Thread Number: 62726
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How Do You Solve A Problem Like Bed Sheets? |
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Post# 852905   11/20/2015 at 21:12 (3,050 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Interested in hearing the various machines members use for doing their bed linen along with pros and cons.
Seems to me each type of machine has their drawbacks. Front loaders even large laundromat versions can result in things rolling up into a ball. This can cause various degrees of OOB issues. With the Miele one often has to stop the machine, haul the mass out, untangle and restart the spin. Do this to prevent it from banging and clanging itself to death. The Lavamat is slightly better but still can have the same problem, thus must do the same. Happily at the laundryette even if things do get tangled into a ball/unbalanced those machines won't care. When one had the Whirlpool portable (Hello MickeyD) often found sheets got the dreaded "air bubble" and wouldn't get pulled down for proper cleaning. Have been considering looking for a wringer washer for faster wash days but that issues bothers me. Hoover Twin Tub? Just no! *LOL! Did several sheets once and when done had to take to one's bed afterwards. *LOL* It isn't just the tangles but you have to get things just so or they won't swirl/get the famous "boiling" wash action. Just get wrapped around that impeller possibly being damaged if left to long. How are other members linen wash days? |
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Post# 852910 , Reply# 1   11/20/2015 at 21:29 (3,050 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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With our linens, it depends on which type we're washing. The fleece ones like to ball up, but the cotton & blends not as much.
The most aggravating thing with our Affinity FL is that once it has begun its seemingly interminable balancing act, one can't just pause the machine and gain access. It waits like three minutes before unlocking the door. That can seem like an eternity when one is already annoyed with the machine for its mishandling of a simple set of sheets. |
Post# 852913 , Reply# 2   11/20/2015 at 21:41 (3,050 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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With the Miele long as the water level is low enough just have to hit the "door open" button. The Lavamat however is another matter. Once a cycle commences it is held hostage until the thing is done. There are periods early in cycle as machine is filling when you can still open the door. That and before the final spin as well (to remove items you don't want spun?). But otherwise you have to use the "emergency" door opening mechanism located at the bottom of machine.
I keep a quarter on top of the Lavamat for just this purpose. *LOL* |
Post# 852914 , Reply# 3   11/20/2015 at 21:44 (3,050 days old) by mjg0619 (Scranton, Pennsylvania)   |   | |
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Our previous washing machine, an early 2000s Whirlpool Direct Drive TL was an absolute abomination on bed linens day. (Really, any day.) It would twist, tangle, turn, and the damned thing would go out of balance if you looked at it crossways and would attempt to dance a single footed Watusi right out of the blasted laundry room!
Now with the early 1990s Maytag belt drive, the bed linen washday woes are blissful memories. I have yet to have an issue with tangling of queen size sheets or with the fleece blankets. I also have yet to have a single load of any sort throw that marvelous machine out of balance. Even if that were to happen, it would simply shut itself down instead of marring my floors and wreaking havoc on the beams below. |
Post# 852916 , Reply# 4   11/20/2015 at 21:51 (3,050 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 852918 , Reply# 6   11/20/2015 at 21:55 (3,050 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 852920 , Reply# 7   11/20/2015 at 21:58 (3,050 days old) by mjg0619 (Scranton, Pennsylvania)   |   | |
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Post# 852922 , Reply# 8   11/20/2015 at 22:14 (3,050 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 852926 , Reply# 9   11/20/2015 at 22:20 (3,050 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)   |   | |
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I wouldn't call my bed sheets linen after a dog and a cat want to tear it up daily. I put my sheets, towels and any white load in my old Maytag on hot, which is somewhat warmer tap not hot, regular cycle and they are fine to hang out or put in the dependable Maytag dryer. Set it on auto dry less, it buzzes and I don't want to take care of it until later when I am good and ready and then everything is full of wrinkles but I don't care because I am the only one that will see it.
