Tide F/G Powder
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Comments (17)Alex Chicago: Some washes come out cleaner (smelling fresher) from the Little Giant, even though it's the same wash length, nominal temperature and chemicals as in the W4840. I'm thinking particularly of pillow cases, washed at Very Warm in the W4840 and 120F in the Little Giant. There's a long lag getting hot water to my W4840, but the internal heater is working, I always do an Extended wash (1 hour wash tumble), and I have seen the machine further extending the wash tumble to give the water more time to heat. In the last few months I've run a nearby faucet to bring hot water to that end of the house before doing a wash at Very Warm or Hot, but the Little Giant still seems to do better. The 5000W heater really shows itself here, even with cold fill. The Comforters program in the W4840 is excellent, but it doesn't go above Warm, and I don't think a program like Custom would wet down a comforter. The Little Giant Cottons Universal program with raised water level has no problem wetting them down, and can go up to 140F. I've seen the results in cleaner comforters (yes, duvet covers are recommended, and no, we don't use them). Cottons Hygiene could probably handle comforters also, but I haven't yet wanted to wash one at 160F or higher. On the negative side, the Little Giant's smaller drum is at a disadvantage with thick comforters. All our comforters do fit in, and most of them settle down when wet so there's room to tumble. But I just washed one that didn't, so it kind of just spun around inside the drum. It did get washed though. The W4840 is overall excellent at spinning, but I'm not crazy about its pulse spins. They throw a burst of current into the motor to rev up the drum quickly, but with no apparent concern for balancing. The machine is heavy enough to shrug this off in most cases. But I've had some loud bangs, and even some movement, with a very unbalanced load like heavy cotton bathroom mats. Can avoid it by setting a lower spin speed, but if you don't, watch out. The Little Giant does pulse-type spins in a more careful and controlled manner, so it doesn't have this problem. A couple of weeks ago I wanted to wash the garage floor. I was going to buy a new mop, rather than using our cleaners' mops that they use inside the house. But then I realized I have Sluice Low on the Little Giant, so I used one of the mops and then threw both mop heads into the machine. Might be able to get away with that in the W4840, but the Little Giant is made for it. Really, you can't compare the W4840 and the Little Giant, they're a completely different class of machine. Water levels, heating, configurable options, array of programs. As for the Asko: Well, I returned it, and I'm keeping the Little Giant, so that's one answer. But say I try to answer based on an Asko that worked the way I imagined it would. The difference between that Asko and the Little Giant would be less than the difference between the W4840 and the Little Giant. But the Little Giant is a true commercial machine that costs 50% more, is much more flexible and configurable, and has a heater 2 1/2 times as powerful....See MoreTide Free/Clear Powder vs Tide With Bleach Powder
Comments (12)FWIW, my boxes of All F/C powder w/stainlifters and Tide F/C powder both have enzymes listed in the ingredients . That same Tide F/C powder also has "Color safe bleach - sodium carbonate peroxide" listed on the side, so I avoid that one for dark colors. There might not be enough to make a difference, since it is not described as a "w/bleach" formula, but why test the fates? LOL I can't tell much difference between the two, but our clothing doesn't get very dirty, either. Hubby's sweaty golf clothing (poly wicking fabric) has come out really clean this summer, with the liquid All F/C stainlifters "odor relief". That inherent "funk" is gone. . . or sufficiently diminished to where it is not noticeable....See MoreBest Laundry Powder - it’s a rabbit hole!
Comments (71)John, I used steam a couple of times and it faded my clothes so I did not look into it further. I noticed that during the Allergiene cycle the steam is used in the begiging of the cycle with very little water before the clothes are actually washed. It raises the temp very high for 20 min and then fills with lower temp water for the actual wash. When I have a load of whites I will run a steam wash and monitor to see how it works in other cycles and report back. However I do not think it is a sub for a true hot wash for whites and it is too high a temp for darks. I read in this forum that for darks some people like the perm press cycle since it has more water and the temps are a bit better than normal. For my whites I used to do the whites cycle but it is not hot enough and now I am switching to xhot or sanitary washes. Still experimenting. I am still learing what cycles work well. My normal right now (winter) is consistently at 28C....See MoreGreeny: sodium percarbonate
Comments (21)Glad you have a plan you feel good about Pat. armjim, have you done a cleaning cycle on your washing machine? I think I remember your water heater is set high. Maybe 140F or above? What I used to do a few times a year was use powdered Cascade in a hot empty wash--about two cups worth. Let it agitate halfway through the heavy cycle then turn it off and let it sit for a couple hours. Finish up the cycle, then run another hot empty cycle with 1-2 cups of chlorine bleach with no added time for soaking. I fell out of the habit for some unknown reason. Then I was out of town for 11 days. Folks were here at the house, but less wash cycles happening and this was when they were on their liquid detergent kick; without me around to run 140F wash cycles with Tide w/Bleach powder or regular Tide powder after they used the washer. I suspect that's how we got some unpleasant somethings in the washer. Citric acid (I bought some in bulk on a-zon) is useful too for a cleaning cycle or even adding to a hot wash of towels with powdered Tide. I sometimes use Glisten washing machine cleaner solution. I really can't say if it helps or not, but every now and then I run that through the washer, with a good long soak. The directions are vague at best, the ingredients, heck, I can't find what they might be. Might just be liquid citric acid for all I know. But we were ok in this dept when I kept up with Glisten in the cleaning cycle regime. I feel for you though...I had that smelly towel problem with my crummy front loaders for all those years before I got the Speed Queen. It was so embarassing and unpleasant. Nothing helped with those washing machines though. I don't use liquid fabric softener so I don't have to battle my way through any build up from that. But it's sounding like a cleaning cycle or two might help out your situation. I'm sorry you are dealing with this. :-( Keep us posted if you find a solution....See Morearmjim
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