of your space to see that the two machines can fit.
That was not an issue for us.
Good luck.
The latest is a Maytag, the main controller board this time. The repairman comes out, replaces parts and if a part is on back order for too long, a store credit card come in the mail. Inside, no matter what the brand, they're all the same and plagued with the same issues.
My Samsung direct drive is great and reasonably priced. I had an LG front loading but it shook. The Samsung has 10 year warranty and is a extremely quiet.
Well, we have a "close" relationship, though not as "warm" as the one with my dryer. ;-)
There is a special issue of Consumer Reports out currently that rates household appliances, among them washing machines. One of my biggest complaints about Consumer Reports is that they never seem to evaluate the products that I'm realistically looking at. I believe a lot of the washers they listed were in the $1200-$1600 range, when I'm looking at $500-$700. I don't need or want a lot of the newest expensive features. With that said, my current washer does a lot of "sitting" when nothing appears to be happening. I think with all the current HE washers that is the time when clothes are soaking in detergent. There is never much water involved - you can thank the enviro nazis for that.
I have always bought as needed the cheapest top loader agitator, and will keep buying them as long as they are available. Sounds like I’ve had to buy a lot of them, but only about three in the past forty years. Mostly Whirlpool in one form, or another. (Kenmore, Whirlpool, or Inglis are all Whirlpool)
The machine with the actual Whirlpool name on it had the up, and down agitator, and was the best of the bunch, but I couldn’t find one like that again after time took its toll on that one.
Front loading machines are notorious for mold and mildew issues around the seal. We have one and cannot completely clean it. We have to unplug it after use and leave the door slightly open to prevent more mildew. DO NOT BUY A FRONT LOADER!
Sorry to disappoint you, but I think all the washers and dryers these days are pretty much the same machines with different brand names on them. Whirlpool and Maytag usually have the same part numbers when you go to replace parts.
Not kidding. They shake because they are hard to balance and can get moldy if you leave the door closed. The only advantage is less water use. My top loading Samsung is worlds better.
This one takes forever for the water to fill, and it spends so much time doing nothing. I don't get the point of having the clothes just sitting there in "soak" cycle, and I don't like the time it spends in the wash cycle not going full speed. What's the point?
Make sure that it is real trisodium phosphate and not the substitute.
+1.
We have a front loading Maytag. It has already given quite a bit of trouble, fortunately it was under warranty, I wouldn’t get another front loader of any brand. It takes an hour to wash a load, but does hold more than the previous top loaders we had. IMHO, the front loaders cost too much,and mostly do not live up to the claims of the manufacturers..
The Samsung top loader uses the new style propeller not an agitator. Can’t say how happy I am with it.
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