Our quick wash is like that. You end up doing a spin too. 15 min wash, 13 minute spin. 28 minutes plus the time it takes before you come back and put the spin on.
I just do a normal 40 minute wash!
All this talk of 3 hour washes is much longer than my machine takes (it might get that long if I do a pre-wash or super-wash with boil programme).
Often the longest part of the programme is me forgetting to go down and prod it to continue from the "rinse hold" that applies for synthetics when not using tumble dry.
Personally I feel the new powder/balls/tablets one uses are less effective than about three years ago in any case. Brian
That's how I read it. People using quick wash, finding that it doesn't do the job, and rewashing on a normal cycle.
Exactly.
And better for water & detergent use too, but obviously it's s**te for a full load and/or heavily soiled clothes.
I think so, and that's exactly what I very occaisionally do. Our machine has a "ready to wear" program that does a very fast wash, then tumble-dries the clothes. It's fine for what it's intended for, but won't shift heavy soiling. Of course, it says this if youm RTFM.....
It appears to be a problem with new machines. The previous machine we had probably bought 20 years ago, was much more sensible. The new machine won't let you select a fast spin in you select a quick wash. Stupid!
ARW expressed precisely :
The time allows the washing to soak for longer, with an occaisional agitation.
No rinses?
Well, there's no stopping people from being so environmentally unfriendly that they can't organise their washing properly such that they don't need a tumble dry cycle.
I've used ours three times in 2018 so far. Maybe four.
Environmentally-friendly quick washes or other stuff from our labour-saving machines shouldn't be used as a crutch for the disorganised or for the last-minute-brigade to do whatever they want because they can.
You're supposing that the purpose of the quick wash is for "I need to wear this tonight" cycle, but that shouldn't be the primary purpose of a quick wash even if the manufacturers sell it as such - which is irresponsible of them. A quick wash should be "this isn't very dirty and just needs a quick whizz and hang it out ready to wear again on Wednesday.
If people are continuously doing quick wash and tumble-dry then (a) they're probably wearing out the clothes quicker with more wash/dry cycles than necessary for the amount of the dirt the clothes have actually accumulated (b) being a bit silly in not having an extra shirt in the wardrobe.
Chris Bartram said:
There's the sense: "very ocassionally". If Chris did that twice every bloomin' week we should wonder what his problem is.
Michael
Set rinse hold then reset to spin when it finishes. Mine helpfully beeps to tell me when.
No kids that come home, mid winter, with dirty blazers that are needed in the morning?
We use it both ways. It is not unusual for the kids to tell us, as they are going to bed, that there is some fundraising event the next day and they need to be wearing a particular colour - often they have only one item of the right colour (sometimes none and that needs an urgent visit to the 24hr supermarket!) which needs to be washed and dried before we can go to bed.
We also use it for lightly soiled clothing, as the much shorter wash WILL use less energy - when the fast spin is selected.
An extra shirt is fine, but an extra logoed school blazer? Extra logoed PE kit? Extra "yellow tee-shirt" because it may just be required for the next day's fundraising event - but it may be red or blue or green?
SteveW
I don't think mine ever saw a washing machine, it might have got dry-cleaned once a year, or been attacked with DabItOff ...
When were school blazers ever machine washable? In my day (and my children?s days) they were made of wool.
Tim
Dry them overnight and brush the mud off.
They are machine washable these days and yes, mud will often brush off, but sauces from lunchtime or things from art or DT lessons may not.
SteveW
Before I worked mainly from home, it often got to the point of "shit, I need clothes for the morning" and would put a few shirts, boxers and socks with a pair of trousers to wash/tumble on overnight timer.
Now (apart from depths of winter) it's far easier to stick a load of washing on the line during the day, knowing you're around to drag it in if it starts raining or some bugger lights a bonfire as they have today.
I wouldn't normally time it, but a load of towels on superwash at 60°C with a H/C fill machine was ready in 1h40m, none of this 3h bollocks (shades of the three yorkshiremen, having to get up 2 hours before you go to bed to start the washing machine ready to hang on the line in t'morning!)
The length of the wash itself shouldn't, but in a very short programme, the spin part is probably shortened too. Our "20 min" programme leaves the clothes noticeably wetter than the full ones.
In article , Harry Bloomfield writes
If a quick ash cleaned the clothes as effectively there would be no need for a longer wash. The annoying thing about the quick wash on our Samsung is that it limits the temperature to 30 and the spin speed to
800. But that's EU standards cycles for you.
But hat was one of the points Which was making. The extra spin pushes up the overall cost of a short wash.
No ones mentioned a smart meter yet.
Some of the cycles are EU specified for Energy Efficiency ratings. As you say - stupid.
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