Any washers with a warm rinse?

[bwoods]

Any of you aware of any new washers that still offer a warm rinse?? I was looking at GE's at Lowes the other day and could not find one model with a warm rinse option.

I don't know about you, but what makes manufactures think they have a right to eliminate this option for consumers? I want to be as environmentally friendly as the next guy, but things are getting a little ridiculous.

In my case, I have an allergic reaction to detergents and cold rinses will just not do the trick. Sometimes I even turn the cold water faucet off and let the machine rinse with straight hot water. The suds pour out, even after a cold rinse with the pumped out rinse water looking clear.

Many people who still use cloth diapers also like to make sure their childrens diapers do not have detergent/dirt residue in them.

Am I dreaming, or did an early 1970's Lady Kenmore washer offer a hot rinse option??

 

[pierreandreply4]

so far the only washer in the top load category offering a warm rinse is the fridgedair top load washer but the warm rise is actualy dumb down and unless your willing to buy a vintage washer thats dates from 1950 to the end of the 1990 all newer washer offers only all cold rinses in the top load models unless the he top load model have a warm rinse option but so far the only models of washer i know of that offers a warm rinse are front load washers. Like this model to be precise. or you could always look for a speed queen and ask if they could have on a special order a washer with a warm rinse option.

Good luck

http://www.sears.ca/product/maytag-50-cu-ft-high-efficiency-front-load-washer-white/626-000285270-MHW6000XW

 

[arbilab]

My 1998 Frigidaire Gallery FL has a warm rinse option. And you're right, you get more suds on warm than cold so SOMEthing is happening.

Warm rinse might ding their energy rating, is probably why fewer offer it today.

 

[appnut]

Even the Speed Queen models that debut for this model year almost a year ago, only have cold rinses. I guess ou're gonna have to do some dial turning and pushing and do your warm rinse as a wash fill, I"m sure it wouldn't be the first time.

 

[strongenough78]

My friends one piece/stacked Kenmore unit that was like 5 years old I think, had the warm/warm option but the rinse still came out cold! I even turned the cold water off at the faucet and nothing came out at all. So I'm guessing the spray rinse during the spin between the wash and rinse cycles was probably warm and not the actual rinse cycle. Could that be possible? I was disappointed. The unit said Kenmore all over it, but it was definitely Frigidaire hardware. It had the solid vane agitator that did the half stroke one way and tub index and quarter stroke the other way.

 

[passatdoc]

Frig 2140 has warm rinse after warm wash.

My Frigidaire 2140 has hot-cold, warm-cold, warm-warm, and cold-cold options. Still sold at stores, not sure if still in production. My guess would be that the similar 2940 also offers the same temp combinations.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Are you sure all of the rinses are warm? In many machines with multiple rinses, it is only the last rinse that is warm.

 

[combo52]

WARM RINSES

I have never seen any scientific evidence that warm rinses work any better and in fact because they activate the residual detergent in the clothes they may not even rinse as well, that is why you see more foam when trying to rinse in warm water. Every detergent manufacturer recommends always rinsing in cold water for all loads and you may cause more mold, mildew and odor problems in your machine and clean laundry by using a warm rinse. No KM, WP, GE, MT, SQ, Etc. Etc ever had a hot rinse there were a very few machines where this was possible such as the mechanical Blackstones in the 1950s but they did not recommend it.

 

All that said there are many ways that you can get a warm rinse in any machine ever made if that is what you want. Several folks on this site have installed tempering valves in thier laundry room plumbing so they can control the cold water available to the machine. This way the washer has no choice but to rinse in warm water, the machine just thinks that in is in south Florida.

 

[tomturbomatic]

The only arguments for warm rinses are that:
1. Chemicals go into solution faster at warmer temperatures. That's why it is easier to dissolve sugar in hot tea than in cold tea.
2. Warmer temperatures relax fabrics and open the fibers so that detergent and remaining suspended dirt can be rinsed free.

