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Q: Do you use warm water in your washing machine?
It's one of those home comforts I guess, and I've heard it's a lot better for the clothes in terms of getting stains out etc. Do any of you go through the painstaking process of heating up water to use in your washing machine? Or have you splashed out on one that actually provides hot water? Yes, I am bored today.
Yes mine is a new washing machine and it heats the water up.
Guess im just as bored to be answering !!!
Sure bro, automatic heating of water, how crazy wasting of energy huh ? 
awe . have no washing machine . i wear my water proof gloves though .
My shower and washing machine were connected to the same supply and the same boiler. Thus, if I turned the boiler on (for a shower, it took about 25 mins to get tolerably warm) and then put the washing machine on, the water would be hot in the machine, and would all disappear from the shower supply in about ten seconds. I made that mistake a few times.
On one memorably horrendous occasion, my BF turned the washing machine on while I was in the shower... in winter... the screams could be heard from Kyrgyzstan, I'm sure.
We bought one that heats the water itself. The hot water heater is too small to be using for laundry.
It's essential for things like sheets, kitchen towels; anything that you sit down on a bus in...
Nope, cold washing all the way.
When you fill warm water in the machine, remember to get washing powder to match. Most of the washing powder sold in China is for cold water washing. The enzymes in it is optimized for cold water, so you may get worse results by heating water.
A benefit of heated water is that you can get above the temperature where bacteria can live, which is nice for underwear with skid marks and such. However, if you are simply mixing in water from your water boiler, and the washing machine is still also adding water, I doubt you can get sufficient temperature to have any effect against bacteria.
I actually now remember that our gas-water heater can output 80C water. This could be added directly to our washing machine. However this would introduce the question if the plastic parts of the washing machine can actually handle 80C.
Own our own flat, so bought all our own appliances, we have an automatic washer / dryer with about a million different wash cycles (OK perhaps that's a slight exageration) all bar two are using warm / hot water.
Now, I'm an old duffer compared to some here, but these darn new inventions have been around for 40 years or more (longer in USA). Are you sure you guys are living in China and not in a time warp? Check your local news, if there is an emperor / empress on the throne, you may be in trouble!
Nessquick:
You are right. End these LG washmachine cost us 4,5k rmb, but was the almost first i bough when our son was on the way :) Even we do not own house here, I insist to have almost all possible appliances, i used to use back home, to make my life confortable in this jungle :)
Cold Water, no dryer and I really would like to change that situation soon.
I have one of those college supplied top loaders without the agitator in the middle.
For hot water I have to disconnect the shower hose and run it through in the washing machine. That is when the hot water is available.
Sure, China can send a man into space but can they supply 24hr hot water? Of course not.
I even have one of those contraptions that you use to take creases out of your clothes. Apparently you plug it in, it gets hot with a lot of steam. Amazing.
Rant over
i use cold water, hot water outlet is connected to the shower and sink only.
