Recommend me a washing machine with a short cycle please.

[DuckieDodgyHedgyPiggy]

My ancient Dyson is on its way out. It's been brilliant - can do handwash items, duvets... Cotton and synthetics on a 30 minute wash. Plus it's intuitive to use. Do you have a similar brilliant machine that you can recommend, please? I'm in the UK. Am prepared to pay a bit more for convenience/ticking the boxes. Many thanks in advance.

Also interested

Bosch excel basic model has all of these things.

Aeg great, lots of options, on most models, bit more than the cheap brands

I have a Hotpoint that has a 30 min cycle, I've been really pleased with it.

I am pleased with mine as well - my 2nd Hotpoint. 30min quick wash (but I do give it an extra 16min spin sometimes)

Our Bosch does a 30 minute wash at 30 deg

I would also say Bosch, my Serie 6 washer dryer has a mytime setting where I can choose the length of cycle. But it also has lots of pre set options, would recommend.

My haier has a 15 minute cycle

Samsung eco bubble has a 15 min cycle

My basic Miele has a 20 minute express wash (40, 30 20° or cold only) - they are designed to 'efficiency ' rules now so are getting longer and longer cycles to save water and electricity- the eco wash is nearly 3 hours long, a standard wash is just over 2 but you can choose 'short' to make it just over an hour. These are way longer than they were on the 20 year old Miele it replaced....

Thank you all. Much appreciated.

Before the Dyson I always had cheapo machines and am loath to go back to miniature loads at two-hour cycles.

Well, I've had a look and the short cycles seem to only take 2kg. Does anyone have a machine that does a full load in 30 mins?

My Siemens has a 15 minute wash. Rarely use it though.

My Beko does a full load 30min at 30 degrees

I have this. Does a 59m cycle, but also a smaller load 14/30m one. Honestly, the 59m cycle (with 1600 spin) is what I do everything on. It's fabulous.

Second vote for beko here, I wash everything on the quick wash, it takes a full load. It also has an even quicker wash that only takes 2kg.

Thanks once again for posting. I'm a bit more encouraged now and I've learnt how long washes can be eco!

I have this one and love it:

Candy CSO 696TWM6 9KG 1600 Spin Washing Machine – White

Full load in 39 mins, plus you can customise the programmes via the app

My Miele also has a 20 minute cycle. I don't use it all that often, but when I have, it's usually a full load, and it's been fine. It also has a 45 minute Quick Power Wash at 45 or 60 degrees, which I do use quite a lot for muddy dog towels. You can also choose a quick setting on the regular cycle, which will be just over an hour.

You kind of get used to the longer cycles, though. It doesn't bother me any more.

I have the eco bubble but a quick wash, while only 15min, absolutely soaks the clothes so you’d have to put it on spin surely? Just wondering what people use a quick wash for really (as in on a regular basis)

Sorry to be late to this party, and I appreciate that you've probably bought a new machine by now.

However, I'm astounded to hear of someone who has a Dyson washing machine - firstly because they were so unpopular anyway, and secondly because they were so problematic and broke down a lot (hence why production was stopped as it was just too expensive to build and maintain them).

I worked in an electrical department when the Dyson washing machine was launched in 2001. With an entry price of £899, it was more than double that of a decent regular washing machine - they were around the £400 mark, but you could still by washing machines for half that.

Unfortunately, the massive price tag, the unknown reliability of Dyson washing machines, and the fact there was a lot of purple colouring in the design, all went towards customers being unwilling to buy these washing machines.

The main advantage of the Dyson washing machine was that it could wash laundry really quickly, thanks to its split-drum which had a rear part turning one way, and a front part turning the other. However, while Dyson made a lot of noise about this benefit, they never really told consumers that it was doing a proper and thorough wash really quickly. This was a massive problem for those of us whose job it was to sell the machine, because pretty much every customer I spoke to noted that all other washing machines had some sort of quick-wash option / facility on them somewhere. The fact that this wouldn't be a full size and / or proper wash seemed to be neither here nor there...and for £899 on unknown technology, customers were continually looking for ways to talk themselves out of buying a Dyson.

As it was (and not withstanding your success with a washing machine that must be at least 20 years old), reliability was poor, and the two drums which turned in opposite directions proved to be a real nuisance, so much so that Dyson's answer to the problem was to get their engineers to visit a faulty washing machine to reprogram it so that the drums only turned in the same direction. As before, I'm astounded yours has lasted as long as it has.

In conclusion, I can tell you (having replaced my washing machine quite recently and did a lot of reading about them, having once been in the trade) there's nothing that's going to offer you the same capacity, performance, and speed of a Dyson as they were unique. I've purchased an Ebac which I am really, really pleased with. It has enough bells & whistles to make it adaptable enough to get great washing performance, but is still much more basic than the machine I had before, which I quite like as my previous washing machine was complicated beyond all description. My Ebac does a 10KG wash at 60'C , on a proper cotton cycle, with extra rinse and intensive option, in just over 2 hours. I am astounded at how clean the laundry is when I take it out.

HTH.

Hi Bonnie, thanks for your post. The reason I posted was that my Dyson leaked all over the floor one day and I imagined the worst. But I emptied the coin trap and got a load of gunk out, and there's been no more leaking! I've had Dysons for ages but I don't think right from the start - there's no way I'd have paid £800. There's a Dyson owners' FB page run by guy who sells spares. Steve somebody. Some are new - he must've stockpiled them. Anyway, I bought my current machine from him less than 10 years ago . I'm pretty sure it was new but might've been reconditioned. The drums have been fixed to both go the same way, as you say. I paid about £450 for it IIRC. I'm surprised you think they're unreliable or don't do a good job. I did four x 30 minute washes this morning ( a week's worth!). One was a pooey dog blanket - no staining left. So fingers crossed it'll keep going for a bit. I'll miss it when it does go. It's blue and purple 💜

Hi Duckie

I never said they didn't do a good job ( I know they performed well from when we had them in showroom) but the reason I said they were unreliable was because of all the problems people had with them from the get-go...like any new technology, it's only when it "goes live" that they manufacturers get to know what problems will occur in the real world. I can recall the washing machines going on sale in 2001, and although we didn't sell many in my store (at best I think three over the four years they were in production) we were kept informed of the problems that were occuring.

Although the official line from Dyson is that they stopped making the machine due to high production costs, that is very much only part of the story. As I said before, sales were very poor for several reasons, and reliability was very poor. That last point is borne-out by many webpages on Google.

For what it's worth, I was always indifferent to the Dyson washing machines, given that I didn't dislike them and could see the advantages of the two-drum action. However, back then (and even now, when allowing for inflation), I simply didn't have £900+ to spend on anything, let alone a washing machine. But when the reports came in that Dyson were programming the machines so that the two drums turned in the same direction, I lost all interest in them as this was the very thing that made them unique and what you were paying for.

Yes, I feel the same about the two drums (that they have lost their USP by making them both turn in the same direction), but I have to say that I haven't noticed any drop in the quality of the wash. But my big purple boy won't last forever and I'm grateful for your recommendation.

I have a Montpellier machine from Currys.
There are plenty of short and long washes.
Quick ones.
Best one I've ever owned.
Admittedly there is only the two of us.