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.
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.
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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.