Daily Driver

[supersurgilator]

I would love to have a washer like this one as a daily driver. It is a shame that we can no longer have machines with a warm rinse, and I like those that have a hot/warm setting as well.

http://www.dfwfurniturestore.com/item.php?ItemID=223

 

[kenmoreguy64]

Bruce....

I totally agree with you about the warm rinses. I am using one machine right now that has three temp. selections: Cold/Cold, Warm/Cold, and Hot/Warm. I don't usually use the full warm rinse, but I do put it on the hot/warm setting at times to get extra water flow for the spray rinses. This has saved me a few times from running a second deep rinse due to sudsy towels, etc. I also like how the fabrics come out of the machine warm, plus they take a little bit less time to warm up in the dryer.

Gordon

 

[stainfighter]

Warm rinse...

agree with u Gordon, shirts and blouses less wrinkled when rinsed warm = less ironing! Had the same KM when we were Innkeepers - a true workhorse, had two have two dryers just to keep up with it!

 

[pierreandreply4]

sometime i wonder why they stop putting the warm rinse option on washers so far with the kenmore desing i think that this is the only model that as the warm rinse option witch they called extra warm?

http://www.sears.ca/product/kenmore-800-series-tl-washer-qp2-ltbrgt263-629-832/263629832

 

[yogitunes]

most of the whirlpools I have seen lately have the warm rinse option.....but the rinse water fill is cold....warm water is sprayed on the fabrics during the final spin....

don't know if all of them do this

 

[supersurgilator]

As Gordan was saying, I didn't realize that even the older models would use a warm spray rinse when on the warm rinse setting.

 

[frigilux]

My 2006 Frigidaire TL'er has a Warm/Warm setting. The deep rinse is cold; the spray rinse in the final spin is warm. Deception!

My 2002 Frigidaire FL'er has a Warm/Warm setting. Rinses 1 + 2 are cold. The third (final) rinse is tap-warm.

 

[mattl]

My '96 Kenmore has a warm rinse options, but all it really is is tempered cold water. It fill with cold and every 20 seconds or so there is a splash of warm water, not hot, just warm added to the cold. So even back then there was not a true warm rinse.

 

[kenmoreguy64]

Matt -

Your machine probably has ATC - Automatic Temperature Control, or whatever Kenmore calls it, where the mixing valve is thermostatic and it measures the incoming water temperature to some prescribed temp. They do just what yours does - open and close the hot valve to approximate the temperature that it is set at to make 'warm' water. The action there depends on the temperature of the cold water. I've not heard many people here say they like these. The premise behind these originally was to prevent warm from being too warm and thereby causing fading of colors.

I have a 1993 Kenmore machine, and it has true warm rinses where both valves of the mixing valve are wide open when 'warm' is selected. ATC became a more and more common option in the 90s and may be standard now on everything, I'm not totally sure, but I am pretty sure there were still some Kenmores in the later 90s that offerd 'old school' non-thermostatic mixing valves and warm rinse selections, however they certainly were few and far between.

Gordon