What's the best? Top or front loader?

What's the best? Top or front loader?

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Top load is more comfortable to work with. Don't know if there's any cons.

Harsh on fabrics

The agitator in a top load takes up space and can get things twisted around it. Front load or die.

Only ever seen front in Germany. I've seen top in Japan though.

>have front-load washer
>occasionally knots clothes up into a big ball, unbalances itself, and then stops and beeps annoyingly till you go untangle things and restart it
>replace it with a top-load washer
>occasionally knots clothes up into a big ball, unbalances itself, and then stops and beeps annoyingly till you go untangle things and restart it

the lesson here is that washers are shitty hunks of junk, and you just get to choose which flavor of shit you prefer

Front load because you can place a dryer on top and shit.

Never even once heard of that problem.

front load
takes way more weight and isn't fuckin gay
murica is getting front all over I've had one for ~15 years

front: you can stack them

this

Top load is much more reliable. There's a reason why commercial washers tend to be top loaders.

Every new machine I've seen has been front.

Common in the UK too.
I do my running shoes on them on a light wash and it's awesome. Top loaders wreck them, I've read

Every apartment complex/laundromat I've seen have been front load.

This. In Europe literally everyone has a front loader. I lived in the US for a while which has top loaders (like most second world countries) and literally 1/3 times some pullover would end up with the sleeve around the middle and stretched 500 times around it. Fucking savages

Lesson here is learn how to use it.

Same here. Come to think of it, I don't think I've seen a single top-loader (home or commercial) in person in all of my life.
Not one.

Front load.

Gravity works to its advantage, as clothes are constantly tossed around and fall to the bottom, especially on a spin cycle.

With top load washers, the only force at play is the centripetal force created by the spinning, so what commonly happens is that clumps of clothes get bunched up in one section, and as the basket spins faster, it shakes pretty violently.

Front loaders also generally need less water, from what I've found.

>having limited space

Top load all the way because of reliability. Front loaders always have issues over time.

A new top loader will last you a long ass time.

Why do top loaders even have the middle thing?
Why can't they just look like front loaders except tipped over?

>using a Washing machine.

Just let it go user, you live alone, just wash your clothes by hand, I'm pretty sure you only have one shirt and pant anyways.

>Front loaders always have issues over time.
>American engineering

>From Europe
>Calls US a second world country

Is this the new Sup Forums bait thread? Forget OSX vs Windows, iOS vs Android, PC vs Consoles, AMD vs NVIDIA.
Having said that

>Owns top loader
ffs user kys

Is it true that front load washers tend to experience mold problems more than top loaders?

>Every apartment complex/laundromat I've seen have been front load.

Well duh, front loaders mean more money for them by having more machines and apartments save space.

Commercial washing machines for professional uses are top load because they are more effective and more reliable.

OP needs to get a Speed Queen top loader. Best washer ever.

what about when it starts spinning? won't the constant vibration fuck up your dryer?

Let me tell you about sockets. Pic related: The one and only relevant 21st century socket.

see my comment here: Front loaded washers use gravity as the "agitator". Top loaders can't take advantage of that, since they clothes already just sit at the bottom. Thus, they need the spiral in the middle to agitate the clothes and clean them more effectively.

>In Europe literally everyone has a front loader.

That's strictly because of their gay as fuck green standards.

>literally 1/3 times some pullover would end up with the sleeve around the middle and stretched 500 times around it. Fucking savages

Never happened to me. My top loader always washes perfectly.

Of course Top. If you forgot to put some underwear or t-shirt you can always open it and throw this shit there.
With front loader you can't do this.

>Commercial washing machines for professional uses are top load because they are more effective and more reliable.
Posts statistics or stop the meming.

>won't the constant vibration fuck up your dryer?
A front loading dryer spins around exactly like a washing machine.
I mean at a quick glance they look identical.
Pretty sure it can handle its neighbor's vibrations.

Master race coming through. Best of both worlds.

>With top load washers, the only force at play is the centripetal force created by the spinning, so what commonly happens is that clumps of clothes get bunched up in one section, and as the basket spins faster, it shakes pretty violently.

Only if you load it like a retard. You're supposed to load it evenly all around and not put so few clothes in.

fucking washing machine hipster

front load requires shitty gaskets

I've had the same top load maytag washer for the past 20 years and it still works just fine

What's the advantage of this…

The real question

Even if it was not there, it would never "hurl" your laundry, just spins it around without really moving it

I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs was super fucking anal about what kind of washing machine he used. He ended up importing some machine from either Germany or Italy because he hated the American machines.

>Is it true that front load washers tend to experience mold problems more than top loaders?

Yes. They always need to be maintained because of this.

Sorry I don't have a PhD in top loaders.

Easy to say, but the reality is that the agitator can occasionally cause clothes to become bunched up, as can the back and forth motion of the machine itself.

Listen bud, I'm not here to take part in the flamewar you guys seem to want. Just offering observations.

This is a pretty decent article on the differences between the two (three, really).

goodhousekeeping.com/institute/a24026/types-of-washing-machines/

>For Americans not having to bend over one more time a week is a life changing situations

You don't need a fucking PhD in top loaders to have the common fucking sense instilled into you when you were single-digits years old when your parents taught you how to do laundry.

