Programmes you are always using

[nrones]

Hi,
First of all, I"m a pretty new member here, and I hadn"t introduced my self to you. I am Dex, and I come from Belgrade, Serbia. I have 3 washing machines (Candy GO4 1274 LH, Candy GO 510, Gorenje WA583), dishwasher (Siemens SE23200), and a tumble dryer (Whirlpool AWZ3303). As some of you might have noticed, my favourite is Candy

Well, what I wanted to ask you in this thread is daily use of your washers!
Here is an example of my daily programmes and options:

Towels - cottons 60, medium soil, water+ (or 40, but I select superwash, and high soil)

Darks - Synthtetics 40 medium/low soil, (options depending on load, but I doo superwash when I want it to be quick, and stil good washed). But when I"m drying in the dryer, then I doo cottons 40, no options (because max on Synth"s is just 800, and on cottons 1200)

Underwear - Cottons 90, high soil, prewash, water plus (usually half load, so Candy reduces the time to 1h45m

All the programmes I said are for Candy GO4 1274 LH (see the pic.), because it has all the options that GO510, and Gorenje have. And when I say low/medium/high soil I am not selecting any option like superwash or short, As you know Candy have time manager where you can select 3 levels of soiling/time.
Also it has KG mode that is automaticly reducing time when there"s less laundry in the machine.

The dryer:
Well, I am mostls doing 4-5 kg loads, so the dryer takes 80-90minutes to dry that.. Is that too much?

Visit my YouTube channel to see vids

www.youtube.com/nrones

cheers,
Dex

 

[aegokocarat]

in my aqualtis i use shirts synthetics whites wool silk and colureds.
in the beko i use daly quick baby and toddler and spin+drain.

 

[jlbrazil]

Towels/Bedding - Cottons 60 with rinse+ ( 4 rinses )

Whites - Cottons 60 with normal rinse (3 ) and pre wash

Colours - Cottons 50 with normal rinse

Darks - Duvet 40 with normal rinse (2 ) and 1000rpm

Delicates - Delicate 30 with normal rinse (2) and 800rpm

Shirts on Quick 30 at 40 with intensive , rinse++ (4) and anti crease ( 800 rpm for 30 seconds + 5 min anti crease tumbles )

And cleaning stuff on the Quick 30 with normal settings ( 30ºC , 800rpm and 2 rinses )

The machine I have is on the pic below

 

[targus]

on my washer (aeg lavamat 76850) I use:

- Towels: cottons 60° with option short depending on the load size
- Dark and coloured clothes: cottons or synthetics, when the load goes into the dryer then I chose cotton because it spins @ 1600 rpm.
- Bedding: cottons 60°
- very dirty towels on cottons 95° or hygiene
- delicates on delicates 30°

on my dryer (aeg lavatherm 59840) I use:

- for towels and beddings: cottons intensive dry
- for normal clothes: mix cupboard dry (MAX dry setting)

pic of machine below:

 

[hoover1100]

For me (at present)

Towels and bed sheets- Cotton 60

Whites/lights- Cotton 40

Coloureds/Darks- Cotton 40

Jeans- Quick wash or Cotton 40 (depending on degree of soiling)

Delicates- Sythetics 40 or the Wool programme depending on what they are made of.

Matt

 

[dave886]

i have an aqualtis (new version)

colourfast darks, i used cotton coloured or the jeans cycle on a cold wash 800 to 1200rpm

normal load cotton & synthetics 30 to 40 degrees (depend on soil level) 800 to 1200rpm

bedding & towels, cotton cycle or bed & bath cycle 40 to 90degrees with steam hygiene option depending on the colour and fabric and soil level and size of the load 1200 to 1600rpm

whites on cotton 60 to 90 degrees 1200 to 1600rpm

special whites or coloureds with special designer prints 40degrees synthetics or silk cycle 600 to 800rpm

underwear i use 40 degrees cotton with steam hygiene 1600rpm

 

[nrones]

Cool

You said me what I wanted to see
Now, Can you tell me please what programmes would you use if you had my GrandOPlus?
*but please no answers like "I would never have a Candy, so I won"t talk about progs"

Thanks alot indeed

 

[dave886]

i forgot the pic

 

[dave886]

@nrones

i have never used a candy washer before, the ones in the uk are very basic

 

[superelectronic]

Flashy Grando...

