Top Loading
What are the pros and cons between top loading and front loading clothes washers?
I would like to get feedback from people who have owned both types of machines.
I also would like to know if anyone has experienced any significant differences between front-loading clothes washers that are of American design (e.g. Whirlpool) as opposed to European design (e.g. Miele)
Although I have never owned one, I have been doing my own laundry in laundromats that have both machines. I find that the front loaders give a much more thorough wash than the top loaders. The reason is quite simple: top loaders just swish around the soaped water while the front loader actually tumbles the clothes time and time again into the soapy water, giving the clothes kind of a 'pounding' in the suds. This difference is especially significant since we wind up more often than not stuff our machines to capacity (or even above a lot of the time) and the clothes don't get a chance to move around. In a front loader, the water will still be moving around in and around the clothes. Unlike in regular washers where if overstuffed, the water swisher will not allow the clothes to get as clean. (And just for fun, you can watch your clothes wash in the front loaders.)
The only con with the front loaders is that once the cycle has started, you can't open it up to throw in anything you may have forgotten. Another thing is you have to be careful that your clothing doesn't get snagged in the door. Otherwise, your piece of clothing will just twist around, stuck there and not get washed properly. But hey, learn to be careful and get a better wash!
As far as American versus European, I don't know of any differences. The only thing I do know is that the ones that are both washer and dryer in one unit tend to break more easily and aren't as reliable.
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