I know how you feel harlowolivia...you want to test every cycle and option to put the machine through it's paces and see how it performs.

I'm still watching my Electrolux every cycle and it's been three months.

Congrats and enjoy you're new machine!

CONGRATS!! I highly recommend ordering STPP. It not only conditions the water, but aids in rinsing and keeping the interior and "guts" of the machine clean and buildup free.

If your water is hard, I also cannot recommend you having a whole house water softener installed. I feel Culligan and Rayne offer the best systems, for the best price. Both companies have been around since the early 1930's, and are very reliable. We had a whole house Culligan system installed...AMAZING. Not only wash water..but showers, faucets and shower glass is so much cleaner. Also, your hair and skin feels so silky!!

Enjoy your washer. I sit and wash so many cycles. It is very therapeutic!!

Congratulations!!! But honestly, this thread means nothing without pictures ;)

Wonderful! I am so happy for you, and hope you get many years of excellent performance! I'd be sitting in front of it too! WIth a bowl of popcorn and a comfy chair! Heck, I'd have it in the living room but my aesthethics wouldn't allow it! Congrats!

Thanks everyone makes me feel not so odd watching the cycles lol.

I'll try to snap some pics, I'm just pretty busy these days.

Also things have been pretty chaotic here since one of my rescues, the Japanese Chin, started choking. I have never before had to use the Heimlich manuver on a dog before ( yes I am that ocd prepared I know how to do this). Very scary, and a huge wakeup call, life is precious and things can and will change in a heart beat. He is doing fine, the poor little guy, we just got back from the vet, but is really enjoying all the extra attention. Anyway, back to laundry related topics, I haven't been doing as much laundry as planned. But when I am able to pop in a load me and the dogs, all 4 of them sit on the laundry room floor and watch. OK, I watch they nap. Lol. So on Larsi's recommendation, and other members endorsement I have decided to order some stpp. I am also going to try out tide cold-water liquid for the prewash compartment. Since it has enzymes that work in cooler water. What do you guys think about that? What do you guys use for prewashes?

Harlow

The pre wash on these machines is next to worthless. They are all COLD water and can not be changed. Enzymes won't work in cold water and powder will not dissolve. I also have the Kenmore equivalent of this machine so this is from experience. At best it's a nice flush rather than a true first pre wash.

Well I couldnt do a prewash on my old HE TL, but I had it on the fl I had before the TL. I always noticed a difference in stains with a cold pre wash. Especially with whites. My grandma ALWAYS did a prewash with whites, she said she didn't want extra dirt or soils in the long hot wash.

My thinking was tide cold water liquid will dissolve easy, and the enzymes would hopefully work better than nothing in cold water. Hmm, I'll have to try the cycles out and see how it goes.

I do understand what you are saying though, I would LOVE to have the option of a warm prewash.

If it's not a large load, consider using the express wash (15 minutes) that has the hot/warm water option as a prewash. I do this on my Kenmore version of your machine. Works great. The only downside is that you have to reset the cycle to continue the load. I don't find that too onerous. Another idea is to use the turbo wash as a prewash on a delay start basis to finish just before you're ready to start the regular load. I did this with a bunch of guest sheets. They prewashed at sunrise and were ready to do the rest of the laundry 45 minutes later. Useful for large loads. It's a fun machine, see what works for you. Good Luck.

Lol! Poppy you beat me to it. Great advice though.

@rpsinfoman Maybe you could give Harlow the reference for the secret codes for the spin, temperature and other stuff.

Harlow, the man is a genius. I got the heavy bedspread and the bathsheets and the pet beds to rinse and spin without the dread UE code or the dance across the floor. Awesome

WASH TEMP & DELAY START buttons pressed and held simultaneous reads back the water temp in Celsius.

SPIN SPEED & DELAY START buttons pressed and held simultaneously reads back the actual rotation if the drum in rpms.

The hidden Allergene cycle. BULKY or COMFORTER with STEAM option always runs the temp up to 143F, holds it, then adds hordes of water and maintains 120F the remaining wash. Bleach triggers the last 5 min. These two cycles use lots of water and two rinses by default up to 4 can be selected. Great for Towels, Sheets, Whites and lots of water. Downside is 1:50 cycle time.

oh wait you have the LG so you have the Allergene. Poppy that one is for you.

@rpsinfoman Tks for more secret codes. I'm making a list.

Thanks for the warm prewash/speed cycle suggestion.

The only thing I have found the that I don't like is when I program some cycles, the timer doent give me a number until after it starts measuring the load, but that is only on some cyles. I really like it so far, its very interesting to watch the turbo feature!

Rpsinfoman- where do you get these tips? I read my manual front to back, 3x's. I wish it gave a thorough description of all cycles, and what occurs during them as well. But it is just very basic info.

Rpsinfoman is writing the LG equivalent of Rococogurl's Miele cheat sheet. I've made a list for my Laundry room wall of the "secret codes". LOL nobody does laundry but me at the moment: "that machine is so complicated". Sure, but you're brilliant too.

I have an LG and had no idea it had secret codes! Oh please, please share!

@Donna37 RPSinfoman detailed just above most of the secondary functions available on the LG and Kenmores through pushing cycle options together and holding for a short period of time. My machine dates from 2012 so I don't know if these are available for older machines but it wouldn't hurt to try.

If I look at my selection dial it doesn't list just a spin option, just a rinse and spin. I thought that very strange as all my older machines going back to the dinosaurs had that capability. If you press the power on button. Do not select a cycle, but do select a spin option on the spin speed and then push the start/pause button to the right of the selection dial: Viola, the machine defaults to the normal cycle and begins to spin at the selected speed no rinse included.. Doesn't mention it in my manual or the revised manual I downloaded. Try this with a no spin laundry cycle that justs drains the water out. Then do your spin. It's amazing.

Turning the power on/off button to off during a cycle will initiate a draining cycle.

See more wonders above. There are a couple of others I don't remember is older threads.

Very interesting about the hidden features. I have to play around with my machine. I am actually pretty excited for his LG cheat sheet. Well now I know if I have any questions, their are a few LG people here, and rpsinfoman to help me out.

I poked around last night with my LG and couldn't get it to do anything like that. :0(

Time to explore the appliances depart at HD or Lowes. I tried some of these on the new LG at Lowes and it did light up the way it was supposed to. Clerk was not pleased with washer playtime and "just looking." They didn't have anything I couldn't do with the current machine. I don't enjoy the "trying experience" when I know more than the clerk does. Duh.

We (the laundry freaks) pretty much DO know more than the clerks.

A cold water prewash is preferred for blood stains. Just use a liquid laundry detergent when using a cold water prewash and you won't have any detergent dissolving problems.

@Donna - what is the model number?