Simon & Nicky -- regarding your first point about the power going out during the middle of a wash. Why would you pull out your clothes mid-wash? In that situation do you usually pull them out and hand wash them, or do you leave them in the machine, hoping the power will come back on soon enough and long enough to allow the washing to finish? If the latter, as I suspect it is for most folks except for those stuck in zones experiencing 15-20-hr blackouts, then it wouldn't make a difference whether you had a front-loader or a top-loader....
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