Narrow and small-sized washing machines: download types, operation, technical specifications, convenient locations
A- with frontal loading of linen;
B-drum washing machine with drop-down flaps, designed for vertical loading of linen;
V- with vertical loading of linen
The washing machine standing under the sink does not interfere with moving around the bathroom and looks very unobtrusive. For example, the EUROSOBA1100SPRINT + model looks good
Under the sink "water lily-dial"
Even in the smallest bathroom, you can install a washing machine without sacrificing space, such as EWC1350 (Electrolux) under the sink "Waterwear-Classic"
Usually in the compartment for detergents three compartments: for powder, liquid and salts
A narrow vertical loading machine is good because the reduced width allows it to fit into a small room. At the same time, the amount of laundry loaded at once remains quite large - 5-6kg
EUROSOBA compact machine will fit not only under the sink in the bathroom. It can be embedded in the furniture locker in the kitchen so that it will not be visible at all and does not violate the integrity of the interior of the room. If necessary, it is worth only to open the door of the locker, turn on the device and it is ready for operation
The size of the apartments of most Russians leaves much to be desired. Isaaged distressed areas are a bathroom and a kitchen. It is no secret that they are not designed to accommodate modern technology. Forward queue difficulties appear after buying a washing machine. Where to put a massive unit? Everyone solves this question in its own way: connect the car in the kitchen, which is not very convenient, or in the bathroom, but so that it is necessary to enter it side. There are alternatives - narrow and small-sized washing machines
What kind of washing machines will be discussed in this article, what are these reduced devices? To figure out, first decide on the terms. So, the washing machines are standard (full-size), narrow (reduced depth or width) and small-sized (all dimensions are less than standard). The first have approximate dimensions of 856058cm (VSH). The second height, but differ in a depth of 45 cm or a width of about 40 cm. As a rule, a small depth - in machines with frontal loading of linen, and the width is the units with top loading. Well, the small-sized models are the most compact: 675040cm, the main thing is that their height does not exceed 70cm, so the device can be put under the sink. We will affect only the last two options. We want to immediately make a reservation that such aggregates are not inferior as washing with their large "counterparts", except for less underwear (3-5kg instead of 6-7), and if you need to "turn" 6kg, then you will have to wash in two stages. Note that in this case the washing cycle (including the cost of washing powder, electricity and water) will cost you somewhat more expensive than in a full-size apparatus. But with this disadvantage it is quite possible to accept, especially if you simply do not have a place to install a large washing machine.
Narrow machines are easy to fit in a small space in the kitchen or bathroom. Machines of reduced depth, which allows you to open the door without problems, are good when the device is not enough space. Adlay of small-sized optimal variant - under the sink.
How to drive?
When choosing a washing machine for installation in a limited space, buyers are usually guided by existing circumstances, that is, the sizes of the place planned for it, determining which model will fit more organically. However, it is necessary to take into account the type of loading of linen (vertical or frontal). Are there fundamental differences in the device and the work of such machines? One of the main advantages of the unit with vertical loading - saving space (the hatch opens not forward, and up). But at the same time, this car does not hide under the sink. The same control buttons are located on top, and you will have to open the cover, so it is unlikely to use the "Washing" as a bedside table, how do you buy, buying a front-loading device. Yes, and to watch the "cosmic" process of washing through the transparent hatch you will not succeed.Machines with different types of boot types are slightly different. At the top load on the cylindrical wall of the drum there are special flaps, which are closed using a mechanical lock. It is through them underwear and gets inside. The drum is attached to Baku and rotates around the horizontal axis. Rotation supports are located on both its parties. With the front loading, the support node on which the drum rotates, only one, since the laundry is loaded on the other hand. The insertion of the aggregates is similar: the perforated drum is placed in the tank where water is poured. They also do not differ from each other in terms of technical specifications, reliability and durability, laboratory tests have shown that consumers in this regard are not worried about what: the machines of both types are the same resource.
