I’m fairly certain that Japanese apartments (at least micro ones) only have a cold water hookup for washing machines.
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NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days agoThat’s either totally wrong or depends on where you live (and the model you have). Where I’m from, that’s not a thing. Washers are connected to a cold water supply and heat the water themselves.
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Limonene@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Probably varies by area then. Around here, every washer I’ve ever owned (or used at an apartment complex) had two water lines going into it.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t think I’ve seen that anywhere in Europe at least
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Interesting. I actually wonder why we don’t have that here (Israel), since the majority of homes have sun-heated water. In the summer, the hot tap can reach scalding steaming temperatures (I’m not joking). It’s a shame to let all that free energy go to waste.
Though to be fair, I’ve lived in apartments where the cold tap is scalding hot in the summer too, because the pipe is exposed to the sun. In that case, the washer gets a free ride, whether it needs it or not!
Mormegil@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I live in austria an we also have washing machines with internal heating and you usually connect them to the cold water tap, but usually you can also just connect them to the hot water tap if you have cheap or free hot water - there are thermostat sensors inside the machine and if the water is already hot it will not heat it any more.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
But what if it’s too hot, as can be the case here?