Product review (5 stars): I am in love with tis washer!
I love this washer! It has made my laundry life so much easier! My husband, baby daughter, part time step-daughter, and I...along with 2 cats, make quite a bit of laundry. We recently moved into an apartment with a common laundry room after living with family where a full size washer and dryer were available. This laundry room is less than desirable - kinda dirty and only one working (small) washer and 2 half working dryers, all at $1.25 a load. Also a trek downstairs and did I say dirty??!! We live in a nice neighborhood and just the other day my neighbor was talking about how someone was messing with his laundry...so I am happy to avoid this as well. As soon as we moved in, I knew I really wanted a washer of my own. I lived in Japan for a year and had experience with similar small, portable washers there. I found this little Haier and new it was the right thing to buy. I was not wrong. Installation was a breeze, just a few screws on the bottom, pop in the casters and connect the hose adapter to the sink and you are ready to go. I was doing laundry within about 20 minutes of getting the thing in my door! I usually do a couple big loads (for this washer) every other day. Of course when we are busy, it may be more than a couple days before I get to laundry, but I find that with careful sorting of like fabrics, I am still able to get all our laundry done in about three loads. This washer is extremely efficient. I pre treat stains and spots with a concentrated solution of dissolved powder soap and water from an old spray bottle and just use very little dissolved powder soap (maybe 1/4 cup of a less concentrated water/soap mixture) and my laundry gets cleaner than it ever did in the old washer we used before. I sometimes have an unbalanced load, but only with a few specific items like bath mats, husband's jeans, and queen size sheet set. Now I just wash the top and bottom sheet without the pillow cases, and I do not have a problem. This little washer is a trooper...I am amazed by the things I can wash in it. It has handled the baby car seat covers, Baby Bjorn carrier, mattress pads. The only thing I will not attempt is maybe our queen size blankets, but twin size was not a problem.
This washer is quiet and never moves around. It really spins out a lot of water in the final spin as well. I hang dry our laundry on a five line dryer out on our balcony and even on cooler or humid days, my laundry usually gets dry. I am a little concerned about the winter, as we have only had the washer since the beginning of summer. Thinking about getting the matching Haier portable dryer to complement our line drying in the winter.
All my friends and family are so impressed by this little washer. I sometimes have to do a load just to show them how great it is. 3 months after our purchase, we are still very satisfied with our Haier and I would recommend it to anyone who needs a washer in a small space without hookups. We have clean laundry and still have a roll of quarters for a rainy day!