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Thread Number: 32333
your views on the whirpool duet washers |
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| Post# 487761 , Reply# 3 1/9/2011 at 21:31 (4,705 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada) | ||
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| Post# 487910 , Reply# 4 1/10/2011 at 12:22 (4,705 days old) by Iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas) | ||
I have the Maytag twin to the Duet. And as I have said before, I am not a big Whirlpoo fan, but I do like (maybe love) this machine and it's matching dryer.
When shopping for a new machine I had several criteria: 1: Larger capacity 2: I wanted steam 3: Put dirty clothes in, take clean clothes out 4: Low(er) water usage 5: Be relitively quiet 6: Be reliable So far my assessment would be that there are probably better, and I am sure worse machines on the market. 1: The machine is large, it will do a King Size comforter (I happy 2: The steam function does work and I do see steam. (Clothes come out clean I happy) 3: See 2 above, though I don't use steam all the time, I do use it fairly often. Clean clothes emerge including old under arm stains are gone (I happy) 4: In comparing water bills from the same period the previous year I am using about 3,000 gal per month less. (I happy) 5: The machine is very quiet except when spinning, then it sounds like a Jet taking off. It's in the basement, not too bothersom. They are on pedistals and on concrete floor so little vibration is transmitted. (Happy) 6: I am only a year into it's life, so can't say anything about reliablilty except no repairs yet. Ask me again in a few years, but so far HAPPY. I did shop other machines when I was looking for a new washer. I was not impressed with Bosch from reading reviews. I wanted an E-lux in the worst way, but couldn't afford it. The GE with the toliet seat door was a turn off. Same with LG, too many bad stories. I looked at the Speed Queen FL, and was very impressed, except. I was told that it did not sense the water level,only a metered fill, so if you put a large item in to wash possibly not soaking the clothes. Also the one I was shown did not have an on-board heater and no steam. So the bottom line, the Maytag/Whirlpool machine is doing the job it was intended to do, but I bought an extended warranty Just in case. | ||
| Post# 487935 , Reply# 5 1/10/2011 at 13:49 (4,704 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas) | ||
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Look at all that water in the original video to this thread! Now if our FL machines here in the US would use that kind of water...... | ||
| Post# 487947 , Reply# 6 1/10/2011 at 14:44 (4,704 days old) by georgect (Fairfield, CT) | ||
I know...right? | ||
| Post# 487973 , Reply# 7 1/10/2011 at 15:32 (4,704 days old) by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY) | ||
I know rite!
Funny how environmentally friendly Europeans are yet their washers still use plenty of water.....I wonder if the machines are designed exactly the same as our front load washers, with the only difference being that their cycles (or programms as they call it) simply use more water.........I've seen comments made that adjusting water up in a US front loader may cause damage because they are not designed to be used with more water, yet that machine looks like a US front loader, only it has European programming on it, thus it uses more water
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Post# 488015 , Reply# 8 1/10/2011 at 17:31 (4,704 days old) by appnut  (TX) |
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Water usage in videos
I was noticing the same thing!!! But, I wonder if the machines are connected to power that's higher than 110V like we have (especially the machine in Brazil--but Canada too). If that's the case (220V or 240v), then the machine owuld be able to handle the larger amount of water and using the onboard heater to maintain temperature.
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| Post# 488200 , Reply# 12 1/11/2011 at 13:11 (4,703 days old) by 3beltwesty () | ||
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aluminum spider Here with my new LG FL washer I got in 2010 I just plan on the the aluminum spider will break like most other FL washers do in 5 years. | ||
| Post# 488215 , Reply# 13 1/11/2011 at 14:10 (4,703 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada) | ||
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| Post# 488239 , Reply# 14 1/11/2011 at 15:54 (4,703 days old) by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY) | ||
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3beltwesty
That's the EXACT same machine that I have. It's at six years old and still pumping out clean clothes. I do about 18 to 20 loads of wash per month.....give or take.........
As we all know by now, all the US front load washers use the aluminum spider (for the most part)........Yet some are still going twelve years later.........But how I wonder? | ||
| Post# 488250 , Reply# 15 1/11/2011 at 16:47 (4,703 days old) by 3beltwesty () | ||
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The aluminum spider issue seems like a giant bag of variable Here too I will read how one guy has a bad Acme FL washer in a few years and another has no issues and it is 2 to 3 times older. | ||
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Post# 488338 , Reply# 16 1/11/2011 at 21:41 (4,703 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Stupid question | ||
| Post# 488456 , Reply# 18 1/12/2011 at 13:27 (4,702 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA) | ||
Would it be possible for the manufacturers to coat the aluminum spider with some kind of a plastic or a "powder coat" like they use on American Chopper? I saw a PCN Tour for Chop Rite meat grinders where they use some kind of FDA approved coating on the metal for the meat grinders, I would think something like that would last at least a few years, so that by the time it wore away, maybe the machine would be 15 years old. If you look at the grinder in the link, there is some kind of a coating on it.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO neptunebob's LINK | ||
| Post# 488496 , Reply# 19 1/12/2011 at 15:25 (4,702 days old) by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY) | ||
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Good Idea NeptuneBob
But they probably don't "want" to do that unfortunately.
I do have a question......I see on the Frigidaire's that have the spider issues that in order to repair it, you have to buy the entire tub.....Is this the same case with the Duet's or do they just sell the spider alone? Not that I would even ATTEMPT to repair it....Just wondering | ||
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