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Daddy Troy: Welcome back to Gear Daddy, I’m your host Daddy Troy. Today I’m going to
talk about the pros and cons of front-loading washers. This whole week at Dad Labs has been
sponsored by Oxi Clean Baby. We’re giving away a lot of this stuff, so stick around
until the end of the program, we’ll tell you how to get some.
Okay so I know what you’re thinking – you know, laundry room’s – dads, do those
two always go together? Well dude this is the new fatherhood get over it – you share
the responsibilities plus, hint from dad – women like it when guys do chores if you know what
I mean.
So here we are today looking at front-loading washing machines, and I want to tell you about
some of the advantages of them. First of all, when you have kids, you know you have one
extra human being in the house – you’d think it would add just a few extra clothes?
Wrong! You have tons of clothes to wash. What are you going to do? Well, a front-loading
laundry machine actually has much larger capacity than a top loader, so therefore you can do
a lot more clothes at any given time.
Plus, they can take things like comforters and these large bulky items, in the past you
might have gone to the Laundromat in order to wash. And I tell you, your kid is going
to do a lot of things to his or her blanket accidentally when they’re little kids that
you’re going to want to wash them – so they’re great for that reason. The other
thing I really like is the sanitize feature. In my house we turn down the water temperature
so as not to scald our children when they’re taking a bath, which means the water in our
house is not as hot – and as a result then, we need to get the water in here hotter. This
is an on demand water heater – not necessarily particular to front loaders, but something
you should look at if you’re a new parent looking for washing machines.
Also great for kids with allergies – if you have dust mites in your house, it can
kill the dust mites and if you have virus’s going around – everyone’s getting sick,
you really want to sanitize that laundry. There are many other reasons too and they
are environmental reasons. Number one it uses a lot less water, and by using a lot less
water – it also has to heat up less water. One of the biggest energy costs of doing laundry
is heating up the water.
Also, they spin a lot faster than top-loaders, and by spinning faster you therefore have
to do a lot less drying – which is really, really good as well. And also one of the hidden
costs in laundry that most people don’t realize from municipalities is that delivering
water to your house from, first purifying it and then delivering it to your house, is
a large part of the electrical costs for your city. So all these things make it a real green
way to go for your family.
Now there are some big drawbacks of these things – for instance, once they’re running,
some of the machines wont let you stop and put extra things in. They also tend to be
a little more expensive than top-loaders, but that will pay for itself in the long run.
And in addition since they’re front loaders, they need to be high up off the ground – you’ll
see down here, that I’ve built a platform for this guy right here myself, and you can
purchase these platforms and they are fairly expensive – more expensive than a hunk of
metal should be in my opinion, so I went ahead and built my own.
Well that’s all this week for Gear Daddy. Our whole week at Dad Labs has been sponsored
by Oxi Clean Baby and I’m going to tell you a true story. I went home and told my
wife that we were being sponsored by Oxi Clean Baby, and she flipped out! She said that stuff’s
great, and I said that I know. So anyway, my family loves Oxi Clean, Oxi Clean Baby,
and we’re giving away a bunch of this stuff, so go to dadlabs.com – upper right-hand
corner of the website, click on Dad Labs crib, and if you register there you’re automatically
registered to win a whole bunch of Oxi Clean Baby. We’ll see you next week on Gear Daddy,
and all week long on dadlabs.com.