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Thread Number: 15299
How Many Loads A Week?? |
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| Post# 257793 1/5/2008 at 06:17 (5,954 days old) by chrisbsuk (Bristol, uk) | ||
I am interested to know how many loads of washing people do each week. What do you think constitutes as heavy use of a washer? As you know, I have a Hotpoint Aqualtis, and so far so good. I have asked all of us living in the house to keep a record of the loads that we do from the last week the machine has done: 1 90* Wash (White Towels) 1 60* Synthetic Wash – Chefs Whites 3 60* Bed and Bath Cycles (Bed Linen) 2 30& White & Pre wash Cycles (for football and rugby team kits) 1 40* Shirts Cycle 6 40* Synthetic Cycle (for general clothes) 1 30* Wool/Handwash Cycle 1 cold Wool/Handwash cycle 1 30* Coloureds cycle (for Denim) The vast majority of this then gets tumble dried -pics to follow | ||
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| Post# 257794 , Reply# 1 1/5/2008 at 06:18 (5,954 days old) by chrisbsuk (Bristol, uk) | ||
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| Post# 257796 , Reply# 2 1/5/2008 at 06:19 (5,954 days old) by chrisbsuk (Bristol, uk) | ||
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| Post# 257806 , Reply# 3 1/5/2008 at 06:27 (5,954 days old) by dj-gabriele () | ||
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At home in Bologna our washing machine is used once a day everyday and sometimes it does two loads but yo can count for 7-8 washes per week. Of these 6 are 30°C and 1 or 2 are 60°C everyhing on cotton programme | ||
| Post# 257812 , Reply# 4 1/5/2008 at 06:35 (5,954 days old) by lavamat78800 () | ||
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I do up to 14 loads a week in a 4-person household. | ||
| Post# 257813 , Reply# 5 1/5/2008 at 06:36 (5,954 days old) by robliverpool (england Liverpool) | ||
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| Post# 257822 , Reply# 6 1/5/2008 at 07:28 (5,954 days old) by runematic (southcentral pa) | ||
We do about 10 loads a week. I just delivered a new top load washer to a farm family that does 10 loads A DAY, every day. They were extremely PO'ed that the Amanatag washer failed after, as they say, ONLY 4 years. That's 4 years worth of 10 loads a DAY, every single day. they just couldn't understand that they used the washer way way more than most folks. Let's see, 10 loads a week = 520 loads/year. 10 loads a day would equal about 3650 loads/year. So 4 years @ 520/year = 2080 loads through most washers. Their washer over 4 years = 14600 loads. That's about 7 times more loads. So using this convoluted math their washer is equal to about 28 years old (520*28=14560). Not too shabby for a POS washer.
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| Post# 257874 , Reply# 8 1/5/2008 at 12:20 (5,953 days old) by mrx () | ||
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For 10 loads a day, you really need a commercial machine or at the very least a Miele. | ||
| Post# 257897 , Reply# 10 1/5/2008 at 14:30 (5,953 days old) by zanussi_lover (Nottingham, UK) | ||
All i do is 1 load of towels, teatowels and kitchen stuff (dirty socks included) at cottons 60 1 load of delicate whites (white t-shirts, lights) at synthetics 40 1 load of darks (jeans included) at cottons 30 and every so often woolens on a wool cycle when needed and this isn't every week, its when the basket gets full so some weeks the washing machine isn't used, hence the reason why my zanussi is still going strong 7 years later :) mind you i'm at uni so there are only two people in the flat (my mum and dad) | ||
Post# 257912 , Reply# 12 1/5/2008 at 16:03 (5,953 days old) by dadoes  (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Average is about 1½. :-) The only thing I do on an established weekly basis is sheets. Did sheets yesterday. Everything else is done when enough is collected. Whites/towels is when I'm close to out of clean socks, which is typically two weeks (need to do a load in the next couple days). Shirts and jeans can go about 1.5 weeks. Did jeans yesterday. Did shirts couple days ago. | ||
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Post# 257935 , Reply# 13 1/5/2008 at 17:52 (5,953 days old) by brisnat81 (Brisbane Australia) |
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I average about 5 loads per week 2 loads of sheets @ 50degC 1 load of towels @ 50degC 1 load of darks @ 40degC 1 load of whites @ 50degC 1 load of Business Shirts @ 50degC If its fine I hang it all outside on Saturday morning and spend Sunday chasing up the ironing. I use calgon in all loads and a colour detergent for the darks. | ||
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Post# 258069 , Reply# 14 1/6/2008 at 08:39 (5,953 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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In a two person household: 2 loads of darks per week 1 load of whites per week 1 load of sheets per week (2 sets of Queen size) If there are many reds/vivids there will be another partial load. Strangely my towels go with darks usually (only in the front-loader), but sometimes separately. I change towels twice or thrice weekly; not a new one every day. Placemats and kitchen towels get a specal-purpose load here and there. Perfect for that GE FF mini-basket! | ||
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Post# 258070 , Reply# 15 1/6/2008 at 08:41 (5,952 days old) by gadgetgary (Bristol,CT) |
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What do you do? | ||
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Post# 258071 , Reply# 16 1/6/2008 at 08:43 (5,952 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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I'm treated like a queen. In a good way. | ||
| Post# 258123 , Reply# 18 1/6/2008 at 13:52 (5,952 days old) by sparkcymru () | ||
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washes Hi, well there is just two of us in my household so at the moment I do: 1-2 40 degree washes per week 1 60 degree bedding loads per week 1 60 degree whites every 2-3 weeks plus the odd wool wash for the large bedding throw | ||
| Post# 258360 , Reply# 19 1/7/2008 at 08:54 (5,951 days old) by samsungfl (United Kingdom/London ) | ||
My Weekly Washes... 
I average out at about 20 loads or so a week, I Wash... Up to two loads a day of either coloured or dark washing, general clothes - T-shirts e.t.c Done usually on Non Fast 40c (Sometimes with the Stain Blaster option if clothes have stains) One or two loads of jeans each week One load of dark coloured towels on Cottons 60c + P One load of light coloured towels on the same cycle One load of kitchen linen done on Cottons 90c + P a load of whites done on Colourfast 60c One to Two loads of sheets done on Colourfast 60c However sometimes there is slightly more than this to wash for seperate items such as : Net Curtains, Jackets, Delicates and Woolens Richard CLICK HERE TO GO TO samsungfl's LINK | ||
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