How long is too long?

Smallllmin

lol.

How long does your wash routine usually take?
We have no issues at the moment, but I feel like the whole routine takes forever.

In our HE FL, I prewash with "water plus" and main wash on high soil with extra rinse.
It takes 3 hours 10 min to complete both cycles...
Is this about right? Or is there a better/faster way to do this?

(Obviously clean dipes is the goal... if 3 hours gets the best job done, that's totally fine).

mrshudson618

It usually takes me a day and a half because I have to restart the washer 3 times, and I can never do it right away.


No idea how long the actual wash times are.

Rrrrrachel

About 2.5 hours. He machines take a long time.

SaraL1175

Wow. This is why I will continue to repair my kenmore series 80 washing machine (youtube teaches me how to do it).

I think my pre-wash, main wash, and extra rinse take just under 1 hour (including me forgetting to add detergent and start the main wash). Dryer takes under an hour.

Smallllmin

SaraL1175 said:

Wow. This is why I will continue to repair my kenmore series 80 washing machine (youtube teaches me how to do it). I think my pre-wash, main wash, and extra rinse take just under 1 hour (including me forgetting to add detergent and start the main wash). Dryer takes under an hour.

Yeah, I started to wonder if ours was taking a long time when the hotel washer was finished in 27 minutes

SaraL1175

Smallllmin said:

SaraL1175 said:

Wow. This is why I will continue to repair my kenmore series 80 washing machine (youtube teaches me how to do it).

I think my pre-wash, main wash, and extra rinse take just under 1 hour (including me forgetting to add detergent and start the main wash). Dryer takes under an hour.

Yeah, I started to wonder if ours was taking a long time when the hotel washer was finished in 27 minutes


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I was wondering why so many moms wash EOD. An extra load for me each day is NBD, but if that extra load took 3 hours just to wash--forget it! Kudos to you, though, your HE machine is probably much kinder to the environment than my old clunker.

PipSqueak0313

Yep, washing time is one reason I refuse to go to an HE machine while I have 5 people living in my home. I couldn't stay caught up on laundry as a SAHM when we had one in Germany....and that didn't involve cloth diapers.

freezorburn

The mechanical action in an HE is not as vigorous as what you get with a traditional TL, I think that's why the cycles are so much longer.

Right now with the cold weather I am using longer cycles to make sure my rinses get warm enough. It takes nearly 4 hours. In the summertime I can get it down to a little over 3 hours. Any shorter and I start to have ammonia issues.

When I visit Seattle it's less than 2 hours in my Duet. I think it's a combination of the cycles that machine has, plus the water is soft so I don't have to do as much.

bumpuser5078523

I do a speed wash to rinse (30 minutes), heavy wash (hour and 45), and rinse and spin twice (30 each). Then I hang all my pockets and covers and dry the inserts on hot for an hour.

So about 4 1/2 hours. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has a long routine!