Recent content by swedusa

It seems like this would confirm the popular advice to use smaller amounts of detergent, right?

re: tap hot When "hot" wash is selected it actually gives you pretty close to tap hot. Just based on feeling the hoses when it fills, it does use some cold but very little. I suppose you could just turn off the cold water line to get tap hot if you really wanted it? The problem I have is that...

Turbowash 360 model is what I wanted originally (3900). It was out of the budget, unfortunately.

Dang. Now I’m wishing I had sprung for a model with the internal heater. Oh well. I was using the heavy duty cycle on light soil instead of normal at first, but it seemed like the normal cycle actually used a little more water and did a better job rinsing. I’ll have to keep experimenting. It’s...

No on-board heater. I sat with it again on the “towels” cycle. I had it set to the second highest wash temp and it never used even a drop from the hot tap. Just trying to figure out what these different wash temp settings are even for if they all end up being the same as tap cold except for...

I have a new LG wm3400cw FL washer that I bought in June. I noticed early on that the wash temperatures seem pretty low, but I thought it was just how new washers are with energy restrictions. I bumped up the wash temp on all my regular loads. I know it uses hot water if the wash temp is set to...