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Thread Number: 54727
Staycation Day 2: Let's Overstuff The Washer! |
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Post# 771298 7/16/2014 at 13:59 (3,564 days old) by Frigilux  (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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 It's only day two and already I'm up to no good!
Photo 1: I'm a bit crushed that this load looks so average in size. Trust me, it's a big pile. Two queen-sized sheets, seven pillowcases, four large bath towels, a half dozen large hand towels, a few wash rags and a bunch of kitchen and personal whites---in other words, everything that has piled up since I washed on Sunday.
Photo 2: The empty 3.9 cubic foot tub of a 2010 Frigidaire washer. The pod always goes in first, kids; that's Pod 101, right?
Photo 3: While I didn't quite have to 'put the boot in' as Launderess might phrase it, this did require an almost comical amount of stuffing. Had I been watching someone do it at the Laundromat, I'd be taking video and stifling laughter. Toward the last, things were falling out as fast as I could cram them back in!
Photo 4: The door closed via a bit of convincing, 1/4 cup liquid chlorine bleach was added to the dispenser drawer, and with the Sanitize cycle + Extra Rinse + Steam options chosen we were off to the races! (The Allergy option is automatically engaged when using the Sanitize cycle, probably because the heater is on full time.)
Photo 5: About 30 minutes into the 70-minute wash tumble, the words 'Adding Steam' appeared on the screen and the recirculation turned on in its completely useless attempt to create real steam. But it's fun to watch, so what the heck.
Photo 6: Final minute of the wash tumble. The Tide pod has, by this time, managed to whip up some suds in true P&G fashion.
Photo 7: One hour and 47 minutes later...each piece of laundry is thoroughly inspected. Two very light stains remained, one on a bar mop (mustard) and one on a chef's apron (tomato/grease combo of unknown origin). Otherwise, everything was spotless. Seriously, it took at least fifteen minutes to transfer the load. The dryer, as you can see, is way overloaded. Originally, I had planned to split the load back into its three proper components for the dryer, but then decided to completely commit to the experiment. The load has been in the dryer (Mixed Load cycle) for 1 hour and 25 minutes so far. I'm expecting to find many items bunched up in the fitted sheet. Heard some thumping for awhile, but it has ceased.
Photo 8: Dried, and packed in like a brick.
Photo 9: Winner of The Most Wrinkled Item In The Load---a king-size pillowcase.
Photo 10: The load folded (save for the bed linens, which went straight back to the bed).
Update: Dryer stopped at 1 hour 33 minutes. Gotta go check it out.
Update 2: Took forever to fold that whole load! Everything was dry, but the pillowcases and flour sack dishtowels were extremely wrinkled (no surprise there). My first assumption was correct: The washer can hold more than the dryer. This has always been the case with Frigidaire, back to the 1996 set which had a 3.0 cu. ft. washer tub and a 4.8 cu. ft. dryer drum (although it did reverse, which was nice). The 2002 set was the same, even though the dryer drum had been increased to 5.2 cu. ft. (but lost the reverse tumbling, unfortunately.)
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Post# 771361 , Reply# 2 7/16/2014 at 19:51 (3,564 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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 Oh yeah, that's a BobLoad. What "helps" is that there are so many small pieces aside from the 2 sheets and 4 large bath towels, the 7 pillow cases, and the half dozen large hand towels. I'm not sure I'd put all that in my WP duet. But when I've got a really big load of whites, things start falling out before I can finish putting it all in. You're on a roll Eugene. 2 BobLoad certifications in one day!!! | ||
| Post# 771406 , Reply# 3 7/16/2014 at 23:28 (3,564 days old) by mielerod69 (Australia) | ||
Filled it up like a true european would | ||
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Post# 771410 , Reply# 4 7/17/2014 at 00:12 (3,564 days old) by logixx (Germany) |
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Well, thank you! | ||
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Post# 771414 , Reply# 5 7/17/2014 at 00:27 (3,564 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Alex and Rod--- I was pleasantly surprised at how well the load was cleaned in the wash cycle. The number of loads of whites could be reduced from five to two if I did it this way all the time, but I would definitely split the load for the dryer. Maybe dry the kitchen/personal whites and sheets together since they are of similar fabric weight, then dry the bath towels separately. I'm not accustomed to things emerging from the dryer so wrinkled. I'd have to go in search of my iron, LOL!
Bob--- Thanks for the 2nd certification; it made my day! If the Frigidaire could handle that load, I'm sure your Duet could, too. | ||
| Post# 771429 , Reply# 7 7/17/2014 at 02:00 (3,564 days old) by mielerod69 (Australia) | ||
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I have to confess
In our apartment building we have a laundry room with 3 Speed Queen commercial top loaders and 3 Speed queen commercial dryers. Yesterday I washed a full bed set comprising of a king size doona (duvet) cover, 2 queen size sheets, 4 standard pillow cases and 2 European ones. I washed them in the Miele in my apartment, I have the washing machine hooked up in the kitchen and then decided to dry them downstairs in the Speed Queen dryer. I was surprised at the uncreased results of the items! In my Miele heatpump dryer, I would've split the load, dryer the doona cover and euro pillowslips separately.
