Top Load vs. Front Load, what really is the difference?
There are many differences between your traditional top loading washer and a front loading one. To clean clothes, there are a few specific things that need to happen. You need to have heat, this is usually provided by the water, you need to have a chemical reaction, this comes from your detergent, and you need to have some mechanical action, this is the clothes rubbing against each other and the side of the drum. In a top loading washer you need to fill the entire tub up with water to make sure that you have the specific temperature to all of the clothes and that you have a conduit for the detergent to get to all of the clothes. To create the mechanical action need, the agitator turns opposite of the washers inner tub in order to draw the clothes from the top of the tub down to the bottom. This in turn will force the clothes at the bottom up to the top. Your better top loading washers will turn the clothes completely in the drum about 3 times per minute. Once the cycle is complete, the
