Thread Number: 73689
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Post# 973156 , Reply# 1   12/12/2017 at 03:41 (2,298 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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no matter the time frame....it still holds true today....the standard AHAM load is 8lbs......and that's what everything is judged by...
as people complain of HE low water machines not using enough water...no matter how big the cuft of the machine....as long as it can wash that size load, all is perfect... but yeah, I have a buddy who spent over 2 thousand bucks on the biggest set he could find to wash his one king size comforter.....what?, maybe once every two months?.... to each his own, but with three kids, I have excessive laundry, and two kings size beds, the 3cuft Neptune is more than enough.... |
Post# 973170 , Reply# 2   12/12/2017 at 05:01 (2,298 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 973172 , Reply# 3   12/12/2017 at 05:14 (2,298 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Well, I do. I was raised whereby a full load as much as possible. But then, when I wasn't doing the laundry, my mom pretty much didn't sort. The GE ex. lg. capacity washer. Sorted loads were pretty much full. I've had a ton of clothes for decades since college. The Lady Shredmore held more than the GE. Then the Frigdgemore more than the LK. And now the Duet. Now with the Duet, there are special loads that aren't. But I still accumulate. Nice terrycloth wash cloths used as napkins. Kitchen towels. Those are done on Sanitary & steam for heavy stains. But 2 sets of queen size sheets in a load. Underwear/t-shirts around 18 pair. 12 pair slacks. Work shirts for summer or winter--about 25 each, more in winter. 14+ sets of towels for fall/winter or spring/summer (darker or lighter). Winter work shirts, I can go for 2 months plus without having to wash a shirt. Everything is accumulated, properly sorted and washed. Usual loads after sorted are at least 3/4 full if not full. 8-10 sets of sweats. I've caused a suds lock a couple of times with those 16-20 pieces of sweats n a load. My sewer rate is calculated on 3 month average from billing cycle of January-March. That rate also impacts my cost/100 gallons for the next 12 months too. One gets a break if those 3 months is < 2000 gallons/month. This past year because of surgery, someone staying here for 3 weeks helping me and them washing small loads every day (as well as leaky toilet ) my monthly average was 2900 gallons/month. That has cost me over $100 more for the year. I will be taking desperate measures this 3 month period to get well below the 2000 gallons/month. Stockpiling laundry and only doing loads as I've gone through an entire category and absolutely necessary. Included will be (as I've done before year ago when I still had the LK), accumulating the water in my mopping bucket the water that's wasted bringing hot water to my shower--2.5 gallons. That will be used to flush the toilet. It all adds up. It's why I'm so concerned about water usage and my water bills. Because of very little rain the last couple of months, I have still run the sprinklers to keep my yard wet and ground around my foundation wet. This month, my water bill was 1.49 times what my electric bill was and I live in an all-electric house. |
Post# 973178 , Reply# 5   12/12/2017 at 05:49 (2,298 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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John, my two bathrooms have good ol fashioned large dirty clothes hampers as part of the cabinetry. I have plenty of room to store dirty clothes. It's how our house in Houston was too (3 of them). I bought a special wicker basket that is in laundry room for kitchen linens. All towels are thoroughly dried out before being put in respective hampers. NO smell. |
Post# 973180 , Reply# 6   12/12/2017 at 06:06 (2,298 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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I found the 4.5 cu.ft. capacity of my front-loading Maytag 8100 hit the sweet spot in terms of capacity. The washer and dryer were each 27" wide (which was important due to the width of the doorways at the house). I washed a queen-sized comforter each week in rotation--one for each cat and my own. Also washed a BobLoad of bath linens each week. Otherwise, I'll admit most other loads were 1/3-2/3 of full capacity. I usually changed sheets twice a week and did 2 queen-sized sets plus 14 (yes, I have seven pillows on the bed) pillowcases.
