Front Load vs Top Load Washers: Which is Better in 2025?

[@HarmonsHarbor]

I’ve had the new LG front load 5 cubic foot for over a year now. It’s awesome. I’ve also found out you only need to fill the cap halfway to the HE line (the smallest amount like), using the ECOS liquid detergent. The 360 degree turbo wash is pretty cool. It’s a great washer.

[@JMaxwell1000]

Another great video from Yale Appliance! This has quickly become one of my favorite youtube channels. Front vs Top load washers: my back says top-loads are better.

[@chinyereapakama298]

Truly appreciative of you for your insightful information and honesty. Loads of love to you and your wonderful family 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@YaleAppliance1]

Wow...thank you...and to yours as well.

[@MRTOMBO]

Top Load - Speed Queens for the win. And, I'd like to see a return to a SIMPLER mechanism for damn washing clothes, instead of yet ANOTHER basic activity completely consumed by computer/sold state circuit boarding with access to the Internet. Washers and Dryers, well made ones with reasonable features (fair enough) do NOT need to be complicated technology mechanisms as they are being pushed/sold as. They should be much CHEAPER, and they should last much longer

[@cristianvillarreal34]

Wich front load model is the best over all and which is the best cost benefit washer?

[@yazars]

For a long time, I thought that the next washer I'd get whenever my Samsung front load (11+ years running without need for service) washer breaks would be a Speed Queen top load, but the more I've thought about it, especially considering energy efficiency, I'm probably going to go with another front load despite some of the disadvantages.

[@John-henryDuckworth]

I have follow the advice from this channel, bought a front loader. Worst experience ever especially when I want to wash a duvet Top loader is hassle free.

[@YaleAppliance1]

Sorry, but I really like front loads and have owned Electrolux, Miele, and Maytag over the last 25 years.

[@natecaplin4374]

To prevent mold on front load washer (other than GE w/Microban & venting), just leave washer door ajar after unloading.

[@TheFourthWinchester]

Not for those with small kids.

[@bertraminc9412]

I've had my MayTag Atlantis set for over 24 years. Recently I replaced the water pump with a noisy cheap full plastic one. The American manufacturing industry is horrid. Full of incompetence and corruption and greed. I was considering paying a lot of money for the Miele top of the line set but then I looked at maintenance rates. Today, you spend a ton and the units fail within a year in some way. I chose not to buy but to repair mine as it gets older. We are seeing this in every single industry in the USA. Outsourced trash. High failure rates. Poor designs. Look at Bosch, front laoders. Stink and get clogged up around the gaskets. New requirements to keep mold and mildew from forming. These machines are overpriced, outsourced and they are abandoned by the manufacturer.. in other words the manufacturers are not putting any money into the faults and defects... because they keep selling them. Now, maintenance revenue is a line item during design. Designed to break. Designed to fail. Designed to make them money after initial sale. It's really pathetic.

[@YaleAppliance1]

I dont think its that bad.....

[@crimsonJerom]

What is your opinion on a stacked vs side by side setup? Your advices are honest and direct. Wish you continued success.

[@YaleAppliance1]

Depends on the space...I like side by side with pedestals for accessibility

[@crimsonJerom]

@@YaleAppliance1 Thank you. Good point about pedestals.

[@bruceinpb]

Front load it is!

[@arevee9429]

I've had compact Euro machines and LG. If space isn't an issue, I'd pick LG. Cheaper, bigger, and they clean well. Seems like only Miele compact offers all the features of the LG and it's at least 2X the price.

