Roc! I love that you posted a video. And yes, these little Mieles can handle just about anything you throw at them. That matelasse is just gorgeous. Is that your own photo? Beautifully made bed as well.

Manufacturer's pic in silver. Mine is ivory.

I bet the ivory is even more stunning!

ROC!!! You posted a video!!! Yay!! I am beginning, slowly, to not be the only vid poster.

Agreed, my Little Giant and standard Miele units did everything my much larger non-Miele machines did!!!

Thank you for the video and confirming this!

I am still wondering if it will be able to handle a lightweight king size down comforter, but your matelasse looks like it might be heavier so I bet the down comforter might just work too

@cal - It will depend on the down comforter's fill I suspect. This duvet cover is quilted but more of a bedspread weight IYWIM. The machine handled it beautifully must say.

Awww.. pinky thanks so much. I know how particular you are so I'm very complimented you would say that.

I want to know how you are going to get your rinse water elevated. I tried setting increased water when Alex (german alex) gave me some PDF instructions. But my machine didn't have the option when I went into the system. IIRC, your machine is a bit older, but not by much. Maybe there was still the option of increased water. OR, there is a workaround that I am not aware of. I would love this info! What year is your machine? I recall that you said it was replaced. So actually your machine might be newer than mine. I took delivery on my machine in October 2013.

Yes that glamor shot is a beauty!

Cal, I have a Queen mid weight down that I wash in my Miele. It washes up just fine. I have the same sized machine as Rococo.

@enduring - I have a 3035. Alex assures me it has a Water Plus option that can be enabled. But I'm not able to pull up the menu for that. I have a service call scheduled in 2 weeks to check on why the menu won't come up and also to check on why sometimes it does not go into max spin when it should. Planning to ask the tech to enable the water Plus or walk me through it.

Let me know what you find out. I would love to know. I have the 3033, and I think that is only because mine are white. But I have wondered if earlier 303x models did have the menu for Water Plus, but got removed just before I got mine. My model was discontinued shortly after I got it, IIR.

The service manual says there is Water Plus in all the 3000 series machines. If I could DIM I would but after the tech visit I'll post the result. They may not be authorized to enable it but I can be persuasive.

Roc - in the end you weren't able to activate Water+ using the steps I sent? Hmmmm.

I cannot get the service menu to come up at all. That's why the tech is coming.

It was tricky for me but I did get the menu to come up, just no extra water option that I could find.

Here is the video Alex was kind enough to link for me. It shows how to get to where you need to go to enable water plus. But I could never do this while following the video. It's like navigating while driving without audio! Perhaps you can manage it.

Written out:

1. switch the washer off

2. press "start" and hold
3. switch the washer on while holding "start"
4. release the start button as soon as the "Start" LED flashes
5. press start 5 times and on the 5th time hold for 4 seconds until the display shows the programming functions
6. press the left menu button to select the desired programming function, and confirm by pressing the right menu button (OK)
Note The set option is marked by a checkmark V
7. press the left menu button to select the desired option, and confirm by pressing OK

thanx alex!

Thanks Alex. Is that Whirlpool Alex that posted the video?

So I watched it, then it must have switched to the next in his lineup of videos. The one that is posted above takes 5 pushes of the start button and the next video showed it takes 3 pushes of the start button. While watching the above video I was having wishful thoughts that my display would look like that, with the water plus, etc. Because when I tried several years ago, I never had the water plus option. Tonight, as I was watching, the next video in Alex's line up must have loaded, unbeknownst to me, and I noticed a slight change in the startup procedure in the button pushing. It had an entirely different menu displayed. It dawned on me that there must be 2 menus and 2 different procedures to access these 2 menus. When I tried accessing the water plus menu several years ago, I must have watched the wrong video!

I reloaded this page to get back to the posted link and followed the instructions and low and behold, I have water plus!!! I did it. So several years ago, I must have watched the wrong video and got into a wrong menu, cause water plus option was not on the menu.

At 42 seconds in the video, there is the water plus feature. I got mine on now. I will have to do a load of whites!

I hope you understand what I just wrote :/

ETA, you need to have the washer door closed to access a program menu.

It makes sense to me! There are *so* many videos out there, from so many users/machines, that it's easy to get mixed up. For what it's worth, no, that video isn't Whirlpool_Alex. That poster is here in the US and if he's a member of our forum he's never identified himself.

Enduring, please come back and tell us what you see in terms of water level changes. Dying to know! Fingers crossed that Roc will have hers activated by techs soon as well. So glad it worked.

Thanks Alex. I remember this video or one like it from the past. Glad you clarified that its not Whirlpools, or yours. I am just starting a "Sanitize" load. I believe that typically it has a lower water level. I will watch. Question, with the added water plus extra rinse. Will I have 4 rinses if I have sensitive selected? Sensitive adds a 3rd rinse, before my water plus + extra rinse status.

Is the water plus only on the rinse cycles? Cause as I am watching the pre-wash on sanitize, it looks like the typical water level.

enduring...Water+ will increase water levels (somewhat) during the wash/agitation cycle. And it will increase it for rinses. If you have an Extra Rinse selected (Sensitive) you will get 3 Rinses. Rinse 1 will be fairly high, Rinse 2 will look like it usually did for you (not too high of a water level) and Rinse 3 should be the highest!!

