Rinse delay in washing machine

Owners of modern washing machines sometimes have no idea how many useful functions are hidden in their expensive automatic assistant. At the same time, some functions of the machines are absolutely logical and intuitive because of the name itself, but some options of the washing machines only raise questions. For example, why is a rinse delay needed in a washing machine, how can it be used, and how can it help in washing clothes?

Features of this function

Often, users of household appliances never even think about changing the standard washing settings, because the basic options are almost always enough to wash your favorite clothes from stains or dirt. Because of this, housewives usually think that there is no point in delaying the rinse, because most often they can control the entire wash cycle and remove the contents of the drum in time. The rinse delay is useful for those users who do not have the time or opportunity to immediately remove things from household appliances after finishing work.

If you need to start the wash and go on business, but you are afraid that you will not have time to return to the end of the work, so the clothes will deteriorate while they are in the washer - start the rinse delay.

What is this function suitable for, what does it give to the washing machine and to the consumer personally? It prevents water from draining after the last rinse, so all clothes will remain floating in the drum soaked until the user himself starts draining or spinning. There are certain advantages to this.

• The clothes will sit in the water instead of starting to fray inside the washing machine. Unpleasant odors from clothes that have been in the washing machine for many hours usually have to be eliminated by repeated washing.
• There will be no wrinkles or wrinkles on the clothes due to long-term wet storage in the drum. Such folds and creases take a very long time to remove with an iron, so to save your time, it is better to use a rinse delay.
• Finally, due to excessive moisture from wet laundry gradually drying in the drum, black mold can form inside the washer, which is difficult to remove. After this, you usually have to remove the cuff, that is, the rubber seal for the hatch, in order to thoroughly wash it of mold, and clean the washing machine itself with citric acid.

As a result, the rinse delay is not nearly as useless a feature as it is thought to be. It can not only protect your machine from mold and germs, but can also keep things clean and tidy so that you don’t have to spend hours putting them in decent shape, smoothing out creases and folds.

Auxiliary functions of the washing machine

The more modern and expensive the equipment, the more useful additional functions it has that can improve the quality of washing and simplify the life of housewives. Some of these options are widely known and used in almost every work cycle, some are activated only occasionally, but all of them are useful. Let's list the most popular and important ones.

• Spin. It is necessary in order to additionally wring out clothes at exactly the speed that is needed in a particular situation.
• Drain. This option is used if you do not need to rinse or spin the laundry, but only need to drain the water from the washing machine.
• Makes ironing easier.Another intuitive function. It allows you to wash clothes in such a way that after the end of the wash cycle the laundry remains practically wrinkle-free. If you turn on this mode, the equipment will skip the intermediate spin cycle, and for rinsing it will take in much more water than in the normal washing mode.
• Half load. This option makes it possible to save on electricity bills, because when half load is activated, the cycle time will be reduced. This is necessary in a situation where dirty clothes have not yet accumulated for a full wash, but they urgently need to be put in order.
• Delayed activation. A useful option for those who carefully plan their lives. If you need clean clothes early in the morning or before returning from a trip, you can calculate the time and activate this mode, and the machine will wash the clothes on time.
• Additional rinse. Activating this mode will add another rinse cycle to the one set by the manufacturer. This is an opportunity to completely get rid of detergent from clothes, which is especially important for allergy sufferers and parents of small children.
• Rinse and drain. The button is responsible for activating rinsing and spinning clothes without washing.
• Disabling spin. In this case, the washer will simply wash the items and finish the job. This mode is indispensable for washing items made from delicate types of fabric that can be damaged during a hard spin cycle.
• Water level control. If your machine has this function, then with its help the smart device will first determine the amount of clothes in the drum, and then, based on this data, will draw the optimal amount of water for washing, which helps save on water bills.
• Child protection.And again, everything is clear without words - the function will not allow small inquisitive children to open the washing machine during operation.

This list is not complete, because new modes and additional functions appear almost every day today, but this is the main list of current options that are present in almost every washing machine. For additional information about the functions, you can refer to the manufacturer’s official instructions, where they always indicate a complete list of the advantages that the device has.

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