Washing Clothes

I have been inspired by the practical advice offered by a friend on his blog...thank you Simon. Here is some great information I found online about how to properly load your washing machine. Unless you are living in apartments or dorms, or are short on quarters for the machine, I suggest you read the following. Your clothes will thank you.

Happy New Year!
-Landon
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Washer - are you overloading? (Courtesy of MG Appliance Repair Services)

Overloading is common. When properly loaded the clothes should appear to tumble freely during the wash cycle. If clothes simply sit on top of the water then you are overloading.

Test for overloading:

1. Open lid and watch clothes during wash cycle.
2. Pick out a brightly coloured item as your test clothing. It should move from the outside of the wash tub towards the inside within about 15 seconds.
3. Will be grabbed by agitator in center of wash tub.
4. As the agitator pulls it down into the water it should disappear from view.
5. Should reappear again in about 30 seconds.
6. If the test item is not consistently seen to be rotating from outside to inside, and from top to bottom, then you are overloading. If sequence described above is taking too long, you are overloading.
7. Stop machine.
8. Remove few items of clothing from machine.
9. Restart machine and retest.

Using this method you will quickly learn the optimum size of load for your particular washing machine.

Never overload the washer even for the sake of speed or convenience. Overloading can cause serious (and expensive) long term damage to your washing machine.
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