LG Front Loaders

[henene4]

Though I trust LG to be that clever, I am not 100% sure if the final rinse was actually warm.

I know that happens to me on boilwashes with our rag-towels in the AEG sometimes. As the rinses are rather short then (small load, only 2 rinses), the cool down is pretty short as well and only one interim spin is performed, the load is basicly still warm from the 80°C (180°F-ish) main wash.
Those stainless steal tubs do hold some heat, as well as the clothing it self during low level rinses.
Connect that with only 20-30 minutes between highest temp point of the wash and cycle end and you might still have warm clothing at the end.

So my guess is that heavy soil on hot on the Whites cycle caused the internal heater to engage. Temperatures reached 140°F or even more.
Then, the short TurboWash rinse sequence with only one deep rinse was performed and thus, the load was still, rather then again, warm.

Though it would be really cool if you could rerun that cycle and check back on whether it was still or again warm.

 

[nmassman44]

Well I neglected to say that I gave this cycle 2 extra rinses on top of the rinses that it already does. I normally use the soil level setting one up from Normal, but this load of whites was very soiled so I thought that Heavy setting was called for. I also used a tad more Persil Pro White Pearls to really tackle the dirty socks and tea towels that I had in the load. The results were nothing short of stunning. Every stain came out. The Bright Whites cycle starts out with warm water and the water heater in the washer kicks on and does a "profile wash" where stains will release from fabrics at a certain temp and it moves on to add more heat so no stain is set...if that makes sense. It kinda cool that it does that.
So that theory of the hot wash water coming over into the rinse is not correct. In my opinion.

 

[henene4]

Yeah, ok...

That changes the whole thing.

But still: I know it can happen. Just thought LG would give any kind of notice.

 

[nmassman44]

Well I got my first water bill for the quarter beginning in April and ending in late June. Last quarter with me using the SQ washer we paid $253 thats a combined water and sewer and that was from January to March end. Today we got the water bill with me using the new LG washer and our water bill was $162...thats a $91 drop from last quarter.
The electric bill is less as well. When using the SQ washer with the GE Profile dryer the bill ran about $60 a month. Now we average about $28 and thats a $32 drop as well. And I have not used my clothesline either. I am sure if I were it would drop even more.
Very happy I switched. Clothes are cleaner as well and don't look tired either.

 

[a440]

Mike that is awesome!  That is a huge gain in savings! 

I bet now that you have washed everything in the house and are caught up, it will drop even more!

B

 

[dartman]

I upgraded to a top load Kenmore/Whirlpool 28102 HE washer last year when my tax refund came back and I'm finding similar savings, though our combined sewer/water bill is typically higher then yours is.
We also just got the bigger Kenmore/whirlpool dryer for this years upgrade from our washer and it works nicely and SHOULD be saving us on the power bill but can't really say yet as we went equal pay to balance out the huge winter bill vs summer.
Have to look at the graphs on our bill and compare to see if it's really helping and having different weather every year doesn't help as we have a forced air elctric furnace that I'm hoping to replace with a heat pump soonish.
I think many of us were forced to upgrade to HE washers just to try and save some money on our bills, and luckily many of the better washers now do a better job then our old school water wasters.