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I just purchased a JLWM1407 from Jon Lewis. The cotton wash takes almost 3 hours which is twice as long as our old machine, but this can be sped up by reducing the time. The guy who fitted the machine told me that speeding up the time uses more energy and adds to the wear and tare on the machine. I want to know if these savings in energy and harmful impact on the machine are significant. I have also been told that it is okay to do cottons on 30 degrees rather than 40 as modern detergents are designed to work at lower temperatures or maybe even do all washes cold which sounds very radical; is this correct? To do at 30 would save energy and it would also reduce the time by about half an hour, although lower temperatures would not save more time than that. What would people recommend?
Probably best to read this that I hope explains it for you:
https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/buying-advice/washing-machine/2912-wash-times-quick-washes
K.
Many thanks. A helpful article. However it explains why this has become the norm but does not say if the energy savings are significant or whether running at faster times can damage the machine in the long term. Also it does not touch on the issue of whether colder washes are okay and how cold you can go.
The jury is out on that and it’s a moot point as consumer pressure for low energy use and pressure from governments to reduce energy use in the round means, it’s a fact of life now and we all just have to live with it.
Running longer will obviously increase wear and tear but, to calculate that and the early demise of machines against potential savings is way more complex than the average Joe in the street would ever consider or, likely want to.
Cold washes, there’s stuff about that in detergent use and bluntly put, I’d never use anything under 40˚C which probably won’t be that these days in a bid to save energy, it’ll be in the 30’s most likely. As, what you see, ain’t what you get.
K.
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