>more money for them by having more machines

because laundry rooms are always operating at 100% capacity and people are incapable of waiting for an open machine?

My dad had a PhD in front loaders.

I wish we could standardize that as the global socket
15A NEMA plugs are all terrible

Thank you, I'll have to keep that in mind.

>green standards
so front loaders are more efficient too?

>top loader for reliability
>has advantages of side loader for washing

Frontload is for poorfags who live in their $400/sqft manhattan apartment and drink their $5 lattes at starfags.

Meanwhile, PROUD AMERICANS wash FREEDOM SIZE LOADS in TOP LOADING WASHERS. Don't be a commie. Get a top loading AMERICAN washer.

Why though, nigga always wore the same fucking clothes.

all I see is a front loader with more moving parts to fail

>Frontload is for poorfags
That's funny because front loaders are generally more expensive.

>PROUD AMERICANS wash FREEDOM SIZE LOADS
This is also funny because front loaders usually take bigger loads since they don't have an agitator.

Front loaders were created strictly to save water due to emerging environmental standards. That's why you see so much propaganda from corporate news sites claiming they are better, but when you actually use both and look at washer repair sites and forums, the best washers today are the recent high efficiency top loaders.

Because your clothes don't fit in a normal size washing machine

wired.com/1996/02/jobs-2/

It's an article from '96, and the part subtitled "Is there anything well designed today that inspires you?", Jobs talks all about his washing machine.

stack what? oh, is this literally botswana where your washer doesn't dry too?

>(((save water)))

>because laundry rooms are always operating at 100% capacity and people are incapable of waiting for an open machine?

Big cities always have this problem.

>so front loaders are more efficient too?

Not anymore due to the new high efficiency top loaders.

Front loaders were designed for the new green movement standards. Less water and less space for people in little apartments and tiny houses. That's literally the only reason they were made, because some green faggot bureaucrats demanded that appliances use less water.

not if you leave the door open after washing

>>Not anymore due to the new high efficiency top loaders.
Are you some kind of top loader shill?

Learn your place

Which most people don't because it swings out and gets in people's way.

Also, whenever you look at the maintenance advice for a front loader, they tell you to clean the ring to make sure the mildew doesnt build up.

Also the locking mechanism on front loaders tend to break unless you spring for a more expensive one.

Top loaders just make more sense. They have none of the problems these shitty green front loaders have, cost less and use nearly the same amount of water.

Disgusting 19th century-tier socket.

not the machine's fault that people are stupid

Seal goes out after time, water everywhere, not an issue with a top load.

I have a shitty $200 washer, I was blankets and towels and coats, never had something wrap around agitator in all my washer history...

youtube.com/watch?v=VBZP7zpVwUo
Some do. Not all have the stick in the middle.

>This exists in the current year
Things like this is why you lost the opium wars xiao ming

>Seal goes out after time, water everywhere, not an issue with a top load.
Sad!

- front load can take loads as big as OP does
-front load needs less water
-front load does not tangle your laundry
-front load automatically balances
>just balance the load evenly around a top loader
Why, when I can just toss it in something that will do the same thing with less problems?

Top load is the win10 of appliances.

>Also the locking mechanism on front loaders tend to break unless you spring for a more expensive one.

Fucking this. The lock broke on mine and I couldn't wash clothes at all. The repair guy was going to charge me like 300 bucks so I told him to fuck off and I got an HE top loader instead.

>Current year
>His socket is not IP66

never seen a bad seal
>it doesn't work as good when you buy the cheapest model

Elevated front load:

No bending over

>The lock broke on mine
how did it break?

>American engineering
>samsung known to have this problem
But everything's AALLWAAAYYS The Americans with you morons.

>Chink engineering

>samsung
>Americans
Looks like it's true, you yurops really are retarded.

Oh, what happened to American engineering all of a sudden, hm? I thought this was about Americans. Or, maybe, just maybe, you're wrong and an idiot euro

>samsung washer
really dude? that's like buying a car made by mcdonalds

Mad American going low on insulin. Sad.

This

>I don't even think about you.jpg

Can I buy a single machine that washes and dries your clothes that's good?

Can't put a shelf above it

Is there a reason your sockets have to look like you?

Wife 1970. Don't fall for the 1990s edition.

lesson here is that you always bought cheap shit
buy a decent washer

>Front loads break down too often and too easy >Front load repair costs are disgusting
>Front loads can't fit all my clothes at once
Fronts loads are complete shit. When I buy an appliance I want something that works, lasts for fucking ever. These things seem like they are designed to fail to make you buy more washers.

Ask Schneider famalam, they did this

lemme guess, you bought a samsung one?

like saying loonigs is weak and underpowered because you regret buying a chromebook

>implying

you're probably putting clothes inside in some weird way, this hasn't happened to me in ages, only exception are duvet covers without zippers/buttons that tend to eat everything else

(protip: if you put 2 duvet covers into a washing machine at once and afterwards check which one gets eaten, you can determine their gender)

It just broke one day, had a red light showing me it wouldn't lock and i needed a new front locking assembly for it.

The HE top loader has been working great for over a year now. I just do a simple bleach cycle every 2-3 months to make sure it stays clean.

Do not buy "narrow" front loaders, anything less than 50cm deep is garbage.