Zeke
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Being as I’m a cloth diaper user laundry is a consideration for me and I just bought a water softener, a tankless water heater, and a new washer/dryer pair. So much for cloth diapers saving me money! Ever since I bought my house, a little over 2 decades ago, I’ve been keenly aware of how hard my water is. Ever since becoming aware of how hard my water is I’ve known that I needed a water softener and I’m getting one now to prevent lime scale buildup in my new water heater, something that I should’ve done 20 plus years ago. In fact that’s the reason why I’m replacing my 40 gallon tank type natural gas water heater with the tankless natural gas water heater. The tank type has been filling up with lime sludge and it has required me to keep turning up the water temperature to have an adequate supplies to get through a medium length shower. Prior to my having radio frequency ablation procedures an extremely hot and long shower was one of the few things that gave me relief from my cervical pain. I’d come out of the shower looking as red as a lobster in my neck area. After getting these procedures done I’m no longer taking neck roasting showers and I’m down to less than 20% of the opioids that I once took. So that justified the replacement of my more than 20 year old hot water heater although I could’ve gotten by far less expensively with a tank type replacement, but thought this is the time to go tankless if I was going to as long as I was replacing the water heater. As to replacing my washer the one that I bought used 2 years ago has been eating my cotton prefolds and contours (even new diapers were coming out ripped and torn) so to stop this and to get a washer that gets my diapers clean, SAFELY, I’m replacing it with a HE top loader with a 4 way agitator and a matching dryer. That’s why I’m asking if any other cloth diaper users are using an HE machine and if they do what detergent are they using. With my old machine I used Tide Original powder which I had found to work the best for my cloth diapers. I used to believe that you needed a certain level of suds on the wash water to get the to effectively clean them, but from what I understand this much suds will cause an HE machine to add water and additional rinse cycles. That’s not a big issue with me as I generally add more water to my wash cycle and an additional rinse cycle to insure detergent residue is eliminated. So do any of you cloth diaper wearers use a HE machine and if you do what HE detergent do you use in your HE machine? If you do use HE detergent what brand have you had the best luck with? Thanks, I’ve got to get back to my plumbing and installation activities now, I surely hope it’s worth the effort and cost!