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Post# 583951   3/20/2012 at 15:14 (4,390 days old) by Pedro (London)        

After much deliberation, i decided to go for a new LG TrueSteam 9kg washing machine. And boy am i glad i did! The main issues i had with my old Indesit were noise (we have open-plan living) and poor capacity/wash results and SEVERE creasing.

Since the LG arrived on Saturday i've only had a chance to use a couple of the cycles...Cottons 60c and Dark Wash 40c and Refresh, i'm about to try a duvet wash on a...well, a duvet no less.

The wash results are outstanding, as is the rinse performance and the spin...WOW. The Indesit span at 1600rpm and our stuff, especially jeans and bulky items, would take a couple of days to dry on the airer, the LG spins at 1400rpm and most of the washing comes out dry, a few hours on the airer and it's good to go!

As for the steam technology, i've used the Refresh cycle to get the creases out of some shirts and it worked really well, i like the steam sections in the wash cycle but as yet i've not had anything dirty enough to really out it to the test.

I'll add some pics now for you guys, any questions you have, give me a shout!!!





Post# 583952 , Reply# 1   3/20/2012 at 15:16 (4,390 days old) by Pedro (London)        

Pride of place...

Post# 583955 , Reply# 2   3/20/2012 at 15:17 (4,390 days old) by Pedro (London)        

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Post# 583956 , Reply# 3   3/20/2012 at 15:18 (4,390 days old) by Pedro (London)        

Dial and lights...

Post# 583958 , Reply# 4   3/20/2012 at 15:21 (4,390 days old) by Pedro (London)        

Display...

Post# 583960 , Reply# 5   3/20/2012 at 15:23 (4,390 days old) by Pedro (London)        

Drawer interior (complete with loaded fabric softener compartment)

Post# 583963 , Reply# 6   3/20/2012 at 15:29 (4,390 days old) by Pedro (London)        

So i've just started a duvet wash....

Post# 583965 , Reply# 7   3/20/2012 at 15:30 (4,390 days old) by Pedro (London)        

Duvet wash selected, 40c, i started the wash and realised i'd forgotten to add steam so paused, selected steam, and continued the cycle...

Post# 583968 , Reply# 8   3/20/2012 at 15:31 (4,390 days old) by Pedro (London)        

It would only allow a maximum of 1000rpm spin, once the cycle is complete i'll run it through a 1400rpm spin to get the last bits of moisture out to help the drying.....

Post# 583988 , Reply# 9   3/20/2012 at 17:37 (4,390 days old) by dyson2drums (United Kingdom)        
Congratulations on your new purchase!

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Hope you're getting on well with the LG F1479FDS5. As you can see from my picture I have the exact same washing machine, its 9 months old now! The only difference being mine doesn't have smart diagnosis as it was only introduced a few months ago. However, I hope that feature won't be needed anytime in the near future!

Its an amazing washing machine, and we sure have put it to some tests with muddy football kits, to stained bright whites, to duvets. Everything comes out spotless, the steam wash really gives a boost on stained clothes, we do use it quite a bit tbh.

I've tried majority of the cycles but mainly use cottons 40oc and 60oc as the daily cycle. The spin performance as you've said is really good, surely helps with lots of washing to get done.

If you have any questions feel free to ask away.

Happy washing! :)


Post# 584069 , Reply# 10   3/21/2012 at 03:36 (4,390 days old) by newwave1 (Lincoln, United Kingdom)        

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I've recommended LG to you both without hesitation and I'm pretty sure you see why.

Pete. I'm sure your noticing the difference in your open plan living after the growly indesit motor :-)

You'll notice how damn heavy the thing is it's well put together. The jet on it is excellent which really helps with the wash and rinse. Getting steam involved makes for an outstanding performance!!

I miss mine alot but the hotpoint is serving me well at present. Maybe when I've moved I may consider saving for a new one!!

Hope to see some more piccies :-p

Here's a pic of my old machine which is still washing for my ex and kids 2 years after I bought it.

Darren


Post# 584090 , Reply# 11   3/21/2012 at 07:29 (4,390 days old) by dave886 (united kingdom)        

thats wonderful pedro, LG washing machines are ACE! i hope you reek the benefits of cleaner clothes, better spin results and less creasing and extra compacity.

Post# 584168 , Reply# 12   3/21/2012 at 13:13 (4,390 days old) by Pedro (London)        

I can't stop playing with it, i'm washing and steaming anything i can find!

Post# 584171 , Reply# 13   3/21/2012 at 13:19 (4,390 days old) by dyson2drums (United Kingdom)        

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I was like that, haha! Well we usually have around one wash a day and a few over the weekend so its on quite a bit.

