Yes. For some loads, I add have to vinegar to the wash cycle, then add an extra rinse/spin cycle. Then I have to use a scented dryer sheet to the dryer. Ironically, this erases the water / energy / cost savings, as well adding extra time.
All I can say is that I’m holding on to my old appliances for as long as I possibly can. Back in the day when they were purchased, they were considered energy efficient for the time. My fridge is from 1986, and my washer and dryer are from 2002. Joe Biden can take them from my cold dead hands. Those older appliances work far better than the new ones I have. Very few bells and whistles that aren’t there to break down anyway.
Here’s a life hack for the “high efficiency” washers our DC overlords have foisted upon us.
Much of what they’re doing is trying to reduce water use. To heck with that, I want clean clothes, that takes water.
How do you get them to use more water?
Well, most have a sensing stage at the beginning of the load that determines how much water to use. I keep a 1 gallon plastic pitcher in the laundry sink I have next to my washer. I get my load, detergent, perhaps oxy ready. I fill the 1 gallon pitcher with hot water, and pour it on the laundry. This gets you an incremental 1 gallon of water, AND it gives you ~8 pounds of additional “laundry” weight in the sensing phase, so the machine adds more water than it would otherwise.
This has worked very well for me, I suggest trying it.
Now, it’s ridiculous that we have to resort to this sort of life hack to overcome the crap our genius over-regulators have imposed upon us, but here we are, what are you gonna do?