Washing machines - most energy efficient cycle?

basmic

Frankly, hygiene comes before saving money. I'm not a believer in compromising on hygiene for the sake of a few coppers.

Cardew

markharding557 wrote: »

This is rather odd telling people to wash at 60c on a money saving forum
surely this will cost significantly more than washing at 30c or 40c.
there is no reason to wash at 60c a small amount of disinfectant will suffice for anything to be hygienically cleaned;)

Actually it does not cost 'significantly more' to wash at 60C.

My machine is far from the latest - about 6 years old - and the latest machines are even better.

These are the consumption figures:

40C - - 0.4kWh or 0.6kWh - depending on program

60C - - 1.1kWh

90C - - 1.9kWh

markharding557

Cardew wrote: »

Actually it does not cost 'significantly more' to wash at 60C.

My machine is far from the latest - about 6 years old - and the latest machines are even better.

These are the consumption figures:

40C - - 0.4kWh or 0.6kWh - depending on program

60C - - 1.1kWh

90C - - 1.9kWh

There is a difference of 0.5kwh between 60c and 40c now multiply this by say six washes per week and by fifty two weeks per year,this works out at 156kwh i don't consider that insignificant.
The thing is you make many good contributions here i just think you're wrong on this one

Cardew

markharding557 wrote: »

There is a difference of 0.5kwh between 60c and 40c now multiply this by say six washes per week and by fifty two weeks per year,this works out at 156kwh i don't consider that insignificant.
The thing is you make many good contributions here i just think you're wrong on this one

It is not a question of being correct or incorrect, but of opinion.

It wasn't even suggested every wash was at 60C or indeed 6 washes a week. One or two washes a week at 60C instead of 40C, so 26kWh or 52kWh per year (£2.50 to £5)

lizzyshep

Thanks for your replies everyone and sorry it's taken me a while to respond, I didn't realise this had been moved.