vintagewasher
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I read up here when looking for another washing machine and picked the maytag commercial mvwp576kw because as much as I would like a vintage machine we’re just not handy enough nor do we have time to do repairs ourselves. We have nine kids and even with our four year old big lg8000hwa with the mini pedestal washer I was still having trouble keeping up on all the laundry, just not enough hours in the day for those long cycles and the control panel reset gymnastics and extra water trickery required to get cloth diapers clean was getting old.
The maytag is everything I was wanting in a washer. I don’t know why there aren’t more machines like this on the market. It’s just simple knobs and a single button. One side of the main knob is blue and fills the tub with water. Really fills it full and non temp restricted hot water is an option. The same cycles on the other side of that cycle selector knob do the same thing but the tub only fills about half way. It works better for smaller loads and when I want the detergent more concentrated. It needs a lot more detergent than the top loader. Then there’s a knob to select the temperature from tap cold to hot and a third knob for options which are presoak, extra rinse, or both. The hot presoak option works amazingly well on the cloth diapers.
My only complaint about the new machine is the lack of a rinse option other than cold. Cold works for everything except the diapers which I need to have zero detergent residue. It’s not the machine’s fault but it moves so much laundry so quickly compared to the front loader that we have dryer bottlenecks. We’ve added a little apartment sized dryer and large drying rack to help. We live in military housing so we’re not allowed to add another 240v dryer outlet so that’s our only option for more dryer space.


The maytag is everything I was wanting in a washer. I don’t know why there aren’t more machines like this on the market. It’s just simple knobs and a single button. One side of the main knob is blue and fills the tub with water. Really fills it full and non temp restricted hot water is an option. The same cycles on the other side of that cycle selector knob do the same thing but the tub only fills about half way. It works better for smaller loads and when I want the detergent more concentrated. It needs a lot more detergent than the top loader. Then there’s a knob to select the temperature from tap cold to hot and a third knob for options which are presoak, extra rinse, or both. The hot presoak option works amazingly well on the cloth diapers.
My only complaint about the new machine is the lack of a rinse option other than cold. Cold works for everything except the diapers which I need to have zero detergent residue. It’s not the machine’s fault but it moves so much laundry so quickly compared to the front loader that we have dryer bottlenecks. We’ve added a little apartment sized dryer and large drying rack to help. We live in military housing so we’re not allowed to add another 240v dryer outlet so that’s our only option for more dryer space.

