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240V washer? It isn’t clear to me whether the washer part i.e. the heater is 240V. Don’t see heater wattage.

240V cold fill vs 120V hot fill You'd need a formula to tell which is faster in a given case. Variables would be cold water temperature, hot water temperature, target water temperature, water volume, and the wattage of the 240V and 120V heaters. The Little Giant, with a super-powerful 240V...

Every time I rent a current model Toyota there's a set of manuals in the glove compartment, usually still shrink-wrapped.

Unlocked link from the Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/business/whirlpool-youngest-factory-manager-e730ece6?st=asPxgA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Drum bumps instead of paddles I guess delicate loads will be coddled purely through drum action, not high water levels, since standing water would cause items to float on top and not get moved.

Why would detergent mfrs tell us to use too much …when it’s sold by the number of loads in a package? A 113-load box of Tide, say, would be smaller and cost less to make if they lowered the dose. I know that legally speaking it’s sold by weight, but I think number of loads is what most...

Reply 11 In the US there's a laundry product called Clorox 2 Liquid that contains hydrogen peroxide. Being an additive, it gets mixed with liquid detergent at the time of use. Will enzymes in the detergent have time to act before they're deactivated by the hydrogen peroxide in the additive...

Reply 1 The pandemic interrupted my habit of spending pennies to keep my change supply trim, because I stopped using cash. I haven't picked it up again, because I realized I don't want to be the old guy making everyone wait while he doles out his pennies, even though I was careful to have them...

Freshness We find that hotter water leaves laundry smelling fresher when using unscented detergents.

It's not really costing you any money, just making you fill the dispenser more often. Though more frequent fill-ups may mean more spills which wastes a little rinse agent each time. But it isn't like you can't get half the contents out of each bottle of rinse agent you buy.

ISE sink mount The sink mount on the new ISE models, at least the ones I've looked at, have a removable baffle that can go in the dishwasher. That might make it worth the trouble of changing out the old mount.

Photo 1 The powder detergent didn't get flushed out because it's in the liquid detergent insert.

Does anyone know what, if any, laundry practices might extend the wrinkle-free performance of such shirts? For example, washing time, water temperature, detergent type, drying temperature?

Reply #4 Bob, if your Duet was 120V, as I assume it was, it got 120V+/- from your home's 208V system. It's the "240V" outlets that are shortchanged by a 208V system. My Little Giant washer has a 5000W heating element, but it only puts out around 3700W on my condo's 208V supply.