Anyone bought a washing machine that doesnt do what it says it can

[Oliversmumsarmy]

I bought a Beko WI1483 at the end of 2014, I thought I would be able to use it but building work began and it wasn't taken out of its packaging and plumbed in until December 2015.

I bought it because of its 8kg load capacity.

It is driving me insane.

It will only take 1 king size duvet, any more and it judders and shakes. So it means to do the bedding I need to do around 6/7 washer loads just for bedding.

Yesterday was the final straw. I loaded it with 1 bath towel, a bath matt and 2 t.shirts. It shook so much it jumped out of the line of cupboards and it is so heavy I cannot get it to go back.

If I am unable to do 5 washer loads per day I end up at the launderette once per week to catch up on the washing.
I am going completely crazy

Anyone else have this problem?

If you need to be able to do 5 large loads of washing each day you need a more robust industrial machine with a bigger drum capacity. Beco machines are not that.

I don't get it tbh. I used to get a house full of towels - bath sheets, hand towels, towels from the kitchen and downstairs loo plus bathmat in our 7kg Beko. They were fine. Bed linen for a king size bed, including two sets of pillowcases and other bits and pieces too. Never had the machine bounce around, fail to work, fail to spin and everything came out clean.

The OP is saying she needs to do so many loads because she's having to split what she considers normal loads into several smaller ones.

That picture is really only half a load and with it being bath sheets they will bunch and ball and unbalance the machine.

You really could get a 4th in... or split the towels and other heavy stuff amid lighter stuff, like 2 towels and a load of socks and knickers.

If you can't get loads of shirts in then you have an 'off' idea of what a full drum looks/feels like... or you have an elephant living in the drum!

found this on mse

If you fly, especially Ryanair, you will be aware that the cabin baggage allowance is 10kg. If the case weighs about 2kg then the contents would be 8kg, so a rough answer would be "a small suitcase worth".

I have an 8kg machine and get loads of towels in it. I think there is definitely something wrong with your machine.

Oh yes. I bought a Samsung EcoBubble because they are supposed to be almost silent and I have an autistic child with sensory processing issues so felt it was worth going slightly over my budget for. It's the NOISIEST washing machine I've ever owned. Engineers came out three times and eventually lied told me that only the most expensive one is quiet, the others all make a racket. So I'm stuck with the fucker till it breaks down.

Blue there is Just 4 of us. 5 washer loads wouldn't do the bedding each week.

I have had in the past a 5kg washer that held more than this.

It is the biggest PITA. Taking a load to the launderette tomorrow to try and catch up as dh has been ill this week and had to go to hospital, so I have spent a lot of time with him at the hospital.

I bought this particular model because it needed to be integrated, be a quiet machine because we are open plan, have a quick wash, it also a timer showing how long a wash has to go and it is the biggest intergrated one I could find. It scores highly on everything except the capacity.

Should add, (sorry can't take a picture that shows what I mean) when I looked inside it when it was first opened I did think the drum did look like my old 5kg washer, definitely smaller than the 7kg washer it replaced. I am going to have a look at washers tomorrow to see the difference in store.

Or might do a YouTube video trying to cram 26 shirts into the drum.

It looks like you're underfilling the machine. You can get way more in than what you're putting in. As long as you can get your hand in the top of the drum and move it around easily, then it's not over or under filled.
We have a 6KG machine and it will take the king size duvet cover, pillow cases & sheet or 2 lots of single bedding.
We had a Beko machine a while back which was a 5kg and held about the same

There's 4 of us here. I do 6 - 9 loads a week, we have a 7kg machine.

I don't wash towels after each use though - weekly for bath sheets, twice weekly for hand towels and kitchen towels.

Looking at what's currently on my clothes airer, the last load I did was a dressing gown, a nightshirt, 4 of dh's shirts, 2 of dd's shirts, 5 t shirts, about 10 pairs of knickers and a vest top.

That drum isn't anywhere near full

Have you leveled the machine they normally have feet that you screw down to level, sound like your machine isn't level and that why it noisy and moving.

I have this machine and it takes far more then that, we a family of 5 and don't do half the washing you are doing. And it is far quieter then my old hotpoint.

Isn't the point that the machine behaves as though it's overfilled even though it shouldn't be? My neff machine takes a whole drying rack's worth of washing. It's like a tardis. It only shakes if I ram in beach towels as well as bedding.

Op, it would drive me mad too.