Commercial Laundries/Laundromats & Water Use By Machine Type

[launderess]

Interesting report regarding water use by types of washing machine (top load, front loading by several weight classes), and suggest large front loading washers are more efficient than top loaders.

http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/50/49004.pdf

 

[arbilab]

Danger Will Robinson. Link is to a PDF. Older systems (like mine) can lock up and require hard reset if the file is newer than the user's reader.

Much as with a broken dictaphone, 'it goes without saying' that a FL is more water efficient than a TL. My highly-dated 1998 FL manages wash and 4 1/2 rinses on 1/2 the water the Maytag TL before it managed wash and 1 1/2 rinses. (Half rinse = spray.)

Frankly the Maytag scrubbed better, but even with complete fills it shortened the life of cottons at least 1/3 more than the FL does. And today's TLs don't do complete fills unless they're jiggered.

Last time I looked, at least here (N TX), clothes are more expensive than water. Not that commercial laundries care about fabric life. But few of our AW users operate commercial laundries.

JMO, eh?

 

[launderess]

PDF File Danger

Sorry, had no idea. Should one remove the link?

 

[ronhic]

Worked fine for me....all I had to do was allow the site.

Interesting paper to be honest.

 

[frigilux]

Thanks for sharing this very interesting, thorough article. Funny how only six years later a front-loading washer that has a 2.9 cu. ft. tub and uses 21.5 gallons of water seems profligate.

 

[arbilab]

Should one remove the link?

I think not dear. My system is VERY old, W98. Even if the incompatibility manifests, no lasting damage occurs, just a transient annoyance. I added that as much to say I couldn't read the linked data so I was running my mouth at random.

 

[eronie]

water use

First pic is a Dryer Drum !!! Interesting article though.