Dex, you'd better post us a close up of the controls if you want us to play fantasy wash cycles!

I'm currently with my parents who have the rather basic cousin to the top-end Candy Grando: a Hoover Optima OPH616 (9 months troube free for those ready to scorn modern Hoovers!). Mum only uses the quick cycles:

44 for whites and lights
29 for darks and delicates
59 for towels

It seems to be working out well enough; being a retired couple they're not large generators of dirty laundry.

If I stick around another couple of days I might get to have a play with the machine. I'm interested to find out:

1 how long the cottons cycles are (suspect pushing 3 hours!)
2 what sort of cycle Sports is (long, cool and gentle: has potential for thorough washing of darks?)
3 how Wool cycle performs (seen a video of the new Hoover Dynamic doing wool: looks far too gentle to be of any use at all!)

I don't suppose I'll actually get to find out but you never know...

Going back to fantasy cycles, give me the following and I'd pick it:

25 minutes' wash (option for longer and shorter)
3 generous rinses
Short-ish spin option (so mixed loads don't crease)
Delicate/Wool option
Fully variable temp control

Think that covers it!

 

[solsburian]

Some modern Hoover scorn:

After 2-3 months of having our Hoover washer dryer it's drum is starting to make a ratcheting noise. It's still useless at balancing as well.

…and for some more Candy bashing:

I don’t know why Candy just don’t pull their brand from the UK and concentrate on Hoover – I wonder what a Hoover Aquamatic would look like?!?

That’s better!!

@ SuperElectronic – here is some insights:
1. For our Machine (WDYNS 654D) the Cottons (plus mandatory prewash) cycle times are 1:42/2:02/2:52 depending on selected cycle length. The KG mode will reduce these times as necessary, but using “Sensitive Care” will add approximately 20 minutes on to the cycle time.

2. For the sports cycle, we have only ever used it once and there was noting particularly special about it, but it did have a slightly deeper water level.

3. The wool cycle is very gentile, but it does work, it managed to remove dried in tikka masala sauce from a woollen jumper.

 

[nrones]

close up picture and reply

I think you can see all the controls now, but if you don"t tell me, I will take a pic myself

My experiences with Candy"s are very good! My family and friends are having Candys all over, and most of them are happy.
Specially they are happy with washer/dryers. but that"s my side of the story, and I respect others

@superelectronic
What are your experiences with Hoover? hadn"t understood well.. good or bad?

@solsburian
Why are you so unhappy with your WD? If it"s doing it"s job and still hadn"t broke don"t understand why.. some sounds from the drum aren"t that important Anyway what about drying cycles? are you satisfied?
Candy basicly pulled out their products from UK, and they are very focused on Hoover, they just left few basic models, just to leave name, and for ones that used to have Candy, and buy it over and over (yes it happends, read few reviews )

and yes.. what program should I use to eliminate creasing? Hadn"t tried anything, but first I want you to tell me

cheers,
Dex

 

[superelectronic]

Too many symbols!

Well thanks for the close-up, Dex. Think we might need a key for the symbols, though! Seems like a nice washer anyway...have been following your videos given my soft spot for Candy!

I don't have much experience with Hoover; can't make a call either way really. I have a lot of respect for the innovation they put into their products but feel it's often let down by poor quality components.

Our first family washer was a re-badged Candy from 1976 ish and lasted til 1985; a Candy replaced it but only lasted 18 months; Mother swore she'd never buy Candy again (I have not mentioned the Candy connection with the new Hoover).

Solsburian: thanks for the prog synopsis! Sorry to hear the new Hoover WD hasn't been your best purchase. Maybe it will bed in somehow...fingers crossed!

