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Originally Posted by steptoesyard
My front loading machine takes an average of 2 hours per wash
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Front loaders are slow. We switched from top loader to front loader in 2008 mainly for water efficiency - we're on tank water - and I almost forgot how much slower they are until Invercargill had a two month dry spell last summer and I started taking washing up to my parents. Their F&P SmartDrive would blat through a load in half an hour or so, while our Bosch would take at least an hour - and the whole thing of it sitting for five minutes doing nothing but with the door locked at the end of a load just makes it seem sooooo much worse! You just know the minute you give up and leave the laundry it'll unlock....
Back to the original question - I remember mum having a Hoovermatic twin tub until the
very early 80s, when she got a F&P "turn the dial and pull it out" top loading automatic. They replaced that with the first model of SmartDrive around 91 or 92, which died about two years ago.