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Epitome of proper daily laundry sorting???
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the red one! I'm guessing certain cultures are cautious about washing their underwear with outer garments? Go figure...
the red one! I'm guessing certain cultures are cautious about washing their underwear with outer garments? Go figure...
sorting
I sort by color, fabric and soil level. I do darks, whites, and lights separately. All of my clothes I wear daily are sturdy cottons.
I sort by color, fabric and soil level. I do darks, whites, and lights separately. All of my clothes I wear daily are sturdy cottons.
I mean, most loads done are really small.
Most higher end EU machines have some kind of "single item" or "mini load" function.
But as with all methods, doing smaller loads will always be less efficient.
And I'd be somewhat concerned with the number of things going wrong with such a machine.
If drum top left has a broken inverter board, can I still use the big drum? Stuff like that, having 3 machines in one and scrapping all 3 machines because one small feature breaks.
Most higher end EU machines have some kind of "single item" or "mini load" function.
But as with all methods, doing smaller loads will always be less efficient.
And I'd be somewhat concerned with the number of things going wrong with such a machine.
If drum top left has a broken inverter board, can I still use the big drum? Stuff like that, having 3 machines in one and scrapping all 3 machines because one small feature breaks.
<blockquote>I'm guessing certain cultures are cautious about washing their underwear with outer garments?</blockquote> Correct.
U.S. market ... nope. Much more likely *everything* is washed together. Sister once ran a large load at mom's after a fishing outing with neighbors ... towels, shorts, shirts, socks, underwear, and shoes .... cold water of course, and not enough detergent (water wasn't slippery when I checked, I added more).
If I’m not mistaken, didn’t Hotpoint in the 1960’s have a mini-basket which you could wash another load simultaneously? Could have sworn I saw something like that in the archives years ago. I suppose you could do it with an older GE FF washers as well.
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I think you're thinking of GE.
I think you're thinking of GE.
As far as the west is concerned, this is trying to create a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. I mean it is kind of cool, but is there a real need for something like this ?
The only positive outcome I see with this design is that it may push the idiots here in the US washing their entire wardrobe in a ginormous front loader using cold/cold to actually sorting AT LEAST their whites in a different drum and actually using warm or (GASP!) hot water for their dirty undies and socks.
Maybe.... (probably not).
Meanwhile, I'm just about to get up and flip the big ol switch on the Maytag that has been soaking a tub completely full of underwear, socks, hand towels, and towels in Tide/w bleach powder detergent + oxygen bleach at 160F for the last 5 hours.
Maybe.... (probably not).
Meanwhile, I'm just about to get up and flip the big ol switch on the Maytag that has been soaking a tub completely full of underwear, socks, hand towels, and towels in Tide/w bleach powder detergent + oxygen bleach at 160F for the last 5 hours.
That video is odd, mirrored/flipped and the narration likely is dubbed English. I doubt the machine is, or will be, aimed at the U.S. market.
<blockquote>... didn’t Hotpoint in the 1960’s have a mini-basket which you could wash another load simultaneously?</blockquote> Sean, you're thinking of the Hotpoint Duo-Load. It's similar to GE's Mini-Basket but different in that the Duo-Load small basket is isolated from the regular (non-perforated) tub which allows for two separate (each half-size) loads to be washed simultaneously in separate water supplies ... at different temperatures, one with bleach and one without, etc.
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There has been discussion about this particular short-lived Hotpoint washer, but I don't believe anyone among us actually owns one. I ran across this ad for sale on Ebay that I thought was a nice (albeit over-simplified) explanation of the washer's capabilities. L...
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I wonder which of those individual units is likely to break first?
Surely you're not always going to have all that machinery go on all at once...
The touch controls on the door seem to be a novel idea, other than the fact sometimes touch screens don't always work and to me another place where I just don't like them on everything!
Just my phone is enough, but I'll be okay with them in my car, after all I am going to lease a new one every three years and that could be the only thing left at trade-in time that will actually work!
What chamber, if you will, do you exactly put what in, if each is at any preset temperature or speed?
You're right: No place in the US seems ripe for accepting this type of washing, let alone keeping one or all of those drums free from breaking down, and needing replacement parts and/or repairs!
-- Dave
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Surely you're not always going to have all that machinery go on all at once...
The touch controls on the door seem to be a novel idea, other than the fact sometimes touch screens don't always work and to me another place where I just don't like them on everything!
Just my phone is enough, but I'll be okay with them in my car, after all I am going to lease a new one every three years and that could be the only thing left at trade-in time that will actually work!
What chamber, if you will, do you exactly put what in, if each is at any preset temperature or speed?
You're right: No place in the US seems ripe for accepting this type of washing, let alone keeping one or all of those drums free from breaking down, and needing replacement parts and/or repairs!
-- Dave
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nightmare
This technology is just a nightmare waiting to happen. How about you sort your laundry properly and use the correct cycles? That's common sense. This generation is expecting their parents to do their laundry for them, instead of learning how to do it correctly. most of the time, my sturdy cottons are normally soiled meaning that my clothes are worn for a full day sometines being outside. I want the dead skin cells out of my laundry.
This technology is just a nightmare waiting to happen. How about you sort your laundry properly and use the correct cycles? That's common sense. This generation is expecting their parents to do their laundry for them, instead of learning how to do it correctly. most of the time, my sturdy cottons are normally soiled meaning that my clothes are worn for a full day sometines being outside. I want the dead skin cells out of my laundry.
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Sure, maintenance issues are a deal-breaker but ...
If you do laundry for just one or two people, this could do a week's wash all at once. Do they have a four-way dryer too?
If you do laundry for just one or two people, this could do a week's wash all at once. Do they have a four-way dryer too?
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