Your ONE-SIDED Wash Loads

[DADoES]

 
Water levels are better.  Load in Pic #38 can go all the way on Small.

Avoid the Fast agitation speed for small loads unless they're very dirty and very sturdy fabric.  Fast speed is very aggressive, which is what led to the infamous ShredMore nomer.

Better results and less fabric wear with Slow agitation and a longer wash time.  Slow/Fast is labeled as "Regular" for a reason.

Your machine has a fully variable water level control. As Reply #32 details, you can get a handle on adjusting the level by setting it initially to a higher level than you think is needed.  Press the items down *lightly* (don't stomp with your feet!).  Start the machine filling and watch it.  When the water reaches to the top of the load and a *little* more, turn the level control back toward small until agitation begins.

Wondering why you're not using the ATC temp choices.  You're in MI so tap water is presumably considerably cold this time of year ... which makes for the non-ATC 40% hot / 60% cold Warm temp being kinda cold.  ATC should help moderate it from being too cold.  Same for the ATC Cold setting, which will add some warm so the cold temp isn't too low for detergent to dissolve and be effective.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Okay, so use the Auto Temp,—Check!

I forgot about the water level starting out High, then going Low...

As for no longer using Fast Agitation, that will be something I will miss...

I have an old bed spread with a matching pillow case that I quit using it on, but what about bath sets and rags?

All of my laundry on Normal Agitation, then...

Oh, to be mechanically inclined to tear my washer (& dryer—and OTHER APPLIANCES?!) open let alone devote the time—I hate doing yard work...

— Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

More AMKrayo Koaching in the Laundry:

Some more loads (wash and rinse) my washer has done:

And I probably still need to get the hang of where the water level's set...

But of which, along with more laundry getting done at once, the washer survives, not in the least of which is the real great news:

NO Unbalanced Loads!!!!

-- Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Ditto:

The clothes (w/ some help from my dryer sheets) do look and smell clean!

— Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

My clothes:

Perfectly loaded in the washer at AMKrayoLaundryLand:

— Dave

 

[lakewebsterkid]

Hot wash

Using that cheaper detergent, those towels would love a nice hot wash as long as they have been washed before. It will keep your machine cleaner too! Our old Kenmore would take exactly 10 bath towels. Always ran Heavy Duty agitation for 6 mins with a warm rinse. Always came out clean and fresh.

 

[yogitunes]

there should be a SPCA for washing machines....this is like a commercial for neglected appliances...

that machine would choke if HOT was selected....

as usually posted in SS....."Somebody should save that machine!"....

no point in cleaning the machine now, chances are, the grime is what's holding it together!

 

[DADoES]

 
Dave, how has your "one-sided wash load" situation been after tweaking-up your technique via not bypassing neutral drain and/or reducing water levels or correspondingly increasing load size?

 

[nmassman44]

As much as I don’t want to be that person that points out what others have here....if the washer is that filthy, imagine what the rest of the house is like. I wouldn’t let a washer get that cruddy and then take a picture of said machine....I would be embarrassed to say the least....but that’s just moi....

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Yes, I’m getting the hang of how much (how LITTLE really) water to use—if only you could see a load of pajamas I did after, actually waiting to go in the dryer I could just do a 2nd Rinse for...

In turn I would like and hope to see my water bill go down...

Unfortunately we are not the greatest house cleaners, so I surely long needed to have gotten someone hired to do for me, or at least taken up with someone who’d long beaten me at the washer use and CARE given it’s only USE (& ABUSES ) that I can do...

— Dave

 

[kenwashesmonday]

If you want to see your water bill go down, fill that machine up and wash nice full loads on the highest water setting.  Washing multiple loads at a lower water setting is a waste of water.