Product review (4 stars): Well worth the investment for us.
We purchased this from a competitor since it was cheaper, about a month and a half ago. We had just moved from a home into an apartment and I wanted to cloth diaper again. Even after reading a lot of positive reviews from other moms and "Fluff love's" recommendation of this unit, I was still skeptical. After using this though for a month and a half now I can say it really does get my cloth diapers completely clean again. Here are some tips I discovered along my journey. Fluff love recommends testing your water hardness. Anything over 180 ppm use borax or Calgon water softener. Anything under- the orange original tide powder works just fine. Our water is in the 100s so I stopped using Calgon and my diapers still come out completely, totally clean with no buildup or residue issues whatsoever. My daughter is about 20 pounds right now so I use Nicki's medium prefolds and Diaper Rite's large prefolds. One load fits about 7 of the prefolds, a large Planetwise wetbag, 4-5 cloth wipes and 3-4 covers. With those in there I am able to achieve the "stew" consistency. I first run a cold wash on heavy, high water level, which does the rinse and spin by default. I use line 1 detergent (Tide original powder) for this first one. I do make sure to let the water run and pour the detergent directly in the water stream every time so that it is well dissolved. Then when that cycle is done, I remove all the cd's, fluff them, shake them out and run a second heavy wash with high water level on hot water. To adjust the water temperature just open the cold or hot faucet and that's how the wash temperature is controlled. For the second wash I use a line 2 of the Tide. At the previous home I never had to shake off the solid waste (my daughter is a year and a half and completely on solid food now). I tested that on this Haier with just one soiled diaper, the rest were just wet with pee and it was not able to handle it. I had to pick off bits of orange carcass (the white stuff encasing the oranges) even after running 4-5 rinse and or heavy cycles. They just clung to the prefolds. My prefolds are a 55% bamboo with 45% organic cotton blend. Perhaps other non-bamboo prefolds would not have this issue, I'm not sure. So after having cloth diapered for over a year, I have finally learned to "dunk and swish" (there are YouTube videos on how to do this). I also purchased some organic fleece and cut them into liners. It takes about 5-10 minutes of dunking and swishing depending on what she eats per soiled prefold. Popcorn = 10 minutes to get all the kernal husks off. Strawberries = 5 minutes or less. I never thought I was the type of person who would ever do something so intensive or dirty, but I am surprised to find out, after having to do it I don't mind it so much now. It's just routine. So after getting 80-90%+ solid waste off, this Haier works perfectly.

Outside of cloth diapers I have also laundered my kids's clothes, our king bed's sheets, my spouse's and I's clothing as well. My spouse is 6'1 and over 200 lbs. I can fit about two of his pants and a shirt in one load, or 4 of his shirts if they are short sleeved. 2 if they are long-sleeved flannel and that is all when using high water level. I like to ensure the machine is not overloaded so I tread on the cautious side, perhaps more clothing can be squeezed in there. For the sheets in our king bed I do the fitted and a pillow case or two. Then the flat sheet separately again with a pillow case or something else that's small. I use the high water level for those as well.

Overall, I have found this machine to clean anything my kids throw my way- vomit, poop, pee etc. and to clean it very well. I use heavy for those heavy duty type cleanings, normal for almost everything else, quick wash for baby clothes and/or lingerie and underwear. Following the temperature settings outlined on those articles of clothing, combined with the wash settings I just listed, this machine churns out perfectly clean, undamaged clothes every time.

 The only reason I docked a star is because of the price fluctuation (there seems to be over a hundred dollar disparity depending on the month), lack of agitation this unit has (I really would have preferred never having to dunk and swish since I didn't have to with my prior fully hooked up washing machine), and their poor customer service. When I contacted customer service because my machine kept getting stuck during rinse or spin, the young lady who answered was of no help. Her replies were along the lines of "hmm it shouldn't do that, I don't know why that is" or asking me, "Why do you think that's happening?". So I had to figure everything out on my own. At first I was unsure if I had received a faulty machine or if it was user error. By fluke one of my cycles completely without getting stuck, which is when  I realized it was user error on my part, and then proceeded to tinker with things till I figured it out. You have to use the white hook at the end of the hose (instead of just laying the hose down to drain) or it won't drain properly sometimes, and pause the machine indefinitely. You also have to leave the faucet open for the entirety of the rinse (duh) and spin (not so obvious to me) cycle as well or it will again pause mid cycles indefinitely. So keep the faucet/water source on from start to finish (when the machine is done with all the cycles). The reason I say 'pause indefinitely' is because the machine does pause for a very brief amount of time during the spin cycles and such. If a light is blinking and nothing happens (water fills, water drains, the machine agitates nor spins) for over a minute or two it means the machine is "stuck" in limbo.