If you are only doing 2 Rinses, no Sensitive selected. Rinse 2 will be higher than Rinse 1.

CONGRATS!

Now Rococo.....I had a W3035, Stainless, YOUR machine. I activated Water+. I know for a fact, I had your machine!!! :) You can do it gurl ;)

I also want to enable Allergy which, evidently, gives an extra rinse. Mystery is why my menu wouldn't come up when the Miele person walked me through it. But service call is next week. I'm still not getting max spin on certain loads.

My washer definitely has water plus. I'll get it going.

Just busy around here this week with annual chores -- getting the watering system back up and running, lawn patching, hated gardening chores. Window washing this week and then guests. The washer is working and the rest will be resolved.

Good to know. When my XL machines need replacing I'm already worried what I would do. The smaller units make me nervous space wise but not sure I could go with another brand now.

Livebetter - by the time your large-capacity Mieles give up the ghost, we will have some iteration of the W1/T1 machines here in North America. This has been confirmed by Miele. Miele has told me the washer will be 120v, so you should be able to "plug 'n play" just fine. They have some pretty cool features, too. :)

Alex - I thought I read someone on here say they saw them on the West coast. They're still not on the website though. But Miele's website leaves a lot to be desired. A friend of mine is building a new house and always gets the XL. She's got three boys and she's afraid of the smaller Miele's. If she does Miele though, she'll want the W1/T1.

Miele told me it would be next year before the W1/T1 were here, but what you say about their website is also true of their customer service in general.

I wonder what your friend's budget it. The Little Giant is smaller than the XL models out there but a) you can really pack it to the brim and b) cycle times are crazy fast, even for extra hot 140-200F loads. I can easily do four loads of laundry after work and still be in bed on time. With my Samsung, 2 was about the max.

Some of the W series in Europe are 9-10kg capacity, though. Depending on what comes over here, we could see some large machines.

Ok, what is the "maximum water level" in the program shown in the video above, at the 2:33 min mark? He has it turned off. I have mine turned off. Shouldn't it be turned on? So you can get the max water? Please help :/

@Enduring, I don't know exactly what that is. In our Little Giants, one of the supervisor settings is to adjust "additional water level - cottons" by a certain # of millimeters. My suspicion is this is the same thing. You could go ahead and activate it and let us know? :) Or perhaps German Alex will be by to either confirm or contradict my guess.

@Enduring: I've been doing some reading on other threads (both here and at AW) about the Water+ settings and the Maximum Water Level settings. These appear to have the same effects in both your machine and in the w48xx machines.

From what I have gathered, the "Water+ / Water+ & Addt'l rinse" setting modifies what function your Sensitive button serves when activated. Have you been activating Sensitive with your last few cycles? If not, do so and report back. This could be why it doesn't seem like anything has changed!

The "Maximum Water Level" setting activates Level III rinsing in all but the custom cycles (so, Normal, Wrinkle Free, MasterCare, etc.). I believe this is the setting Roc had activated by her Miele tech this week.

I had service here Thursday for my spin and the menu. He plugged in his laptop and the service menu came up. I saw it on his screen and he confirmed that there is no Water Plus option. This must have changed since Larsi owned his 3035.

What he did was enable allergen. He told me that will add 1 gallon of water to the rinse. So @enduring, I would enable allergen.

It's been crazy busy here and I haven't had time to even look at the rinse water level. Mine was very good before so I have no complaints. Looks quite a lot like what Larsi posts with his LiGi.

So @enduring I would just activate Allergen and see how you like it.

Last night I activated the "Maximum Water Level", didn't really notice anything. It was a "Sanitize" load of white towels.

"Water+/extra rinse", I activated 10 days ago. Took some pics last week and maybe I saw a little bit more water on "Wrinkle-Free".

My allergen was already activated, and may have been since I've had the machine, cause I don't remember "activating" it last week when I went through all the settings. I do remember seeing it and wondering what the function of this feature was.

I always use "Sensitive" (for additional rinse) on all my cycles, since I've had the machine.

Can I expect to see elevated water in only certain cycles, and only certain phases of cycles?

BTW Roco, I accidentally pulled up what I believe was the "Service Menu" several years ago. It had many things listed in it that were bizarre and I didn't understand. I pushed one button and water started coming out the fill. Yikes! So I exited the program, after looking at all the perimeters to verify there was no Water+ etc.

The Water+/extra rinse is in my "Program Menu", that I found last week, using the tutorial above.

Can't say @enduring. I don't mess around in those menus unless I understand what I'm going for. Just chicken. I have no complaints about water levels or rinsing so it's all optional. My understanding from the tech Thursday was that sensitive provides an additional rinse and allergen adds a gallon of water. I was looking over the tech's shoulder at the menus that appeared on his screen -- not on the machine. The function may be on the machine but according to the diagnostic it's not available on mine. Can't see how it would hurt to activate it if you find it. There may be a difference but doubt it will be very dramatic.