philmountains wrote on Jun 8^th, 2011 at 8:17am:

Thanks boys for the links,how much washing can one of these do :-? like a pair of jeans , boiler suite etc.... thanks again Phil

Mine does about a weeks worth of washing. Not all in one go - I wash all the whites first, then the coloured stuff then the jeans. I know the dyes in most modern fabrics don't run these days, but they still do for the jeans and I don't like to chance it.

I'll  wash two or three pairs of jeans at a time. I could put the whole weeks washing in my machine in one go  but then I'd have colours running. Total wash time for three loads as above  is less than 3/4 hour (I could do three loads in less than 1/4 hour)  both of which are even faster than your automatics and cheap to run. The length of time for each wash is set by you on a timer like on the old hoover/hotpoint machines.

T shirts are the only things that are a problem in as much as they sometimes twist out of shape in the spinner so go easy on them (very very short spin and hang out).

I would definitely get one if you have limited water supplies.

John