Originally Posted By: Trav
Probably the same reason i hate them, its like washing your car with a friggin windex bottle.
These pieces of junk don't use enough water to wash your hands in, forgot a sock? Forget it, the doors locked.
Oddly enough, I have owned 2 front loaders so far in my life, first one was a Maytag Neptune, the most recent is an LG.
Both of them allow you to interrupt the washing cycle in order to add additional clothes, and both had the ability to increase the water level, with the push of a single button.
I grew up using top loaders, and my experiences with front loaders is that they do a much better job of cleaning clothes, while using considerably less water and detergent, which saves me money on every wash. The sole tradeoff is longer cycle times, which I'm fine with, since I only wash clothes once a week.
My wife, who had only ever used top loaders before we bought our first house together, was extremely skeptical with me when I was very adamant that we were buying a quality front loader, and not a top loader. Once she used it for the first time, she was sold.
BC.
