Product review (4 stars): Really does the job.
Really does the job. I started out using it inside a plastic storage tub and now I wash the clothes in a 5-gallon plastic icing pail and then rinse the clothes in the storage tub. People had said that using the Mobile Washer in the round bucket would give me more oomph and it does. If I have a lot of very heavy things, like jeans and towels, I put them into the round bucket with smaller things rather than all the heavy things together. Just like with a sink plunger, there's a few seconds of "getting it going," as the vaccuum effect begins to move the water up and down. After that, it's golden. Just a few plunges up and down gets the clothes as clean as twenty minutes of agitating in the regular washer. I think this is a combination of having the clothes sitting less time in the wash water, and also needed to use less soap so the clothes rinse out better. I have very little trouble with having the plunger end coming unscrewed from the handle. I maybe give it a tightening turn or two once or twice a week. Not a problem at all.