Top Load vs Front Load Washer - Ultimate Washing Machine Showdown

Many people come to our showrooms asking the difference is between a front load washer and top load washer. We understand that It is hard to discern what type of washing machine is better for your household. In this video, we will help you decide if the top load or the front load washer is best for your home. Let's compare them both using these 8 important factors:

1. Ease of use
2. Cleanest result
3. Water efficiency
4. Wash speed
5. Effective spin cycle
6. Installation flexibility
7. Value and pricing
8. Smell and mold

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[TheBaz]

I have a midterm tomorrow and I'm watching a video on washing machines

[saucyfella]

Finally, this is the kind of content I expect from YouTube recommendations

[roli-]

You don’t want mold? LEAVE👏🏻THE👏🏻DOOR👏🏻OPEN👏🏻

[Hangglide]

Mold odor is a major defect of front load machine. I have a LG front load and I have to constantly clean the washer machine and if I don’t and leave my cloth inside for few hours, the cloth will smell like coming from sewer. Some people are not sensitive to sewer smile. But I cannot bear with it. So I have to re wash the cloth. I am fed up with front load machine now. I will throw it away and get back top loader soon. Top loader machine always delivers odor free cleaned cloth in the past. Btw thank you for your honest review in the end confirm mold is an issue with front loader.

[VeeSeven]

Never had a smell or mold issue with a front loader.
Keep the door open when not using. And my current one has a drum clean cycle that I do every now and then. Not sure if that qualifies as extra maintenance? I guess it is. But I only have to push a button. 🤷‍♂️

But yea, the main tip for anyone with a front loader is leave the door open when not using. 👍

[thelittleittybittypityshow]

Actually an informational, useful video with no clickbait or nonsense that drags on
👍🏻

[carlitosway]

I just watched this video so I am officially...an old person.

[murdyshouse]

I just purchased a front loader washer and dryer, after spending eleven years with my own top loaders. I can say I love the front loader, my clothes feel and smell so much cleaner, and my daughter loves watching our clothes dry.

[dragotized]

Finally, YouTube gives me a video that's important.

[notmimul]

got both.. prefer top loader. way more convenient, quieter and easier to maintain.

[realhawaiio]

FRONT LOAD! FRONT LOAD!
My family has been using front load for over 25 years and it hasn't let us down ever!

[Technerd]

I have a maytag top loading washer, very easy to maintain and have had it for about 9 years with barely any issues. It washes clothes very fast in my honest opinion. I think we only had to have a major fix on it once which involved one of the hoses to leak and the guy who did it for us said please take care of this unit as much as possible because it's one of the last good maytag top loaders out there.

[agannubgasi]

I have test tommorow at 8 am and i m still watching washing machine god bless me

[bonobonorman]

I had a 3rd option Swedish made "Electro-Helios" washing machine in the late 70's and it suited me perfectly. It was a top-loaded horizontal axis drum (like a front loader) and it suited me perfectly. It washed clean and fluff-free as all front-loaders do best, but you could always stop it simply by lifting the lid and add what ever was forgotten, like last-nite socks.
After opening the lid you rolled the drum by hand until you could open two "barn-doors" and chuck something inside. Then it could just keep going again. sadly I left it behind in Uppsala when moving to Australia, never to be seen again. That was ~50 years ago and many washers later I never had a better one...

[jamesw]

I have a number of engineering colleagues who have switched from top-loaders to front-loaders (and I'm talking top-of-the-range-ish machines), and literally every one of them says they wish they had their old top-loaders back. The universal complaint is that they simply don't wash the clothes as well, examples being jeans. I don't know anyone who has owned both that prefers front loading machines. Not to mention, I've always thought it violated common sense to cut a hole in the front of a water vessel...

[jojowondermonkey]

1:01 Front loaders distribute fabric softener better. 1:24 Top loaders evenly distribute detergent and softener... Suspect.

[cpuram]

I had a front loader for 12 years and fought with the mold smell through the years. I tried everything but never got rid of the smell. When it did go away it came back .got rid of it and am happy as can be with a toploader.oh and the water that I saved on frontloader would probably used back by rewaching many times

[GodCreations]

I chose top loader over front loader because of joints issue. And thank you for mentioning that top loaders are less likely to develop mold.

[whichwasher]

in europe and the UK, front load washer's are pritty much the only choice you have. but despite haveing them in our homes since the 60's. mould and mildue problems have only arised in the last 15 years. and allmost all of it is from the use of liquid and gel based detergents as well as encourageing to use the quick wash cycle which dose not dissolve the detergent.

[carolesmith]

Our washer bit the dust recently and when we went looking for a new one, I knew already that I wanted a top loader with an agitator. I have always had a top loader, so have never found any issues with them. I really like this new one we bought; it has a lot of extra features, plus it plays a little tune when you start it up.