Have fun! :)


Post# 584195 , Reply# 14   3/21/2012 at 16:05 (4,389 days old) by Pedro (London)        
Duvet wash...

The duvet wash went well, it finished around 10 last night and by this morning the duvet was perfectly dry. It seemed to struggle with the spins though, it would drain and tumble and then the pump would cut out, the machine would start to tumble and not even get a full turn in before the pump kicked in again and the tumbling would stop...it did that quite a few times. Not sure if it's a purposeful action or if it was just struggling to keep up with the water coming out of the duvet...



I'm now running it on a 95c wash on some old bedding i need for the spare room which has been buried in a cupboard for the best part of a year


Post# 584247 , Reply# 15   3/21/2012 at 17:59 (4,389 days old) by dyson2drums (United Kingdom)        

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The cutting out of the drain pump is normal, it has a sensor and ata certain point cuts out and as the clothes/duvet distributes tumbles and releases water it drains it and so on.

Its more apparent on heavy/unbalanced loads. Majority of the time the machine handles the loads very well, never had problmes with unbalanced loads.


Post# 584417 , Reply# 16   3/22/2012 at 12:18 (4,389 days old) by glenfieldmathk1 (Glenfield-Leicester-UK)        

I would much prefer to wash a Duvet at 60C, even with steam, they should have picked this up, duvets can stand 60C. Its very un-hygienic washing at 40C.
Thats the thing that puts me off these, they are made in China (or where-ever they are invented/made), and in China (or where-ever) they don't care about Hygiene, its pretty obvious. Even Bosch machines in Germany allow a down filled ski jackets wash at 60C, even though the maximum I have seen a label on one of them say is 30C, so why LG don't have a 60C setting when some duvets have 60C on the label, is beyond me.
Other than that nice machine, looks very modern, but is the door easily to view in being black??
I hope it lasts you much longer than the top load US LG models.


Post# 584422 , Reply# 17   3/22/2012 at 12:43 (4,389 days old) by dascot (Scotland)        
Xenophobia

Mat - I've now seen a couple of posts from you which seem to be deliberately idiotic or provocative to the point of xenophobia. It's unpleasant, and I find the way you write about the Chinese in this post to be mildly offensive to me - let alone what it'd be like to someone from the country and proud of it.

First, LG are a Korean company. A little googling would have told you that fact if you didn't know already.

Second, what data are you using to state blindly that the Chinese do not care about hygiene? Nothing that has been mentioned in this thread, that's for sure. You seem to be making an assumption, based on some prejudice or other, I don't know what.

Third, washing at 40C is not unhygienic. Washing at 60C *may* kill more bacteria/dust mites etc., but the difference is not as great as you make it out to be.

Fourth, the washing machine clearly has a 60C cycle. Sure, it's not specific to duvets, but that doesn't stop you using it should you so desire. Do you know that the LG duvet cycle doesn't go to 60C?

My tip: try and read what you've written before you hit the post button. Make sure it's not based on wild conjecture or offensive.


Post# 584480 , Reply# 18   3/22/2012 at 18:18 (4,388 days old) by jlbrazil (brazil)        
dascot.

I totally agree with you!

Post# 584986 , Reply# 19   3/25/2012 at 13:22 (4,386 days old) by Pedro (London)        

@glenfieldmathk1 -In response to the question you asked, depending on the light it can be pretty easy to see what's going on inside the machine but even when washing a dark load if you peer inside then you can see what's going on.

I'm using it most days and continue to be impressed by the machine and its capabilities.


Post# 586246 , Reply# 20   4/1/2012 at 01:01 (4,379 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii)        

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I have a nice one in red.It works great and does the horse blankets here on the farm.Moved here after repairing their P.O.S. GE "Hydrobash" for the last time. Problematic since the day they got it at H.D.I had five FLs to bring along and the LG has the largest capacity. so,the others are under the house (built 1938) and well secured.I had to help a duckling exit his egg but,his right side was paralized and the other 17 ducklings that hatched two days ago from the same set of eggs were trampling over him. I took him in and held him a while feeding him ground food and massaging his kneck and legs but,he died this afternoon.I took him to the duck's buryel area and put him to rest.The rest are already sold.