By the way, about drums and tanks. Tanks most often produced from plastics. This is a cheap material, but unfortunately, it quickly flashes, which threatens with leaks. Some companies (Eurosoba, Switzerland) produce stainless steel tanks, it is durable, but also expensive. As for the drums, then, before, before many domestic cars, this item was plastic, but it was already left in the past, and now almost all the drums are made of stainless steel.
Act, Washing!
The process of washing in small machines occurs just as in full-size units. In order to wrake underwear, you do not have to produce any cunning operations - you just need to download things into the drum, pour washing powder, select the washing program and click the Start button. More from you nothing is required, the car will do everything herself.
What happens in the depths of this device? First, the device floods cold water into the tank and heats it up to a certain temperature (depending on the selected program), then some time rotates the drum, first in one direction, then to another, after which the dirty solution is drained. This cycle is called washing. When it is time to start a rinse, clean cold water enters the tank, and the drum rotates again in different directions to remove the remnants of the detergent. Dirty water merges. This process is repeated several times until the water becomes clean. Then the car starts to speak. The drum begins to rotate with a larger frequency, the centrifugal force presser underwear to its walls, and water breaks out of the tissue through perforations.
So in a brief description looks like a washing process. But there are also additional cycles: for example, pre-soaking for severely polluted linen (with spots), which occurs before the main washing, - in EUROSOBA 1100SPRINT +, EWT10120 (Electrolux, Sweden), WT52122 (Gorenje, Slovenia), or additional rinsing Necessary for allergic and children - in cars AQSD129 (EU) / HA (Hotpoint-Ariston, Italy), WOR16150OE (Bosch, Germany), CTH1076SY (Candy, Italy).
"Tough" problem
It is formed. Upon contact of water with heated surfaces, ionic reactions begin: the salts are converted into calcium carbonate and coalic acid, which, in turn, decomposes into water and carbon dioxide. The solubility of calcium carbonate in water decreases with an increase in temperature. The result, it is postponed in the form of a scale on a tane and walls of the tank. A good clutch of calcium carbonate and surfaces is explained by the special structure of their crystalline lattices, due to which the scale is tightly "clinging" for the metal.
How to deal with screaming?
Chemical method. The "Anti-Nakipin" (a means for removing scale, containing acids) and include the unit, setting the washing program, but naturally without loading underwear. The minus is that acid evaporations poorly affect the atmosphere of the room. But it is fast and inexpensive.
Physical way. Apply electromagnetic water softeners. Usually they are installed on a plumbing pipe or directly on the washing machine hose. They affect water with a magnetic field, so that the lime molecules are split into ions and wash out from the device as a soft precipitate. There are magnetic softeners from 800 rub. Covers often put softener filters.
Place of dislocation
If the housing is small, then you get up before choosing, where to "settle" the assistant- in the kitchen or bathroom? The decision, of course, is yours, but first calculate the pros and cons of both options. For example, in the bathroom all communications nearby, and more logically install the device here. But in small apartments, people sometimes are just forced to place washing machines in the kitchen, although this is not the best way out, primarily due to the dangerous neighborhood of the washing powder and food, and in addition, an additional source of noise appears and there is less space for kitchen appliances.
If narrow and full-size machines do not differ in the installation plan, then there are some subtleties in the situation with small-sized. It is best to put them under the sink, but even with their reduced sizes, they will fit not for each. With its usual design, the unit cannot be moved close to the wall - due to the protruding siphon (U-shaped pipe for the formation of a water shutter), and the machine "looks out" from under the sink is 15-20 cm. It is not very comfortable for the hosts (inconveniently approach the washbasin) and unsafe for the device, since moisture will somehow fall on it, and this is fraught with damage to the internal mechanisms. The fact is that the washing machine at the seat of the top of the body and the plastic panel there is a small leakage gap, where water can well be leaked. That is why the ideal option is considered to be such when the sink "hangs" over the machine for 1-2 cm. But how to achieve this? Manufacturers have come up with wobbies of a special design. These are shells with a flatter bottom and special release (vertical arrangement of the siphon), which can be placed washing machine, making it almost close to the wall. In this case, the drain pipe does not pass above the machine, and with leaks, the likelihood of damage to the unit is minimal.
