Whirlpool Duet - Washer Dryer Review

It's hard to believe everyone is talking about the same washer and dryer.  My problems with this pair are completely different.  My old large capacity Whirlpool washer and dryer held more clothes, washed a load in 30 minutes, extra 5 for extra rinse.  This washer takes 1 1/2 hours for one load with extra rinse!  The "finished" alarm goes off anytime during the cycle for a full minute, but not when it's actually finished.  If you try to stop the alarm during this point in the cycle, the whole cycle starts all over again for another hour and a half.  Then the clothes come out in a knot altogether after I had carefully put in one item at a time after shaking it out.  It took my husband and me to unknot 6 shirts with sleeves all twisted together.

The dryer takes so much longer also.  Instead of running awhile to determine how long the load will take to dry, it determines the length of the cycle immediately even though it is supposed to sense when it is dry.  It decided just 12 pairs of nylon panties takes 30 minutes when they were actually dry in less than 10.  The same for permanent press items - 50 minutes for the six no-iron shirts that came out a disasterous mess instead of perfect with my old dryer.  I tried the steam touch-up hoping it would correct this and it came out the same as it went in.  Everything has to be ironed now.  I can't stand over the dryer all day to manually check to see when the  clothes are dry since the dryer doesn't seem to know!

I washed 5 loads of wash today taking everything out the minute they were done and reloading and it took me 11 hours from start to finish!  Needless to say, this set is going back and I'm going back to an old-fashioned top loader.