Adam Funk wrote:
On 2015-11-03, Capitol wrote:


harry wrote:


(A) Little of the hot water makes it to the machine anyway.
(B) Starting from cold enables a cleaner wash.
Hot water on laundry sets stains in.

Cold water only is cheaper to make.

So that why nobody makes mixed fill washing machines these days.
They told you the truth.


So why does the US market use hot and cold fill machines?

American dual-fill washing machines don't have internal heating
elements. The "hot" program fills the wash phase from the hot tap
water (including the dead leg, I presume, unless there's a diverter in
the input); the "cold" program fills it from the cold tap water; the
"warm" program uses a mixture. Those machines do not have the
high-temperature "sanitizing" (or "blasting your towels") programs
that we get. (OTOH, we don't generally get a true cold program; I'd
be happy to use that for some things because they last longer.)

Some don't have internal heaters, some do.