LG - 4.1 Cu. Ft. 8-Cycle High-Efficiency Top-Loading Washer - White
Average Customer Rating:
4.2
Rating breakdown1,875 reviews
5 Stars
1,299
4 Stars
194
3 Stars
56
2 Stars
56
1 Star
270
81%of customers recommend this product.
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Customer Reviews for LG - 4.1 Cu. Ft. 8-Cycle High-Efficiency Top-Loading Washer - White
Customer Rating
5
Love my new LG Washer
on June 14, 2015
Posted by: Super Sue
from Austin, TX, USA
If you read the manual, all goes smoothly. This high efficiency machine is radically different from the old agitator models of years past. At first, I found it hard to believe that the clothes would actually get clean in the small amount of water used, but they did. I spent a lot of time watching the process, but after a month I trust everything to work as it should.
Pros: Performance, easy to use, Features/Settings, Quality
This LG washing machine is the greatest washing machine I have ever owned. It is efficient - laundry comes out professionally cleaned - uses very little detergent - and uses only the amount of water necessary for the load. The only draw back is that, being a short-statured woman, I can't reach the bottom of the machine to get my clothes out. I have to use my handy-dandy grabber to take the clothes left on the bottom. However, I wouldn't change it for another machine. Absolutely love it!
Pros: Style/Design, easy to use, Features/Settings, Quality
Washer brings the simple operation without the vibration of a normal washer. Only negative comment is the noise from the water pump during washing cycle.
So far I have not had any problems with my machine and I am pleased with the purchase I made. I bought the set about 4 months ago. As long as you read the instructions and follow them you can't go wrong.
This has been a good washer overall. I find the length of the cycles to be a little too long. You can't wash several loads after work unless you plan on staying up late waiting on it to finish. The clothes do get clean and it is fairly quiet. There are lots of options yet I still haven't figured out how to program all of them or what they mean. You also need to use High Efficiency detergent which I didn't realize until after the purchase.
I purchased this washer because it was Consumer Reports top rated machine. I have had issues with it from the beginning.
Because it uses less water (like most newer models), the water barely covers the items being washed (if at all) so it doesn't seem as though the clothes get clean. I washed a load of clothes containing a pair of baseball pants - everything in the load came out with an orange tint from the dirt on the pants. I've been washing baseball pants for over 10 years and never had this problem. To avoid this problem, I know have run an entire wash cycle for a single pair of pants.
Unless the load of laundry is very small, the unbalanced load detector detects an unbalanced load nearly every time; meaning that the machine is constantly refilling with water to rebalance the load and I have to manually redistribute the load often. A normal run cycle for a load of laundry averages 2 - 2 1/2 hours.
This machince cannot possibly be energy efficient with all of the extra cycle time involved.
We have an LG glass top range, and when my agitator machine finally needed replacing I purchased this but felt it was far too technically oriented for this baby boomer. Bring me back my old wringer washer. But seriously. Even after the delivery men set it up and gave the instructions, I was very wary. I was glad to have the clear window to watch the first several loads. I was/am amazed at this technology! It was easier than I first expected to figure out the settings. It was a matter of reading the manual for what setting to use for each load. That was it, honestly, my clothes are cleaner, noticably, by even my husband! And whose husband comments on how clean his clothes are? We are using less water, and now the drying time is less than half of what it used to be. That is worth more than almost having clean clothes!