i wish modern top loads and modern front loads of today would bring back the hot water wash with war

[passatdoc]

My 2006 Frig 2140 FL--in its eleventh year of flawless service, the last 18 months in my neighbor's laundry room, since i gave him the machine---has Warm wash/Warm rinse, but it did not have Hot wash/Warm rinse. The only rinse option for Hot wash was Cold rinse.

 

[vacerator]

Well

there we have it, from someone who owned one, and whose neighbor still has it.
I wonder if they are still made as well today.

 

[combo52]

An 11 YO Washer, WOW ???

The first thing you learn in statistics is one example of something lasting or failing does not have any real meaning, you must survey hundreds and even thousands of machines to get any good idea whether it is a durable appliance or not.

 

This is why so many people never get anywhere in life because they don't look beyond their own little world to make choices in life, LOL.

 

[stricklybojack]

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A cold rinse after a hot wash is almost a warm rinse, no?

 

[vacerator]

after a hot wash

sure, I would think the initial cool down rinse would be warm.

 

[yogitunes]

not exactly.....

for most normal Tlers, the spin spray is usually cold, so a cooled load is already started, and by the time a full tub of cold water is filled, that load is chilled....

on the FLers I own, there is a Warm/Warm selection......but only the very last rinse is a tempered down warm, the first, second, and possible third rinse is cold...

noticed on several Whirlpool direct drive machines built after 2000.....when warm rinse is selected, only the sprays during the last spin are warm, the deep fill is cold....amazing the people who dont hang around their machine to notice this

same machine, when HOT is selected for wash.....the machine fills for 60 seconds with hot, the rest is warm.....cool at best

so much for the thought of load and go......and not paying attention to that hot wash was never hot to begin with......

especially love the ones who wash in cold water worried about shrinkage.....only to toss them into a 160 degree dryer....

must be the same ones who walk into McDonalds, orders a BigMac with a diet coke!....note, drive-thrus are not there to order a burger to hold you over until you get inside!

 

[vacerator]

Yes Martin,

I guess I was thinking that the clothes are still hot from the hot wash, so the cold water in the cool down would make them be warm.

 

[launderess]

See link one posted in another thread

Regarding 1950's laundry appliances.

Under the article/editorial for Maytag it speaks to the many features of those washers; one of which being rinse water temperature was thermostatically controlled to 100F. This would mean on such equipped models you got a "warm" rinse regardless of selection of "cold" I presume. Just the thing for areas of the USA where winters are quite cold. This advert ran in the Chicago Tribune and as we all know Illinois do be quite chilly in winter....

 

[combo52]

Warm Water Temperature

Most better machines in the 50s had thermostatically controlled inlet valves and almost all gave a wash or rinse temp of about 100F.

 

Maytag never sold a washer that could be preset for a cold wash and a warm rinse till the 60s. machines such as a few hi-end KMs and Norges to name a few with separate wash and rinse temperature switches could be set for a cold wash and a warm rinse, although I can not imagine a reason to ever do so, LOL.