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Post# 852933 , Reply# 10   11/20/2015 at 22:41 (3,050 days old) by Artcurus (Odessa)   |   | |
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Yeah, the Speed Queen TL just kind of cruises right along. The BIGGER issue is with the Whirlpool Duet dryer. Man alive that thing twist things up. |
Post# 852938 , Reply# 12   11/20/2015 at 23:34 (3,050 days old) by stan (Napa CA)   |   | |
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Post# 852942 , Reply# 13   11/20/2015 at 23:42 (3,050 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD)   |   | |
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'82 marathon did good |
Post# 852956 , Reply# 16   11/21/2015 at 05:48 (3,050 days old) by Easyspindry (Winston-Salem, NC)   |   | |
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. . . does a great job with sheets. I can put in six queens and they wash just fine with no complaints. Jerry Gay |
Post# 852957 , Reply# 17   11/21/2015 at 06:12 (3,050 days old) by maytagmike (Burlington, Vt)   |   | |
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Post# 852960 , Reply# 18   11/21/2015 at 06:27 (3,050 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 852962 , Reply# 19   11/21/2015 at 06:33 (3,050 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Can't remember a problem spinning sheets in FL or TL. The snazzy little Chinese twintub knots them something fierce but I untie them on the way to the spinner. The 73 Panasonic TT with offset plate didn't knot them as I recall.
OTOH I can't remember a dryer that did NOT roll them into a ball. I'd shake them out once or twice during the cycle so they'd dry allover. |
Post# 852981 , Reply# 22   11/21/2015 at 10:04 (3,049 days old) by abcomatic (Bradford, Illinois)   |   | |
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No problem with sheets in the Easy Spindrier or the wringer machines. |
Post# 852984 , Reply# 23   11/21/2015 at 11:47 (3,049 days old) by super32 (Blackstone Massachusetts)   |   | |
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Post# 852985 , Reply# 24   11/21/2015 at 11:55 (3,049 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.)   |   | |
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I've never had any problems with sheets in my LG 3170 FL. I use the normal/cotton cycle, hot water, ex high spin speed, normal soil level and water plus option. They don't tangle or ball up and come out spotlessly clean. I'm washing cal king sheets and pillowcases, usually just one set at a time, but it could easily hold another set. Actually, I can't recall that I've ever had a problem washing sheets in any washer I've owned over the last 45 yrs., and I've owned a Maytag wringer, Whrilpool portable, Maytag A50 twin tub, Westinghouse FL, Maytag TL, Magic Chef TL, Kenmore TL, 3 Frigidaire FL's, Whirlpool Cabrio, Fisher Paykel TL, GE Hydrowave GTWN 2800, no problems with any of them.
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Post# 853016 , Reply# 25   11/21/2015 at 15:46 (3,049 days old) by revvinkevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land)   |   | |
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I'm in California and we're having a pretty serious water shortage (or so they tell us) so I've been sticking to HE machines for laundry. I have 3 FL's and 1 TL washer connected I use regularly. The Players: 2009 KM Elite, 2005 LG, 2001 MT Neptune and a 2004 WP Calypso. (I also have a 1997 small door Frigidaire Gallery FL in the house, but only run a load in it every 2 months or so) The Sheets: 2 King size cotton sheets, 500 thread count with 5 king size pillow cases. The Results: In the KM Elite FL (blue), it does OK maybe 40% of the time. The rest of the time I'll have to stop it, untie/untangle the sopping wet mess and re-start. If I don't, it will dink around for 20 minutes trying to distribute and spin. In the LG, this one has never, NEVER tangled/balled up/made a rope of anything, sheets included! There are other things I really don't like about how this machine works, but tangling sheets is not one of them! In the Maytag Neptune: Never a problem with tangling or balling up anything. In the Calypso: I no longer wash sheets in the Calypso. Every time I have, each sheet has been twisted into a rope by the end of the cycle. The dryers (2 Maytags and a WP Cabrio): If I'm drying a mixed load of sheets (thick/heavy & lite/thin: i.e. dog bedding) they will ball up and the heavy one in the center won't be dry. When drying the bed sheets and pillow cases, I've learned if I throw in the 5 pillow cases first, then "fluff" each sheet before tossing it in, the pillow cases won't be balled up in a sheet (and not dry) when the cycle finishes. Kevin This post was last edited 11/21/2015 at 16:02 |
Post# 853055 , Reply# 27   11/21/2015 at 22:26 (3,049 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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Post# 853057 , Reply# 28   11/21/2015 at 22:55 (3,049 days old) by mamapinky (blairsville pa)   |   | |
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Post# 853060 , Reply# 29   11/21/2015 at 23:15 (3,049 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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Post# 853072 , Reply# 30   11/22/2015 at 05:46 (3,049 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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I have California King Size duvet covers and fitted sheets. Washing is not much of a problem although sometimes a pillow case ends up in the duvet cover.
