Is there any bad sides to buying a washing machine with a large load capacity ?

[chaparral]

Is there any bad sides to buying a washing machine that has a 12kg max load capacity and using it mostly with around 6kg loads ??

This is the washing machine I been thinking of buying
http://www.lg.com/uk/washer-dryers/lg-F1495BDS-white-washing-machine

 

[chaparral]

Seems a bit Kwerk-y to do that.

I like the idea of having the large load capacity for when washing things like kingsize bedding,curtains ,jackets,my large motorbike cover, etc

 

[chaparral]

Well, I guess it depends on how limiting those programmes are. If they are the sort of programmes you'd use when washing the larger items cited above, I can still see the use in it

Taken from the LG book..

Programmes
Bed Cover / Bulky / Duvet

This wash enables you to wash heavy fabrics like bed covers and curtains

 

[chaparral]

I presume by downside you're refering to energy consumption/wastage?

Just wondering if there any downsizes at all when putting small loads like you would normally put in a 6kg washing machine...


As I would only be washing large stuff like bedding etc a few times a month..
And maining using it for the smaller normally loads two or three times a day..

 

[chaparral]

An really not impressed after looking at the max loads for each program from the LG 12kg washing machine

Screenshot below taken from the owner manual of this LG 12KG washing machine
http://www.lg.com/uk/washer-dryers/lg-F1495BDS-white-washing-machine

 

[chaparral]

We bought one of the large capacity Samsung machines a few weeks back. If you look at the instructions, you're only supposed to load it up to its maximum weight capacity on certain programmes.

I just looked at the instructions for the 12kg Samsung washing machine

 

[chaparral]

It is a washer dryer, the load capacity quoted will be the drying capacity, not the wash capacity.

The very nature of a washer dryer means you can't dry as much as you can wash.

I would only ever recommend a washer dryer if you don't have the room for separate machines.

Both of them ones I quoted are washing machines only...

They don't make a 12kg washer dryer..( of what I know of or seen)

 

[chaparral]

Standard width on a machine is 600mm & has been since the year dot,

These high kg machines are much longer (640cm) where my hotpoint 7kg washing machine is only about 50cm long

 

[chaparral]

This is the washing machine I been thinking of buying
http://www.lg.com/uk/washer-dryers/lg-F1495BDS-white-washing-machine

I did end up buying this washing machine and I been really impressed with it so far....