Pre-wash in an LG washing machine
Most modern front-wheel drive automatic washing machines are equipped with a pre-wash function, which is activated by a separate button. Pre-washing in an LG washing machine is no different from a similar mode in appliances from other brands and can significantly improve the quality of laundry care. This applies even to things with a high degree of contamination, which is why this option is so highly valued by housewives. Let's look in detail at how this mode works and how long it takes.
How will the machine work with this function?
First, let's tell you how to use this useful algorithm. If you need to improve the washing quality of a certain work cycle, you must first select a compatible program, for example “Cotton”, and activate the “Pre” button. After this action, the light next to the pre-wash icon will light up and the washing time will be increased.
This option always increases the operating time by 17 minutes, regardless of the selected washing mode. During these 17 minutes, the device will use a special method to soften stubborn stains in clothes, which is vaguely reminiscent of standard soaking. This option can really be considered a modern analogue of soaking, except that during normal soaking, dirty clothes lie motionless in a container with hot water, and during pre-washing, the drum of the device slowly swings in different directions and slowly rotates in order to improve the penetration of the detergent into the fabric fibers. The last difference is the fact that this function uses a lot of water, either pre-heated to the temperature selected by the owner of the SM, or not heated at all.
Let's list a list of washing programs that are compatible with the pre-wash mode, taking the LG F1056MD “home assistant” as an example. This extensive list includes the following modes:
- Cotton;
- Cotton Fast;
- Synthetics;
- Baby clothes;
- Gentle boiling;
- BIO care.
Thus, the function is compatible with six washing modes at once. Separately, we emphasize that for the normal functioning of this additional mode, you must add detergent not only to the compartment for household chemicals with the Roman numeral I icon, but also to the tray for additional chemicals with the Roman numeral II icon.
An everyday example of how the function works
For those users who have not yet understood what pre-wash is and how much it can help them, we will give a specific example of using this useful function. This is a real example from the life of an ordinary family that will be understandable to everyone.
A preschool child's pajamas were seriously damaged by cherry juice, but washing them alone in a 5.5-kilogram machine was simply impractical. To save water and energy, a few more adult light-colored T-shirts, shirts, sweatpants, and a few handkerchiefs were added to the drum along with children's clothing. All this went into the LG F1056MD washing machine along with baby powder from the Ushasty Nyan brand.
Detergent, according to all the rules, was added to both compartments for household chemicals, things were loaded into the drum, except that it was decided to abandon fabric softener. The family opted for the “Baby Clothes” mode, which, together with the “Super Rinse” function, takes 114 minutes, uses an 800 rpm spin and a temperature of 60 degrees Celsius. That is, with the pre-wash option, the cycle time increased to 131 minutes.
The result was beyond praise - stains from cherry juice completely disappeared from children's clothes. As for the adult clothes, they were also predictably clean. Remarkably, this result did not even require the use of alcohol to pre-treat the cherry stains.
With the same input data, but without using the pre-wash mode, the clothes were not washed off from the cherry juice.
Therefore, the pre-wash option is not just useful, but truly irreplaceable. It can fully replace the classic soaking of clothes, thanks to which many stains can be forgotten forever.
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1 reader comment
Cool, I'll use it.