Drying however is more of a hassle. The duvet cover wrinkles terribly when dried in the Miele condensor dryer. So I just put it in there for 20 minutes together with the matched pillow cases. Then I hang those items up to air dry further. The fitted sheet and the other pillow cases are dried in the dryer without a problem. |
Post# 853132 , Reply# 32   11/22/2015 at 16:17 (3,048 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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I haven't kept exact records, but I honestly recall very little trouble with sheets, regardless of size, or material. (I've had everything from "normal" sheets to thick flannel sheets, and sizes I've washed have varied from Twin to Queen, with a couple of single King type sheets.)
The only time I had trouble was with a WCI Frigidaire. Not that a WCI Frigidaire would cause trouble. Oh, no, of course not. But there would be air bubbles, and it was hard to get the sheet to go fully under. I'd often have to pause the machine, and fiddle with the sheets to get them to go under. Sheet: "But I don't want to go under! I'm scared of deep water!" Me: "Tough luck, sheet. You're going deep washer tub diving today!" Current Whirlpool DD appears to have zero trouble, although I do wonder how much faster my sheets are wearing when washed in the Shredmore. |
Post# 853186 , Reply# 34   11/22/2015 at 20:10 (3,048 days old) by washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)   |   | |
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Dustin92, I had the exact same thing happen to me in an 80s GE dryer -- melted the mattress cover! That dryer was waaay too hot, it had to go...it's probably a Toyota by now.
Not being a fan of frontloaders, I can't comment on bed linen wash day, but my Norge/Wards machines always managed to deal with the billowing bubble effect and pulled those sheets right under! |
Post# 853236 , Reply# 35   11/23/2015 at 07:45 (3,047 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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with sheets, and the new Speed Queen is super with them. Its the dryer where I get massive black hole balling. Once I lost a pair of socks for two weeks, until the sheets came off the bed to wash and lo and behold in the pockets were my socks for two weeks. Somehow the SQ tucks thing away in there. Oh and the Easy top loader look out sheets you don't have a chance with that Spiralator !
What gets my goat is when I go to friends and stay over and they open the linen closet to reveal PERFECTLY SQUARE FOLDED FITTED SHEETS ! HOW THE HELL DO THEY DO THAT! I have been shown the" fold into pocket" method and still end up with a giant wad !!
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Post# 853692 , Reply# 37   11/25/2015 at 22:07 (3,045 days old) by Brib68 (Central Connecticut)   |   | |
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King and queen sheets do just fine in my LG front loader. I don't think I've ever had sheets ball up in the washer. Once in a while pillow cases will get rolled up in the fitted sheet in the dryer. I think the flat sheet got balled up maybe once in the dryer. Certain sheets seem more prone to it than others.
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Post# 853768 , Reply# 38   11/26/2015 at 14:24 (3,044 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia)   |   | |
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The good old Zanussi Westinghouse we had never failed to spin at whatever speed you asked it to....and never gave rope issues.
The Beko/Blomberg is a different beast with spinning though.
With sheets, if you wash two Queen sheets and a couple of pillow slips, then about 20% of the time they spin at 600rpm. About 40% at around 1000rpm (which I can live with) and the rest at 1200/1400rpm. So one in five loads of sheets gets respun....though this is improving now that I have readjusted the feet.
This machine does prefer to have at least 2/3 of its capacity used rather than smaller loads. |
Post# 854228 , Reply# 39   11/29/2015 at 18:10 (3,041 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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This afternoon, I put both of the king sheets and the pillowcases in the GE. In 25 minutes, they were dry and not balled up. YAY GE! |
Post# 968981 , Reply# 42   11/19/2017 at 20:18 (2,320 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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Post# 968984 , Reply# 43   11/19/2017 at 20:29 (2,320 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)   |   | |
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Since its just me, my sheets and towels go in one full load but I tend to find a washcloth in the end of a fitted sheet in the dryer every so often. So what, I have had these Maytags 35 years now and am used to checking corners from the dryer. My Auto Dry takes about 40 minutes for a full load of towels and sheets, while the same setting takes 20 minutes for shirts and pants.
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Post# 968997 , Reply# 45   11/19/2017 at 21:32 (2,320 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)   |   | |
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Yes, John, those Maytags were definitely worth the cost. One repair to the 511 washer and zero to the 410 dryer. Back 35 years ago I paid over $1000 for a mid line pair but never regretted it. If it was still now the "Old" Maytags, I should be in their ads instead of the family with a dozen kids. Now, I'd give them 2 years and their new Maytag goes to the scrap heap.
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