Minimum creasing? Synthetics at 30C would be my bet; the cool temp cuts the risk of heat shock and reduces creasing caused by post-wash spin. Press easy iron if you're not going to be there when it finishes (it's rinse hold, isn't it?). 800 spin at the end shouldn't give much cause for concern if short. If anything needs more of a spin, take it out, shake and use separate spin. IMPORTANT: do not overload! That's my recipe anyway!

Cheers

Alex

 

[nrones]

ahh symbols!

I much more prefer symbols than washers with everything written on it.. but maybe it"s because I never used (and we never had on this market) a washer without symbols. Every washer except Miele and some Bosch are having symbols, and I really understand them all
If you don"t understand, at the end of the video (in the link) is everything explained about controls and display

Well, I wouldn"t ask you if less ironing was usable option.. It does everything great in the wash.. it gradually cools down the water (shuttle rinse - take water, then pump out abit, and take again - like on old Mieles ), it doesn"t doo any intermit spin... but final spin too!! It does only a burst, and that"s it, but I can select synthtetics 30 with rinse hold will try it.
And also, we all put our clothes in a laundry basketand just put clothes inthere, so there they get creased.. will sth like you said remoove creases, or just wont make them (so, I should maybe fold down my shirts somewhere until they get washed)?

 

[solsburian]

My WD does wash and dry well, I'll give it that but the build quality seems so poor, especially compared to my Parents Hotpoint WT540. It is also excessively rattly when it spins, we tend to leave the kitchen when its spins for fear of it exploding lol. The main reason why we got it was for its slim depth (44cm) but that may be part of the part of the problem – perhaps there is not enough space inside for the drum to move around.

We got an extra two years labour warranty so that should keep us tied over until we get a new Kitchen, then we will be getting a Miele.

 

[solsburian]

I forgot to add, the Hoover's door isn’t even hung straight ether!

 

[nrones]

My Candy is slim too!

My Candy is slim too.. sadly we don"t have enough space in the bathroom, so all my machines were slim.
Don"t worry about cosmetic problems, I know exactly what are you talking about. Look how detergent draw is positioned on the close up picture Such things in few 4 months drove me crazy, but then I just stopped thinking about it when I realized it doesn"t matter.. it washes great, remooves every single stain, and clothes are always fresh and well spinned, ready for the dryer, and those small looking issues you realise when you come closer to machine, trying to find imperfection, if you look at it generally it looks fine so just relax, and enjoy it"s wash/dry programmes

I know that there are machines looking alot stronger, my Aqualtis looked alot stronger than GrandOPlus, and it broke after 8 months, so we gave it back. I know it looks that between Hotpoint and Candy, Candy is going to break first, but after my experience, I wouldn"t say so

 

[solsburian]

My main concern is that the door catch may not align properly with the lock and may damage it in the long term; but I suppose the warranty will take care of it if its a issue!

We are off to my partners parents for a late Christmas dinner in rural Northumberland and I've left it washing the bedding on a 60 degree coloured cycle on maximum time, sensitive care (cycle time about 3:30) and set it to dry on sensor set to extra dry. I'll see how well its done when we get back!

 

[lavamat_jon]

Cottons Universal or Minimum Iron depending what's in the load... will (rarely) use Woollens handwash and Cottons Hygiene as and when suits. But most of the stuff will go on Cottons Universal (Universal means suitable for all, after all), and only Minimum Iron if there is something synthetic in the load.

I don't bother with the shirts or jeans cycles... everything is fine mixed together just sorted by colour - though I will seperate my colours into "rough" and "nice" loads... i.e. the rough load will have joggers/jeans/hoodies/underwear/scruffy t shirts etc, where the "nice" loads will have my nice clothes in and gets done with colour care deoderant. Shirts, jeans etc don't crease even after a 1600 spin as long as they are hung up and shaken out promptly. I used to wash denim seperately almost religously, but now I live on my own it would take me a fortnight to build up a denim load.

Temperature... general rule of thumb, 30/40 for clothes, 60 for bath/bed, 75+ for kitchen.

Jon