Portable Washing Machine For Saving More Space

If you live in an apartment with limited space and you want to wash your clothes, jeans, towels, bed sheets and other laundry yourself instead of relying on coin laundry and certainly not through hand washing, a portable washing machine is what you need. Let’s face it; hand washing is a waste of time and painful in many ways.

When choosing a portable washing machine, first thing you need to pay attention to is the amount of clothes it can handle. This feature is called the load capacity and it can be anywhere from 5 lb. to 12 lb. If you have lots of laundry to do, you definitely want to go for a model with larger load capacity.

The second thing that you need to look at is electricity and water efficiency. Energy and water efficient portable washing machine can save you lots of money on utility bill. You can judge the efficiency of a washing machine by measuring how long it takes to completely wash, rinse and spin your laundry. Some models do not even use electricity and you only need to turn crank and it will wash 100 times faster than you could by hand.

The third thing that you need to consider is its weight. Unless weight is not an issue to you, lightweight portable washing machines are easier to move around so that you can take it with you to do your laundry wherever you go. You want to choose a model that is not only easy to store but also easy to hook up.

One of the most important things that a high quality portable washing machine should have is a flexible and easy to use operation panel. If you don’t like the idea of manually filling in the water, doing the rinsing or even moving the laundry for spinning, make sure you get a model that do all of that automatically for you.

Other important areas that you need to consider before buying a portable washing machine are the type of faucet adapter, length and quality of the discharge hoses, length of the power cord (if the location of the switch outlet is an issue for you) and the ability to run quietly without making too much noise. The last feature is very important especially during the night where everyone and your kids are sleeping and you certainly don't want wake them up.