On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 05:12:05 -0700 (PDT), whisky-dave
wrote:

On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 12:12:31 UTC+1, Scott wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 11:43:50 +0100, Max Demian
wrote:

On 05/06/2018 09:19, Scott wrote:
The time taken for a 60 degree cotton wash in my LG washing machine
seems to vary enormously. Sometimes it takes over three hours. Today
it is claiming it will take one hour and 15 minutes. I used to think
it was to do with the size (weight?) of the load but today is quite a
full load with what seems to be a fast cycle time. I'm puzzled.

Do you mean the time on the display, or the actual time taken? If on the
display, when did it show? As soon as you set it, or shortly after?

I'm used to mine revising the time mid cycle. For the 60° cotton wash it
starts at 2:42, then it might jump from 2:08 to 1:18 and end up taking
1:52. I assume this is because the time taken for the water to reach 60°
will depend of the amount of water which will depend on the size of the
load. (It tops up a few minutes after starting.)

On the display after a bit of 'analysing' but is seems accurate. I
think Alan has hit the nail on the head in that the washing was bulky
more than heavy.

I have had similar, with mine I get an error message saying low water pressure, for which I just hit the start button and it tries again and is OK for 20mins or so depending on cycle. At one point it got really slow 9 hours for a 2 hour wash I then remmebered I hadn;t used that calgon for a few months, so I brought some more and while using it the firts wash time reduced by about 1/2 and I only needed to push the restar button 2-3 times rathen than closer to 10.

I've not had low water pressure but I have had 'unbalanced load' if
the load is too small. At least we don't need Calgon in Scotland.

It could have been a coincidence but my washing times are a bit less than they were but it stil seems slow. I aslo noticed on reading the manual that sometimes a cycle won't start un less the drum can freely rotate and I did notice on the odd occasion where some clothes had managed to get inside a duvet cover that the mnachine had a bit of a problem turning and apparently that can cause the wash cycle to stop for a while then try to restart in the hope the washing gets redistributed around the drum. So there;s a couple of possibilities.

The cynic in me says that - a bit like Volkswagen - slowing down the
cycle makes it easier to pass the testing process.

for record it's a zanussi FJS 1225 W from about 2006 IIRC.

I assume Mr P only intervenes where a certain individual starts the
thread :-)