This review is from Whirlpool WTW4950XW :I bought this washer on sale at Lowes, when the washer I planned to buy required an extra $250 pedestal to be useful. I failed to read the CR review till afterward.

If I had read the review before purchase, i would not have bought this washer. it is CR’s third lowest rated high loading washer, scoring only thirty two points, compared to a high of 75 points. Its lowest rated space is the most important-washing potency. it absolutely was one of only four washers awarded a “fair” rating for laundry efficiency-no washers rated “poor”. (In most other areas it rated fine.)

I went back in before delivery to swap it out. The salesperson convinced me to undertake it for thirty days, telling me that notwithstanding what CR said, it might get my garments clean, and that i would find it irresistible. i don’t find it irresistible. shopper Reports was right.

I wanted to love this washer. it is appealing. The controls are simple to figure, and that i thought there would be less probability of a haul with a knob instead of the soft push areas that employment the controls on most new washers. it is nice for water and energy potency.

It just does not get the clothes clean. i’m laundry small countless my 86 year previous mother’s soiled pajamas that i actually ought to get completely clean. I run a soak cycle, that takes regarding half-hour, with detergent, Febreeze, and Clorox. The soak cycle does not embody a rinse or spin, thus I run that, that takes an extra quarter-hour or thus. Then I wash them in one of the regular cycles, including an extra rinse, with detergent, Febreeze, and Tide laundry boosters.

In total, it takes regarding 2 hours to scrub a load of clothes. You’d assume with all that, that they’d be clean and contemporary smelling. but they are not. This washer leaves stains that my previous agitator style washer got out, and they occasionally still have an unpleasant odor.

I ought to have trusted shopper Reports. Lowes is swapping it out for a Maytag that CR rates higher.

If you’ve got gently soiled garments, and are guaranteed to follow the directions closely-it works differently than agitator style washers-it may fit fine for you. it absolutely was not satisfactory for my wants.