Product review (5 stars): Pleasantly surprised
Honestly, reading the reviews I was expecting a hunk of junk but I really needed this item so I ordered anyways and hoped for the best. Here's my review: it has many different wash cycles to choose from and it's very customizable. The only thing that it doesn't have that I wish it did have is a "plus water" option. For heavily soiled clothes (or clothes that have a soured smell) that require more water to flush the undesireable smells out. The washing time seems very accurate which doesn't seem to be the case for many washers. If it estimates 45 minutes it usually takes right around that amount. The dry cycle is not accurate at all. It could say 1.5 hours and finally stop after 3 hours. It keeps going until the clothes are dried to a certain level so it could take 1 hour or 4 depending on load size and density. It is a condenser dryer. Meaning it heats the clothes up and instead of the moist, hot air leaving out of the dryer through a vent the steamy air is condensed into water and pumped out. It takes about 2-2.5 hours MINIMUM to get things about 90% dry. Your clothes will never be the 100% dry like using a conventional vented dryer so just expect that before you buy. Just a tip, when you first pull them out after a dry cycle they will feel really damp (maybe 60-70% dry) and if you don't know better you'll want to run them through again but if you just remove them from the dryer the remaining steam escapes from the clothes and after a minute or two they will feel about 90% dry. Because it doesn't dry them with dry heat, my clothes are all now luxuriously soft. Dry hest really makes clothes stiff. A couple downsides (in my opinion) the first 40-50 or so loades will have a slight rubbery smell from a rubber seal inside the unit. It will fade once you break it in. Another downside, it does not have a lint catch so you will have to pull soggy lint off the rubber seal often. It will take about 4 hours for a load. If you overfill, your clothes will come out of the dry cycle horrendously wrinkled. Jeans are the worst for wrinkling, 2-3 pairs per load tops. Still worth it for me to not have to go to the laundromat and it has a larger drum than my last combo! You can actually fit quite a lot in.