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Originally Posted by Not_liking_FL
I have a whirlpool duet in one of my houses and it works great. You can do bigger loads and save on water and electricity. What exactly is your problem? Sounds like user error to me. Btw, I can stop a load to add a missed sock if I need to.
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User error? Please don't insult my intelligence just because I don't like my washing machine. This is hardly complicated machinery we're dealing with here.
Yes, you can stop a load. Then you stand and wait for the water to stop dripping down the door before you open it, unless you don't mind water on your floor. I do.
Mine won't spin the clothes dry if I put too many clothes in it. The salesman at the time said I could put 16 pairs of jeans in the washer at one time. I've never tried more than 5-6 pairs and even that is on the threshold of too many. The clothes won't get clean nor will they spin dry enough if I attempt a load anywhere near the size I used to be able to put in my old top loader.
As for savings, I didn't notice a dime difference on either my water or electric bill. Like I said, abandoning the dryer altogether and drying my clothes on a line is the only real savings I've found.
Other complaints? Mold and grime builds up on the door which has to be cleaned. I never had to clean my top loaders. For a while I had to buy Tide washing machine cleaner (specially formulated for front-loading HE washers) because the machine smelled like a decaying corpse. That improved once I cut the load size down to about half what I used to put in my old machine.
I also end up with clothes on the floor when I try to pull them out of the washer and put them in the dryer. My laundry room is the main walk-through to our garage, a high traffic area where I don't like clean clothes dropping on the floor. It's sometimes hard to avoid when your shirts are twisted together in a giant knot.
You're also forced to have the washer on the left because of the way the doors open. That has not been convenient in the two homes I've had this washer in. In both of them, the plumbing for the washer is on the right, the vent for the dryer on the left so they must criss-cross in the back. And the way the door opens in my laundry room, I would have preferred having the washer on the right (probably why the hook up is on that side as well). With a front-loader you can put it on either side of the dryer.
And then there's the basic quirk issues that are classic Whirlpool. The cycle complete buzzer sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I've had an occasional error code pop up and I've had to reset the machine. I'll open the door after the load is done only to find my clothes soaking wet. I have to repeat the spin cycle for some inexplicable reason. All random and occasional. Not broken. Just...Whirlpool.
We bought the machines when this was new technology, more than 10 years ago, and at the time, they said top loaders would soon be a thing of the past. Obviously, I'm not alone in my hatred of this style of washer as the top loaders didn't go away. The day this thing dies on me will be a joyous occasion in my household.
But to each his own. I know plenty of people who love their front loaders, and others like me who don't.
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