Why bother??

[autowasherfreak]

Cycle Times

The shortest cycle on my Frigidaire, is 30 minutes. The longest cycle is Heavy, it has an extra rinse, and an extra spin and is 60 minutes long. There are a lot of cycles that I din't even use. Here are all the cycles and times.

Quick 32 minutes.
Delicate 36 minutes.
Hand Wash 34 minutes.
Touch Up 30.
Drain & Spin 13 minutes.
Rinse & Spin 19 minutes (Sometime I use this as a prewash)
Soak 42 minutes.
Bulky 1 hour.
Wool 31 minutes.
Sport 38 minutes.
Silk 34 minutes.
Heavy 1 hour with a extra rinse and spin.
Normal with no extras 46 minutes.
Normal with extra rinse 53 minutes.
Normal with extra rinse and spin 58 minutes.
Normal with heavy soil, extra rinse and spin 57 minutes.
Normal with heavy soil, extra rinse 55 minutes.
Normal with heavy soil, extra rinse, 55 minutes.
Normal with heavy soil, extra spin, 50 minutes.
Normal with heavy soil, and no extras, 48 minutes.
Perm. Press with normal soil, 37 minutes.
Perm. Press with heavy soil, 39 minutes.
Perm. Press with extra rinse, 44 minutes.
Perm. Press with heavy soil and an extra rinse 46 minutes.

Less water longer cycles to me equal more electricity. Just my opinion.

James

 

[peteski50]

Frigidaire!

I like the Frigidaire front loaders probably the best. James I assume you own the gallery with all those cycles. It probably has the most reasonable time to run compared to the other front loaders except speed queen which is to stripped down in my openion. Why frigidaire don't combine the normal / heavy cycle into 1 is a mystery. After all the soil level can adjust the time. Also I don't see why with all those cycles they don't offer a prewash. My mom has the gallery and loves it. Also on all these machines these extra cycles like whites, colors, sport and other BS is what it all is. These machines should have a normal / heavy, pp, delicate with a extra rinse and prewash option. And all should let you select the wash time. The biggest issue is balancing - it's nice to have a big capacity but if the machines cannot handle it the drum should be smaller. I looked at that new GE in the store and with all that jaz it's a waste. The power was on so I tried to make it do a spin. It took 3 minutes to go into a spin without clothes in it. I don't understand - what a waste. I am still in the process of trying to purchase a new combo but I haven't seen anything I like. I am glad to be rid of the LG with the worst service history. Also that one took forever to go into a spin. It's amazing that all these manfactures have steam machines, ions, different colors but no one will make a combo? The sad thing is I miss the simplicity of a westinghouse. I can say more but what can we do to have the manufactures change things.
Peter

 

[autowasherfreak]

Frigidaire Gallery

You are correct Peter, I have the Gallery set. Most of the cycles I have never used. The cycles I have used are: Rinse & Spin, Soak, Bulky (longer time span between tumble pauses), Heavy, Normal, Perm. Press, Delicate, and Quick. I don't use the Extra Rinse that much, I use the Extra Spin on cycles where it's available.

I love the Frigidaire, it's the first F/L machine I've ever owned. The dryer is great, very fast drying times. The dryer is usually done before the next wash load is done. I just miss the simplicity of the T/L machines. The magnet came out of the detergent drawer one day, had to look at the parts list to figure out where it went, took me about a half hour to figure out were it went.

 

[peteski50]

Gallery!

On the gallery model my mother has she always uses the extra rinse. You get 4 rinses out of it. The newer models I understand deleted 1 rinse so the most you can get is 3. To bad their are so many water restristions by the government. I think all the machines should have water circulation throughout the cycle.
Peter

 

[vintagesearch]

only here im america from what ive seen do our frontloaders use such little water ive seen seen videos on youtube of european frontloaders and they in general use more water! you can see the water lines on the door! why dont we have it like that? and some models come with a waterplus feature that lets you manually fill up the washer as high as you want with water thats what we need here! ohh and no balancnig issues our used kenmore toploader till this day has not gone unbalanced!

 

[laundromat]

no problem

My L.G.washer never has a ballance issue,It goes no more tha four times through reverse tumble to ballance the load than throttles up to 1200 rpms.As I am writing this,my GE Profile(JBP83CECC)covection range is on a 5 hour self cleaning cycle!I love this range! It's one of the best ones I have ever owned!

 

[charger]

I was in Sears yesterday waiting to get new glasses so I scoped out the new front and the few top loading toys and it hit me... would anyone get one of the new ultra tech machines front or top loading without an extended warranty ??? from what I hear that is a major part of the business these days.

As I looked at the one of the machines I sort of WANTED to hate it based on the unkind things that I read on this sight but instead I thought ... this is sort of cool but no way I would do it with a 12 month service contract ... might be just what Sears wants... I had no such fear with my Frigidaire Gallery in 1997 and they tried hard to scare me into the contract big time not just when I got them but also later on the phone as the warranty was winding up. It also might be that I am just too cynical.