[tallanvor]

I'm guessing you're in the US?

European washing machines take longer due to requirements around lower water and electricity usage. Plus, it looks like that device is a combined washer and dryer, and they take even longer.

My washer normally takes 104 minutes on the regular cycle, but if it decides I've overloaded it, it can take as long as 3 hours! And mine is just a washer.

[johnisgood]

I live in Europe, too. I cannot find the pictogram right now, but the one that resembles a feather lasts ~45 minutes and it goes through everything.

[rrr_oh_man]

Most of the time (i.e. when you don't stuff it full of stuff) a fast cycle (30-40 mins tops) is just as effective...

[bob1029]

At what point is it taking too long regardless of other factors? Laundry is uniquely hellish in that you have an entire pipeline of it that need to be processed. Getting barely 3 loads done per day seems comical to me. This might be acceptable in a dishwasher but not a laundry machine.

[tallanvor]

Many people in Europe don't even have a dryer, so they're often not doing more than one load a day. And really, unless you have a really large family, you probably don't have to do laundry every day anyway.

In Norway they also structure your electricity fees to discourage running multiple appliances at once. --For example, to keep my flat delivery rate as low as possible I have to keep my peak usage under 2KWh. That is, for each day of the month they take the hour when you used the most electricity and average the 3 top values. Yes, it's annoying to think about if I want to wash and dry at the same time, and whether or not I'm going to use the oven or something else while doing laundry.

[ash_091]

Are people really running three loads of laundry a day?