OMG! That is EXACTLY what happened to me!!!! It was Easter weekend and Friday night. The night before.... I was doing laundry to get it out of the way. My hubby wasn't home as he was already at the lake holding a spot for us. Well around 8 pm my daughter comes upstairs and says...."mommy there's water on the floor" well I'm packing getting stuff ready upstairs. I tell her go clean it up! She says ok. Then about an hour later she comes back and says "I can't there's too much" then I'm thinking man these kids got the icemaker stuffed with ice and it's melting from the hatch al over the floor. And how much water could it be that she can't clean. Right?!!! Well low n' behold I come downstairs and I've got water all the way to the doorway of my formal dinning! My pantry is adjacent to my kitchen/ breakfast nook. It's in an L shape and water was coming from the pantry all through the kitchen! It was a friggin' river! I could hear the washer still filling! I was sloshing through the water to the pantry and shut it off! Then took every towel in the house to sop it up! Then I stayed up to play with the washer so I could wash all the towels so my house wouldn't smell of mildew and still go camping at the lake! Then when we went home on Monday we started our search for the perfect washer!

Well I ended up buying a Front Loading washer that Monday! And I love it! It's super capacity can do a king size comforter! I can do double the loads I used to do in my top loading washer! It's practically all digital. Has specialty cycles like......pet bedding, single item, sleeping bag, throw rugs, wash care with soak, different types of fabrics just to name a few. There's more! It has a pedestal you fill with detergent and softener so u don't ever touch the stuff! It let's you know when it needs filling. It tells the dryer what load you just did so the dryer is preset already and waiting. It has a pause so you can stop it to put something in if you forget! It has a preset my cycle that you touch and it remembers your favorite setting! The only thing you actually have to put in is the bleach and clothes. It's the top of the line GE Profile with smart dispense. It has a really good energy rating too! We got money back on our electric bill! Lol! I wouldn't trade it for the world! Oh and it's Red; I just love it! I wipe it down after the last load and leave the door open for the night to air out. There's also a catch all. If you wash a ring or something small that might usually get washed away this catch all will catch it and you can retrieve said item!!!

I have a whirlpool duet front loader washer....and I hate it. Before this machine, I had a harvest gold maytag top loader that I loved. I miss it. The front loader doesn't seem to get out tough stains.....and always has a "mildew" smell to it!

I just bought a house and they left their front-loading washer and dryer. So far, I love all the different settings and supposedly they save a ton of energy and water. Fingers crossed that this is true!

We just bought a new set a couple of weeks ago and I LOVE them!! I used to think I wanted my next set to be front loaders but haven't gotten great feedback when I researched models. I saw and fell in love with the Whirlpool WTW6500WW 5.0 Cu. Ft. Top Load Washer and the Whirlpool WED6200SW 7.0 Cu. Ft. Super Capacity Plus Dryer. The washer is HE and let me tell you it gets my clothes CLEAN.