Well utilized yes. If you work in O&G, ya it justifies that kind of usage esp 4 ppl on shifts so the machine will work 4 times a day. I'm referring back to your posting. It dawned to me why so frequent. Even if not fully loaded, the point is even springs and other things are rated for how many millions or hundred thousands compression and decompression. I mentioned here that the standard tests used to measure how efficient the wm are is based on a 220 wash cycle/year.

4 washes per day for 365 days = 1460 washes per year.
This exceeds the standard by = 1460 /220 =6.64 times.

Ie, the WM in the villa is doing a 6 and half year wash cycle vs the standard's 220 wash cycle in one year. In 2 years it's done 13 years worth of washing already vs the standard's wash cycle. Talk about accelerated wear. So I have to take that statement with a pinch of salt in light of how it's being used.

This post has been edited by halcyon27: Oct 9 2014, 12:38 PM

Chemical suits are wash by company, we only wash our normal T-shirts and underwear. So is quite hard to have full load, most of the time about 30% load.
I assuming that 220 cycles are based on full load, if run on 30% load, it is only 2 times a day. Still failed on reliability
By your calculations, then my Hitachi already completed 4380 cycles and that's 19.9 times with most of the time running on full 10KG load.

Any thoughts on LG WD-SR1709VM?

edit: Raining so often here. Haven't had any chance to do any laundry.

This post has been edited by OneMoreDay: Oct 9 2014, 07:06 PM

use Top detergent, but don't wash jeans or kaki type of cloth.

The humidity from the rain is preventing any of the clothes from drying.

Is it? Mine never have any problem on drying.

It's raining cats and dogs here. Every 30 minutes or so. It'll drizzle slightly between downpours. Never gone this long without doing any laundry due to this kind of weather condition. Then again, climate change is happening.

That's why I never use dryer to dry any laundry. I'll just use wind dry.

I line dry my clothes, which is exactly why I can't do any laundry because of this torrential rain.

After every wash, you should be using the WM's spin to spin extra 1-2 times. It can help.

I might try that. I have a very big fan to blow wind at my laundry to speed up the drying process. Doesn't work in this kind of weather.

I only use ceiling fan to dry.

My WW8000 washer after hit up 40 cycle an need to clean drum for every 40 cycle, how bout your kimchi?

No instruction to do so. Only low quality product need to do this, do that.
Cleaning drum waste a lot of water and power. Again, you just prove that front loader are good on this and not saving like you said before.

This post has been edited by supersound: Oct 11 2014, 11:25 AM

when it rains humidity goes up. The clothes already laden with that will find it very hard to dry. Even if line dry, shelter it with deep roof extension from the rain could possibly help except for the torrential kind unless it's in the backyard facing the back of neighbour's house.

My old house backyard was extended and covered. Rain or shine clothes still dry. Zinc roof top. Also have extractor fan for the rainy days issue.

The WM inform my wife need to do a cleaning drum.
But for us we didn't used hot water at all, the ecobubble quite clean already..

So far our water & electric really save much than used TL.

My back yard is covered with a roof and is facing the neighbour's. That's why I'm interested in maybe getting a washer dryer.

Of course we have to clean the drum. Helps your machine run more efficiently. My top loader is a pain to clean because of years of build up. No matter how often I try to clean now, there's always gunk stuck to my clothes when they're done in the washer.

guys.. sorry if this is out of topic. my washing machine is having problem. I can use as usual, but the damn machine did not know how / when to stop the water intake once it's start inserting water. meaning it'll put water until the water overflow and flooding my home. call technician, he say the motor that control water is broken, replace can fix.

so, anyone have this same experience? if yes, u repair can fix or it'll came back? and most important thing, repair worthy or buy new (cost wise)?

I guess more or less same case as mine. Mine, the WM no longer want to let the water flow.
So, try to fix it myself, work for day or two. Since, I already used it for more than 8 years, then I just get the new one. 8 years ago, the WM cost RM700. So, if fix it probably gonna cost around RM200 or 300. Plus it also had other problem too.

So, for your case, need to decide it for yourself.

Yours is the water level sensor problem, not very expensive to repair (roughly about RM80 - RM150, depending on the machine but if its the timer or PCB then it will be more expensive. Better to get 2nd opinion.