Product review (1 stars): I read great reviews but am disappointed after using the machine
I bought this portable washing machine so I wouldn't have to leave my apartment and lug my laundry to the washing machines in the basement of my building. I read great reviews but am disappointed after using the machine. It's just too much work for washing 2 or 3 pieces of clothing at a time. The washing cycle is max 15 mins long which isn't enough sometimes. And there are so many soap suds in the clothes after draining a washing cycle, that I either have to take out the clothes and rinse them in the sink by hand before putting them in the spin dryer, or I have to repeat the washing cycle 2 or 3 times after draining the first cycle to rinse all the soap out of the clothes. And then the clothes have to transferred out of the washing bin into the spinning bin. And then after spinning they have to be hung up to dry or put in a separate dryer machine. A narrow undetachable u-shaped hook is fit on the draining pipe which adds an unnecessary kink to it and slows it's drainage. Plus the hook is so narrow it won't fit over my bathtub, bathroom sink or kitchen sink. When I turn on the drain, the water gushes out the drain pipe so fast that the drain pipe will jump out of the bathtub and onto the floor (making an awful mess) unless I place something heavy on the drain pipe to keep it in place. Overall too much hassle. I still use it to wash small items that I don't want to mix with a load of laundry, like a new shirt that may wash out a lot of color, or when i need to wash one item without waiting to gather a load. But otherwise I have gone back to gathering loads of laundry over weeks and hauling it to the public machines.