Posted on 03/26/2025 1:45:59 PM PDT by grundle
How long did a older dishwasher take to finish washing and drying dishes?
The new SQ has the option to pay by app and has a couple more washing options. They are definitely a commercial washer and dryer.
Our twenty year old Whirlpool is making odd noises and about to give up the ghost. We are looking at a Bosch 100 series, those and the 800 series get good reviews. We are leaning toward the 100 and don’t care a flip about online connectivity.
Our Whirlpool heavy duty washer lasted 20 years and the mounts and transmission crapped out and we bought a Maytag top loader with an agitator and it ran fine for about 6 yrs and crapped out. We have another Maytag top loader with agitator and I figure it will die in the same time frame.
I am seriously considering a Speed Queen machine which will be about $1500 more than likely but I’ll be done with washing machines in my lifetime.
My parents have a washer and dryer from the early 90’s and Dad keeps repairing them if they break. He is running into trouble getting parts for the washer at times but found them on the internet luckily.
I remember my grandma using a washer she rolled outside on the porch and connected to the garden hose and ran a load and then put them through the wringer and then to the clothesline. Her house was near a railroad and back in the 50’s when she heard a train coming she would do Olympic style racing to the clothes lines to pull in her laundry before it got there and got soot all over her sheets and grandpa’s white dress work shirts.
My Dad eventually ran waterlines to one of the rooms in her house and cut a dryer vent so she could get a modern washer and dryer.
>> I would like to ask these companies just who they’re designing appliances for - because it sure isn’t their customers.
I’m pretty sure the correct answer is overbearing Greenie extremist Federal regulators.
In San Francisco, there’s no need to go all the way downtown for a dump
Oh, I’m just having fun.
Oops, I always transpose the initials
It is Sodium Tripolyphosphate STPP
The polyphosphates are not damaging to the environment - it is the mono. Even though the enviro weenies got it taken out of the retail laundry soap and dishwasher soap, it is still in commercial products. Because they need their stuff clean and without STPP things don’t get as clean.
Amazon: (I use one 5lb about every 3 months)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B091579GHX?smid=A2SMBD9PX0P7DB&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp
Soap goods:
https://www.soapgoods.com/sodium-tripolyphosphate-light-density-stpp-p-1267.html
I use 2-3 tablespoons in each load of laundry and 1/2 teaspoon with my dish powder. Really noticeable with the dishes.
And I'm pretty sure you're right...
I was so excited and thrilled to find Fels Naptha Soap on Amazon. Unfortunately I discovered it ain’t Fels Naptha Soap. It’s more like Fels Ainta Soap. Prop 65 in California ruined the product and brand. Napthalene is banned in California, so must the rest of America suffer.
California is where good products go to die. Then because California is America's largest market, the product is abandoned.
The local laundromat got in a bunch of the brand new SQs and they’ve not had problems.
I live in an apartment complex, unfortunately, with no in-unit washers and dryers but the laundry room is on the same floor and one apartment door away. The laundry room and the machines are kept clean and in good condition.
I used to live in this very same building some 10 years ago but up on the 3rd floor and schlepping my laundry and laundry supplies down 2 flights of stairs only to find all the machines in use was the pits. Then there was trying get enough quarters together (no change machine), paying with cash - trying figure out how to get the max number of quarters back in change or going to the bank to get rolls of quarters.
Sometimes I used to pack my laundry and supplies into my car when I left for work in the AM and then hit a laundromat on the way home and I hated it.
Now the laundry rooms in my apartment complex uses CSC Service Works and it’s great!
https://www.cscsw.com/welcome/
OK. The machines are not using my personal WiFi (unless you consider that my phone is using my WiFi as it usually is when I’m home) but I did have to download their app to my phone.
But using the app, I can see if washers and dryers are available or in use. I can pay by scanning a QC code on the machine (no more hoarding quarters) and I can easily replenish my account, and I get notifications when the washing machine or dryer is done or see how many minutes are left. I can even add more time to the dryers in 5-minute increments.
I still hate doing laundry but not nearly as much.
The one thing about the app is I do get push notifications from CSC on cross promotions and contests for laundry credits, but they also sometimes send me a notification - “Looks like it’s been a while since you’ve done laundry” and I feel very seen. LOL!
Too soon to tell if they are reliable or not. I suspect they are, but a 2 to 3 year trust but verify review might be in order...
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