Riding the possibly neutral fence.
I do laundry for one of my closest friends. Sometimes I do it at my house, sometimes I do it at his house. In his house, he has a GE Profile "FriGEmore" frontloader. At my house I have the 70's Whirlpool Supreme Super Capacity. When I do his laundry in the front loader, the cycle times are absolutely astronomical. I always select an extra rinse and use the "cotton" cycle. I use HE detergent and his favorite fabric softener. When I wash in mine, I use regular detergent, a lot more of it, and his favorite fabric softener. Maybe I underload the front loader terribly, but it seems I can wash more in my Whirlpool than I can in his GE. Herein though lies the rub. When I go to grab a towel out of his closet, I can tell what machine I used to wash them in. The towels washed in my machine have a very light fabric softener scent, the towels washed in his front loader have a a Heavy fabric softener scent. I use the same amount of softener in both machines, which is to the lower line in the cap. His machine does something like 4-6 rinses and mine does the deep rinse plus 4 spray rinses. still, even with all of those rinses in the front loader, the towels and clothes have a heavy softener scent to them. One time he asked me after I washed all of his clothes in my machine, "Did you use fabric softener??" I replied "yes, of course. Why?" He said that he couldn't really smell it. I reassured him that I used the same amount that I do at his house in his machine. I also use the extra rinse setting on his. So my senses tell me that his clothes are not rinsed as well when I use the frontloader. When it finally does kick into the final spin, you can see a froth of suds running down the window. In my machine, the deep rinses are always clear and sudsless. I do tend to use the "Quick wash" cycle on his machine which washes and rinses twice. I use this cycle just because it takes way too long to use any other cycle. No matter what machine I use, his clothes always come out clean. I just feel they are rinsed better in my WP. Now drying, that's a whole other story that I can't quite understand. His dryer is a GE Profile WCI clone, Mine is a Kenmore Elite 7 cubic foot. His washer spins at 950RPM, mine at 525. Yet clothes take a MUCH shorter time to dry in my dryer than his. A load of sheets takes 20 minutes in my dryer as opposed to 30-40 in his. Go figure. Well, I can now clearly see that I'm rambling. I guess the moral of the story is, I'm not really sold on Front-Loaders and I don't particularly like using them, but, as the saying goes "To each his own".
Geoff
I do laundry for one of my closest friends. Sometimes I do it at my house, sometimes I do it at his house. In his house, he has a GE Profile "FriGEmore" frontloader. At my house I have the 70's Whirlpool Supreme Super Capacity. When I do his laundry in the front loader, the cycle times are absolutely astronomical. I always select an extra rinse and use the "cotton" cycle. I use HE detergent and his favorite fabric softener. When I wash in mine, I use regular detergent, a lot more of it, and his favorite fabric softener. Maybe I underload the front loader terribly, but it seems I can wash more in my Whirlpool than I can in his GE. Herein though lies the rub. When I go to grab a towel out of his closet, I can tell what machine I used to wash them in. The towels washed in my machine have a very light fabric softener scent, the towels washed in his front loader have a a Heavy fabric softener scent. I use the same amount of softener in both machines, which is to the lower line in the cap. His machine does something like 4-6 rinses and mine does the deep rinse plus 4 spray rinses. still, even with all of those rinses in the front loader, the towels and clothes have a heavy softener scent to them. One time he asked me after I washed all of his clothes in my machine, "Did you use fabric softener??" I replied "yes, of course. Why?" He said that he couldn't really smell it. I reassured him that I used the same amount that I do at his house in his machine. I also use the extra rinse setting on his. So my senses tell me that his clothes are not rinsed as well when I use the frontloader. When it finally does kick into the final spin, you can see a froth of suds running down the window. In my machine, the deep rinses are always clear and sudsless. I do tend to use the "Quick wash" cycle on his machine which washes and rinses twice. I use this cycle just because it takes way too long to use any other cycle. No matter what machine I use, his clothes always come out clean. I just feel they are rinsed better in my WP. Now drying, that's a whole other story that I can't quite understand. His dryer is a GE Profile WCI clone, Mine is a Kenmore Elite 7 cubic foot. His washer spins at 950RPM, mine at 525. Yet clothes take a MUCH shorter time to dry in my dryer than his. A load of sheets takes 20 minutes in my dryer as opposed to 30-40 in his. Go figure. Well, I can now clearly see that I'm rambling. I guess the moral of the story is, I'm not really sold on Front-Loaders and I don't particularly like using them, but, as the saying goes "To each his own".
Geoff