These common mistakes may be affecting your clothes and machine.
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Struggling with your top-loading washer?
You could be loading it incorrectly.
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Underfilling or incorrectly placing clothing in the drum is another top-loadinglaundry mistake.
Your laundry deserves better.
Here’s everything you should know about how to load a top-loading washing machine.
To determine load size when selecting a wash cycle, choose “medium” if the drum is half-full.
Choose “large” if the drum is three-quarters full.
Here are a few guidelines on how to sort it.
However, some washing machines don’t have a detergent dispenser.
In washers like this, detergent should be added directly to the drum, before any clothes go in.
Most top-loading washing machines have slots for fabric softener orbleach.
These cleaning agents should always go into their designated spots.
This ensures that detergent is evenly spread across all the laundry in the drum.
While top loaders use more water than front-loading machines, they still clean pretty well with lessrather than morewater.
