LOL Joe think we gave it away to China, my old F+P went for 13 years and I left it for the new home owners, bet it is still going

Whirlpool used to have a good rep lion (ive had a good run with them) but theyre loaded with asian parts too these days. 

The Asko is now working fine.  It must have just been having a bad day 😄

phew, glad to hear that Joono. I might wander off and give mine something to do.

When I changed from a normal sized mach to a 8kg one we used less water. 

OP's previous machine a 4kg.. how many loads would you have to do in that for 6-9 people? Would be a full time job.

A smaller machine uses proportionally more water than a large one.  It is actually false economy to do 2-3 loads in a small machine when they could be done in one load in a large machine.

Of course a larger machine will use more water per cycle than a smaller one.  But you can fit more into a larger machine, so less loads overall.

OP you do at least three loads of washing every day? Hooley Dooley your family must be total grots to generate that much washing.

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Mine underdries the clothes. There's always a corner of a doona cover still wet. It's really annoying.

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Do you dry them inside out?  Line or dryer, I always dry anything with thick seams inside out to give them a chance to dry freely instead of being enclosed.

If anyone is concerned about using less water they would buy a front loader rather than a top loader also.

maybe you're trying to cram too much washing into the machine OP?