Question about washing machines!

mardatha

Are there still automatics that have two hoses for a hot & cold fill? We have coal fired heating and loads of very hot water, and it bugs me when I have to fill the WM with cold and then use elect to heat it up!

rosie383

We looked for one a few years ago when we were changing ours and were told that they don't make them anymore. Bugs me too, when I know I have roasting hot water and it fills with cold and then heats up. GGGRRRRRR

Pink.

Hi Mardatha,

I've moved your thread over to the In My Home board to see if you can get some advice from the experts there.

Pink

Need2bthrifty

I've got one, a h0tp0int, but that was bought 6 years ago. Don't know what they are like now.

macman

All new domestic machines are cold fill.

phill99

Its a huge myth that washing machines were getting filled with hot water.

What they were actually getting fed with when taking in 'hot water' through the hot tap was actually the 'dead leg' of cold water that was resting in the pipes. In some cases this could be many litres. This was then replace with hot water from the tank whichy was cooling down very quickly. So the hot water was never actually getting into the washing machine.

But because the washing machine was expecting hot water, it realised it was cold and then heated the water up itself. Hence the water was being heted twice. Very energy inefficient. So now all WMs are cold fill and the water is heated (if needed) just the once.

TimBuckTeeth

My LG WM-14311FD has hot fill but it was bought about 5 years ago. Might be worth checking other LG direct drive machines.

A newer model the LG F1456QD that is currently stocked by Currys, shows in the manual to have the a hot inlet (but is optional).

Details on LG website here :

http://www.lg.com/uk/home-appliances/washing-machines/LG-white-washing-machine-F1456QD.jsp

Click support tab to find the user manual download link.

mardatha

TY for that, I like the look of these LG machines, off to do more research lol

ikati5

Can't you just fit the cold fill hose onto the hot pipe?

Raksha

ikati5 wrote: »

Can't you just fit the cold fill hose onto the hot pipe?

No, because then you'd get a machine full of warm water, not good when you want a cool wash. It would also do all the rinses with hot water as well.

macman

ikati5 wrote: »

Can't you just fit the cold fill hose onto the hot pipe?

And how would you then be able to do a cool wash or cold rinse?