hello I am Wanderer001 and this is my review of the GE high
efficiency washer letters and number fruit salad model number will be in the
description and title which is probably how you found this video sadly with
filming washing machines they generally tend to be in dark places and lights
don't fit in here too well so I'm going to do my best to to film an overall
review of this particular high-efficiency GE top loading washer
now my wife and I had to get a new washer ours finally died we were looking
for washers we had particular things that we were looking for this met most
of them but not all of them primarily we were looking for a top loading washer
because well we've got doors here that would prevent us from having a
front-loading washer and we were looking for one that had an agitator which is
the thing in here that sticks up and moves around for those that might not
know but a lot of the high-efficiency washers do not have agitators anymore
and if you can get it it's a special add-on I kind of didn't like the glass
top here at first but it kind of makes it interesting so you can keep track of
things it's just I tend to drop things on top of my washing machine if you can
tell over there from my dryer so glass top see-through not terrible but not
something I was looking at here you have they have a 90 degree angled door which
kind of rests nicely on my shelving their interior look you are looking at a
4.6 and echoey cubic feet drum stainless on the sides here you can see your
Impaler this is what they call that thing there instead of your agitator now
you can get quite a bit in this even compared to my older washing machine
which I really like I got used to the fact that it
do not have a because I can pop clothing in there a little easier but because
it's a high efficiency and lacks the the impaler you do have to be a little
careful how you put things in here because if things get off-balance
they really get off balance
so there is a certain way that you'll have to kind of
get used to putting your clothing in here to avoid having things get off
balance really badly coming across here you've got your bleach dispenser over
here and we'll come down here you've got a detergent / softener now this is not a
full dispenser and you can see it does kind of keep water in there it does come
out very easily so this is one load per time this is not loaded up and then it
will dispense over time you do have to fill this every time now the benefit of
placing it in here as opposed to directly in your wash well if you add it
here the water line is all around here and comes out through here so it will
mix the detergent for you instead of just dropping water right onto a
detergent pile now it is supposed to be a soft clothes lid but if you do just
kind of let it go it will drop but it does do it slowly enough that it
shouldn't cause a problem coming up to your control panel now this is one of
the biggest things that I had to get used to and we're gonna try and get this
so lights a little better and that's a you have an electronic control panel now
on pretty much all of your washing machines what are the benefits of this
one you've got power button which can turn it on and off or if you power it
down open the lid automatically turns the unit on you have a think of it play
pause pretty much so start and pause coming closer to the dial and trying to
get decent lighting you'll notice that there's an LED that will indicate
what you are on you have several selections that you can do you also have
predetermined stains so selecting this will be tomato wine blood grass dirt
hand you'll notice over here presets will change it's a little hard to see
but it's kind of doing that on the temperature if we were to move that so
hypothetically whites and then do it you'll see more things changing you get
a nice bunch of options there one of the main reasons that we chose this
particular GE washer was this the deep fill now the problem with deep fill is
that it's not available on every one of these settings so colors
hopefully you hear that yeah it will not allow you to deep fill on color so you
may have to adjust which one of your washing options you select in order to
actually get your deep fill and foremost I would say deep fill is probably why
you're looking at this washing machine you want a washer that will allow you to
deep fill because if you've never used a high-efficiency washer before the water
level in there is not really high over in the corner I will link to a video
that shows an example of each of the fill levels for you know just a set of
towels to give you an idea of the water level with regular deep fill and then
max deep fill I will also have in the corner there if you're looking to see
what the full run cycle is on each of those settings use towels and just deep
regular deep fill and then fax me fill if you're interested I know when I was
looking into things like that I kind of wanted to see what the cycle would look
like because I've never used a agitator less washing machine and I wanted to see
what the impaler's would look like and do but coming back to our options here
aside from deep fill you have a choice of warm rinse Auto soak and deep rinse
so this is if you wanted to add extra water when you're in your rinse
cycle here you can see it is a control lock so hypothetically if you have
little children and don't want them messing with your touch e washing
machine here holding down these two buttons together which is tricky to do
left-handed will indicate that now if I touch anything else it's locked up so
that'll keep kids from being able to tamper with anything now you do have
options for temperature I generally do my stuff on cold here you have dirt
levels so normal for me has worked out pretty good spin cycle no spin model and
why you do that but normal spin is where I generally keep it only because if you
go to more or max the washing machine vibrates pretty badly
like I will admit that's one of the complaints that people had I personally
didn't think it was terrible but when I put it on more for spin cycle it was it
was pretty bad so I mean I'll insert a clip of what the regular spin cycle
looks like here
so I mean depending on where you have this it will be a little shaky but
generally these are in basements I'm on the second floor of a condo so I do I am
a little concerned about my neighbors downstairs at times well my new
neighbors I will be concerned about my old ones that moved out not so much but
it does shake a lot more than my old one used to and that is something that I had
to get used to so over here we have my cycle what this will allow you to do so
you'll notice when I change the dial over here there are presets that it's
going through hypothetically let's say my towels I always do on cold and the
soil level is heavy and if I were bold I would do more for the spin if I press
and hold this for three seconds it will change the towels to always be cold
heavy and more so this way when I change between two you'll notice that I'm
shifting back to towels that went back to the preset it would change that
preset to be what I normally use you can also press and hold it again for three
seconds that will factory reset so if you want to bring it back to what it
originally was all right you have a delay wash option which will allow you
to soak items in the basket for up to two hours you can have a extra rinse so
in combination with deep prints you can actually even have extra rinse so you
can see going across here it has delay fill soak wash rinse and spin you can
actually throw an extra rinse in between the spin and the rinse and volume all
that is that beeping sound you hear press that it's muted level 1 level 2
level 3 now when you are done where they load it does have a little doot-doot
sound at the end but for the most part because this is going to be in a
basement somewhere I'm sure you're generally not going to hear that or be
around so the volume for the most part not a major
consideration now some people prefer GE and Maytag washing machines because they
like an American brand I'm not as specific about that but one of the big
concerns that we had because of the size of the drum was can my wife actually
reached the bottom of the drum without having to fall into it now my wife is
five five and can stand on her tiptoes and get to the bottom of this drum if
you do Maytag or Samsung that have a similar sized drum here you're gonna be
like falling into it like you almost can't reach things so all and all even with it
shaking violently at higher spin levels I still like it again depending on your
feel of GE it does come with and a little hard to see there but 10-year
limited warranty and for the most part I got used to the not having an Impaler
and it is a good washing machine I mean it has washed my clothes but I don't
have any children that like seriously soil clothing so I've never been able to
actually test that out but for my wife and I who you know we both have desk
jobs we occasionally do work around the house that requires a heavier cleaning
load it's worked perfectly well for us so hopefully this will help you and the
other videos that I linked over in the corner we will help you in making a
decision if this is the right washing machine for you
I have been Wanderer001 if you have any questions or comments
please leave them in the area below and as always thanks for watching