Best Washing Machine for Lint Removal

[combo52]

Best lint & pet hair removing washers

Belt drive WP&KM washers with self cleaning back wash filters.I would often demonstrate the effectiveness of this type of filter by holding a dryers lint filter under the drain hose as it went into drain you would instantly see 10 times the lint that a FF or MT would catch in thier entire cycle. WP washers have much larger wholes in there tubs than MT and many more wholes than the tubs of GE washers. The FF lint filter sifts most of the lint back through the filter because the pan is moving with the agitator. You can put some dryer lint in the FF pan @ the start of the cycle and you will end up with less lint by the end of the load. The MT filters were so ineffective that about one half of owners never even bothered to clean them @ all. How many of us found old MTs where the filer was stuck in the agitater? owners soon stopped cleaning after seeing almost no lint on them load after load. I sold and serviced MT through the1970s.

 

[surgilator_68]

A filter flo?

Why? Just because it has a great big pan and you get balls of lint? Ever look at that lint? It's all the large stuff that can't make it thru the holes. Put a stocking on the end of the hose or the lint filter from the dryer under the drain hose and see how much is actually sifted thru that filter returning to the water in the washer. It's like sifting flour with a strainer. Shake the strainer enough and you are left with the clumps.

 

[scrubflex]

Have you actually done this? If so, what did you do?

 

[lordkenmore]

From from modern, but I really liked the one belt drive Kenmore user-cleaned filter I used. I moved into a place that had a machine like this. My around the house clothes were covered with enough fur to knit a couple of dogs. (My roommate at my previous residence had several dogs and 3 cats!) One trip through the washer, and that fur was GONE. I was really amazed...I figured the washer would work better than what I'd used before (WCI Frigidaire), but it did much, much better.

That design probably didn't catch everything, but my clothes (which are mostly air dried) had almost no visible lint or fur. Which is more than good enough for me.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

GE filter-flo

GE filter-flo is the best washer EVER, hands down! Perfect for washing smelly clothes and dirty blue jeans and overalls.

 

[pinkpower4]

ChomChom Pet Roller & Lily Brush

For those of you with pets, try the ChomChom Pet roller on your flat surfaces and a Lily brush (both available on Amazon) to remove pet hair before washing.

My Magic Chef portable has a lint trap. I wish I could find something like that to attach and use with a full-size washer that actually works.

I do spin dry the loads of clothes I can, but part of the reason I still finish drying them in a machine is to get rid of the lint. With my work pants, I will run a lint roller over them before ironing.

 

[pinkpower4]

rdmatos...

I know this is an old post, but the topic is still relevant today. Speed Queen markets a feature of one of their new dryers for fur removal. I think you put the clothes in the dryer first to remove the pet fur (lint filter catches it). Wash and dry like you normally would.

Honestly, it seems like just an air cycle. But on that particular dryer, there is a button just for that. I am not sure how I feel about that. My dog smells like a dog sometimes (imagine that!). I am concerned my clean clothes put in a dryer used for this purpose would take on that dog smell if clothes are put in the dryer for a fur removal cycle before washing. Wonder what the experience is for those who have actually used it for that purpose.

 

[iej]

Front load washer won’t really create any significant amounts of lint or matted fibres. However, they’re often not effective at removing very large quantities of pet hair, as the drums will typically retain it as they’re increasingly designed to be ultra gentle with tiny holes

The best way of removing lint or accidentally washed paper tissues is 15 to 30mins in the tumble dryer. If it’s delicate and you don’t intend to machine dry it, just, run a cold air dying cycle.

All the lint comes off and ends up in the filter. If there’s a lot of it, just clean the filter after the first few minutes, especially if it’s a large quantity of tissue paper.

You can usually wash a pet hair covered item in a front loader. It’ll come out clean, without creating clumpy lint. Then just machine dry it and it will be prefect.

If you’ve really large amounts of pet hair, roughly vacuum it first as no washing machine is designed to handle very significant quantities of loose hair and fluff.

 

[ozzie908]

One of the worst is a Miele

Honeycomb drum as iej says above the drum is designed to be gentle on clothes but it does retain a lot of the hair as it is unable to go through the holes...

I have a Whirlpool Dreamspace not sure how old it is but it keeps going and that does a wonderful job on pet hair it has lots of holes in the drum and what that doesn't remove my 20 year old SQ dryer gets the rest.

Sorted

 

[iej]

I have a Miele W1 and it will literally complete a pretty aggressive wash perfectly without even ripping up a lost tissue! They’re remarkably gentle machines in terms of fabric care.

I still think the best bet for pet hair is a quick pre vacuum and outdoor shake.

I have some limited experience of US style agitator top loaders and the lint generation issue is significant with some designs. I remember shirts coming out of an older Whirlpool with quite hard to remove little balls of lint, which was something I’d encountered before. I didn’t quite appreciate the need to be carful about selecting “heavy”

 

[maytag85]

For me it’s my 1963 RCA Whirlpool Imperial Mark XII and my Maytags.