Miele Novotronic W1918

[bajaespuma]

You Go Greg!

It's like having Albert Einstein and Mary Margaret MacMertz do your laundry. Or those poor servants in Gosford Park.

 

Be prepared, unfortunately, for dissatisfaction with the performance of every other washer out there.

 

IMHO nothing does the job better than a Miele (but, being the perpetual spoiled child, I wouldn't mind a bigger tub, the 1800 spin speeds I'm beginning to see out in the market, a few more short cycles and a bleach dispenser that worked the way the Bauknecht's do where the bleach gets dispensed in the first warm rinse). We were taught in culinary school sanitation classes that chlorine bleach solutions do their work better in lukewarm water, not hot water because most of the chlorine volatilizes. Whenever I use bleach in any machine I have, I usually add it to a separate warm rinse.

 

[aamassther]

I second what @bajaespuma said. Once you go Miele, you never go back, lol. I like to bleach my white, kitchen microfibres, but also like long, hot washes at 75c for hygiene and whitening. I wash the microfibres first on a 30c quick wash with a tiny bit of detergent and a half cap of Clorox bleach crystals. I then add my white tea towels to the load and start a 75c cottons hygiene cycle with an enzyme and percarbonate bleach- result is bright whites and no bleach damage or yellowing. This is the only load I need to add chorine bleach to, as my white microfibres tend to hold coffee/tea stains. Everything else is sparkling white.

 

[bajaespuma]

BTW, I use old-fashioned Ammonia in my Miele all the time. Ammonia is a solvent for a lot of the natural detritus leached from human skin that cause whites to yellow, even after they're bleached, over time.

Nothing in the Miele manuals says anything about use of Ammonia so I cross my fingers and pour.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I assume that when you cross your fingers and pour, you have removed your formal gloves.

 

[aamassther]

I use ammonia in mine too. No issues so far and use it in about half of all loads.

 

[revvinkevin]

How about an update??

 

So Greg, you've had your little Miele 1918 for 3 months now, can you give us a full report on your usage - experiences - thoughts with / and about it?

 

While I have run other loads through my 1926 (and surprised how much it can actually hold), I've been using it mostly for loads of whites on the 180F or 190F cycle w/ Persil Megaperls.  I used to run water in the sink to get hot water in the pipes before starting the washers.   Since the Miele heats it's water, now I just start it first and by time it's done filling, hot water is in the pipes for the other machines.   I still feel 1 hr 40 mins is a loooong time for one load, but I'm getting used to it. 

 

Kevin

 

[jerrod6]

I have the 1986 I think one model newer than this version and the manual also advises no chlorine bleach.  With the temperature the machine can reach there really is no reason I have had to use it, especially with an oxygen bleach detergent. 

 

I have no second machine, but with the 1986 I think Miele introduced the load size sensing so if I have a small load it will reduce the amount of time for the cycle which is very much appreciated.  

 

Enjoy your machine and please let us know how it is working out for you.