Don’t overload it, as you will only shorten its life
If you overload your washing machine’s drum, it will lead to less than perfect wash results, and might in fact damage your machine. Washing machines are made to wash a specific weight of clothes.
While it’s true that the type of laundry might vary, you can usually wash more cotton, such as bedsheets, rather than synthetics, like a gym kit.
There are many modern machines that won’t let function properly when you overload them. The machine won’t work if there’s too much in the drum, or even too much for the wash program that you’ve just selected.
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TK Smith there is no miners at the bottom of the page and a arrow press the arrow and it will let you keep reading the story for washing
Where did they say that mixing colors & whites will ruin your washer? They didn’t say that did they? I only saw read about how mixing colors with whites can change the colors of your clothes (which is a given) -not damage your washer. I didn’t even see where they said it would damage your washer, so why would you sat that?
This was more of a laundry lesson. Many good points though, some about the machine and some about what is washed.
But that’s the title of the article.
Depends on a front loader or a top loader. I have a top loader and I have never found it to have to
be cleaned out. My top loader has a cycle to clean the machine. Like you all said. It seems the
manufacturer has some opinions that don’t fit the narrative that they are pointing out. One size doesn’t fit all.
Some of us are not rich enough to have a new washing machine. I am still using 1 from 1974 and it works just fine I don’t need all those fancy buttons and programs. This machine has never failed to get my laundry clean!
Amen, sister! Not everyone in this country is of the super-consumer class! 🙂
certainly fail to see how mixing white and colored laundry in the same load would in any way damage a clothes washing machine…..
as you point out, could turn the whites grey, but as for damaging the machine in some way—-makes no sense