My old washing machine was about 17 years old and very good until it packed in. Time for a new one.
So got a new one. And I'm shocked at the washing times!!
Eco : 3 hrs 45 mins
Easy care : 3 hours.
Cottons: 3 hrs 20 mins.
Way, way too long! Surely that will wear out the fabric of the
things being washed, being swished about in water and detergent for hours on end.
The easy care and mixed wash programmes are less than an hour so not an option. It's just not enough when you include two rinses. Surely things can't be clean in less than 30 mins.
There's a 'quick wash' button you can press on most programmes but then it reduces the time from 3hrs 45 mins to an hour. Which isn't quite long enough
if half of it is rinsing. I'm at my wits end. I want stuff to be clean but 3 hrs 45 mins
seems hugely excessive. And one hour seems not nearly enough.
I've read the manual, tested all the many various programmes and options available, pressed all the buttons and I still cannot make my new washing machine get in line and do what I want it to do. Which is to complete a wash in one hour and a half. Not almost 4 hours, or less than one hour. One and a half hours all told is all I ask. One hour wash, 30 mins rinse, like my old one did, very well, for many years.
I just want comments really. AIBU?
My view might be skewed because I'm old, and never met a washing machine until I was 18 and my mother got a sort of 'drum' washer with an agitator at the bottom. It washed your clothes and took most of the hard work out of washing.
You had to fill it up with hot water via a rubber pipe from the geyser in the kitchen.
When the things were washed you had to drain the dirty water out from the bottom into a bucket in stages and empty it down the sink.
Then you had to take the stuff out and wring it out by hand and then fill the drum up with cold water and put all the stuff back in to agitate and rinse. And you had to do that twice because once didn't get all the soap out. Obviously draining and filling as necessary. It all sounds like a load of faff, and it certainly was a load of faff. My two brothers and I often got home from school and helped my mother with this and that. They were both much older than me by 8 and 9 years so probably much more helpful than I was. But I did my bit.
In those far off days though, nobody had social media or mobile phones to distract them, and take them away from the here and now.. We got off the bus from school and walked home with our friends if they got off at the same stop.
If not then you walked home alone. It was so normal it simply wasn't an issue.
Kids walked home quite happily without a screen to stare at.
It makes me so sad when I see young people so engrossed in their phone screen. They are missing out on so much of real life. It's limiting their overall development as a functioning adult human being.