Either the hoses are hooked up incorrectly or the machine is messing up and opening up the hot solenoid instead of the cold water inlet.

Thanks George--I'll check the hoses. Lowes delivery guys hooked them up--so I assume they correct, but who knows!

Sounds like the hoses are connected incorrectly. All rinses in the new LGs are supposed to be cold, so if your items are coming out steaming hot at the end of the cycle, then you are getting a hot fill on the last rinse.

Most likely the water hoses were installed incorrectly.

Alarmingly-common that supply hoses are connected in reverse. Some washers (with electronics) can electrically-reverse the valves to compensate but it typically takes a full cycle for the adjustment to happen ... that is, one cycle will operate at the wrong temps, then the next cycle the valves will be reversed for the duration. If the hoses are corrected, another cycle will be wrong then the valves will reverse again back to normal.

Oh boy! Sound like a mess- what do we do to fix it??

Don't just assume that the hoses are wrong, examine the situation to confirm it. Pull the machine forward enough to get access behind it and follow either one of the hoses from the machine to the supply tap. There should be labels of some ilk to identify which is the Hot and Cold connection ports. If they're connected wrong, simply shut off the faucets, disconnect and reconnect both hoses (at either only the faucet end or only the machine end) correctly, turn the faucets back on. It's no more complicated than disconnecting/reconnecting a garden hose from an outdoor faucet. There'll be a little water leakage from residual pressure in the hoses when they're disconnected so have a towel ready to catch it.

Thanks dadoes! I'm not worried about reconnecting the hoses if necessary --that's no problem. We'd planned on checking them later today. I was referring to your post about the washer compensating and reversing (not that I understood it all!)

My husband will check them out this afternoon--I'll keep you posted!

Thanks so much!

Ah. I was just noting for reference that some machines can adapt to the reversed-hoses problem. I don't know if your machine does the valve-reverse trick but apparently it doesn't since you're getting hot clothes out of a woolens cycle.

It works by way of the machine's temperature sensor detecting that incoming water flow is hot when it should be cold, or vice versa. The control board software swaps the electric circuits for the hot and cold valve solenoids to correct the problem. The sensor again detects the change if the hoses are reconnected correctly and automatically swaps the valve circuits back to normal.

The Rest Of The Story: The installer from Lowe's actually hooked them up backwards! After mentioning to us about 3 times that he had over 15 years experience installing appliances. Hmmmm-maybe he's color blind?

I did call Lowe's to let them know--I usually don't complain, but this is a pretty basic job!

Anyway--thanks for all the help and advice! It's all fixed now!

UNBELIEVABLE! Well, believable as Sears has done this 3!!!! times over the years for us. Now, we have the units delivered, and we either annoy the hell out of them and watch them literally EVERY step of the way, or we just tell them to bring the unit(s) to the laundry room, and we will install ourselves.

Incompetence and Arrogance (15 "experience" years he told you) p*sses me off to no end!!

Yes, larsi--I'm NOT a very happy Lowe's customer right now! I haven't received a call back from Lowes Management yet………..waiting,……waiting…..waiting!