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Thread Number: 81227
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
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| Post# 1052460 , Reply# 1 11/27/2019 at 11:35 (1,835 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas) | ||
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| Post# 1052606 , Reply# 2 11/28/2019 at 13:09 (1,834 days old) by alldim (Frankfurt (Germany)) | ||
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Woow. No one wants to answer? | ||
Post# 1052621 , Reply# 4 11/28/2019 at 15:11 (1,834 days old) by ozzie908  (Lincoln UK) |
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Hello and welcome :)
I think the main difference with UK and USA for example is
1 Electricity voltage in UK is 230/240 in USA is 110/120 2 UK homes were smaller and so washing machines were smaller to fit and most often are in the kitchen making big machines unsuitable 3 UK only just catching up with having a dryer as lack of space prohibited use 4 Most homes in UK no longer have hot water storage tanks mostly use combi gas boilers and 99.5% of machines in UK are cold fill only There you go that's a start for you :0 | ||
| Post# 1052677 , Reply# 8 11/29/2019 at 09:19 (1,833 days old) by gorenje (Slovenia) | ||
Hello "alldim"  | ||
| Post# 1052690 , Reply# 9 11/29/2019 at 10:39 (1,833 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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Ditto what Ingemar said! | ||
| Post# 1052842 , Reply# 11 12/1/2019 at 11:15 (1,831 days old) by gorenje (Slovenia) | ||
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I think that most of all depends on habits. There are huge differences in habits between continents. But I guess people get used to this and didn't even realize them because for them this is the standard or the normality.
In certain places it is given more importance to certain things than in other places. (speed, results, fabric care ....) My father had an American General Electric filter-flo washing machine for 2 years. I knew very well how to use it but every single time I was so disappointed with the results in general. The washing machine itself and the washing system was so primitive for me. But this wouldn't be a problem if the results would be good, but they weren't. The point is that probably the same shock could have an American using European washing machines, but for other reasons. My shock as a European was poor washing / rinsing / spin performance, fabric care, detergent and water consumption because these are the things I care about. But on the other side for an American the shock are long cycles, relatively small capacity, (front loaders can be loaded ful unlike toploaders), because they care about this and not else. Habits, lifesyle, beliefs and other things are some reasons why we are used to different washing machines and other things. Something that it seems strange to someone is completely usual for someone else ;-) | ||
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