Here on campus, all of the laundry facilities using commercial sized Maytag Neptune Front Loaders. Coming from a house with only top loaders, I'm still uncertain if I am using the front loader correctly.

How full can I load this machine and still obtain decent results? I've been loading it to about 90% of capacity (loosely) and using warm water with the Tide High Efficiency (front loader specific) double concentrated detergent.

Am I overloading the machine ??

Thanks.

 

I had one. I loaded as much as I could until the clothes would fall out. Always put detergent in before the clothes, in the actual basin or tub or whatever you call it. Never put the detergent in the front loading detergent compartment. Never had any problems. Prolly the best washer yet!

 

Answered my own question:

 

fill it, they will come clean, but i would never recommend buying one. they are a pain in the ass

 

It's always better use front loader over top loader. My parents own few laundry mats in cali and they always tell me to use front loader. To answer you question, I think filling up to 90% is fine.

 

why is it pain in the ass? Had difficult time setting it up?

 

We have a front loader washer and dryer and never had a problem when we loaded it to the max. We also don't always use HE detergent. Regular detergent is just as good. Just need to use less of it... that's all.

 

we had a gasket tear on our ge, and water poured out of it when it broke after owning it 6 months.

we bought the 4 year warranty for $135 for just the washer since the part is more than that.


now we do not have the stands so we have to bend down or kneel to get the stuff out of the washer.

but like jb said, we use reg tide and just less of it instead of he detergent

 

thanks...good to know about the HE detergent

 

^ Yeah, I stopped using it a while ago. Much cheaper to use the regular stuff, and no problems since the switch...

 

I don't know about the "much" cheaper; that's just not true... And it will not clean as well... that's a fact.

Reality is the non HE detergent isn't designed to sud correctly on the lower amount of water. Hence it will not clean as well, not to mention it's not designed to rinse as easy with the lower amount of water. Leaving a lot of what little soap you did use left in your clothes and your machine!.

I'd also mention that the over sudsing caused by using non-HE detergent is detected by just about every front loader made and it will do extra cycles to deal with the soap suds from using non-HE detergent. Again, making it pointless to use non-HE detergent...

In the end you don't save any $$ using cheap non HE detergent... period. And you chance screwing up your washer as the non HE detergent will build up inside the machine over time. This build-up is also how the serviceman will know you didn't use HE detergent in your wahser.

You can google and find places who have actually scientifically tested this; not just some people who are too cheap the realize the long term damage and wasted water using non HE detergent. ... here's an article on it... there's many more.

http://www.tidbitsandstuff.com/artic..._Washers.shtml

 

Not to mention it voids your warranty.

 

I didn't read the link, but I believe you. We don't do much laundry anyway, so whatever affects are being quoted over however many loads will be minimized for us.

All I know is that our clothes go in dirty and come out clean and we've never had any problems. We have containers of the stuff we used in NY (my wife went nuts when they had some buy 1 get 2 free thing or something before we moved)... so once that runs out we may re-evaluate the "not much cheaper" thing. But, other then a few HE detergent purchases b/c we thought we had to use it (then a friend of ours told us they use regular detergent and have for years)... we haven't purchased detergent since we moved down to NC (which was in March 2005)... so yeah, not having to buy HE has been much cheaper for us b/c of that .

 

I highly recommend reading the last 4 paragraphs. 2 of them contain information about "glisten" or similar products. It'll be helpful...

I too try and save costs so I'm right there with ya...

 

^ I have to run out to the store to prepare for a catering... but I'll check it out tonight