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Water heating not mentioned[edit]

In Europe all washers I have seen take in cold water and heats it using electricity. In the Americas all washers I have seen take in both cold and hot water and use electricity only for agitation. I think this should be mentioned. 74.164.41.7 (talk) 14:56, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

That's a fairly modern change in Europe. Until the '90s, hot and cold fill was fairly common, and it's still around. It ceased when the emphasis began on low temperature detergents and low water volume cycles.

Dishwashers (non industrial) have nearly always been cold fill only in Europe, as they ran at higher temperatutres than domestic HW and so needed to heat it anyway. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:15, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

My (UK-bought) LG - about 20 years old – has hot and cold fill but as far as I can tell only uses the hot for the highest temperature programmes. Which I've only used about twice. Mr Larrington (talk) 23:06, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

modern washers - sanyo[edit]

theres a problem in this sentence: "In 2006, Sanyo introduced the "world-first" (as of February 2, 2006, with regards to home use drum-type washer/dryer) drum type washing machine with "Air Wash" function (i.e.: using ozone as disinfectant). It also reused and disinfected rinse water" the problem is one of the style used: it reeks of commercials' weasel worded and (in commercials) deliberate limited scope of statements, i.e.: World-first is used in the advertisment with explanation "*:as of February 2, 2006, with regards to home use drum-type washer/dryer" which alleviates responsibility from the advertiser without further elaborating what kind of "firstness" is meant - it could be by sales numbers, or by some unrevealed consumers' survey or anything else, what it lcearly does not mean is being simply first as in laymans' terms meant by first occasion of using a technology. Also "air- wash" is a buzz word, without a fixed meaning outside the advertisments text, therefore it would be better to not use it at all in the encyclopedia, instead the explanation given in the ad e.g: disinfect the clothes with ozone should be used, however the technicalities would be welcome in an encyclopedical article even though they are understandibly not included in the advertisment - this is another argument against relaying on advertisments when collecting data for an encyclopedia. what i did - corrected the unresponsible and misinterpreted use of the source by putting "world-first" as used in the source and adding "ozone" as used in the source to the "air wash" buzzword, but even a text conscious use of the source is not really a good solution because the source itself is not fit for use in an encyclopedia, however since finding good source material is beyond my personal limit, i did not replace the source for the article. if theres an editor capable of doing so, it would be highly recommended however. imho. 89.134.199.32 (talk) 16:05, 16 December 2018 (UTC).

also "This washing machine uses only 50 L (11.0 imp gal; 13.2 US gal) of water in the recycle mode. " is a useless sleight of hand played with uncomparable numbers until there is a comparison for all (or at least most) other washing maschines on the same feature. 89.134.199.32 (talk) 16:10, 16 December 2018 (UTC).

Modern machines section is very badly written[edit]

I've added an "additional features" section under Modern Machines, but the entire section is really just an unreadable laundry list of features and advertising. I'm considering deleting the entire section or moving it to a new article which can serve as a repository where people can list various marketing gimmicks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moosesheppy (talk • contribs) 07:31, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

"Pre wash" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Pre wash. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Leyo 12:15, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Cleanup of duplication[edit]

The "Washing by hand" section at the top is OK, but there is no excuse for these:

Washing by machine
Wringing by machine
Combined processes

They simply cover content better done in the following "History" section. Unless someone has a really good argument why I should not, I will be doing a brutal cleanup shortly. -Snori (talk) 21:39, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Anh Duc Wiki -3

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