The only washers that wash well are front loaders now, and instead of 25 years you have to be happy to get 7 out of them.
My mother got a Westinghouse dryer in 1950. The steel body of the thing was so heavy that if you rapped on it or pounded it with your fist, it made a sound like rapping on a boulder with your knuckles. (The same was true of the body of our 1949 Dodge.) The dryer lasted 19 years.
You must be talking about the washers made since Maytag was bought by Whirlpool. I have one of the last REAL Maytags. It washes just fine-—Top loader—can adjust the amunt of water infinately. Most current detergents work better in cool or cold water than the older detergents. However, the lack of phosphates is evident.
I won’t own a front loader washer. Neighbors bought a new set-—washer uses so little water, I couldn’t see it when the washer was running. Their clothes gets mannered, being tumbled over & over to ‘get washed’. The other problem these new washers have is that they spin so long & hard that clothes come out with wrinkles that don’t always disappear in the dryer.
By over spinning the washer, then ‘you use less inergy drying ‘ your clothes. Add to that the CCR’s that many areas have where actual outside clotheslines are forbidden!!!
I will stay living rural, thank you.
We found a top loader with an agitator. But the preset water levels ate a joke. We don’t use any of the factory recommended settings. Ditto for our new dryer. And don’t get me started in our new fridge....
Re: front-loaders wash WELL?
Not my Bosh.
I can’t wait for the darn thing to die.
I bought the biggest one available at the time because I don’t care to drag my blankets, sleeping bags etc. to the laundromat.
Still have to, because it doesn’t put in enough water so I have to either lug and lift jugs of water to add more each wash and rinse or make the trip to town. Otherwise the cloths just roll around rubbing on the front and wear away the fabric.
I’m getting too old for this.
My farmer has one of those with short agitator and it gets their grubby farm gear clean.