Soaking During Wash
I have a neff 6544 with no machine number on any labels. I like to soak my washing for an hour, not using the prewash because that throws away the powder added to the soak.
As it is at least 10 years old I no longer have the manual. Neff do not have one in their customer support department.
My concern is the best place in the cycle of say 95/60 or 60 (on the right of the attached) to turn the power off and leave the clothes soaking for an hour. What I have discovered is that the soap is washed into the drum at the beginning of the wash, but the drum only builds up with water after the spray sympol on the dial.
I am also wondering if the soap should be fed in after the spray point, because the water appears to be drained off at the spray point.
Robin
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Advice on pausing a Neff 6544 wash to allow soaking
- The problem
- The owner of a Neff 6544 washing machine wanted to soak laundry for about an hour during a normal 95/60 or 60 wash because using prewash would flush away the detergent intended for soaking. They were unsure when in the programme the drum had filled with wash water and whether detergent should be added after the point they believed was the spray symbol.
- Likely cause
- No appliance fault was confirmed. The main issue was uncertainty about the programme sequence and detergent drawer use. The accepted reply stated the symbol referred to is most likely the rinses symbol, when more water is normally used.
- What fixed it
- The accepted advice was to stop the machine around 20 minutes into a hot wash, when the wash water should be warm to hot and the detergent should already have soaked into the laundry, then restart it after the soaking period so the programme can continue. It was also advised to ensure detergent is placed in the correct compartment, because using the wrong compartment would delay detergent release until the first rinse.
- Checks to try
- Observed that detergent is taken in at the start of the wash
- Observed that the drum appears to fill after the symbol thought to be a spray symbol
- Advised to check detergent is being put in the correct side/compartment
1 Answer
Hello. The spray point you mention must be the rinses symbol. It's normal for more water to be used on rinses, but adding detergent on rinses would of course prevent the laundry being rinsed properly. I'm presuming you have extremely dirty laundry to need to soak them? The washing machine should be designed to wash laundry properly without any extra actions from a user. If it isn't washing them properly there could be something wrong. Check out my article here to make sure none of the causes of washing machine not cleaning clothes properly are applicable.
If you just want to let laundry soak and have your reasons I would stop it about 20 minutes in on the hot washes. That way the wash water should be warm to hot and the detergent will have had time to soak into the laundry. Then you can start it up again after soaking and the cycle should continue.
Just make sure you are putting detergent in the correct side too. If you put it in the wrong side it will only go in on the first rinse, and laundry will not be cleaned properly.
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