Washing machine problems with fleece materials

snowmen

Have a load sensing washing machine and have lots of problems washing fleece materials especially fleece duvet sets.
Setting a program say for an hour generally results in the machine finishing its cycle in 2 1/2 hours and the bed clothes are still wringing wet at the end.
Have tried splitting into smaller loads and even putting a towel in but nothing seems to help.
Has anyone else had this problem and what did they do to rectify it?

Rodders53

Have you read the manual to the [unknown brand] (unknown model) washing machine?  It may give guidance on washing such items and have limits on weights it can handle.

Have you actually baby-sat the machine when washing the load to see what it does?

Wet on fast spin speeds often means badly out of balance loads and the machine never really does a spin at all, let alone a high speed one.  Just keeps trying to spin while pumping out but can't spin up, so does few reverse drum moves to balance the load and tries again, and that repeats...  until it gives up and stops!

teaselMay

what Rodders said. With fleece duvet covers I find it's better to have more rather than less in the machine, it ends up as an unbalanced lump that won't spin if there's not enough in there whereas if a full load it spins fine

Albermarle

Rodders53 said:

Have you read the manual to the [unknown brand] (unknown model) washing machine?  It may give guidance on washing such items and have limits on weights it can handle.

Have you actually baby-sat the machine when washing the load to see what it does?

Wet on fast spin speeds often means badly out of balance loads and the machine never really does a spin at all, let alone a high speed one.  Just keeps trying to spin while pumping out but can't spin up, so does few reverse drum moves to balance the load and tries again, and that repeats...  until it gives up and stops!

This is exactly what ours does if there are largish very water absorbent items in there. It keeps trying to spin but as the load is so unbalanced it gives up ( I believe it does this to avoid damage to the machine/bearings) and tries again and again until eventually it gives up.
Usually removing half the very wet load, and setting it to rinse and spin cycle only , solves the problem.
Although once I had to wring one particular sodden/heavy item out manually first.

teaselMay

Happens in mine the rare occasions I try to wash one hoody - I stupidly own a single item of white clothing

snowmen

snowmen said:

Have a load sensing washing machine and have lots of problems washing fleece materials especially fleece duvet sets.
Setting a program say for an hour generally results in the machine finishing its cycle in 2 1/2 hours and the bed clothes are still wringing wet at the end.
Have tried splitting into smaller loads and even putting a towel in but nothing seems to help.
Has anyone else had this problem and what did they do to rectify it?

Exactly what you say in the last paragraph!

Make is Bosch, model is WAQ283S1GB for the record.

Thanks for the advice (and everyone else!)

Albermarle

snowmen said:

snowmen said:

Have a load sensing washing machine and have lots of problems washing fleece materials especially fleece duvet sets.
Setting a program say for an hour generally results in the machine finishing its cycle in 2 1/2 hours and the bed clothes are still wringing wet at the end.
Have tried splitting into smaller loads and even putting a towel in but nothing seems to help.
Has anyone else had this problem and what did they do to rectify it?

Exactly what you say in the last paragraph!

Make is Bosch, model is WAQ283S1GB for the record.

Thanks for the advice (and everyone else!)

Mine is Seimens, which is owned by Bosch.
It is my second one, and it is more sensitive to the loading than the previous one.

koalakoala

I think you need more weight added