Talk to me about front loaders!!

**Pandora** · April 7th, 2009, 02:25 PM

Most front loaders have a quick cycle - so 30min or so but generally with that you can only fill it to 2kg or so.
My LG also had a seperate fast cycle button that reduced the time of the full cycle whichw as just over to hours, to about 1.5 hours.
They tend to have reasonable energy efficiency ratings though.

If you have a choice membership check out their report on washng machines, it is fairly recent.

**Nelle** · April 7th, 2009, 02:45 PM

No idea how big my Indesit front loader is, but it has a fast cycle, about 30min, and I pack it full, and it works fine. For us, living in the 'burbs, most of our clothes don't really get that dirty. It's the nappies and the like that can take maybe 1.5 hours.

**Daydream Believer** · April 7th, 2009, 02:47 PM

We have a Bosch front loader thats just over 2 years old now & its fantastic. It uses less water than a top loader. It has only one hose connection to the cold tap & heats the water itself for warm washes. I had trouble with the top loader we had being a short person I struggled to get the stuff out of the bottom.

The regular cycle on a cold wash is 45mins, the express wash at 30 degrees is 15 min.
It has a 4 1/2 star energy rating.

Have no idea about dryers because we still have our old one & it only gets used once in a while

Hope that helps

**Rouge** · April 7th, 2009, 02:52 PM

Yeah I agree most front loaders have a shorter function. They also have timers so you can put a load in before you go to bed and it is ready when you wake up. We do this all the time. I do roughly a load a day and ours is a 7.5 ltr. I wouldn't buy our brand again as we've had quite a lot of issues with it, but I have plenty of friends with LG and they swear by them.

We have a pretty exxy dryer but I absolutely love it and wouldn't be without it. Its an LG condenser dryer. It is extremely heavy duty and because its a condenser you don't get moisture on the walls, we also collect the water from the water container and use it to water the plants. If I were to buy another dryer (and we owned) I would get a gas condenser dryer as it costs about 6c per load as oppose to the ridiculous amounts it costs for the dryer.

**Pandora** · April 7th, 2009, 02:55 PM

Cai that dryer sounds great. we had to repaint the laundry roof in our old house due to dryer related condenstaon issues. Hence the ceiling fan in the new laundry..too bad the dryer is in the garage