Product review (5 stars): This machine has been a great help. I don't dread doing laundry anymore
I've had this washing machine a few weeks now, and I'm loving it. There's no washing machine hookup where I live, and the laundromat was getting ridiculously expensive. This machine has been a great help. I don't dread doing laundry anymore.

I'm still playing around with the best way to use it--how much soap, sorting clothing, etc.--but I'm very happy how clean the clothes get. The spinner does a great job getting most of the water out, certainly as good as the spin cycle on a good fully automatic washing machine. I'm a bit concerned about clothing items getting stretched out by the agitator, but that's also true of small apartment-size fully automatic washing machines. I suspect it's a function of the size of the washing unit versus the agitators. I've taken to putting things like long pants in mesh laundry bags, and I put underwear in some small cotton drawstring bags I happened to have around.

My only real complaint is that I wish the machine had casters on the bottom. It's not that heavy to drag around, but casters would help, and there are places for them. I might add some if I can figure out how.