Speed Queen with Boosted Wash

[iheartmaytag]

They were available in 2009 when I was looking for a new machine.

I began looking around March or so that year, and they had a model with a heated wash available. It was one of the machines, at that time, that had the controls on the back. Looked like a dryer in some sense.

When I went to buy in August, that model was NLA.

 

[tomturbomatic]

If I want anything like a hot wash in the SQ, I boil 3 gallons of water. I run hot water to the machine then start it on a hot wash fill. I let it tumble a bit then drain it and shut it off so the door unlocks. When the water boils, in not that much time because the 8 qt pot is on the 3500 watt induction cooker and the 4 qt kettle is on the 3000 watt unit then, while wearing gloves, I dip and pour water from the 2 gallon pot into the washer then add the water from the 4 qt pot, add clothes and detergent and start it. Even with preheating the washer and adding such hot water, the wash starts out at 165 and cools to 155 by the time it drains. After 10 minutes, I add 1/4 cup of chlorine bleach and about 5 minutes later, it drains. I use the Normal wash which is quite long. Maybe the outer tub could benefit from insulation.

 

[foraloysius]

Wouldn't it be better to rund the washer with laundry with hot water first and then use the next round with boiling water. It makes it a bit of a profile wash.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Louis, what I am washing in that load does not need profile anything, just hot water, detergent and bleach.Laundry in the machine, even if well extracted, would just be holding more water at a lower temperature. It's just that even with filling the machine with 150F water then draining it, carefully loading it with as little door opening as possible and purging the lines again before restarting with  another 150F fill only gives a wash temp of around 125F.