haxisfan
Well-known member
If you wash at 30 then you might as well turn a blind eye on
Washing at 30 is unhygienic too... even washing at 40 is for that matter! The bottom line is... if you guys can put up with 30... why not 20? Besides, most modern detergents are designed to wash at such low temperature.
Having said that, I use the 20 degree program on the Hoover Dynamic 8-Pulse for some dark daily clothes (provided that they're not heavily soiled) that I used to wash at 30 degrees and the results are brilliant... or rather, they are exactly the same as when I was washing them at 30 in the other washer. I've done this for 6 months now and I'm still getting no bad smells or moulds neither in the washer or on the clothes.
Actually I could say that in my older washer, if I washed too many loads at 30, I had to do a maintenance wash after 3-4 months cos' I could detect some unpleasant smell in the washer (nothing overpowering... I had to stick my head in the drum to smell it). The dynamic instead smells as fresh as ever! This machine on the 20 degree cycle uses a different mechanical action compared to other machines and it's wash performance on such program is comparable to a normal wash at 40 degrees C (laboratory tests proved it).
Thus, my guess is that if they decide to include such cycle in other machines, they will make sure to alter its wash profile accordingly. Still, I keep washing my everyday lights at 40/50 and my towels at 60/70... sometimes I even boil-wash some bed linen.
On a different note, I wouldn't use the 20 degree cycle continuously and for everything, I'm afraid but that could potentially be some users' unfortunate choice for the sake of saving some penny... and that could make some of your worst fears come true (I'm thinking of that watchdog episode, some time back on UK TV, when Ann Robinson was showing the horrifying state of some Indesit Moon washers swarming with thick black mould - having been used on quick 30 all their lives no doubt).
Washing at 30 is unhygienic too... even washing at 40 is for that matter! The bottom line is... if you guys can put up with 30... why not 20? Besides, most modern detergents are designed to wash at such low temperature.
Having said that, I use the 20 degree program on the Hoover Dynamic 8-Pulse for some dark daily clothes (provided that they're not heavily soiled) that I used to wash at 30 degrees and the results are brilliant... or rather, they are exactly the same as when I was washing them at 30 in the other washer. I've done this for 6 months now and I'm still getting no bad smells or moulds neither in the washer or on the clothes.
Actually I could say that in my older washer, if I washed too many loads at 30, I had to do a maintenance wash after 3-4 months cos' I could detect some unpleasant smell in the washer (nothing overpowering... I had to stick my head in the drum to smell it). The dynamic instead smells as fresh as ever! This machine on the 20 degree cycle uses a different mechanical action compared to other machines and it's wash performance on such program is comparable to a normal wash at 40 degrees C (laboratory tests proved it).
Thus, my guess is that if they decide to include such cycle in other machines, they will make sure to alter its wash profile accordingly. Still, I keep washing my everyday lights at 40/50 and my towels at 60/70... sometimes I even boil-wash some bed linen.
On a different note, I wouldn't use the 20 degree cycle continuously and for everything, I'm afraid but that could potentially be some users' unfortunate choice for the sake of saving some penny... and that could make some of your worst fears come true (I'm thinking of that watchdog episode, some time back on UK TV, when Ann Robinson was showing the horrifying state of some Indesit Moon washers swarming with thick black mould - having been used on quick 30 all their lives no doubt).