Old one got a tear in the front and was leaking water on the floor. Had to take apart a bunch of the machine, and I gotta say that the two seals (inner drum and outer casing) were both tricky to get on properly.
Doing a test load of laundry now, and there’s no leaks (so far), so that’s pretty excellent
Those door seals are why I’ll never buy a front load washer again. Top loaders are so much better!
They use way more water which is in scarce supply here because it all gets allocated to megacorps to grow tropical plants in the desert for profit :( (California)
Smart ones don’t. They weigh the clothes and measure the water they use!
Also: apologies. I live in Canada which is currently a frozen wasteland. A huge amount of the fresh produce I eat was grown in California! We also have far more water than we know what to do with thanks to the Great Lakes!
Even then, the energy star requirements for power and water are more lax for top loaders than front loaders because they literally couldn’t compete otherwise. It’s kinda a dumb, misleading system.
Ahhh maybe. But laundry is such a tiny part of our overall water budget. We use vastly more water for showers and dishes (still haven’t found a dishwasher that doesn’t need pre-rinsing, despite what Technology Connections says).
As for power, the dryer uses vastly more than the washer and the whole energy star system for that is a scam of Volkswagen proportions. They achieve the energy star rating by giving you damp clothes at the end of the default cycle. We end up running the damn thing on the “more” setting which conveniently turns off the “energy star” light. In other words, if you want dry clothes the energy star rating goes right out the window!
That’s a good point, optimizing the wrong things can be a real distraction!
Nope, kills my back
Hear hear
Don’t even know how the old one tore in the first place.