My hearing regarding SSDI/SSI is on May 8th. It is being done before a judge and,according to my current lawyer,wil be an open and shut case due to my current health and previous history.Staying here has had its own difficulties but,none like the ones at my last place.Five dogs,all realted,9 cats,57 ducks,17 rabbits,two hen chickens,a donkey,a cow,a worm farm and a horse all live here and get fed and watered twice daily.Wild bores are also here and shot on site or caught in a trap to get slautered and butchered. At least 2 dozen duck eggs a day get washed and placed in salt water for two weeks then sold as salted duck eggs for $10/doz.The others are sexed and placed in nests to hatch.Plenty to get done here and I already installed a laundry sink, weeded all the gardens (2 acres),mowed the entire lawns and planted tomatoes,carrots,and tarro.Today, I went to Rick and Traceie's gorgious farm overlooking the Pacific and repaired their Kenpool convertable dishwasher. I found a dime, a penny and a sewing needle stuck in the bottom by emptying it and turning it upside down and rocking hard on the floor. I then removed the items that fell via gravity and turned it rightside up. I then wheeled it back over, connected it back up and it runs fine.I'll be spending the night here to watch over "Negga" the huge black cat Rick spoils.




Post# 586367 , Reply# 21   4/1/2012 at 11:26 (4,379 days old) by glenfieldmathk1 (Glenfield-Leicester-UK)        
I am truly sorry if I offended anyone from China, or Chinese

@Dascot
I am only expressing my own point of view in the comment.
I never said it doesn't have a 60C cycle, and your final point is my exact argument as to why I left my comment in the 1st place. A Duvet cycle should have the option to use 60C, as 40 is less hygienic and won't kill bed bacteria, that 60 can kill, such as dust mites and bed bugs.
Why Don't you go on Google, and type in Google dictionary, and then type in "Know it all", "Jobs worth" or "Big headed".
I am very upset by the way you have treated me.
Just because you are old, and I am young, doesn't mean you can bully myself because your older, and 'know more' when you quite clearly don't, if you did you would understand why washing at 60, especially bedding & duvets is so important, as is washing kitchen laundry & towels.
Finally LG are made in China.
I cannot believe that I can no longer express my view without being criticised.
I also have no fear of foreigners, to be honest - maybe you do, the way you treated me, with myself being an outsider. I can get on well with Germans, and have a close German friend, I get on well with American people, and also get on well with Italian people actually.

I did not mean to offend anyone, and sorry if it felt this way. I did not mean to harm anyone, but the way I have been treated in this thread by one person, and the way other people on this forums have been treated in the past too, its immature behaviour, you older people should realise there is now younger people in this forum, who also enjoy doing laundry.
It is also amazing how a judgement has been made against me without you actually knowing me. Thats called Prejudice. In fact none of you on here know my life, or anything much about me, I don't really wish to tell you about my life, but I don't see how you can make a judgement about me without knowing who I am.


Post# 587431 , Reply# 22   4/5/2012 at 17:07 (4,374 days old) by Pedro (London)        

@ glenfieldmathk1

I'm not here to criticise your opinion or make a judgement on anyone but your previous post which caused the offence was not worded in a very polite way:

"they are made in China (or where-ever they are invented/made), and in China (or where-ever) they don't care about Hygiene, its pretty obvious." ....this is a very broad assumption to make and would quite rightly offend anyone who is Chinese and other people as well, whilst i wasn't offended by it personally i did cringe at what you'd said because it is, to put it bluntly, rude.

I don't mind younger people using these forums however there have been problems and it has at times turned quite unpleasant, admittedly this has been due to some people being quite 'precious' about things but some of the younger people who have been using the site have been rude and disrespectful and have been abusing the site in some respects (pointless posts and threads etc)

I'm really not willing to get into a mass debate about this all, it's really annoying when a thread ends up hijacked by a spat that breaks out between members and this has happened a few times now. Everyone just needs to be more considerate towards each other and perhaps re-read and re-think what you've written before pressing the 'Post' button.


Post# 587440 , Reply# 23   4/5/2012 at 18:54 (4,374 days old) by dascot (Scotland)        
@glenfieldmathk1

Like Pedro, I have no desire to get into a big debate, and I certainly had no intention of coming across as bullying. Sure, I can be blunt about things, but that's just the way I write sometimes. I apologise if you felt bullied by my comments, it was certainly not intended.

However, you state that you were only expressing your point of view, but that is not how it came across - and that is the reason I suggest re-reading what you post before you post it. You were quite clearly stating something as a fact that could be considered offensive. In fact, you have done it again in this post here.

I don't want to lecture at you, but as I said before it can be a help to re-read your posts before you post them to make sure you are really putting across the message you mean to put across. When one is on the internet, one has to remember that the only things people can tell about you is from what you are posting. Nobody is asking for long drawn out life history on here, but common courtesy and etiquette can be expected. If people make inflammatory comments, such as you did, then they should expect to possibly be called out on it. Calling someone a know it all and a bully likewise. I would think you're old enough to know how things you post will come across.



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