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Post# 771430 , Reply# 8 7/17/2014 at 02:02 (3,564 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc) |
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Figure for those "Bob-Load" washer loads-FL washers are going to have to be equipped with hydraulic packer rams like on FL and SL trash trucks!!!Got to get that load in there!!!Do you have to use your front end tractor loader to get it out?-the one with the clamshell bucket! | ||
| Post# 771439 , Reply# 9 7/17/2014 at 02:39 (3,564 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii) | ||
Your Affinity looks like the same model I bought at a Sears outlet store. Itwas marked down to $499 withan instant $200 rebate and an energy star power company rebate of $100. I got it for my brother, Mick and he originally hated doing laundry with his three year old,broken down "Playtag" Mick actually said he had never seen his clothes get that clean and smell that fresh. He now does his own laundry. It has an interior drum light which may be turned on during any part of the cycle . It's real brigjt and stays on for three minutes. Nice machine for an Electrolux .
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Post# 771461 , Reply# 10 7/17/2014 at 07:08 (3,564 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Chuck-- I'm glad I bought the washer right away in 2010, as they've stripped the machine of several features I use, like the Allergy option (which heats wash water to around 130 degrees) and the tub light (which makes it nearly impossible to see into the washer). All the specialty cycles are gone, as well. They've de-featured the machine!
Out of curiosity, I measured the doorways a new washer would have to pass through in my house. The narrowest is 29 inches, which means all the current upper end models by LG and Samsung won't fit. Maytags and Whirlpools are still 27" (with 4.3 cu. ft. tubs). The biggest machine that would fit is the current GE RightHeight series, which are 28" inches wide, with a 4.8 cu. ft. tub. | ||
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Post# 771466 , Reply# 11 7/17/2014 at 07:57 (3,564 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 771499 , Reply# 12 7/17/2014 at 10:04 (3,563 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Rex-- "hydraulic ram" That would have come in handy! The washer handled the load fine, and so did the dryer in that everything was dry...but I'll never load the dryer that full again, EVER.
I'm surprised items at the back of the drum didn't get scorched, as nothing was really tumbling/moving toward the end of the cycle. It was all just rotating in place. When the cycle ended I kept pulling handfuls of stuff out of the dryer to fold but the drum never seemed to get emptier! It was interesting to try this once just to see what would happen (had a fire extinguisher at hand), but I prefer things come out of the dryer without wrinkles. Gansky-- Honestly, I could envision washing whites this way more often, as the load was clean, the washer didn't seem to be strained, and as I mentioned it would cut my usual five loads of whites per week down to two. But I'd definitely divide the load in half or even thirds for the dryer. Now....which appliance should I pick on today? Is it possible to BobLoad an oven, LOL? | ||
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Post# 771518 , Reply# 13 7/17/2014 at 11:12 (3,563 days old) by revvinkevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land) |
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Boy Eugene, this was one helluva test! GREAT JOB on resisting the urge to seperate into smaller "normal size" loads and just going for it! A solid test of what the machines can actually handle!
While I do not regularly "stuff" my washers like this, I have done it on 2 or 3 occasions, just because. Even though the washer was able to handle it, after putting the load in a dryer, I did split it into two loads after seeing just how full the dryer was.
When washing the sheets each week, I regularly put 2 king sheets, 2 twin sheets, 3 king pillow cases and 3 std pillow cases in one load and they wash fine. However, I've started splitting the load into the 2 king sheets in one dryer and everything else in another. If I don't, everything is balled up in the fitted king sheet when the dryer shuts off and one pillow case always looks like phot #9 above.
This is my TOL 2009 KM Elite He5T steam washer, rated @ 4.4 cu ft. After it was home I was reading some documentation which claimed it could hold / handle 22 bath towels at once. After reading this I collected all the bath towels I could find in the house and proceded to put (read: stuff) them into the washer.
I have to say the bath towels "they" used for this claim had to have been a lot smaller than mine, because I was only able to stuff (and I mean STUFF) just 16 towels in the washer. It was just like your load of whites above. I could not have added a single wash cloth if I wanted to!
I ran it through a normal cycle and while it seemed to handle it fine, 16 wet towels is A LOT of weight. When it came time for the spins, it wasted A LOT of time futzing around trying to rebalance the load for each spin. It finally did though and once finished, I split the load in half for drying.
Kevin
P.S. I have since removed the "smoked" plastic window from the door so I can actually see inside the washer when the door is closed.
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