Whirlpool Duet WFW9470WL Page 14 Use And Care Manual Download

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To change the preset cycle settings

Press the selector of each available setting until the desired
setting glows green.

Sanitary

Use this cycle to clean heavily soiled, colorfast fabrics. This cycle
combines a super hot water temperature and fast tumbling to help
ensure the removal of heavy soils and stains. It is recommended
that you set your hot water heater to 120 F (49 C) to ensure proper
performance during this cycle.

Whitest Whites

This cycle is especially designed for cleaning loads of soiled white
fabrics with the addition of bleach. Hot washing temperatures
assure optimal bleach activity. An additional rinse provides
optimal rinse performance to avoid chlorine residues on your
laundry. This cycle combines fast-speed tumbling, longer wash
time, and high speed spin to shorten drying time.

Heavy Duty

Use this cycle to wash loads of sturdy, colorfast fabrics, and
heavily soiled garments. This cycle combines fast-speed
tumbling, optimal wash time, and high speed spin to shorten
drying times. If the water temperature is lower than needed for this
cycle, the heater will warm the water to the optimum temperature.

Bulky Items

Use this cycle to wash large items such as blankets and
comforters. This cycle starts with a soak to thoroughly saturate
your large load. This is followed by medium wash action and low-
spin speeds to maintain load balance.

Normal/Casual

Use this cycle to wash loads of no-iron fabrics, such as sport
shirts, blouses, casual business clothes, permanent press blends,
cottons and linens, and synthetic fabrics. This cycle combines
medium-speed tumbling, high-speed spin, and a load cooling
process to reduce wrinkling.

NOTE:

For the best energy performance, use the Normal/Casual

Cycle.

Delicate

Use this cycle to clean hand washable and special-care garments.
Similar to the way garments are hand washed in a sink, the wash
action of this cycle combines periods of low speed tumbling and
soaking. CRADLE CLEAN™ motion offers gentle fabric care for
effective cleaning of delicate and hand washable garments.
Medium speed spin helps reduce wrinkling.

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Use mesh garment bags to wash undergarments such as
underwire bras, items with strings, and small items such as
infant socks.

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Quick Wash

Use this cycle to wash small loads of 2-3 lightly soiled garments
that are needed in a hurry. This cycle combines fast-speed
tumbling, a shortened wash time, and high speed spin to shorten
drying time.

Clean Washer With AFFRESH™ cycle

Use the Clean Washer With AFFRESH™ cycle once a month to
keep the inside of your washer fresh and clean. This cycle uses a
higher water level. Use with AFFRESH

washer cleaner tablet or

liquid chlorine bleach to thoroughly clean the inside of your
washing machine. This cycle should not be interrupted. See
“Cleaning Your Washer” in the “Washer Care” section.

IMPORTANT:

Do not place garments or other items in the washer

during the Clean Washer cycle. Use this cycle with an empty wash
drum.

Soak

Use the Soak cycle to help remove small spots of set-in stains on
fabrics. This cycle provides a soak time with warm or cold water
followed by drain. Extra water, a short tumbling phase for equal
distribution of the laundry, and a soaking time without drum
movement improve the removal of set-in stains. Drain without spin
assures gentle treatment, even for delicate articles.

Rinse/Spin

Use this cycle to get a rinse and spin only. This cycle combines
fast-speed tumbling and High speed spin. If desired, you can
reduce the spin speed by selecting the speed you want from the
SPIN SPEED modifier.

A Rinse/Spin cycle is useful for

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Loads that need rinsing only, like swimsuits.

NOTE:

For more delicate loads, when using a Rinse & Spin

cycle to rinse swimwear, change the Speed Spin Modifier
setting to Medium or Low to avoid fabric stress.

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Adding fabric softener to a load.

Drain/Spin

Use this cycle to drain your washer or to drain and spin your wash
load. The spin speed is preset to High. If desired, you can reduce
the spin speed by selecting the speed you want from the SPIN
SPEED modifier.

NOTE:

Loads of synthetics, delicate fabrics, hand washables, and

woolens should be drained with no spin or low spin speed to
avoid fabric stress.

Cycle

Soil Level

(cycle time)

Water Temp

Spin
Spee

Delicate

Normal

(0:40)

Warm/Cold