Not so long ago there were sinks from polymer concrete, or artificial marble. Of course, they look spectacularly, but when sand and other abrasive materials, they remain scratches. Still popular ceramics. Hospital, manufacturers are not particularly indispensable for the variety of color gamut - mostly white-colored models, only a few are brown, light green, pink, blue idr. Such special shells for installation under them washing machines produced by the firms "Racing" (Sink "Woods"), "Pilot" (both- Russia), and IDR IDO (Finland). Price range - 3-6 thousand rubles.
Rules of washing
one. Before starting washing, it is necessary to break linen. Color and white is not recommended to wash together, since the first can polish and paint the second. Sometimes they can be erased at the same time, but at low temperatures.
2. It is also necessary to divide the durable and delicate tissues, as there are different washing modes for them.
3. Pillowcases and duvet covers in front of the washing should be turned inside out and cut out litter from their corners.
four. Do not forget to check all your pockets so as not to wash money or damage the car with smallmetallic objects (chains, nails, buttons, clips IT.P.).
five. Lightning, buttons and clasp clothes should be fastened.
6. It is impossible to load the device over the norm. Maximum loading for each type of fabric is indicated in the instruction manual for the machine. Read it carefully before you start using the device.
Recommendations for installation of the machine under the sink
Economic hostesses: Tell me "A"!
We will not forget that, despite the reduced dimensions, the machines also fully perform their main work - erased. IIh technical capabilities are interested in all no less than dimensions. Of course, it is important how well the car disrupts pollution. This is indicated by the designations of the class of their effectiveness: from A to G. Accordingly, the highest efficiency, and the G is the lowest. However, this parameter also depends on you, or rather, from the selected mode and detergent.The same symbols also denote the classes of energy consumption, answering the question, whether the device consumes a lot of electrical energy. Judge the pressure classes correspond to the letters from A to G. This parameter depends on how dry underwear will go out after washing (the more turns, the land underwear). In addition to the model of the drum, the washing machine can spin up to the speed of 600- 2000 rpm. But is it worth chasing at high speed? If the maximum frequency in your machine is 2000 rpm, then this does not mean that with this value you can press absolutely all tissues. For example, the optimal frequency for wool and silk is about 600 rpm. Inesley You chose the Wool washing program, then the machine will not allow you to set the speed more than 600. So it is quite enough for 1000-1200 rpm to the maximum, because things after washing will remain only slightly wet, and it is good for ironing.
Each tissue is its program
As a rule, the machines of reduced dimensions are not so technically equipped as their big "counterparts". This is not due to the fact that "Baby" are not able to be high-tech, - just manufacturers experience all innovations first in more popular standard options. Inesley innovation passes the "run-down" and is in demand from consumers, then it is transferred to "kids". Therefore, the latest developments you are unlikely to find in a small car. But maybe you are not so needed? For example, the question is: whether to chase the number of programs? Usually people use only a few most basic.
Of course, it is important when your program is intended for each cloth: "Cotton / Len", "Synthetic", "thin underwear", "shirts", "hand washing wool" IDR.
In addition, there are many truly useful additional programs. For example, the "fast wash" program is perfect for weakly-styled linen, as in L47080 models (AEG, Germany) and TL 85 S (Ardo). "Crimson protection" - AWE6516 (WHIRLPOOL, USA), ZWT3105 (Zanussi, Italy) - will turn ironing into pleasure. "Big Wash" - TL80 (Ardo), WS12X160OE (Siemens, Germany) - will retain the most tender fabric.
