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Warm rinse It absolutely rinses better. I have been trying to run a hose from a sink into the Kenmore’s dispenser during the final rinse. The warm water dissolves and breaks down detergent residue much better. I feel like the difference on towels is noticeable.

AI My Kenmore/LG does it to an extent. It will reduce tumble speed, prolong tumbles, and alter spin speed based on load size after the initial sensing. The older machines just adjusted wash and rinse time, as well as add more time for balancing. The program for a large/full load is actually...

ac off when not home Ours would take far too long to get to appropriate temp if we would turn it off when we are not home, especially when it has been mid 90s lately. Our house is not all that well insulated. Plus, better humidity control is far worth the cost, IMHO. We could probably get away...

temps 72 during the day, 71 at night. Would be a degree cooler if I had more control.  Winter is usually 68. 

home alone While it certainly is nice and has a fair bit of updates, I agree that the house now feels cold and sterile. I prefer the way it was before. 

citric acid 1 cup in that machine once a month with hot water and PowerWash would tackle scale and grime.  Keep us updated on the machine!

PV vs PC Agreed with the above that the PC on Normal no options out cleaned my PV on Pots & Pans with HT and Sanitize. That would be with the Hydrosweep in the PC and lightening bolt arm in the PV. It also used less water on that program, and I guarantee less energy for water heating. The...

KA That is an incredible machine you have there! I suggest replacing the lower wash arm bearing.  It will wash happily for years!

No prerinse /prewash Could it be done? Absolutely. A lot of newer machines default to it on Normal cycles. It does save a decent amount of water. However, there could be a way around that. But, this is highly variable depending on soil level, design of machine filtration, time of cycle, etc...

full of water The only machine I have ever used that does this was my Bosch. My Power Clean, Point Voyager, and Micro Clean do not do this.  However, the Bosch did not leak out. That sounds like a bad seal.

Enzymes None to speak of. Might be great, but probably not better than Tide powder. Likely the same thing minus enzymes.

Sudsing If you want to use the remainder of the pacs, just put the powder in and dispose of the gel top. It is very likely the water softening agent is in the colored gel. After doing this, I have never had issues with sudsing. Though, the KitchenAid has never had issues with sudsing, but our...

Pollution I have witnessed the agricultural pollution first hand at multiple lakes. You can see the run off being poured straight into them. It is an absolute shame that nothing is being done about that, but our daily lives have been restricted so heavily in comparison. Don’t get me started on...

Energy costs Every other load of white towels and sheets are ran on Whitest Whites + AutoSoak using 45°C temp, instead of the Sanitize cycle. I’m probably not saving much electric here, but oh well. I’m sure the additional additives of OxiClean Laundry Sanitizer and Dirty labs booster in the...

Capacity My Duet was a later 3.9 cu ft. machine. It also had the belt squeak on slower tumbles. Ours always had issues with balancing, but was on a pedestal. That likely wore the machine out prematurely. Within the first year we called service for this issue and they replaced the control board...

Nice! Very glad to see your Duet is still going strong. I can assure you, these new machines are great, but I do miss my Duet.

Slow interim spin I don’t agree. The differences between a slow interim spin and higher interim spin are larger than one would think. Rinsing is not nearly as good. This is the exact reason why I do not use TurboWash/AccelaWash on my Kenmore. The Normal cycle without TurboWash will run miles...

Wow That is very surprising. I expected the same. It appears lighter in the pic, but isn’t as significant as I would imagine with the Mannanase and Pectate Lyase. I will be very interested to see the Whites-Warm and Sanitize cycles.

mark_wpduet I was VERY worried about the large space in the middle of the spray arm as well. However, as long as the dishes are largely placed correctly and there are no pots facing down in this area, the top rack spray and overspray from the bottom rack covers those dishes completely. I have...

Wow I’m impressed. Historically, my worst stains are spaghetti sauce (especially Raos) and Hot sauce. Coffee and Mustard generally are difficult stains too. I always need Oxy to remove all of these. Tomato stain likely would have been better with pectate lyase. Though, the SQs “warm temp” is...