If you are trying to move detergent from fabrics into rinse water, it will go faster and perhaps more completely in warm water. Since warm water relaxes fabrics, they will probably be pulled under faster by the agitation in warm water in a top loader.

 

[bwoods]

Thanks for the tips everyone. It looks like I'll be sticking to my vintage GE's and Frigidaire's for proper rinsing.

John, every study I have seen has indicated virtually all detergent's solubility increase with water temperature. Reactivating old detergents, as you say, with a warm or hot rinse is a good thing. Old detergents and the dirt they hold in suspension are released from the clothes. This is the foam you are seeing. That foam goes down the drain when the washer spins/drains.

I would much rather have dirty detergent residue and foam down the drain than on my clothes.

 

[wringer]

I have

a new GE portable washer that hooks up to my sink like a portable dishwasher. Since I live in an apartment and have no washer/dryer hookups this was my only answer. It has a 2.7 CF capacity so it is nearly as big as a standard washer. I control the water temp of the wash and rinse with the faucet handle. However, I have found that warm rinses are not as effective for removing the soap even with Downy as a cold rinse. This is only my opinion. FYI it is made in Thailand LOL. But, it works great. Hope it holds up !

 

[yogitunes]

you have to check the warm rinse option, machine to machine, the new 2004 TL agitator whirlpool that came with my house had a warm rinse option, but filled for the rinse with cold....the spray rinse during the last spin was warm, but not effective as the lines were cooled off at that point, and by the time the hot water got to the machine, the sprays were done.....so at this point useless!

 

[rp2813]

My three-year-old Frigidaire Affinity has a warm rinse option. The problem is that it's a dumbed-down temperature and even the warm wash is mostly cold.

 

When I had my Duet and shut off the cold water supply to it, I got an error code. It knew there wasn't any water coming into it through that inlet and wouldn't operate.

 

I agree that you should stick with an old school washer that lets you decide the temperatures without interfering.

 

[frigilux]

BUYER BEWARE! If you're planning to buy a Frigidaire top-loader to get a warm rinse, don't do it.

The deep rinse is actually cold, but the spray rinse during the final spin is warm. I recall being delighted to see that my 2006 Frigidaire top-loader had a warm/warm option, only to discover it was a ruse.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Wringer:
Lack of sudsing does not necessarily mean clean rinsing. Suds appear in warm rinsing because detergent is being removed and the warm water makes the remaining detergent more active so it bubbles. Cold water kills suds, but that does not mean that it is rinsing detergent out of the fabrics better than warm water.

 

[rp2813]

Since my Affinity doesn't have a clue about what a spray rinse is, I presume the warm portion is the final fill before the last spin cycle.

 

[MaytagA710]

Evem the newish TL Whrilpools dont have it!

I bought a Whrilpool WTW5700 4 years ago, it's a DD model. It has all cold rinses. I don't like that because I want to wash bed sheets, towels, and whites all with a warm water rinse. Warm water rinses seem to have gone the way of Hot Wash-Warm Rinse.

 

[arbilab]

Can always stand there, reset before final rinse, restart at 'wash' set to warm, advance to drain/spin. But then it's no longer automatic, is it?

BTW, despite my Frigi dispensing softener in the final rinse, I didn't like that. I wanted the softener rinsed out, it waterproofs towels at full concentration. So I put in in the bleach dispenser, where the water goes for all 3 early rinses, after the first 2. Eventually stopped using it altogether and don't miss it. Dryer sheets probably a better idea but I don't use those either.

 

[passatdoc]

warm rinse

I've only used warm rinse for washable woolens, like sweaters, having been told by friends that the soap rinses out of woolens better if warm.

Depending on the cycle chosen and whether "extra rinse" is selected, the Frig 2140 will run two or three rinses. I've never checked the washer while in operation to see whether all 2-3 rinses are warm water, or if only the first rinse is warm, followed by cold.

Given the rare number of times I've used the warm-warm option, it wouldn't be a deal killer if the next washer I own offered only cold rinses.