Every machine I’ve used here has been different and it’s a struggle every time.
I have one load of general colored clothes, and then one load of merino wool/delicates.
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Every machine I’ve used here has been different and it’s a struggle every time.
I have one load of general colored clothes, and then one load of merino wool/delicates.
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Wish I could help but I’m a man. If it starts making noise and stops at some point I chose the correct one most likely.
You can find the instructions to most machines like this by googling the model name, which is usually shown somewhere in the front panel.
Google the digital instruction booklet of the washer manufacturer.
I faced the same problem when I moved to Finland. i just asked a LLM to create a single sheet printable translation of the different settings and what clothes can put in it and stuck it near my machine. Works pretty good so far.
Going counter clockwise from the top, short wash, wash, drain water, prewash, then pictures. Clockwise there’s something, ecowash, prewash, and a bunch of combinations I don’t understand either.
Wtf is this?
For general wash use the first one clockwise, that says cotton. For delicates, use the one labeled “hienopesu”. The one next to it is wool.
That is like the most confusing washing machine ive ever seen and ive used quite many different ones ..
I’m Finnish and I wouldn’t know what setting to use wtf is this machine 😅
The first sign is ‘cotton’. It is the main mode, 60° C.
The three circles tree sign is ‘eco, saving’ meaning extra long wash in small amount of water
+ sign is ‘extra pre-wash’, more water
The flower sign is ‘gentle’ wash, the triangle is ‘ironing’.
Then you have ‘wool’, ‘hand-wash’, ‘underwear’, ‘extra delicate’, ‘jeans’, ‘detergent, ‘softener’, ‘rinse’, ’emptying’, ‘turn drying’, ‘short turn drying’.
Go with wool sign for wool, butterfly or flower for delicates.
Flower for colored clothes you care about, cotton for colored clothes that you do not care about.
That’s what I would do.
Puuvilla = cotton. Siliävät kuidut = easy-care fibers
The machine appears to have section dedicated for these two fibers. There is also an eco program version of the fiber’s program, marked with a picture of a tree. Then both the program and eco-program have versions with a forewash (esipesu) included.
Then, hienopesu means finewash. It also has a forewash version. Then there is a special programs section, explained with pictures. On the top left, you have rinse, emptying water and short and regular spin programs. They don’t seem to be full wash programs, but if you think you want to rinse your laundry again or spin it again, you can do that.
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Left side (programs)
• Lyhyt linkous = Short spin
• Linkous = Spin
• Tyhjennys = Drain
• Huuhtelu = Rinse
Bottom / special
• Erikoisohjelmat = Special programs
• Hienopesu = Delicate wash
Right side (main programs)
• Puuvilla = Cotton
• Säästö = Eco / Energy saving
• +Esipesu = +Prewash
• Siliävät = Easy-care / Synthetics
Yo!
Where the dial is now is the “Cotton” setting – goes up to 95C. Uses a bit more water.
Next one is a water saving mode. As a dressmaker I cannot recommend this mode, it’ll ruin your textiles faster.
Cotton +Esipesu = prewash
Esipesu + water saving
The weird triangle looking thing is synthetic wash. Uses little less water, won’t go to high temps and some machines have lower centrifuge.
[Same stuff but with synthetic water/centrifuge etc settings]
Hienopesu = delicates
Knitting ball = wool wash
Hand in a bucket = handwash
Underwear wash
Finewash
Jeans wash
Just prewash
Honestly I don’t know why you have like a million delicate washes 😀 I don’t know exactly what the differences are, since I very rarely wash anything delicate. My poor bra’s get a good ride!
You need only too modes on it: puuvilla and the flower one delicates,forget about anything else.
Use Google Lens translation feature, it’s pretty handy for stuff like this. It might not give 100% correct answer, but you get the idea.
Left side
• Lyhyt linkous → Short spin
• Linkous → Spin
• Tyhjennys → Drain
• Huuhtelu → Rinse
Lower left / special items
• Paidat (shirt icon) → Shirts
• Farkut (trousers icon) → Jeans / Denim
• Perhos-icon → Delicates
• Alusvaatteet (bra icon) → Underwear
• Käsinpesu (hand in tub) → Hand wash
• Villa (yarn icon) → Wool
Bottom / center
• Hienopesu → Gentle / Delicate wash
Right side (cotton & synthetics variants)
• Puuvilla → Cotton
• Säästö → Eco
• +Esipesu → + Prewash
(So combinations like “Säästö + Esipesu” mean Eco + Prewash.)
Bottom right
• Siliävät → Easy-care / Synthetics
Bottom left text
• Erikoisohjelmat → Special programs
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Here’s my Paint effort.
At least it has an option to wash your butterflies!
ETA check the reply, my first comment didnt vome up with the pic.
Sorry for the quality, zoom in to see better. The dial is segmented for different fibers, and each segment has programs for those fibers. Please see picture for the programs. Going clockwise the segments are blue – cotton, yellow – synthetics (says siliävät – self-ironing or easycare), pink – special programs, each for different kind of garments, and green – additional functions. To the right of the dial you see the buttons and green light indicators to set wash temp and spin RPM. I’d bet that all the programs have presets for temp and spin you can modify, and also preset limits to not ruin your clothes in too hot a wash or tumultous spin.
Eco savings I take to mean a program that uses very little electricity and water. In the specials I think the swimwear might also be for very sensitive underwear, and the ‘soak?’ is just my best guess.
>Every machine I’ve used here has been different and it’s a struggle every time.
Pro tip for 2020s: Take a photo next time this happens and ask AI for translation
Are any of your clothes clover-stained? If so, you’ve got lots of options here.
Ask AI, it will help you and clarify it to you in the most simple way
You have “Puuvilla” (cotton) on the first quarter, then starting from the weird broken triangle you have “Siliävät” (wrinkless(?) clothes, as in you don’t need to iron them) for the next quarter. Then lastly “Erikoisohjelmat” (special settings/programs), which has things like wool, hand wash, bikinis ie. delicates, can’t really decipher the butterfly but above it is jeans.
Anywho, you choose the material (the one it has currently selected would be what I consider “normal”), then the temperature and the speed for the spin cycle. The only special I’d use is the wool one, maybe the delicates.