Washing Machine spin causing wrinkles - help

[buzzlady]

We bought a new washing machine. It spins so dry that it is causing wrinkles - more like creases in the clothing. In some areas you can actually see the little dots from the holes from the drum. I don't put everything in the dryer so thats not a solution. Anyone have this happen? Have a solution? Thanks.

 

[golfgal]

I would say you are putting too many clothes in the washer.

 

[Angelhalo]

Can you change the setting on the spin cycle? My washer allows me to change the intensity of the spin cycle. This helped me a lot!

 

[canopynut66]

We bought a new washing machine. It spins so dry that it is causing wrinkles - more like creases in the clothing. In some areas you can actually see the little dots from the holes from the drum. I don't put everything in the dryer so thats not a solution. Anyone have this happen? Have a solution? Thanks.

Had this problem with new washer but noticed it first on the towels and though oh this good will take less time to dry.... well they did dry faster BUT when washed some t-shirts and a blouse they were all wrinkled and had the washer tub marks so called where we bought them and they replaced the washer as the gears that spin it were all off and since only had two days they just replaced it. Ours was also fairly loud when if spun. good luck

 

[Disney Doll]

MIne has a button where you can adjust the intensity of the spin.

 

[KristaTX]

Yeah, except for towels I have to select "medium" for the spin cycle. Otherwise the clothes are wrinkly. Mine is an LG front loader.

 

[mhsjax]

Is your new washer and dryer one of those front loading HE ones? I have them and regret the day I bought them. They all brag about how much you can get in one wash. Sure you can, but you spend the next several days ironing what came out.

Try adjusting the spin cycle and not putting so much in a wash, this may help it may not. My clothes comes out wrinkled sometimes and other times they don't. No rhyme or reason. I am almost 48 and have been doing laundry full time since I was married at the young age of 21. I know what I am doing and for the life of me I yell at least once a day about the laundry and the wrinkles.

 

[clh2]

I find two things have helped the wrinkles.

1 - especially helpful for jeans. if the load looks wrinkly - I take each pair of jeans and "shake them out a few times" - I find this helpful whether they go in the dryer or get line dried.

2. Do not over-fill the load. I find that if my clothes basket is "over-flowing" my clothes will be more wrinkled.

 

[tvguy]

Is your new washer and dryer one of those front loading HE ones? I have them and regret the day I bought them. They all brag about how much you can get in one wash. Sure you can, but you spend the next several days ironing what came out.

Try adjusting the spin cycle and not putting so much in a wash, this may help it may not. My clothes comes out wrinkled sometimes and other times they don't. No rhyme or reason. I am almost 48 and have been doing laundry full time since I was married at the young age of 21. I know what I am doing and for the life of me I yell at least once a day about the laundry and the wrinkles.

Yep, we had one of those for 4 days before my wife called the store and said come pick it up, it's ruining my clothes. Replaced it with a good old fashioned top loader that cost 1/3 the price. Our water rates just jumped to $600 a year, so that HE Top loader would sure have to save a lot of water and soap to make up the extra $800 it cost.

 

[mhsjax]

Yep, we had one of those for 4 days before my wife called the store and said come pick it up, it's ruining my clothes. Replaced it with a good old fashioned top loader that cost 1/3 the price. Our water rates just jumped to $600 a year, so that HE Top loader would sure have to save a lot of water and soap to make up the extra $800 it cost.

Your wife is a smart lady. I wish I had done the same. They are about 3 years old and when they die and will search the world over for just regular old washing machines.

I went up to DSIL on vacation and needed to do laundry. She recently purchased a new one, and like you ,got an old fashioned one. My clothes didn't wrinkle for the first time in 3 years, I was so happy. I threatened to steal it. She told me that she had heard nothing but complaints from people she knew that had the front HE loaders.

 

[buzzlady]

It is a Whirlpool HE Top Load. There is no adjustment for the spin. I think I am going to try the delicate cycle when I'm not going to be putting items in the dryer.

 

[Katy Belle]

I was shopping for a washer and dryer and the dude at Sears told me to be sure and buy the dryer with steam, because the washer would wrinkle the clothes. That was a top-load, HE washer, I don't remember what brand, but it was supposed to be the BEST. I bought an old fashioned washer with an agitator. No wrinkles. I have read that a lot of people just use the delicate cycle for everything... soak the load ahead of time to help get the dirt out.