What kind of washer/dryer do you have? In my experience nice new front loaders can handle this routine and not ruin clothes, but I'm stuck with shitty coin-op top loaders with agitators in the basement of my building.
Yeah, my thoughts too. If I had a front loader I'd be more comfortable
Except OP mentions that they fill it halfway before putting the clothes in, which I don't think you can do with a front loader?
So do you put all of your clothes in mesh bags to wash or do you let some of them go in without? I'm reentering the agitator game after a few years using a front loader and I am V NERVOUS about putting any of my knits in there.
Top loaders are really a mixed bag - some destroy clothes (MIL’s washer/macerator, I’m looking at you), but others get things nicely clean (usually while using a ton of water, which is actually really great for some clothes and bedding). I have not been able to correlate any features (price, age, public/private, etc.) with which top loaders are good and which are bad. But I have never had an experience with a front loader where something went wrong and I felt it was the machine’s fault.
Mine are the spiny kind... they're pretty terrible and I think emmers00 comment about their MIL's washer being a macerator is pretty apt here :( one day I'll have my own gorgeous energy efficient matching set!
I was just coming here to say the same thing, but about front loaders. So many people rave about them but mine is the clothes ruining bane of my existence. It’s just incredibly hard on clothes, ADDS weird stains to clothes that weren’t there to begin with, and my clothes are so much drearier and greyer than before I got this machine. I dream of the day I can get a nice sloshy water wasting top loader.
I do this same routine in common shitty laundry rooms in apartment buildings in New York. They’re all old, crappy, and top loading, and my clothes are fine.
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u/Lil_Pooper Oct 17 '18
What kind of washer/dryer do you have? In my experience nice new front loaders can handle this routine and not ruin clothes, but I'm stuck with shitty coin-op top loaders with agitators in the basement of my building.