But the Sport program for washing sports shoes and clothing- Wite87 (Indesit, Italy) is not useful for everyone. Now, the same time will make your life more convenient for such a function as "delaying execution", which will begin to wash at the right time, pre-loading underwear and detergent - WTE1573 (Brandt, France), CTH107SY (Candy), - as well as the "Parking" Drum "with blocking in the" Luke top "position for models with vertical load - W262WPM (Miele, Germany), EWT10420 (Electrolux).
Model output
Now let's talk in more detail about the "Baby" presented in the Russian market. By the way, not all of them are so small, what it seems. Some can accommodate enough linen. So, in a narrow machine WLX 20360OE (Bosch) 4.5kg is placed with front load. Amodel Visionhdslim6 (Candy) with a depth of 40cm erases 6kg linen is a new record for "kids". A washing machine with vertical loading TL80 (Ardo) with a depth of 40cm accommodates 5kg of things, as well as the ZWP580 model (Zanussi) with 40cm wide.As for small-sized options, their height (65-73cm) is usually significantly less than the standard washbasin height (82-85 cm on the upper plane). They are ready for no more than 3.5 kg linen. Kuvshinka (China), Candy, Electrolux, Eurosoba, Zanussi Idre are known for its "smalltracks".
Among the most expensive cars, EUROSOBA (the price can reach up to 35 thousand rubles.). This is due to their "advanced" technical characteristics, a number of useful innovations and high reliability (the Swiss manufacturer promises 15 years of uninterrupted work). Agabarites are simply affected - 684645cm. Iprie such "inch" size applied a number of revolutionary for small innovation machines, such as the auto-linking system and the possibility of soaking up the linen, the automatic opening of the hatch after washing and much more. Due to the small mass (36kg) and the wheels of the EUROSOBA 600 and EUROSOBA 800, you can easily transport and move. It is convenient with a frequent change of housing. AB Switzerland and France are often installed in summer houses or on yachts.
Another famous "classmate" is a car Aquamatic (Candy) with class A. power consumption. Additional convenience of a special filter for coins, buttons IT., protecting the drainage system from clogging. The machine is equipped with the programs "Fast Wash" and "Hand Wash", as well as "Washing Wool", the quality of which is confirmed by the Woolmark Wool Market Certificate. The weight of the "weight" category Aquamatic is one of the record holders, accompanied by 3.5 kg of linen instead of standard 3kg. More things (3.6kg) can be placed only in the Kuvshinka9000 car, which is also one of the most accessible options. It costs about 11 thousand rubles. And the LCD display and electronic control make communication with the device light and pleasant.
The EWC1350 machine (Electrolux) the energy consumption class is lower than. But the frequency during annealing is simply gigantic - 1300 rpm. Many useful features: "deferred start", "Protection against leaks", "Fast Wash", "Additional Rinse" IDR. But the depth failed - 51.5 cm, so the machine peeps 5-10 cm from under any shell.
About prices
The cost of washing machines primarily depends on the technical characteristics (number of programs, the class of efficiency, new functions of IT.P.). You are mistaken if you think that "babes" are cheaper than standard cars, - sometimes they are more expensive. This is because they are no worse, and their production is more difficult, since some nodes have to be manufactured in a reduced version, but a miniaturization-troublesome and costly. In effectly, the technical equipment of the price of "small-slickers" fluctuate in the range of 11-35 thousand rubles.
