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This review is from Whirlpool WTW4950XW :I bought this washer on sale at Lowes, when the washer I planned to buy required an additional $250 pedestal to be useful. I failed to read the CR review till afterward.

If I had read the review prior to purchase, i would not have bought this washer. it’s CR’s third lowest rated top loading washer, scoring solely thirty two points, compared to a high of seventy five points. Its lowest rated area is that the most important-washing efficiency. it had been one in every of solely four washers awarded a “fair” rating for washing efficiency-no washers rated “poor”. (In most alternative areas it rated okay.)

I went back in before delivery to swap it out. The salesperson convinced me to do it for thirty days, telling me that in spite of what CR said, it might get my garments clean, and i would am fond of it. i do not am fond of it. client Reports was right.

I wished to love this washer. it’s cute. The controls are straightforward to figure, and i thought there would be less likelihood of a drag with a knob instead of the soft push areas that employment the controls on most new washers. it’s nice for water and energy efficiency.

It simply doesn’t get the garments clean. i’m washing tiny countless my eighty six year previous mother’s soiled pajamas that i really got to get completely clean. I run a soak cycle, which takes concerning half-hour, with detergent, Febreeze, and Clorox. The soak cycle doesn’t embody a rinse or spin, so I run that, which takes an additional quarter-hour or so. Then I wash them in one in every of the regular cycles, together with an additional rinse, with detergent, Febreeze, and Tide laundry boosters.

In total, it takes concerning 2 hours to scrub a load of garments. You’d think with all that, that they’d be clean and fresh smelling. however they don’t seem to be. This washer leaves stains that my previous agitator style washer got out, and that they occasionally still have an unpleasant odor.

I should have trusted client Reports. Lowes is swapping it out for a Maytag that CR rates higher.

If you have gently soiled garments, and are absolute to follow the directions closely-it works differently than agitator style washers-it may go fine for you. it had been not satisfactory for my wants.