Large capacity washing machines & my Whirlpool Cabrio

[sammy]

We had a few discussions about this last year. Having had my replacement (long, ugly experience) top loading large capacity Whirlpool Cabrio now for a year I thought I'd report back.

Can it handle large loads? Yes. Convenient for comforters or throw rugs, but for clothes - it just creates a huge tangled mess and clothes SO WRINKLED you have to iron everything. I have resorted to doing basically third loads (probably half of what I used to do in my old top loader) so that the wrinkles, thou still bad, are not horrendous.

Does it save water like the claim? Who knows, but I doubt it. I have a see-thru lid so I can see the water usage. The tub is so large and there does not seem to be a sensor to adjust water use according to the level of clothes....so my 1/3 loads use the same water as a full load would.

If and when we move again I will definitely leave this one with the house and buy something else. Not sure if I would go with a front loader or just go back to the usual, inexpensive top loaders.

 

[dougp26364]

At about the same time we went with the front loading LG washer and dryer. The washer does a good job of adusting the water necessary to do the load. We don't have any issues with wrinkles it's effecient enough that we use only a fraction of the detergent we use to use. So far we've been very happy with this set.

Sure it can be inconvenient if we forget sock but it's never really been any major problem. At least it's not as big a problem as what you're describing.