This review is from Whirlpool WTW4950XW :I bought this washer on sale at Lowes, when the washer I planned to buy needed an extra $250 pedestal to be practical. I failed to browse the CR review till afterward.
If I had browse the review prior to purchase, i’d not have bought this washer. it is CR’s third lowest rated high loading washer, scoring solely thirty two points, compared to a high of 75 points. Its lowest rated area is that the most important-washing efficiency. it was one among solely four washers awarded a “fair” rating for laundry efficiency-no washers rated “poor”. (In most different areas it rated very well.)
I went back in before delivery to swap it out. The salesperson convinced me to do it for thirty days, telling me that regardless of what CR said, it’d get my clothes clean, and that i would love it. i do not love it. consumer Reports was right.
I wished to love this washer. it is cute. The controls are simple to figure, and that i thought there would be less likelihood of a tangle with a knob rather than the soft push areas that employment the controls on most new washers. it is great for water and energy efficiency.
It simply doesn’t get the clothes clean. i am washing little a lot of my eighty six year old mother’s soiled pajamas that i really got to get thoroughly clean. I run a soak cycle, which takes concerning 30 minutes, with detergent, Febreeze, and Clorox. The soak cycle doesn’t embrace a rinse or spin, so I run that, which takes an additional 15 minutes or so. Then I wash them in one among the regular cycles, as well as an extra rinse, with detergent, Febreeze, and Tide laundry boosters.
In total, it takes concerning two hours to wash a load of garments. You’d suppose with all that, that they’d be clean and recent smelling. however they are not. This washer leaves stains that my old agitator vogue washer got out, and that they occasionally still have an unpleasant odor.
I ought to have trusted consumer Reports. Lowes is swapping it out for a Maytag that CR rates higher.
If you have gently soiled clothes, and are bound to follow the directions closely-it works differently than agitator vogue washers-it may work fine for you. it was not satisfactory for my desires.