I say rotary. My machine has a 30 minutes wash,that is used most of the time. My neighbours machine has a 15 minute wash.
Mine has a 15 min wash … but it’s only really suitable for items that’ve been worn just the once for a short while … but there are other short and low temp washes in the options.
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My washing machine has any number of settings, but I use the 30 minute 30 degree wash for nearly everything, even my gardening clothes. As long as it's not overfilled it cleans them well. I also ignore the recommended washing powder amounts. I put less in the scoop than is recommended then don't empty the scoop, but throw a bit back in the box!
We wash almost everything at 20degrees … but every so often we do a hot wash tor tea towels to keep them hygienic and to give the washing machine innards a good ‘flush through’ with hot water to prevent the build up of detergent and black gunge in the pipes.
Even tho we use Ecover and Calgon liquid in every wash claggy gunge still builds up if we dont do a hot wash every so often.
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Yes, I do this occasionally, a hot wash for tea towels, for the same reason, Dove -- also, I don't want the machine to forget that I have any number of options!
Remind it who’s in charge @Woodgreen … yesterday ours took it upon itself to try to walk across the kitchen by itself just because it had managed to spin a load of towels 🙄
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Love the reports of washing machines taking walks round the kitchen! My mum had a second hand machine when I was a child. Big metal tub in pale green, with legs like scaffolding, and an exposed motor on the side that ran a belt to the churny thingy in the tub ( agitator?) Highly dangerous, and it used to rhythmically sashay itself across the room. It finally disgraced itself by cutting through its own power lead, and was got rid of. I don’t have a washing line or outside dryer. I use the tumble dryer a lot, and dry shirts etc on hangers on a line in the utility room and socks on an ‘octopus’ in the airing cupboard. I used to have a rotary line in the garden, but there are very few areas with either sun or breeze, so I gave up. As of yesterday, I now have no washing machine. Hope I can get a replacement easily and quickly.
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Rotary clothes line v whirly.
I rest my case m'lud.....
I think the vast majority of folk in Scotland say whirly.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I also ignore the recommended washing powder amounts. I put less in the scoop than is recommended then don't empty the scoop, but throw a bit back in the box!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don’t have a washing line or outside dryer. I use the tumble dryer a lot, and dry shirts etc on hangers on a line in the utility room and socks on an ‘octopus’ in the airing cupboard. I used to have a rotary line in the garden, but there are very few areas with either sun or breeze, so I gave up.
As of yesterday, I now have no washing machine. Hope I can get a replacement easily and quickly.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.