Product review (1 stars): Keep looking
Ive had this washer for a month now. To look at it I had such high hopes. The design is nice, the build feels solid, the controls are easy to understand without reading an instruction manual, the tub is absolutely huge, and they say they are made in America. Why are so many people so down on it?

Because all of what they say is true.  What force of evil possessed their designers to try so hard and fall so short?

The number one issue as has been pointed out is that despite the enormous tub, your clothes sit at the bottom in only an inch or two of water.  Isnt the whole purpose of a washer to get the clothes wet and clean them?  It doesnt stop there though, they use what they call a low-profile impeller. The impeller is usually called an agitator in most washers because it is a big paddle mounted in the middle of the tub that, well, agitates the clothes to beat the dirt out of them.

The low-profile impeller used in this thing is actually three low bumps in the bottom of the tub that does absolutely nothing. In use your clothes get wadded into a tight ball in the extreme bottom corner of the tub and the tub swishes back and forth a little.  Your clothes are so packed into the bottom edge and barely moist that there is no cleaning action at all.

The other number one issue, and the most frustrating for me, is that unless you use special liquid detergent in the dispenser if you pour powdered detergent into the bottom of the tub you have to load your clothes on top of the detergent because otherwise the lid locks while filling. That causes the detergent to stain and bleach your clothes leaving spots on them. You can get around this if you wait until the tub is filled (I use the word filled very loosely here, were talking about only an inch or two of water) then manually unlock the lid and put your clothes in. But they are still going to touch highly concentrated detergent when you do.

The bleach dispenser is at the front corner and very shallow with sloped edges. It is almost impossible to pour bleach into it without splashing it all over your floor. And the drawer for fabric softener always has water sitting in it, an invitation to mold.

There are all kinds of buttons and lights and musical tunes that play but its hard to know if any of them really make a difference. Ive washed all kinds of things and the appliance seems to do about the same thing with all of them. And it takes forever to do it. So in the misguided effort to save a little water they use an hour or mores worth of electricity. How is that conserving energy?  Ive gone from doing laundry once every week or more to almost every day because I can only put a few things into that gigantic tub if I want them to get wet, and hence clean.  To me thats not conserving energy.

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