In an effort to downsize laundry costs/machine wear & tear, I'm now using a bath towel twice for the first time in my life, eliminating the need for a second load of towels in the top-loading SQ. I think two sets of sheets and 14 pillowcases will overwhelm the SQ, so am trying to change sheets only once a week--again, for the first time in my life. Washing the comforter only once every two or three months. Bathroom rugs every 2-3 weeks. Am also learning to dose the liquid Persil to spec (lines in the cap). The only load that gets a full cap dose--along with 2/3-cup Clorox-- is the weekly very large load of heavily-stained kitchen whites (and personal whites, which, no, aren't heavily stained, LOL.) At any rate, that brings me down to 5 loads a week rather than 7. Add a load for weeks when the comforter or rugs get washed. Interesting to compare one's laundry habits with others, isn't it? |
Post# 973197 , Reply# 7   12/12/2017 at 09:08 (2,298 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 973212 , Reply# 8   12/12/2017 at 10:55 (2,298 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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also, they probably go by cubic foot sizing as people can judge size, like a king comforter, which is more puffy than heavy, by volume/sizing, than by actual poundage for what a machine will hold...
guarantee most just want a huge machine, to wash, correction, pack as much into a machine as they can for one cycle.... a lot of variables as to why people choose a machine/set... space available can be one..... their washing habits..... and how often they wash....sometimes daily, other times, wait until it builds up... one thing about a FLer, there are loads you can mix together versus using a TL machine.... for a single person, laundry may not pile up so fast.....for a family of just 5....in just one week, that's 35 pairs of jeans to wash, add in shirts, towels, and undergarments/socks....then tack on bedding you can keep up quite well if you do one or two loads a day versus an all day event....
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Post# 973245 , Reply# 9   12/12/2017 at 14:04 (2,298 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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I made an interesting discovery this past weekend while the Affinity FL was OOS waiting for a new pump.
As my luck would have it, the king size mattress pad needed to be washed, and all I had was the Maytag A712. I recalled that our larger tub '97 Amana had trouble with a mattress pad that size, so was figuring it would be a hands-on operation in the 712.
Much to my surprise, it fit fine in the 712 and its long stroke turnover was better than in the Amana. So much for the naysayers about Maytag wash action! The only think I can think of is that the mattress pad we used when we had the Amana was maybe a little more puffy. |
Post# 973258 , Reply# 11   12/12/2017 at 15:56 (2,298 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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I typically don't run a given type of load until: a) I have a full load, or b) I don't have any clean items of the type left, or c) it's a large item that runs solo such as a quilt. I use the same bath towel for several days (hung to dry between), and have enough ankle socks and kitchen linens and such to last 3+ weeks which is what determines when the whites are done. |
Post# 973266 , Reply# 12   12/12/2017 at 17:30 (2,298 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Glenn & I approach laundry very similarly--was waiting for him to contribute. My segments are: Personal whites, kitchen hand towels, napkins & dish rags, sheets, towels, shirts I wear to work, stuff I wear around the house, pants, jeans. Spring/summer are lighter colors; fall/winter are darker colors. |
Post# 973286 , Reply# 13   12/12/2017 at 18:42 (2,298 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.)   |   | |
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I’m a creature of habit and I do our main laundry on Thursday, every week. Three loads, whites, light colors and towels, dark colors. On Saturday I change the bed and wash the sheets, one load. So, we average 4 loads a week, with the occasional extra load for the shower curtain, liner, rubber tub mat and bath mat, throw rugs, curtains, slipcovers, blankets, bedspreads, pillows, ect.
Our machine is rated at 3.6 cu ft. capacity, and I’ve never had a problem handing any of these loads. I don't’ see the need for a machine any larger than this. But I wouldn’t want a smaller machine either. I have no desire to take anything to a laundromat, unless there is no other alternative. People wash anything and everything in these machines, with cold water and who knows what detergent. And I remember when I used to have to go to a laundromat to dry clothes when I didn’t have a dryer. I made the mistake once of not checking the interior of the dryer first. Well when the time was up and I took the load out it was covered with chocolate. Some wisenheimer had apparently thrown a candy bar in the dryer, just for the hell of it. I got the hell of it when I had to rewash everything and bring it back to dry, at another laundromat! So, no thanks, I want to be able to wash my large items at home. Eddie This post was last edited 12/12/2017 at 20:26 |
Post# 973291 , Reply# 14   12/12/2017 at 19:11 (2,298 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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I do most of the laundry; usually 3 loads of colored clothes (jeans/knits/Brian's cotton boxer briefs) every two weeks, one load of whites a week (Brian's T-shirts, some towels, kitchen linens, some sheets), one load of colored synthetics (UA boxerjocks, gym wear, golf shirts) a week and one load of white synthetics (jocks/compression shorts/golf shirts/UA underwear) every 3 weeks or so. All socks and underwear and spandex-containing clothes are hung to dry; other stuff is tumbled in our 45 year old Kenmore gas dryer.
