Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I got this at a bargain for less than a hundred dollars. Although, I had to wait a month to get mine as it was on backorder. This little machine has already alleviated a lot of suffering in our household as I am caring for an elderly person during the 2020 pandemic in an apartment without being able to go to a laundromat. MecorDirect, the supplier, found a defect in the machine they were, initially, going to send me, and so they saved me by sending a different machine. I don't know what other reviewers are complaining about noise; the machine I received is quiet as a mouse! This is a great machine, and for $96, I have no regrets. That said, there are some things the buyer should be made aware of: 0) For the complete newbie, this machine is semi-automatic. This means the user does all the work switching between wash, rinse, and spin. This washing machine is a beautified three motors attached to a couple timers and a wash and dryer bin. You, the user, manage the rest. This machine cleans well on 12 minute cycle, and rinses well on a 9 minute cycle. A fluffy bath towel will take the full 5 minutes in the spin dryer. Less absorbent fabric will take 3 minutes to dry. 1) The instruction manual could be better translated: it will tell you to clean the "filter netting", but there is no filter netting on this model that I (or anyone else) could find. The manual will also tell you to "select the water level" as though this was a mechanical feature: what this means, is that there are simply markings on the inside of the wash tub to indicate how much water you should, manually, put in. 2) This machine is small: I have included a photo with some common objects placed nearby for comparison -- a yardstick, a hair brush, a can of cleanser, and laundry detergent. Although I have no regrets for the $96 I paid back in March, if I could go back in time, I would have told myself to pay the $50 extra dollars for the bigger KUPPET model here on Amazon. This machine will wash two bath towels as its maximum capacity. 3) The washer's 11 lb clothes weight capacity must presume WET WEIGHT. Anything spongy and absorbent, like a bath towel, will come up to the 11lb limit fast! (Again, this is a great machine, but this is why I would recommend going bigger.) This machine needs to rest between washings and care must be taken to prevent the motor from overheating. Overloading is an easy mistake to make because 2 bath towels is this machine's maximum capacity. If you are not getting a vigorous whirlpool everytime the agitator spins the water back and forth, you have overloaded the machine and are burdening the motor. (We Americans are spoiled on 240v washing machines -- 120v washing machines have immediately apparent limitations). 3a) Overloading the machine will cause the motor to overheat halfway through the cycle. This will cause a safety feature to trip and the motor will shut down until the machine has cooled down. The machine will try to start back up as soon as the machine is one degree under the danger zone -- causing the machine to overheat again, shut down again, and then keep overheating cyclically. Turn the machine off, wait an hour for the machine to fully cool off, take a few clothes out, then try again. You can sort of test how hot the motor is by placing your hand on the front outside of the machine near the bottom. Any temperature more than slightly warmer than your hand, while the machine is running, indicates a problem you should fix by lessening the amount of clothes and/or increasing the water level and/or letting the machine rest. 4) You use a tiny bit of soap. Tiny. 1 to 2 teaspoons of liquid laundry detergent plus optional 1/2 teaspoon of laundry booster. 5) Both the intake and outlet hoses are short. I understood this ahead of time and intended to fill using our handheld shower head. Yes, you can fill manually. Pro tip: link the hook on the drain hose to the bathmat to keep the hose from falling out of the shower while draining. 6) This model's drain hose is gravity drain; there is no pump. The machine and drain hose must be placed above or at the drain level for the siphon to work properly. 7) There are two ways to rinse clothes. First, is simply re-washing without soap. Second option, the second water intake on the right will spray water over the clothes while they are in the spin dryer -- if you can manage the short intake hose to the bathroom sink and the short drainage hose to the shower drain at the same time. 8) The hole in the washtub near the top is a safety feature to prevent overfilling -- it is not mentioned in the user manual. Water going through this overflow hole simply goes out the drainage mechanism for the spin dryer. 9) Lolz, don't waste water by forgetting to turn the program knob back to normal after draining for the rinse. Lolz, don't wander away while the basin is filling; it fills fast. 10) This machine is fun to use! KUPPET offers a bigger model, and I recommend getting it instead from the same supplier right here on Amazon. Just remember this style of machine comes from a foreign culture that washes a few sets of clothes at a time. (Where else do you think they'd get away with infringing Apple's logo on their machine knobs?) So far, I've had this machine for almost 3 days, and I've already done about 10 loads of clothes through it. Of course, a load of clothes is about one and a half outfits. So far, I am very pleased. For an absolute rock-bottom, miserly, penny-biting, $96, this is a great value! You will not find cheaper, for a similar capacity wash/dry laundry machine, outside of a 5 gallon bucket, a plunger, a clothesline, and a heck of a workout! UPDATE: a month later. This washing machine is still going strong. I have made a couple of additional discoveries. A. There are 3 Phillips screws inside the washing tub. 1 on the agitator, and 2 more by the drain. You can remove these and temporarily remove the agitator and drain screen to clean out clogs in the drain line! Other reviewers were complaining about this thing failing to drain after a while. This is a solution. B. I solved the kuppet washing machine overheating problem by putting it onto a 18 in x 12 in mover's dolly. A mover's dolly is 4 planks of carpet covered wood arranged in a square on wheels with a hole in the center. this is a $10 investment at a hardware store. The machine needs a lot of moving air underneath it to cool the motor. So put it up on something that will increase air flow over the motor, or direct a fan to push air underneath it. Now, I am able to wash load after load of clothes without the motor overheating.