Product review (1 stars): UPDATE: Product broke, manufacturer & seller wouldn't help!
UPDATE 6/24/17:

In early May 2017, I was washing a load of laundry in this washing machine, switched it to the "drain" function, and walked away to let the water drain into my tub, as usual. When I returned to check on it, there was water all over my floor. The drain hose had cracked, causing a huge puddle. I promptly turned the machine off, unscrewed the back, and looked to see if the hose was easily replaceable. It didn't look to be, so I emailed the manufacturer Della through its own website and then the seller (One Big Outlet) through Amazon, asking for a replacement or ideally a refund. I put in two emails to both Della and One Big Outlet, and neither responded over the course of weeks. Della's website literally has no phone number listed, and a Google search yielded no results. One Big Outlet had a phone number that I tried twice, but both times, it went to voicemail and told me I couldn't leave a voicemail because the voicemail box was full. I had purchased Assurant coverage for this, but was told they couldn't help me because it only covered electrical and mechanical damage, not physical damage. It was only after three very long calls to Amazon that Amazon itself agreed to refund me. This was just resolved last week after at least a month of trying for this refund. At the time when the machine broke, I had had it for less than a year and am only one person using it gently. This should not have happened, but it did, so either the manufacturer or seller should have been able to help me. Sadly, I can no longer recommend anyone buy this product or buy anything from One Big Outlet.

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ORIGINAL REVIEW:

My apartment is an older one, and there is no onsite laundry and no hookups. After about a year and a half of hauling all my laundry to the laundromat once every 2-3 weeks, I finally got fed up and started to look for other options. Plus, my allergist told me I need to wash my sheets every week because of my dust mite allergy. On a whim, I looked up "mini washing machine" on Amazon and found this, among others. I ended up picking this one because it had the largest wash capacity of any non-hookup washing machine I found.

So far, I've found it to be a great little machine. I do laundry 1-2 times a week now, and as a single person I find that I can fit most if not all loads in the wash tub. I've washed all my darks in one load. I've also been able to fit 4-5 bathroom towels in a single load. A full-sized sheet set will also fit. The biggest nice surprise I got was that I could fit my full-sized quilt in the wash tub. The only problem is that the spin side is less than half the size of the wash tub, so you have to divide up your items and run the spinner several times. I couldn't fit the quilt in the spinner side at all so I had to wash it in the morning and hang it over my shower curtain rod all day.

Like other reviewers said, the fill nozzle would NOT fit onto my tub faucet. However, I have a removable shower head, so I just stick the shower head directly into the wash basin and fill it that way, and it works great. Also like other reviewers said, I've had some minor problems with water splashing out the top of the wash bin if the water level is very high (for example, when washing my quilt). But what I did was to jam an old towel underneath the lid, and that keeps the water from splashing out.

The spin side is a little finicky. You can't over-fill it, and you should try to evenly distribute your laundry in it and push it down as far as it will go. If you don't do these things, you'll either get a loud knocking sound, or your entire washing machine will vibrate so much that it will travel across your floor. I had an incident where it did this and caused the hose to fall out of the tub and spill water all over the floor. But if you just stay with your machine for the first minute of the spin cycle, and open the lid to readjust your load any time you notice an issue, you shouldn't have a problem.

My laundry get just as clean as they do in a regular washing machine (the water turns a grayish or brownish color when I wash so I know it truly is pulling all kinds of dirt out of my laundry) and the spin cycle gets them dry enough to hang without dripping at all. Athletic wear comes out almost completely dry already. And my allergies do seem a little better now that I can wash my sheets and quilt more frequently. I'm quite happy with my purchase.