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Post# 973820 , Reply# 16   12/15/2017 at 15:11 (2,295 days old) by mrboilwash (Munich,Germany)   |   | |
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The source states that 9 out of 10 women would pick the 6 lb. basket as their average load.
6 lb. is also the amount of dry clothes what P&G and other US detergent manufacturers consider a medium, regular or normal load size. That would make just about a half load in a small European FL by dry weight. CLICK HERE TO GO TO mrboilwash's LINK |
Post# 973835 , Reply# 18   12/15/2017 at 17:07 (2,295 days old) by johnrk (BP TX)   |   | |
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that you Germans need to realize, as I think I stated, that this is from a 1963 Frigidaire sales booklet. I have no idea what the average is considered these days, but knowing the people I do, it's a lot more than 6 pounds. |
Post# 973922 , Reply# 20   12/16/2017 at 03:28 (2,294 days old) by mrboilwash (Munich,Germany)   |   | |
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John, my only point is that the detergent industry in the USA still considers 6 lb. of dry clothes a medium or in other words a normal load just like Frigidaire did in 1963.
There are precise definitions of what a large or extra large load is on P&G`s website. (Link) I suppose most people don`t need those extra large capacities on a daily basis or haven`t changed laundry habits that much since 1963, otherwise a medium load today would be considered a small load, a large one medium and so on. And for what it`s worth it`s just the same in Germany and the rest of the EU. Our washer`s capacities are getting larger and larger, but a standart load is still 4,5 kg. |
Post# 973926 , Reply# 23   12/16/2017 at 04:54 (2,294 days old) by mrboilwash (Munich,Germany)   |   | |
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"In 2014, the average load size of washing machines in North America was 2.8 kilograms."
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Post# 973927 , Reply# 24   12/16/2017 at 05:05 (2,294 days old) by mrboilwash (Munich,Germany)   |   | |
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According to Clorox which is certainly not a German company,
"on average a large load weighs between 6-8 pounds" Again not so far away from Frigidaire`s view over 50 years ago. But to be be fair, all of us tend to find exactly those things on the net that confirm our very own points of view... And my personal point of view is that for most people the average real life load size hasn`t changed much during the last 50 years. Yours may vary and that`s ok for me. CLICK HERE TO GO TO mrboilwash's LINK |
Post# 973946 , Reply# 25   12/16/2017 at 08:17 (2,294 days old) by johnrk (BP TX)   |   | |
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I sure thought sizes were more poundage. Of course, as they say, everything is bigger in Texas! Best wishes- |
Post# 973992 , Reply# 26   12/16/2017 at 11:27 (2,294 days old) by IowaBear (Cedar Rapids, IA)   |   | |
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When I was very young we had a GE Filter-Flo. I saw one in person recently for the first time in decades and was surprised at how small the capacity was.
Which explained why my father was dispatched once-a-month or so to the closest laundromat with the bedspreads and blankets. I loved those trips, the laundromat had a separate island with extra-large Wascomats in different sizes. There was one truly giant-sized one that I always begged to use but usually the items would all fit in the second-to-largest size, LOL. Of course I loved watching the machines, especially as they went into spin and the suds poured down the glass door.
They also had a Bock extractor that we sometimes used. I remember helping to tuck the top item in around the top per the instructions. They must have had a serious warning label on them even back then because I remember he always made me stand back away from it when it was running like it might explode or something!
I don't own anything that won't fit in my FL Neptune (which is not large by the today's standards) so I haven't used a coin laundry for years.
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Post# 974041 , Reply# 29   12/16/2017 at 14:38 (2,294 days old) by bendix5 (Central Point, Oregon)   |   | |
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Monday I weighed our laundry just for kicks. This included 2 queen sheets and 4 pillow cases. This was a weeks worth of dirty clothes for 2 not including towels. They get done on Wednesday. It was 27 lbs worth. That is spread into 4 loads. Whites (sheets and white socks) mixed colors (colored tees, unders and colored socks. Then a load of light shirts and wifes tops. Last a small load of jeans and a couple of vests. Average 6.75 per load. Our front loader is a Maytag,(Samsung) which we have had since 2005 and it is still going strong. I don't understand why they keep making machines bigger. My sis who is about 5'2' could never get clothes out of these new top loads with out a stool. She loves her front loader.
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