The LG heat pump, wash tower and the profile ultra fast
combo are the industry's most innovative and interesting appliances.
In this video, you'll learn both features,
problems and comparisons between the wash tower and the ultra fast,
including wash and dry times for identical loads of whites, colors and bedding.
Stay to the end to learn the biggest
problem for both and how to save seven dollars on each
with one little trick no one else will tell you about.
So let's get started.
The flagship feature of the GE UltraFast is
the ability for you to put in your clothes in dirty and they come out clean and dry.
The UltraFast also uses 120 volt power
and is ventless, meaning you can put this anywhere with a water supply and drain.
The heat pump dryer is more efficient,
gentler in your clothes, but takes longer to dry.
Our tests use 2-3 hours total for wash and dry.
We'll get into greater detail later in the video.
Then you have GE's other benefits like a 32
load automatic dispenser,
so the machine calculates the right amount of detergent in the right time
to dispense, as well as micro band surfaces to resist mold.
The washout was the best appliance introduced in 2020.
They recently added their 220 volt ventless heat pump model as well,
the WKHC202HBA to line up with three other vented models.
LG's front-load washers excel in sizes,
cycles, reliability, and smart connectivity.
When the washout was first introduced, the middle controls were benefit instead
of reaching for the drier controls when stacked.
But the size, specifically depth, is also an advantage.
Wash towels at least one and a half to three inches slimmer than competitive
models, making them ideal for tight closets.
It's still one of the most sophisticated with AI direct drive programming.
The wash uses sensors and 11,000 data points to calculate the cycle based
on weight, clothing type, and soil level for the perfect wash.
Smart learner feature remembers your
favorite cycles and you just press a button.
You also have their Turbo 360 technology using five high pressure hoses
in the front to reduce cycle times just 30 minutes.
LG stands out with stellar reliability, boasting a mere 2.1 reliability rate
in the first year compared to the industry average of 9.5% for appliance is based
on over 34,000 service calls logged by our service team just last year.
Now, the price is somewhere at $2,749 for the wash tower and $2,799 for the GE.
You can buy both under $2,000.
We will tell you how to get that sale price later in the video.
The capacity is somewhere at 4.5 cubic for the LG and 4.8 cubic for the profile.
The spin RPM of the washers is the same at 1,300 RPM, so it'll spin drier.
After that, the completely different.
LG's AIDD technology is more fully
featured in the profile, yet the ultrafast as a dispenser,
profile has better mold control with micro band surfaces.
Plus the drying cycle will eliminate most of the moisture as well.
The biggest difference is GE uses 120, while LG has the traditional 240 volt,
making GE easier to place everywhere, while LG will be faster.
But let's see in the comparison.
For colors, the wash tower used less time at an hour 34 minutes,
split at 32 minutes for the wash and 62 minutes for the dry versus two hours
and 51 minutes for the combined washing and drying for the ultra fast.
We'll get into the significance of that split a bit later.
For whites, the wash tower is 36 minutes
in the wash and 70 minutes to dry for a total of 1 hour and 54 minutes
versus 2 hours and 48 minutes for the ultra fast.
Bedding was strange because it was the opposite, the wash tower wash was 65
minutes for a wash with a whopping 3 hours and 20 minutes for the drying for a total
of 4 hours and 25 minutes versus just 2 hours and 8 minutes for the ultra fast.
However, the bedding was much drier than the mostly dry ultra fast.
The comfort was the same story.
The wash tower was 3 hours and 48 hours
and 47 minutes combined against the ultra fast at 2 hours and 1 minute.
Again, the comfort was completely dry versus mostly dry for the ultra fast.
You would expect the 240 volt dryer to be
faster and the wash tower is on whites and color significantly.
However, the bedding is much slower.
Call the LG and having a hurt back,
but it must be the sensors sensing the dry and not shutting off the machine
until that certain level of dryness has been reached.
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Based on washing whites and colors, the wash tower is the better performer
because it is faster with a shorter wash cycle.
You can have another wash started
and completed while the ultra fast is still washing and drying the same load.
For bedding, the ultra fast is better,
but you're washing more colors and whites more often.
But which you pick has a lot to do with the way you do laundry.
If you want to do laundry before you go
to bed at night and before you go to the office in the morning or have
the habit of forgetting like me and not transferring the laundry from the wash
to the dry, then the ultra fast is a good option.
For the small minority people who don't
have enough power in their units, the 120 volt ultra fast is a godsend.
You have full sized laundry while using just over 11 Amps.
Both are innovative and both are risky.
Both the wash towel and UltraFast are
large heat pumps and are new to the market and unproven.
However, heat pump technology has been around since the 1990s.
The UltraFast adds the complexity
of the combination washing and drying, which is notorious for not removing lint,
which ends up causing an expensive future service call.
They did add the double sided filter next to the hinting, and although both did
perform well in our test, we have no long term idea of reliability.
But what we have no idea of reliability in the long term?
In the short term, you could save more than 700 on either
machine by buying on a holiday, specifically presence day
or Memorial Day ann July fourth, which are now one six week holiday.
You have Labor Day, Tax Holiday, and Black Friday,
which last year stretched from Halloween to Christmas Eve.
What do you think?
The convenience of the ultrafast or the ability to wash more in the washtower?
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