Roper washing machine by Whirlpool

by James Tyson
(London)

I have a Roper washing machine. I believe it is made by Whirlpool, but is a cheaper version of their machines. Kind of like buying generic peanut butter instead of Jif.

I have had it about two years, and bought it because I thought my 15 year old Speed Queen was shot. Water started pouring out from beneath it, I freaked and bought this one. Lo and behold, the washer wasn't the problem; a drain was. But, since I've had it, I have found it does what it is supposed to do, but is not nearly as nice as the other one was. There's no real gentle cycle, there's no permanent press cycle like the other one had, and there are like three sizes of loads: Small, medium and large.

When I want to wash my comforter, for example, that is about all that will fit. However, if I don't try to cram something else in there with it, it will become off balance during the spin cycle and I have to stand there and somehow figure out how to get the cycle to finish successfully.

That tends to involve a lot of reshifting the wet comforter to get the water to eventually spin out. Granted I knew all these things about it when I bought it, but price was the concern then, not the features. However, knowing what I know now, I should have spent a little extra and gotten a machine I was pleased with.

This will do until such time it dies, I guess, and perhaps there are other Roper models that have come out since that are superior to mine. I don't dislike it, I just don't like it as well as the one I had.