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Punk, hope you got rested up a bit last night. You sure are one busy lady/ Love the treasures you found at the church sale. Those rw&b pieces will be great for Memorial Day which is coming up really quick. Love the basket too. I really don't know what to tell you about your beautiful owl. I am like you; it is too nice to put out , unless you can find a protected spot for him. I can't put anything outside that isn't really heavy (like made of cement) or can be permanetly fastened down because of the wind. We live in a vally with mountains on all sides and the wind gets pretty bad here.We went out to eat last night and I stopped by GW and did pretty good. I spent $22 and came home with 7 cut crystal champane flutes (we don't drink alchol, but sparkling juices work) for TSing,2 crystal wine glases that match the others, a service for 6+ extra knives and forks of clear handled with a red centered silverware. 3 sets of 4 placemars,6 clear salad bowels (The design matches a salad bowl that I have had for years), 4 small desert sized brandy sniffer bowels,A large new baige bath towel, 1 new green dish towel and 6 new dish cloths and a baseball and bat for DGS. I went in hoping to find a cheese dome for a set of petastal dishes that I made using candle sticks, glue and the clear salad plates from Wallyworld. I had bought 2 small cloches a couple of weeks ago to use, but then decided that the one clear cheese dome fit the size better. I only had one, so now I have an excuse to keep going back+ I am looking for smaller, coaster or maybe clear ashtray sized pieces that I can use for the smaller cloches. When I went to the Dr last week, she doubled the amt of antidepresent that I had taken for years, because of the stress with Dh and It must be helping. The last few days I have been wanting to do fun things again like making crafty things, which I really hadn't wanted to do in months. Maybe...just maybe, I"m starting to emerge from my long funk. Thanks you all for being there for me when I need a quiet place to escape. You are the best! Janet

My thoughts? First - what do you want and need in a washing machine besides a strong assurance of low vibration? Do you need any special cycles? Do you often like to do hot washes? Etc, etc... A machine that may not do the wash cycles you desire, but has low vibration is just a different set of trade-offs from accepting some vibration but doing the wash as you desire. Getting the wash done to your requirements should be the primary requirement and then look for the lowest vibration. You have a second floor laundry room. With this type of setup the big questions for a HE machine are: 1) How quickly can you get hot water to the machine? 2) How hot is the water from your DHW source? Since the Samsung will only use it's internal heater when doing a sanitary cycle, the answers to the above two questions will really determine what the machine can do temperature wise. Our 2nd floor laundry room has a dedicated, insulated PEX hot feed directly from the DHW tank. I checked the other day and the hose fittings felt hot within 10 seconds of the start of flow so it's getting the hot water very quickly. With our DHW set at 131F, a hot fill at the machine was still only about 110F. The SS drum and clothing suck up a lot of energy. In a machine whose internal heater only operates in sanitary, that would be the best we could do for a hot wash. With less optimal piping, it wouldn't even be this good. If we set our DHW source to 140F, I'd guess we could get a ~115F fill. Some people don't care about, or never do hot washes. If that's the case, the Samsung or any machine with no/limited internal heater would work fine. Anyways, just a consideration thats very important to me. FYI - Whirlpool and many LG's (certainly their top of the line) will use their internal heater in a number of cycles (but not all) besides sanitary. Samsung's answer to this would be their silver care stuff. Believing in this vs. actual hotter temperatures is a leap of faith. Also have to consider the environmental and unknown nano health issues of the "Ag" approach.

Isn't stain treat always set to "hot"?--- Yes, it deselects if not hot. Would be perfect, if it did not. What cycle were you using to get the HE5t to use the heater on "warm"? --- Either WW or HD, both turn the heater on with all spins, temp, extra HS spin time, Stain Treat, extra rinses, pre-wash options can be overridden. This is good. BTW, I think the only thing HD is just set the Stain Treat to on by default- maybe some extra wash time. I am finding the use of "My cycle" can be set with your usual wash temp, spin, rinses. Power On, hit it, change temp (most likely the only change) and press Start. The manual says the machine uses the heater in "heavy duty". Would be interesting to hear if this is true for warm, hot and extra hot and what the approximate temps are. ---- Pretty sure the temp ranges are what I posted above. Like I noted above, you can essential override anything. Also, what does ATC manage for "Normal" cycle in the warm, hot and extra hot range? It would be interesting to confirm that it *doesn't* use the internal heater. ----Normal does not use heater. But Stain Treat does turn heater on, even for Normal. This is what I like about the HE5t, none of this if it is Tuesday at noon, but not on Saturday evening.. type of thinking. Just on/off. Cool temp is really around 80F either by ATC or heater or both on HD/WW. Since my water is still "cool" even during summer, I put washer on "cool' WW cycle and noticed the heater engaged. During winter here this is almost mandatory. Cold really means NO HEAT via ATC or heater. Not sure why one would ever use this, BTW. Do you open the drum to shoot the IR-based temp or shoot off the glass? Yes, read directly off clothes (see technique above in earlier post). Shooting off glass, does not work at all for Craftsman IR. I think my instrument is rated as +-2F or so. Summary to your questions, the only thing I really wish was different was the ability to change Stain Treat to any heated temp choice. As it stands, the LG, Samsung, Whirlpool Duet, Miele W4xxx do not have this profile wash. Perhaps the Bosch still does. Not sure. Thought. One could feed the HE5T with a cold water fill (via Y-connector). I could effectively always get a profile wash. Only downside, you would never be able to use ATC, but if you did this, you did not want it anyway. What makes the HE5t work over the Miele for me, is the ability to go up/down and use most temp and options on cycle that use heater. Miele locked me out too often. Miele had too mnay things like sanitary cycle always forcing me to do a pre-wash- why? Let me decide. Maybe not 'really' dirty, but just want to kills germs, for example. What does pre-wash add? So far I think I have more control using this over Miele W48xx. Interesting, the Whirlpool high-end Duet is like the Miele. Just too simple. Kenmore really added some value. Dryer is just a clone, however of Duet. The lack of vibration so far is impressive. 10 minutes to setup and level and seems to work perfect. Matching dryer is larger, a lot more controls than T9800 and quieter. Build quality definitely a notch down over Miele, however.