In addition to saving an average of $50 per year on your energy and water bills, there are other benefits of ENERGY STAR clothes washers that may positively impact your lifestyle. These ENERGY STAR units should be considered time saving clothes washers, since their larger capacities allow you to do your laundry less frequently. Their forward thinking designs can also help your clothes last longer.
Save Time: Without a bulky agitator there is more usable space in the tub for laundry — especially larger items like comforters. More capacity also means fewer loads of laundry each week. Some agitator-free time saving clothes washers can wash over 20 pounds of laundry at once, compared to 10–15 pounds for a conventional top-loader.
Save Your Clothes: Instead of twisting and pulling clothes around a turning agitator, front-loaders and advanced top-loaders use sophisticated wash systems to flip or spin clothes through a reduced stream of water. The benefits of the ENERGY STAR clothes washer’s performance are that your clothes are treated more gently than by standard washers and emblems and fabric prints are not warped or pulled. This lengthens the life of often-washed items and leads to less lint in the dryer. Because they are so gentle, many models can safely clean silk, wool and other hand-washables.
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