We had no clue when the washing machine would actually get here, which of course means that we went to the laundromat the day before it got here and washed all our clothes. So even though I've had the washing machine for a week now, I've really just started playing with it. There are tons of washing options; cotton, linens, synthetics, mix, hygiene, ultra silence, babycare, comforter, sport, darks, quick wash, delicate, and extra dirty. On top of that there are also functions for each option; turbo wash, soak, extra rinse, extra soiled (I wonder how clean things would look if I used option extra dirty with function extra soiled!), extra rinse with soak, anti-wrinkle, and delayed start. Phew!
We got an 8 kg (17.5 lb) drum to fit plenty of clothes in, but have since found out that only cotton and linens allow you to use it up to 8 kgs. The rest are anywhere from only 1.5 kgs to 4.5 kgs. Delicate are 1.5 which is troublesome. I wash all our sweaters and a lot of my shirts in delicate which means I can only fit about 4 or 5 sweaters in at a time. Yesterday I tried the delicate mode and it unfortunately didn't get the deodorant marks out, maybe next time I'll try it with a soak or extra rinse, or both.
Besides the one load of delicates, I had tried cotton for everything else but it took 96 minutes! So today I tried linens instead, and it's 221 minutes! That's almost 4 hours! Upon looking it up, the linen option boasts less energy consumption by using less water and less kWh at 35L of water and 0.43 kWh. I don't understand how they can get away with saying it is less consumptive considering the cotton option is 0.72 kWh but at 96 minutes, actually costs 43 cents less per load! Maybe in some areas of France water consumption is monitored and limited, similar to when the US has droughts? I don't know, but needless to say I won't be using the linen option anymore. I had hoped to do the wash early enough to get two loads today, but obviously that won't happen now!
I'm trying to get everything washed now because on Friday our crate from America is arriving! Yay a real bed and couch! And a million other important things, but those are definitely the two things I miss most. So I wanted to wash all the clothes, pack them back into the suitcases, and put the suitcases in our storage room in the basement. That way, the bedroom floor, which is currently being used as a wardrobe, will be clear for all the furniture to come in. I'm so excited!
I'll try to post extra the next few days because you probably won't here from us all weekend while we set everything up the way we want. But then I'll finally take pictures of the apartment!
We got an 8 kg (17.5 lb) drum to fit plenty of clothes in, but have since found out that only cotton and linens allow you to use it up to 8 kgs. The rest are anywhere from only 1.5 kgs to 4.5 kgs. Delicate are 1.5 which is troublesome. I wash all our sweaters and a lot of my shirts in delicate which means I can only fit about 4 or 5 sweaters in at a time. Yesterday I tried the delicate mode and it unfortunately didn't get the deodorant marks out, maybe next time I'll try it with a soak or extra rinse, or both.
Besides the one load of delicates, I had tried cotton for everything else but it took 96 minutes! So today I tried linens instead, and it's 221 minutes! That's almost 4 hours! Upon looking it up, the linen option boasts less energy consumption by using less water and less kWh at 35L of water and 0.43 kWh. I don't understand how they can get away with saying it is less consumptive considering the cotton option is 0.72 kWh but at 96 minutes, actually costs 43 cents less per load! Maybe in some areas of France water consumption is monitored and limited, similar to when the US has droughts? I don't know, but needless to say I won't be using the linen option anymore. I had hoped to do the wash early enough to get two loads today, but obviously that won't happen now!
I'm trying to get everything washed now because on Friday our crate from America is arriving! Yay a real bed and couch! And a million other important things, but those are definitely the two things I miss most. So I wanted to wash all the clothes, pack them back into the suitcases, and put the suitcases in our storage room in the basement. That way, the bedroom floor, which is currently being used as a wardrobe, will be clear for all the furniture to come in. I'm so excited!
I'll try to post extra the next few days because you probably won't here from us all weekend while we set everything up the way we want. But then I'll finally take pictures of the apartment!