Well, yeah that's one difference.
The only time I've encountered a major problem with foam was with a US produced eco detergent that I can't remember the name of. It was definitely just imported directly by a health food store and I tired it out of curiosity for some reason. They just had a clear label with some importers name added to the big jug of detergent.
As soon as the machine got a few minutes into the cycle there was foam spewing out of the drawer of the machine onto the floor!!!
I had to add fabric softener to the wash premixed with several litres of water in a mop bucket, poured through the drawer to calm it down and then force several rinses manually with more fabric softener and then redo the entire wash with normal detergent.
The product was as high foaming as dish soap.
The are plenty of good eco detergents on the market here that work very well. I've never seen they one again (unsurprisingly).
There are probably still a few automatic top loader agitator machines around in Ireland. They were a niche market but, some people clearly bought them and you'd have seen one or two models on the floor of most major electrical retailers until a few years ago and Hotpoint used to do a version of the filter flow that was "Europeanised" for residential use. As far as I'm aware that disappeared in the late 1990s.
Larger capacity front loaders caused the niche to disappear and also their energy ratings and wash performance ratings were rather poor and carried on the label as per EU norms. The spin speed also maxed out at 800 which is something that European machines are very competitively marketed on - you'd be fairly surprised to see anything slower than 1200 these days with better machines usually being 1600.
TLs used to crop up in light commercial use - mostly Maytags and Speedqueens but it's all light commercial front loaders now, Miele and Electrolux being the main contenders.
Those top loader machines would have largely been used with normal European style front loader detergents. High foaming stuff has been rare for more than 40 years at this stage.
Back in the day, they used to suffix the brand with "automatic" to imply low foaming.
Persil Automatic
Ariel Automatic
Bold Automatic
Surf Automatic
Daz Automatic
That branding carried into the 80s even though non automatic versions were fairly hard to find.
The only time I've encountered a major problem with foam was with a US produced eco detergent that I can't remember the name of. It was definitely just imported directly by a health food store and I tired it out of curiosity for some reason. They just had a clear label with some importers name added to the big jug of detergent.
As soon as the machine got a few minutes into the cycle there was foam spewing out of the drawer of the machine onto the floor!!!
I had to add fabric softener to the wash premixed with several litres of water in a mop bucket, poured through the drawer to calm it down and then force several rinses manually with more fabric softener and then redo the entire wash with normal detergent.
The product was as high foaming as dish soap.
The are plenty of good eco detergents on the market here that work very well. I've never seen they one again (unsurprisingly).
There are probably still a few automatic top loader agitator machines around in Ireland. They were a niche market but, some people clearly bought them and you'd have seen one or two models on the floor of most major electrical retailers until a few years ago and Hotpoint used to do a version of the filter flow that was "Europeanised" for residential use. As far as I'm aware that disappeared in the late 1990s.
Larger capacity front loaders caused the niche to disappear and also their energy ratings and wash performance ratings were rather poor and carried on the label as per EU norms. The spin speed also maxed out at 800 which is something that European machines are very competitively marketed on - you'd be fairly surprised to see anything slower than 1200 these days with better machines usually being 1600.
TLs used to crop up in light commercial use - mostly Maytags and Speedqueens but it's all light commercial front loaders now, Miele and Electrolux being the main contenders.
Those top loader machines would have largely been used with normal European style front loader detergents. High foaming stuff has been rare for more than 40 years at this stage.
Back in the day, they used to suffix the brand with "automatic" to imply low foaming.
Persil Automatic
Ariel Automatic
Bold Automatic
Surf Automatic
Daz Automatic
That branding carried into the 80s even though non automatic versions were fairly hard to find.