[@mrslkungpowchikn1206]

Our ~5 to 7 year old stacked LG Direct Drive inverter washing machine I think just died (leaking quite a bit (maybe 6 cups or so? ) of water out bottom where I can’t see and the rubber bleed line appears to have a hard granular clog of sand and grit. We are moving out so we can knock down the house (1950s and unhealthy and not safe), and build our new family dream home right in the Columbia River. We have 2 large dogs (Dane and Doberman)& I wash their multi location dog bed cushions that attach to their raised dog bed cots weekly. I’m hopeful to find a really good reliable machine that can handle the big bulky stuff including the dog bed pads and also huge king sized comforters and down comforters often wash and uses more water than our LG allows because it doesn’t get stuff clean otherwise- we are just too dirty w big dogs and dirty kids socks w stuck on dog hair and dirt. I would love it if I could get your advice and I’d love to know which machines can actually handle more sand / dirt / hair than maybe the average home and what specifically it is about it that makes it this way (I’m an ex engineer now house mom manager and new home construction general contractor and co designer lol! So I’m very much into technical details and explanation’s if you’re willing to share! Suggestions? PS we live 10 min from Portland OR but on the WA side of the Columbia River. Thank you for your time and all the fabulous videos! Would love to see more about steam ovens / combos (especially “bread” slices), coffee machines and if it’s worth the cost, and detailed kitchen cabinetry & work flow details for kitchens w 12’ ceilings and how the shelves are accessed and used- what they look like inside and show them in action! Hubby doesn’t want to fill the space because he thinks they’re not usable or accessible but I don’t want stuff floating on top collecting dust and looking messey. I bet others would like this topic also for high shelves - also can windows act as a backsplash like right above cook top instead of tile or drywall ( we would hang a ventilation system likely Samsung above Samsung cooktop ). Architect didn’t want any cabinets along that wall since it is what is seen when entering hime and walking down the hall to kitchen / large great room! So I was thinking windows would be nice lighting and give us an excuse to improve the 10 feet of space between the kitchen exterior wall and the neighbors 6 to 7’ tall white plywood sheet fensibg. He will let us improve it with whatever we want so we really could great something nice to look at through the kitchen stove top area window / wall / backsplash. Or would it get too greasy? I feel like it would make sense - just clean it but hubby thinks it’s a weird or bad idea behind the stove. Is it?

[@YaleAppliance1]

Great question

[@Quince828]

You don’t mention top loaders that don’t have an agitator, such as my full size Samsung. I wish I still had my old Maytag Atlantis, it was a tank. The Samsung ties sheets in knots, and turns my shirts inside out! But it plays Mozart lol.

[@johnborges5938]

Yes, these are the hybrid washers he refers to at 3:19.

[@kristaself126]

I regret buying the combo washer. The door has locked twice in 14 months.

[@guillaumepare9651]

It's 2025 already? 😉 Comments: weight: front load win. washing down: front load win. I don't have a bias toward front laod. In fact I have top load but it have a lot to do about the fact that this is what I know.

[@YaleAppliance1]

I had both and like front load way better

[@nabby119]

I need to get a new washer in a month and have been shopping around for decent brands. So far, I can only find mostly good things about Speed Queen while everything else is pretty meh. I dont care about top or front loading, and I especially dont care about that many features. I just want something that is simple, works and LIKELY wont break within a few years. Suggestions?

[@YaleAppliance1]

Speed Queen is decent...I really like LG for laundry.

[@nabby119]

@YaleAppliance1 does LG have any models that are kind of just basic? I dont need so many unnecessary parts in a washer that will just break with standard use and ruin the whole washer

[@YaleAppliance1]

WM3400 front load is basic....

[@cristianvillarreal34]

Wich lg front load is the best and witch is best for cost benefit ?

[@YaleAppliance1]

Depends on the features you want. I like the WM6700 because if the dispenser, but that could be over kill for some

[@burleywillis6923]

Good information!

[@Na0uta]

Front is best if elevated on a ped. But top always kinda sucks. More so when you get older and cant reach in there so well. Also cant have smaller kids help with loading when its top load. But they could do it all on their own with front loads.

[@HelenEttlin]

I have to use a front load…my arms are too short to reach the bottom of a top load and we all know that’s where the socks hang out.

[@YaleAppliance1]

and undies

[@JohnSmit3432]

thoughts on speedqueen?

[@YaleAppliance1]

Expensive for smaller capacity...like the brand though