Product review (1 stars): Back to the GOOD OLD DAYS??? A bar of soap and washboard!
After all the sales pitch, promises of big savings on money, water, time and the machine's super duper capacity... we decided to get the Cabrio. Three days ago, our little "gem" was delivered and the delivery men set it up. Somewhere, we missed the part about not leaving your machine unattended as it's LIGHT weight (let me stress that again LIGHT WEIGHT) hose might decide to dump the water all over your floors! Getting a WASHING machine that starts out by soaking your floors, carpet, wetting the trim and drywall is not what we had in mind.

As if that wasn't enough, the cleaning "ability" of this hot mess is pathetic. I think I could have done a better job by toting our laundry to the creek and washing it on a laundry board with a bar of lye soap! Think of all the money and water I would have saved then.

The super duper capacity? The one we were told could do THREE loads instead of just one and still save more. Yes, the drum size is quite large. HOWEVER... that "feature" did us very little good. You can't load the washer by just tossing the clothes inside. You have to "circle" it around the small center "dome"... as the "dome" cannot be covered. When we tried to do an extra large load of towels (one my old washer would have handled... no problem) we ended up with a clumped up, half washed, blob. The load had to be divided and rewashed.

We used the correct laundry detergent and fabric softener, as directed, but realized some of it must be staying behind. When we took the sheets, out of the dryer, they weren't clean feeling. Instead... they felt more like the little dryer sheets of fabric softener. YUCK! YUCK! YUCK! Round two for sheet washing. =/

Clothes don't seem to get clean. Washing time is longer. Their idea of large capacity isn't large compared to our old machine (or the ones we could use at the laundry mat either). Possibility of multiple washing of the same load. The great "features" described and promoted that prompted us to get this thing we have not seen. After reading some of the other reviews... quite a few others haven't either.