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Thread Number: 95173
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
Speed Queen Front Loader owners . . . cleaning results? |
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| Post# 1198201 1/29/2024 at 00:08 by EEMac (Olympia, WA) | ||
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Post# 1198282 , Reply# 1 1/30/2024 at 08:20 by gansky1  (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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I have two SQ front-loaders, a 2004 model and a 2017 version (larger door and ball-balance system). Do you know when the used SQ you're looking at is from? The newer the better, that ball-balance ring at the front of the drum is excellent, never fails to spin fast and smooth.
I have never had an issue with cleaning, hair/debris removal, etc. Excellent performer. | ||
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Post# 1198289 , Reply# 2 1/30/2024 at 13:49 by whirlykenmore78 (Prior Lake MN (GMT-0500 CDT.)) |
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Have had my 2016 SQ FL: | ||
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Post# 1198306 , Reply# 3 1/30/2024 at 16:37 by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Newer extra large, Speed Queen front load washers
After fooling with washers for well over 50 years, I have never seen a better washing machine when you consider everything, cleaning performance, balancing easy, repair ability, and you’re just not gonna ever wear the thing out.
They have gotten expensive, but it’s still less than the cost of two cheap washers. John | ||
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Post# 1198324 , Reply# 5 1/30/2024 at 19:45 by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Stinky washing machines
If your washing machine is getting stinky, you’re not using it properly. Your clothing is not clean either even if it looks clean.
It’s moreIf you’re washing machine is getting stinky, you’re not using it properly. Your clothing is not clean either even if it looks clean. It’s more of a problem in front loading washers because they use some little water. The sheer volume of water that top loaders use will mask poor washing practices. I have an 18-year-old Speed Queen front load machine and a three-year-old one both smell and look like new I have never cleaned anything about them except wiping off the window. The trick to good results is to use good detergent and never washing water cooler than 100° I try for 120 for most loads at least one in six loads I use liquid chlorine bleach in the dispenser when I do towels sheets etc. My clothing smells great last a long time and the machines are absolutely spotlessly clean inside and out, if you have a front load washer that gets smelly, good laundry practices, well clean it up without disassembly and cleaning but it may take 30 to 50 washer loads to get it back to a great condition. John | ||
| Post# 1198334 , Reply# 7 1/31/2024 at 07:28 by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY) | ||
I've considered a SQ front loader for my next washer. In fact, I'm STILL considering it. I know, I know. It doesn't have a heater which is a bummer...but I lived with washers without a heater for YEARS...and my water heater is in the room with the machine...so I think I could get decently hot water as long as they don't mix with cold even when you choose hot....does anyone know? In other words... do you get TAP hot? That's what I would want.
and I'll never stop using bleach... even if it's just a little...I do ONE load of whites when doing laundry and that's usually the last load when I do laundry...I've always finished that way...doing the whites last...Not sure why. I feel like the machine gets sanitized while waiting for a few days for the next use. All I know is, whatever I'm doing I'm going to keep doing it because my machine must LOVE it...I'm approaching 19 years with it soon...and it still smells clean. Weird that it sounds like you're doing everything right but it still smells...Usually that's happens when people have no clue or are just lazy or just don't realize how that funk can start growing if you don't know what you're doing. | ||
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Post# 1198337 , Reply# 8 1/31/2024 at 10:35 by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Post# 1198339 , Reply# 9 1/31/2024 at 12:07 by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Speed Queen front loaders and hot water
Reply number seven. Hi Mark, Speed Queen does not temper the hot water, so whatever is available it will use when you select hot my newer Speed Queen is just 4 feet from the water heater. I keep my water about 130 or a little better, when I want a really hot wash, I just select pre-wash hot And then wash hot and it goes through a brief pre-wash with hot water drains and does a very brief spin dispenses more detergent and fill more hot water in. It’s too hot to touch plenty hot enough to get clothing clean.
This makes for a good hot wash and a fast cycle with no risk of burned up wiring or circuit boards or relays in the machine. Plus I have a gas water heater, which is cheaper to run than electric resistance heating anyway. John | ||
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Post# 1198564 , Reply# 12 2/4/2024 at 15:22 by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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1. Alliance Laundry Systems seems to offer various models SQ (or Unimac) washer with heating capabilities.
alliancelaundrysystems.widen.net... www.manualslib.com/manual... www.samstores.com/product-speedq... Then there are various commercial washer/extractors both hard and soft mount that can be set up to use steam for heating. 2. "But I still wouldn't want to trade true 140F+ washing for anything - but that might just be my EU bias." Testing done by independent sources in EU early as 2013 (if not prior) showed good number of domestic washers failed to reach and or hold set temperature. This especially at 140 degrees F and above. Suppose it falls under "what you don't know doesn't hurt you". Manufacturers of such machines don't believe owners will check or even care. Older washers from Europe most certainly did reach and hold selected temps. My Miele W1070 will not only get water from near freezing to 200F, but will turn heater on again if detects set temp drops below that level. One knows this because there is a quite audible *thunk* sound when thermostat engages heater, then again when heater is shut down. Miele washer will heat water at any point in cycle (even past heating portion) up until and or just right before washer goes into rinse. 3. Never, ever, ever start washing with hot water. It cooks proteinous soil (that all laundry that has come into contact with a person) is fouled with, making it difficult to remove. In many ways it was a sad day laundry wise when American households moved over to automatic washing machines. Prior to this whether manually or with semi-automatic washing machines whites/colourfast and other things that required a hot wash were presoaked or prewashed in cool or cold water. That took care of protein based soils before the orgy of hot and boil washing followed. Yes, some fully automatic washers offered pre-wash or pre-soak cycles, but not everyone used them. People just bunged wash into machine, set it for "hot" wash and that was it. American's love affair with chlorine bleach covered a multitude of wash day sins, and one of them was bleaching out stains or soils that would or could have been removed by doing a cool or cold water prewash or soak. 4. SQ washers at local laundromat have different tub vanes than what one sees in their domestic cousins. They are rather large nearly solid bars that produce rather strong wash action. One can hear (and often feel) washing being lifted and slapped down against tub or itself with great force. Four pieces of wash day pie are; Mechanical force, chemicals, water temperature and water level. One can move things about to achieve same results as all things being equal. Thus if SQ front loaders have stronger mechanical wash action then that will compensate (to some extent) lack of higher wash temps. Keeping in mind also modern laundry detergents work quite well at temps of 100 to 104 F. | ||
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Post# 1198568 , Reply# 14 2/4/2024 at 16:38 by Logixx (Germany) |
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Excerpt from a current Bosch manual for an A-Class energy label washer. I don't exactly know since when, but washers manuals have to list the maximum attained water temperature for certain cycles.
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Post# 1198586 , Reply# 15 2/5/2024 at 03:15 by henene4 (Heidenheim a.d. Brenz (Germany)) |
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That came with the new energy label regulations and technically, as far as I understand, has only to be listed for the Eco cycle, but otherwise many manufacturers just list it anyway. The temperature listed is the maximum temp reached for 5min continuously. That's why for example AEG/ELux still lists 55C. | ||
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Post# 1198587 , Reply# 16 2/5/2024 at 04:06 by Logixx (Germany) |
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AEG/ELux still lists 55C | ||
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