I have opened the door on my Electrolux at different times to see how warm or hot the water was. I didn't use a thermometer, but of course the water was HOT, very hot on the sanitize and it still had over an hour left. On the auto temp hot, the water was pretty hot. On the warm, it felt warm enough for me, but others may not think so. I feel very confident with the temps when washing. I have had clean clothes, and all stains were removed except for the very very old ones. I just always do my towels, kitchen cloths, socks, white t-shirts, any pet stuff on sanitize, and do use whites option when i don't have 2 hrs for san, and am happy with the results. We also had a cat that as it got bigger started going outside the box everywhere. We tried everything, even kitty prozac, but finally were backed against the wall and had to put him down. He also was feral for some reason even though i found him before he was weaned, and had him for 5 years. It was the worse thing i ever had to do, especially with him having no physical probs. The doc said it was behavioral prob, and the frralness was in his DNA. I help rescue and never had a prob like this. I have a moma cat right now with 3 kittens, and one of them was hours away from death, but we brought him back and he is now walking and playing some, just runs out of steam fast, but i would do anything for animals. Thats why i tried for over 2 years to help my cat, even after all my tables were peed on, my bar, my beds, my furniture, 2- 15ft carpet replacements, computer desks, clothes. i still feel guilt.

Jmith, Everyone loads varies from type of fabrics to water temperatures. My loads is all over the place where I can wash my king size flat/fitted and 4 king pillow case with a king size fleece cover in one load to two bathroom mats in one load. Weighing fabrics does nothing but causes extra unnecessary step in doing laundry. Once you do several large or extra large load, the machine will let you how much you can fill the machine without over loading. If anybody over load this machine will notice how long it take for the load to balance for the spin cycle! I'm a older WT Lux user......

Hello all, just wanted to post a follow-up on my new w/d set. Lowes replaced my Whirlpool Duet w/d just this past week. My wife and I picked out the Bosch 800 Nexxt Series. The unit themselves looks nice but once again we are not as pleased as I thought we would be with a new set. As you will see from my previous post, we had a problem with the washer shaking violently and moving all over the place knocking into the wall etc. So to deter that from happening this time, we put down a rubber rug mat first and then an area rug on top of that so that the washer would be less likely to walk when in the spin cycle. Well here are the facts, the washer and dryer are both level (I check with a level myself both side to side and front to back) and when it enters the spin cycle it seems like on low to medium spin it is just unbelievable the amount that it shakes. You can here the thing vibrating the floor and walls of the house from any room on the bottom floor. Although I must say when it finally reaches the highest point of the spin it settles out and just moves a very little. So my biggest issue is getting to the high rate of spin when it gets there it is just fine. I read a lot of other posts and people were talking about loading one piece of clothing at a time to balance out the load. Usually we just throw a handful of clothes in a time and don't worry about it. I certainly don't think you should have to take sock by sock, shirt by shirt, etc and load the machine but maybe you do. Then I thought the drum might not be balanced but not sure what the liklihood of that is since it's a new machine. As soon as we did our first load and noticed the erratic shaking on low to medium, my wife and I just looked at each other and said oh no not again. We are really seriously beginning to think that no front loader out there is going to be right for us because of the way they shake when spinning. I think if I had it to do all over instead of going with another front loading model we would have went back to top loading, I just can't take all the racket. Now we are thinking about making provisions to just do clothes when we don't have company or setting the delay and having it wash while we sleep. It's a shame you have to do that with such expensive equipment. The only other issue that we had was with the new dryer. We kept getting the error of clean lint filter. After cleaning the lint filter 5 times during one dry cycle, I decided to contact Bosch to see if they had any suggestions. The lady advised me that my exhaust hose might be bunched up causing the machine to get warm thinking that lint is clogging up the filter. So I looked back behind the dryer and it was pretty warm back there and the hose might have been a little bound up but nothing to where I thought it should cause any issues. I wanted to leave a decent amount of length to the exhaust hose just because it makes it easier to pull out the dryer if you need to without disconnecting the hose because you have plenty of length. So as a work around or potential fix, my wife and I slid the dryer out a little from the wall to ensure that the exhaust hose was not being bound up or crunch up at all and I just completed a full load without any error messages claiming that the lint filter needs to be cleaned so I guess we are on the right track. If anyone has any suggestions or comments about either situation/example, please let me know. Thanks for all your help, Michael

Tomato, I don't remember I got any receipt after they put the replacement parts on. I think they usually just recorded everything in there computer system. I think they mentioned baffle and shocks(don't know if I spell them correctly). Before they came, I received two big boxes and one media size,two small size boxes. I didn't open them and I didn't watch them doing the replacement. But after they left, I found the door is kind of different and looks like either the drum or something attached to the drum are replaced too. My washer is sitting on the plastic pan no pedestal. This weekend I will ask my husband to check the legs. I hope it will work. rpsinfoman, Actually sears customer service people thought I deserved a new washer last time before they came to do those 5 parts replacement. But when the case transferred to local manager, he was either not there or too busy to take the phone call. After many phone calls, one of women there finally told us they ordered parts to do another replacement. One of the technician told me actully the manager wouldn't give me a new one. He'd rather his technicians to spend the whole day to replace those parts. When my washer was under warrant, it was that hard to talk to sears, I don't think it is usefull to call them now. I definely won't buy another kenmore and won't buy another service from sears. I learned my lesson in a hard way. So this time I want to buy good reliable washer. I did some research on this forum and I think people talked about miele, asko etc. After reading some threads mentioned miele is too heavy, I opted it out since my laundry room is on second floor. I didn't see asko in the stores I usually go to such as home depot, sears,lowes and bestbuy. So I have no idea the price range of it. If any one has one and like it, could you please let me know how much you paid for it and the model number?