Jo, this machine has been discussed extensively on this forum, including many of the issues you raise. You can search from the laundry Room main main page - use the search term "Adora", which is the name of the model you are considering. - DR

We have a Samsung 382 i believe. In their ad they say it does 16 pair of jeans at the same time. They lie. We only wash about once a week and separate whites from lights from darks. Many times our machine is loaded a bit more than optimum. There are only two of us. We have washed our queen sized comforters. The big problem in front loaders is that current ones need to use very little water to be energy star complient. I get around that by doing all loads on "Heavy Duty" which extends the wash time until the clothes have time to get wet and I use a lot of detergent. Some machines/brand of detergent would have a suds problem, but what we use works. I also always do an extra rinse, and sometimes open and shut the door and do a short cycle just to rinse out all that soap. So much for water saving---but it works and our clothea are getting a lot less wear than they did from our old top loaders.

Our LG is less than a year old and our first FL. We used to clean the filter monthly but there was hardly anything, so we now check it every 2-3 months and still find very little. Takes about 2 minutes. Also, I understand that the silver technology is yet to be "proven", at least for cleaning laundry, but it makes for a good marketing claim when the manufacturers keep trying to find ways to say their machine is better than others. Drives up prices, too. I think steam has a wee bit of "evidence" that it does what is claimed, but in my opinion, the marginal improvement is not worth the whopping added cost. Getting back to your original question, my limited experience with the debris filter has been such that I wouldn't include it among my decision-making criteria. Others, however, may have different experiences. Good luck!

@Jane Check with your local sears and big box stores about the exchange/return policy. They all had some sort of exchange ranging from 15 days to 30 days when I was shopping. You need to read the fine print very carefully. IIRC there was a catch in the Lowes that limited the exchange to higher priced item only. Also note that they do price match each other during "sales events". I know Sears does the measurements for every appliance in the specifications on the web site. You can't determine whether that fridge will fit from the depth measurement (front to back) and your counter depth? I have a narrow galley kitchen so had to be careful with the open door swing measurement. I'm terrible with imagining "the space" so ended up cutting a piece of cardboard to various sizes so I could "see" how much it stuck out. Other posters are also right about the differences between the "normal" US cu ft and how much will fit in the European machines. Mieles and Askos were far above my budget so I didn't seriously consider them. However, I've used a Miele before and you really can stuff it almost full and have the clothes come out beautifully clean. None of my North American front loaders could be loaded as full with the same results. Yes, you can put a lot in those big drum tubs, but you can load up the European models too. I guess it depends on how you do laundry: all in a day or some loads every day. We're on a well so I can't run the machine endlessly for just one day. Also remember that all the modern front loaders have relatively long wash cycles; most are +/- 1 hour. The sanitary cycle on my 41072 is 2 hours minimum and almost 3 if I do more than 1 extra rinse. HTH