laundry question

[nowa]

Is it just me or does anyone else find that top loading washers are rougher on your clothes. In our old apartment we had an HE front loader and I didn't have any problems with stitching coming out. In our top loader (a new, HE one), I'm always having some item of clothing come out with a thread pulled out. A number of my shirts have been ruined that way. And DH's fav hiking socks. And it's not like these were cheap, low quality clothes. The first time, I thought I'd bought a dud shirt. But now I'm not sure.

[cna]

I have a top load HE washing machine without an agitator and haven't had any problems. I very briefly had a front load and I hated it.

[nowa]

Hmmm I think mine has an agitator? That's the problem maybe.

At the time I didn't like the front loader. It had different problems though.

[cna]

My old washing machine had an agitator and it was a little rough on some of my clothes. Some of my more delicate things I would wash in a pillow case. Maybe that would help?

[gastro]

Jan 15, 2016 19:34:42 GMT -5 cna said:

I have a top load HE washing machine without an agitator and haven't had any problems. I very briefly had a front load and I hated it.

This exactly.

[nowa]

Hmmm... Well I checked and it's obviously not the old school type agitator. I don't know. Maybe the quality of my shirts was just shoddy. But they've been things from jcrew, lucky brand, madewell, macys. Those should last more than a couple months! DH's socks were rei. It's frustrating.

[momin2013]

I've only used top loaders so don't really have anything to compare to, but ours doesn't have an agitator, and I haven't really noticed any issues...

[quesyrah]

Yea, probably the agitator. Our new one doesn't have one and I really like it.

[Deleted]

I think it's the agitator those brands don't really fall apart so that's my guess.

[cjcouple]

My new top.loader without agitate is so tough on clothes. I have to wash everything on delicate.
I assume it had to do with the faster spin cycles now. They are supposed to get our the most water and so it dries faster but it destroys my stuff. And I don't have super expensive washer so there is no option to turn off the super spin.

So I wash in delicate. Seems to work.

[gastro]

If you are washing with something that has a zipper it might be damaging the clothes around it?

[abs]

Jan 16, 2016 10:17:49 GMT -5 cjcouple said:

My new top.loader without agitate is so tough on clothes. I have to wash everything on delicate.
I assume it had to do with the faster spin cycles now. They are supposed to get our the most water and so it dries faster but it destroys my stuff. And I don't have super expensive washer so there is no option to turn off the super spin.

So I wash in delicate. Seems to work.

Yes, this. Just got a new washer and I figured out real fast that the default super spin was too rough for anything but towels.

[Deleted]

I've had front loaders at both the houses I've owned, and I don't love them. Things don't get really clean, and no matter what you do, they always seem to stink. A repair person told me it's just the design of front loaders in general. Water sits in them so they tend to stink. I think laundry just sucks, no matter what.

[andrewsgal]

Jan 15, 2016 19:34:42 GMT -5 cna said:

I have a top load HE washing machine without an agitator and haven't had any problems. I very briefly had a front load and I hated it.

So glad you posted this my new top loader is being delivered today and I was thinking oh shit!

[cna]

Jan 17, 2016 7:17:23 GMT -5 andrewsgal said:

Jan 15, 2016 19:34:42 GMT -5 cna said:

I have a top load HE washing machine without an agitator and haven't had any problems. I very briefly had a front load and I hated it.

So glad you posted this my new top loader is being delivered today and I was thinking oh shit!

No problem! I was sitting here thinking "what kind of turbocharged washing machines do these people own??" I love mine and am a convert for life.