New GE Front Loader!

I finally got to see the new GE FL at Sears today in New Jersey. I have to say I am not that impressed. First the positives.
Nice design and easy to use controls with simple type operation and selection options.
Well built unit compared to some others. And sturdy door opening.
Unit does not have tilted drum as some others. In my openion that is neither a positive or negative.
Baffels have holes to shower load is a positive compaired to Duet and Hetie.
Price at 900 not to bad as compaired to the other monsters.
On the Negative side - door is tinted which makes it hard to see progression but not as bad as Hetie. (can probably be resolved by having outer plastic removed from door!)
Getting to BIG Negative unit was powered on and I was able to select cycles and see time displays. And cycles are extremly long. For example colors/normal cycle is 113 minutes and that is without a extra rinse. Stain cycle is about 244 minutes. I forget what the others were but all were long. I put the unit on drain/spin which is 13 minutes. I watched the progression and it is almost exactly like my LG combo with the pulse spins and slow Rev Up only this seems worse. I timed it and it took 4 1/2 minutes to go into a full spin. (without laundry in drum). In my opinion extremly ridiculous amout of time to go into a spin. And without laundry in drum. They has a Maysumg 8700 in store - that also had longer than normal cycles but were still shorter than the GE or even my LG. I feel that is probably a better choice. But still debate. My overall opinion I still vote for the Frigmore over all of them even though it doesn't have a heater.

To top things off a woman came in and wanted to purchace a large capacity FL washer and dryer. Of cource the sales people didnt know squat. I showed her the Frigmore but she still wanted something bigger. The sales lady pushed the Hetie. I showed her the GE and explained the sequence of cycle progress and she agreed she wouldn't want to wait that long to do laundry. I also pointed out the difference in the Hetie with lack of baffle and spray holes. I feel that showering the clothes makes a difference in performance especially with very little water in the drum. So we went to the Maysumg 8700 she selected that one being we displayed the cycles and they were shorted than the GE. She explained that she used to have the old Frigmore from another house she lived in and liked it but wanted something bigger. She bought the matching maysung washer / gas dryer pair with drawers under. I hope this will work for her.

I encourage further comments.
Peter


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Post# 99947 12/26/2005 at 15:29 (6,694 days old) by peteski50 (New York)
Checkrate/Likes I finally got to see the new GE FL at Sears today in New Jersey. I have to say I am not that impressed. First the positives. Nice design and easy to use controls with simple type operation and selection options. Well built unit compared to some others. And sturdy door opening. Unit does not have tilted drum as some others. In my openion that is neither a positive or negative. Baffels have holes to shower load is a positive compaired to Duet and Hetie. Price at 900 not to bad as compaired to the other monsters. On the Negative side - door is tinted which makes it hard to see progression but not as bad as Hetie. (can probably be resolved by having outer plastic removed from door!) Getting to BIG Negative unit was powered on and I was able to select cycles and see time displays. And cycles are extremly long. For example colors/normal cycle is 113 minutes and that is without a extra rinse. Stain cycle is about 244 minutes. I forget what the others were but all were long. I put the unit on drain/spin which is 13 minutes. I watched the progression and it is almost exactly like my LG combo with the pulse spins and slow Rev Up only this seems worse. I timed it and it took 4 1/2 minutes to go into a full spin. (without laundry in drum). In my opinion extremly ridiculous amout of time to go into a spin. And without laundry in drum. They has a Maysumg 8700 in store - that also had longer than normal cycles but were still shorter than the GE or even my LG. I feel that is probably a better choice. But still debate. My overall opinion I still vote for the Frigmore over all of them even though it doesn't have a heater. To top things off a woman came in and wanted to purchace a large capacity FL washer and dryer. Of cource the sales people didnt know squat. I showed her the Frigmore but she still wanted something bigger. The sales lady pushed the Hetie. I showed her the GE and explained the sequence of cycle progress and she agreed she wouldn't want to wait that long to do laundry. I also pointed out the difference in the Hetie with lack of baffle and spray holes. I feel that showering the clothes makes a difference in performance especially with very little water in the drum. So we went to the Maysumg 8700 she selected that one being we displayed the cycles and they were shorted than the GE. She explained that she used to have the old Frigmore from another house she lived in and liked it but wanted something bigger. She bought the matching maysung washer / gas dryer pair with drawers under. I hope this will work for her. I encourage further comments. Peter