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What Washer?

Lifestyle
8 years ago
1 minutes

Front or Top Loader? Find out which is more popular, and what are the top five washing machines on the market.

Ask any white goods retailer, and they’ll tell you: when it comes to buying a new washing machine, the question of whether to get a top-loader or a front-loader inevitably enters the conversation. Recent findings from Roy Morgan’s extensive Single Source survey show that while traditional top-loading machines still outnumber front-loaders in Australian households, they are on the wane as front-loaders become more popular.

More than half (52%) of Aussie households own a top-loading washing machine, a decrease from 2010 when it was 60%. In the meantime, there has been a corresponding increase in the proportion of households with a front-loader, now at 34% (up from 27% five years ago).

Whether a household opts for one or the other appears to be linked to what stage of the ‘life cycle’ its occupants are at. Although top-loaders are more common than front-loaders in all household types, their prevalence varies considerably, as the chart below indicates.

So here are ApartmentDevleopments.com.au’s top washing machines for 2015.

Miele 7.5kg Front Loader $1799

Electrolux 7kg - $679

Asko 7kg Front Load Washer - $1699

Samsung 7.5kg Top Loader - $799

LG Large Capacity 10kg Washer - $1396