They all told me I'm doing everything right and no one can understand why my laundry isn't coming clean. I have called Whirlpool to see if I'm doing something wrong, and even the dealer. I've experimented with different settings.
I use HE detergent plus supplements to help with odors and grease.
I followed the manual's instructions on how to use this machine. My husband's work clothes have to be washed three times on the bulky setting before they start to resemble anything that looks clean and then they still smell like diesel. My pants and bedsheets are pilling (they never did this before) and the sheets are now gray. My formerly off-white bath bath towels and dish rags are now off-white with gray and brown splotches. My husband's socks aren't white any more.
Now I've had that machine just short of a year and although it wasn't noticeable at first with much of the laundry, over that year towels and such have gotten downright grungy. Of course none of the reviews I read had anything bad to say about it and I loved the fact that it would use so much less water because there just isn't a lot of ground water where we live and our well pumps slowly at its best. I ended up buying what I have dubbed the Crapio, a Cabrio WTW5500X, top-loading piece of junk. The laundry had already been stacking up because we'd only been washing essentials since the old washer was having trouble spinning. I researched but I didn't have a lot of time. That started me on a search for a new washing machine. I called around to repairmen and they explained that it would cost almost $200 to fix it and then more than likely it would do the same thing within a couple of years. Sadly, it had a design flaw and a little over a year ago it stopped draining. This was just a normal top-load water-hogging washing machine, and in its way-too-short life it washed on average 1.5 batches a day and did an excellent job. Man, I don't even know where to start so I'll just say I know this is going to turn into a wall o' text because there's just no way to be brief.Ībout five years ago I bought a Maytag washer to replace my dying Kenmore I'd had for twenty years.