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Thread Number: 76554
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
Front loaders, Pilling, and Fabric Shavers |
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| Post# 1004033 8/18/2018 at 15:53 (2,071 days old) by stricklybojack (South Hams Devon UK) | ||
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Post# 1004041 , Reply# 1 8/18/2018 at 16:55 (2,071 days old) by appnut  (TX) |
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| Post# 1004042 , Reply# 2 8/18/2018 at 17:08 (2,071 days old) by stricklybojack (South Hams Devon UK) | ||
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Post# 1004044 , Reply# 3 8/18/2018 at 17:20 (2,071 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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| Post# 1004057 , Reply# 4 8/18/2018 at 19:59 (2,070 days old) by washerdude (Canada ) | ||
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Non Turbowash LG's saturate the load very slowly. I turned off TW on my 4370 and it spent a good 1/4 of the main wash on the normal cycle just saturating the load. Glad I went with the TW models as opposed to the ones without. | ||
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Post# 1004237 , Reply# 6 8/20/2018 at 15:29 (2,069 days old) by lotsosudz (Sacramento, CA) |
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I find it odd that so many people claim that LG washers {FL} have all these issues! I have A pair, with no issues. I generally load by color, and fabric type, with no issues. Unless it is a singularly flawed washer, I would question if it is due to
overloading. I am very careful, as most of us are, as to how I wash clothes. Mine does have Turbo Wash, how ever there has been times when the other half , runs a load or two with out TW off, and have never experienced any of these problems. I am not saying it is not the washer, but generally find that it is what we do with them, that causes the issues, most of the time. | ||
| Post# 1007910 , Reply# 7 9/20/2018 at 02:14 (2,038 days old) by UncleDave (California) | ||
In FL's with plastic ladles this effect often becomes worse over time.
As heavy loads with zippers drag across the ladles the surfaces become lined with pits and scrapes which then drag across your your clothes thousands of times multiplying the effect and tearing up your clothes in an accelerated fashion. The load is never heavier than when its its wet and the constant friction from the ladles is a a killer. Mieles stainless steel ladles really stand out offering the best resistance - of course at a cost. UD | ||
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Post# 1007917 , Reply# 8 9/20/2018 at 04:11 (2,038 days old) by henene4 (Heidenheim a.d. Brenz (Germany)) |
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Never saw any FL that was used normal that had any deeper scratches on plastic parts inside the drum, no matter which price point. Your point is insanely easy to disprove. If metal zippers could easily scratch plastic lifters to the point they become problematic, they would easily scratch through the fibres in the load directly. Cotton is less cut resistant then plastic. | ||
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Post# 1007919 , Reply# 9 9/20/2018 at 04:21 (2,038 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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"if a machine has a recirculation pump, then why not switch it on too, say five seconds after the machine starts to fill? "
Cannot speak for all machines, but on my AEG Lavamat recirculation pump comes on soon as filling ceases. This wetting down of load will go on for several minutes pausing if machine senses load needs topping up. Once all is said and done, recirculation ceases during heating phase of wash cycle. | ||
| Post# 1008041 , Reply# 12 9/20/2018 at 22:39 (2,037 days old) by UncleDave (California) | ||
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Never saw any FL that was used normal that had any deeper scratches on plastic parts inside the drum, no matter which price point.
Your point is insanely easy to disprove. If metal zippers could easily scratch plastic lifters to the point they become problematic, they would easily scratch through the fibres in the load directly. Cotton is less cut resistant then plastic. I have. I have seen 5-year-old asian machines with scratched ladles a few times in shopping for machines for my sister and a lake house. Metal zippers are one reason why Miele uses metal ladles - at least according to their US manager I discussed the ladle situation with. Zipper do scratch through the fibres- especially the teeth on open ones. Zippers are one reason I don't wash anything tat has then them with delicate fabrics or T-shirts. An Open jean zipper will chew cotton up pretty quickly. It's insanely easy to see what I'm talking about - take 17 pounds of jeans dry and soak them with water and the put that pressure on a cotton shirt with a bit of back and forth rubbing against the bottom of a sink or tub and watch your shirt pill and become trashed. Or Just do like kids do and throw a few cotton shirts in with jeans and leave the zippers open and see what happens after a while. UD | ||
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Post# 1008088 , Reply# 14 9/21/2018 at 17:50 (2,037 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Nearly every washing machine owner's manual | ||
| Post# 1008150 , Reply# 15 9/22/2018 at 08:05 (2,036 days old) by UncleDave (California) | ||
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Correct Laundress- but sometimes they can open up.
Sometimes you miss one- other times like when the "kids" do their own laundry - they just don't follow the sagely advice given by the manual or their elders. All I'm saying is that a wet load of jeans with an open zipper CAN and sometimes will scratch a plastic ladle - and if that happens then that scratch goes over and over all your clothes throughout the rest of time and that can exacerbate pilling. UD | ||
| Post# 1008164 , Reply# 17 9/22/2018 at 10:11 (2,036 days old) by IowaBear (Cedar Rapids, IA) | ||
 In all the years I've been doing laundry in a whole variety of machines (GE filter-flo, classic Maytag, Whirlpool DD, Neptune FL and wide variety of laundromat machines) the only time I can remember clothing being seriously damaged is from over-drying in unfamiliar dryers that ran way too hot.
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| Post# 1008279 , Reply# 18 9/23/2018 at 09:38 (2,035 days old) by UncleDave (California) | ||
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Dryer cooking happens, so does wash damage for me.
"seriously" damaging is rare - my 1215's 220V sanitize heat level would scour iron on transfers right off and wipe out delicate fabrics if improperly used (mainly by guests not knowing what they unleashed) My old top loaders would occasionally yank something apart but that was rare. My kids overloaded my 1215 and their clothes dragged across the lip wiping that piece out. Ladle damage and scratches simply accelerate wear. Less dramatic than outright destruction, but sub-optimal if you have nice clothes. Particularly susceptible to rough edges and tub design/ damage are the delicate collar ends on dress shirts and the fold right at the neck Damage here condemns the shirt to trash heap long before the rest of the item is even close to being worn out. UD | ||
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