Improved!! reduced water consumption washing machines

[Capitol]

Hi. Her new washing machine -Whirlpool turns out to be singularly poor in washing performance. Having been forced to endure the local noise, I decided to try to see what was actually happening when this machine actually washed. The first design disaster was that the softener containing tray empties when the tray is pushed in. This is due to the plastic jumping rather than sliding into position and the softener syphons into the drum before the wash cycle. So, softening doesn't work! The next difficulty arose when I tried to establish just how many rinse cycles were occurring. Doh. The manual is a total source of non information. As far as I could establish on the first quick attempt. There was only one proper rinse cycle and that seemed to also include the washing water. Does anyone know if the washing/rinse cycles are documented anywhere. Has anyone modified the programmer? Our experience is that clothes washed in this machine come out substantially unrinsed/stiff as boards and her solution is to wash everything twice, once with detergent and once with softener!

Having spent some time searching, I came across the following link, where someone has also found a similar problem.

Is our esteemed DPM(ex?) associated with this disastrous piece of government specification for energy efficiency(it seems on a par with his other actions) or is this crap product the result of Whitehall producing a good idea on it's own?

Regards Capitol

[Ian Stirling]

Where did you purchase it from? Have you considered returning it as unfit for purpose?

[Pete C]

Hi,

Sounds like a variation on the old mechanics saying 'good, quick, cheap - pick any two', (with 'energy efficient' instead of 'quick')

cheap washing machine? LOL!

Are you kidding? Most people in this country want cheap crap, why should a manufacturer give them anything else?

cheers, Pete.

[Andrew Gabriel]

The addition of cold water to the end of the wash cycle is to prevent thermal shock of cold water being poured over hot cloths on first rinse, which will fix creases into some types of fabric. This isn't a rinse cycle itself. I've no experience of the machine you have, but this would normally only be done on the hotter washes such as above 40C (or at least only necessary on hotter washes -- a machine with a simple minded programmer might always do it).

It sounds like there's no rinse cycle at all. Does it do a full spin cycle?