Comments: Laundry Frustrations
September 28, 2008 08:29:02 AM posted by Auntie Elizabeth You are too funny, I am sorry for all the headaches lately! Soon enough you'll be able to clean at home and dry downtown again! Im sure that will be a pleasure. Can't wait for the new Post rant! DO ITALIANS REALLY EXSIST IN BRAZIL.... ?? Stay tuned! Love you!
September 27, 2008 07:47:55 PM posted by Nikki Blue Chris, Laura and Girls - Congratulations!!! Enzo is georgous. Can't wait to meet him. Love You All
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September 27th 2008
Laundry Frustrations
We have a washing machine in the apartment. They installed it new prior to our arrival. It seems like a fairly average model, and we could just be using it incorrectly. Yeah, I know, how on earth is THAT possible, but I at least give it the benefit of the doubt, but this thing makes our clothes dirtier not cleaner. We have to basically hand wash the items before placing them into the washer. The whole operation, on full mode takes forever, 3 cycles. They have two other settings, quicker mode, 2 cycles, and economic mode, 1 cycle. Then the rinse and spin. It is amazing how this unit functions. It does almost zero agitation. Combined with the hard water, the soap doesn't really do much of anything. The best is the lint and particle collector, hardly worth mentioning. You can tell that not a single German was involved with the design and operation of this machine. Sand, forget about it. If you put anything in there with sand, it will be all over all of your clothes. We shake everything out before hand, but the small amount of super fine sand is so light and almost floats, so it is left all over all the clothes and doesn't rinse down the drain. The drain, yeah, also a problem at each sink. The drain pipe is so tiny, that no large amount of water can drain quickly and efficiently, so after you pull your sandy clothes out of the washer, there is sand all over the inside of the washer. I usually dump water in there for hours on end to get the rest of the sand out for the second washing of the same clothes. Best is that the third time is a charm, well not really, but we usually figure that it is as clean as it will get. Things like towels or sheets are so heavy in the unit, that they come out just as you put them in. Not agitated, not turned, not moved, just wet, and usually dirtier than when they entered. I think we will investigate sending the laundry out, at least for the towels and sheets. We will have to figure out the costs and how that process works though. Our clothes washer seems to handle small items well, like girls shirts, shorts and underwear. Larger items like my shorts, underwear and t-shirts, it is hit or miss if they are clean afterward, but they will no doubt be covered in lint. Which you would normally not notice if you had a clothes dryer that would collect all that link, but here, we can only line/rack dry. Aren't there any Germans in Brazil? I know there must be. Aren't German engineered products sold here? I am sure they are, I see VW cars all over the place, and nice ones too. Be on the look out for my post about there must not be Italians in Brazil, despite Brazil having the second largest Italian population out of Italy.
Abby @ 4 years, 9 months, 12 days
Zoë @ 4 years, 9 months, 12 days
Enzo @ 3 days
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