| Characteristics | Witl 106 (indesit) | CTD 866-07S (Candy) | AVTF 104 (Hotpoint-Ariston) | EWT 9120W (ELECTROLUX) | WOR's 20151 OE (Bosch) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dimensions (VSH), see | 854060. | 854060. | 854060. | 854060. | 894062. |
| Maximum load, kg | five | 6. | five | 5.5 | five |
| Maximum frequency during annealing, rpm | 1000. | 800. | 1000. | 900. | 1000. |
| Energy Class / Washing / Press | A / s / s | A / d | A / s / s | A / s / s | A / s / s |
| Management type | Electronic | Electronic | Electronic | Electronic | Electronic |
| Maximum power consumption, W | 2100. | 2200. | 1850. | 2300. | 2250. |
| Additional functions | Additional rinse, delay start, biofase | Hand wash Wool, Starting, Biofase, Fast Wash, Additional Rinse | Biofase, hand wash wool, launch delay, accelerated wash, extra rinse | Balance of underwear after pressing, biofase, soaking, accelerated washing, additional rinse, delay start, car parking drum | Balance of linen after pressing, biofase, hand wash wool, extra rinse |
| price, rub. | 11 990. | 12 990. | 15 740. | 16 190. | 19 990. |
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| Characteristics | Wiu 81 (Indesit) | WKE 13580 D (Beko) | Fe 904 NN (RU) (Zanussi) | AWG 231 (Whirlpool) | WF 7350 S7V (Samsung) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dimensions (VSH), see | 856033. | 856039. | 856036. | 856037. | 856040. |
| Maximum load, kg | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3,2 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| Maximum frequency during annealing, rpm | 800. | 800. | 900. | 800. | 1000. |
| Energy Class / Washing / Press | A / d | A / B / D | A / B / D | A / d | A / s / s |
| Management type | Electronic | Electronic | Electronic | Electronic | Electronic |
| Maximum power consumption, W | 1850. | 1700. | 1650. | 2000. | 2100. |
| Additional functions | Biofase, Accelerated Wash, Additional Rinse | Biofase, hand wash wool, extra rinse | Biofase, hand wash wool, extra rinse | Biofase | Biofase, hand wash wool, extra rinse, accelerated wash, delay start |
| price, rub. | 8790. | 8990. | 9990. | 10 070. | 12 490. |
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| Characteristics | Aquamatic (Candy) | KUVSHINKA 9000. | FCS725 C (Zanussi) | EWC 1050 (ELECTROLUX) | Eurosoba 800. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dimensions (VSH), see | 705145. | 73,55242. | 675052. | 675054. | 664645. |
| Maximum load, kg | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3. | 3. | 3. |
| Maximum frequency during annealing, rpm | 1000. | 900. | 700. | 1000. | 800. |
| Energy Class / Washing / Press | A / s / s | — | A / B / F | A / B / D | A / s / s |
| Management type | Mechanical | Electronic | Mechanical | Electronic | Electronic |
| Maximum power consumption, W | 1300. | 1680. | 1600. | 1600. | 2500. |
| Additional functions | Biofase, hand wash wool, extra rinse | Starting, Biofase, Additional Rinse, Fast Wash | Biofase | Biofase, hand wash wool, accelerated washing, extra rinse, delay start | Biofase, extra rinse, fast washing, wash wool |
| price, rub. | 11 690. | 11 697. | 12 950. | 16 490. | 16 997. |
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All - in class!
| Energy class | Electricity consumption, kW-h / kg |
|---|---|
| A +. | Less than 0.17 |
| BUT | 0.17-0.19 |
| IN | 0.19-0.23 |
| FROM | 0.23-0.27 |
| D. | 0.27-0,31 |
| E. | 0.31-0.35 |
| F. | 0.35-0.39 |
| G. | More than 0.39 |
| Effective class washing | Washing Efficiency Index |
|---|---|
| BUT | More than 1.03. |
| IN | 1.03-1.00 |
| FROM | 1.00-0.97 |
| D. | 0.97-0.94 |
| E. | 0.94-0.91 |
| F. | 0.91-0.88 |
| G. | Less than 0.88. |
| Efficiency class extract | The proportion of the remaining water,% |
|---|---|
| BUT | Less than 45. |
| IN | 45-54 |
| FROM | 54-63 |
| D. | 63-72 |
| E. | 72-81 |
| F. | 81-90. |
| G. | More than 90. |
The editorial board thanks the representative offices of the BSH household appliances, Indesit Company, LG Electronics, Asko, Candy Elettrodomestici S.R.L., Whirlpool, East Trading Company (Ardo), Miele CIS, Electrolux, Vestel, as well as the firm "Gonole" for help in the preparation of material.