17.6LBS Washing Machine

Update: I have had this for a couple weeks now and figured out some "hacks" and tips. I place this in my tub and found no issue with that. I use our bathroom sponge to balance the machine and ease vibrations. I also went to my hardware store and bought a showerhead diverter, a 30-in 1/2" faucet supply hose, and a brass "barbed" adaptor. *Ensure these all connect in the store before purchase!* Sadly, 8 forgot the hose that came with the package, but I zip-tied it a couple times to get a decent seal. I always leave a little slack so any stray leaks don't get on the machine. Makes life easier just turning on the shower and filling/rinsing the machine this way. Cost of this was $30 but worth it! I am a 6'5" guy and I threw my back out filling the machine over and over. Plus, you can do a rinse and spin to get the suds out. With this machine, you must always think "less is more" and if it looks like enough, it's already too much. A decent load, to measure, is whatever can fit in the spin basket plus a one extra, light thing. When the wash cycle is going, you want to see a vortex... a whirlpool effect. If your clothes are floating and spinning at the top struggling to be washed, you've overloaded. Pull out items one by one until you get that whirlpool. You can spin and wash at the same time. The spinner drains regardless of the middle knob is set to drain, and if you overfill the wash tub it will drain whatever overflows. Plan this accordingly. Noise is compareble to an AC unit, and there are vibrations depending on where you place it and how level it is. I use a sponge balance and absorb some vibrations. Not fancy, but works. I reuse my hot water, topping off the wash tub each time. The water may look gross but it's fine as there's soap already in it. Dry cleaners reuse their chemical wash hundreds of times over and your clothes come out fine, plus you'll rinse it all. My whites come out whiter than the commercial washers too, so you're saving money and resources. I'm still very happy! *** Where do I start? Well, I have spent a good portion of the few weeks looking at portable washing solutions as my apartment does not have a washer set-up, and I got tired of using the public washers in my apartment community. All the coins needed, going back and forth, waiting for machines to open, ensuring I had enough quarters at the time, and the entire day had to be devoted to laundry more often than not. So, I shopped around, reading reviews and watching videos of different machines. This one stuck out as it's reasonably affordable and does a great job, according to reviews. I live in the Bay Area and this ships for Los Angeles, so I got it within a couple days (excluding a holiday and weekend). The box was in good shape and unclipped the ties. A whiff of "new plastic" and staring in awe, there it was, just as in the pictures. Unboxing was easy, unclip the ties and lift the top part off. A brand-new washer! I grabbed the instruction manual and flipped through it. As other have joked on here, it's in Engrish with such gems as "choke the dial" and "put staff not under." I tossed it aside because it's useless, most reviews give you the rundown. Here's mine, if you need it: Step 1: Place a splash of soap, no more than a heaping tablespoon's worth or the soap will take forever to rinse out. You don't need to measure, but just guess and be cautious. Step 2: Place clothing in machine, one item at a time. Sort your items keeping towels in one load, basics in another, denim in another, and so on. Fill the machine just over half full with basics. Towels and denim should be washed in smaller loads as they're heavier fabrics. Step 3: Ensure middle dial is set to "Normal" or "Soft" and fill with water. The "inlet hose" is useless out of the box as you need an adaptor that the manufacturer assumed you had. One end has a rubber gasket and the other end does not. The gasket end is the part that would go to an adaptor, the gasket-less end goes to the machine. Why? Because if you hook the gasket to the machine, it's harder than heck to get it off without nearly destroying the hose. During the inaugural load, I did not have an adaptor, so I filled the wash basin with a bucket. Fill just slightly over half-full, any more will splash out during the agitation cycle. Step 4: Check to see of the machine is plugged in. I forgot to do this and sat there confused. Turn the "Wash" dial to 15 minutes and the machine will hum to life. Let the machine do its thing and come back when it is done. It doesn't make any alarm when it's done, just so you know. Step 5: You may come back to, what I would describe as a burning smell. I was alarmed at first but nothing was wrong, it's "new motor smell." Turn the middle dial to drain and the water will come pouring out of the drain hose. There is no pump, so try to have the machine elevated or set in your bathtub. Step 6: Open the spinner basin and place a few items in, ensuring that it evenly loaded (about half of the wash load). Place the plastic insert in the bin on top of the laundry, close the lids. Is the middle dial still set to drain? Good. Leave it. Turn the "Spin" dial to 5. If you have the "inlet hose" hooked to an adaptor, this is where you can do a spin and rinse. If not, you can spin the suds out and wash again in clean water real fast, then repeat the spin. The machine will vibrate during the spin, and if it vibrates to a point where you think it is too much, stop the spin cycle and rearrange your items. Everything comes out damp, not wet. Like others have said: "About 90% dry." When putting away the machine, tilt it slightly toward the direction of the drainage hose to get the rest of the water out. I set the machine aside with the lids open as to prevent a musty smell in the future. I will say this: Don't overwhelm the machine. Do a couple washes and allow the machine to cool and rest for a couple hours, say, while your laundry is drying on a rack. If you overexert the machine, it will break. EEK! It's more for daily loads (every day or every other day) than for a single day of wash ("laundry day"). It's a great compact machine that gets your laundry as clean as most large washing machines. It takes a bit more effort on your part to tend to each load, but it's easier than running up and down flights of stairs, digging in the sofa for coins, and fighting over the next machine. I plan on finding a cart to place this on so I can store it easier, and find an adaptor that will fit the inlet hose. I will update this as time goes on. It's a really simple machine, gets the clothes clean, and I am saving some money from the get go compared to the few bucks it takes each wash in the laundromat.

Day One! (August 2025) Packaged well, although a few tears in outside carton (took pictures). I spent many hours (days) looking at every "manual" "portable" small washing machine (Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart, etc). Read all the one/two star bad reviews. Discounted those low-star reviews if it pertained to damaged packaging, bad delivery, leaky/broken hoses, or hoses that don't fit U.S. plumbing, etc. Not anything I care about. Just functionality. This machine on day one with a smallish test load (2 pair of men's 2XL sweatpants and one t-shirt) outside on slightly 2-degree concrete slope (think driveway that dips out to street), REALLY washed the clothes. Could have put more in, had to test the amount of clothes and water needed. Several observations: (1) one Tide pod is WAY too much soap, (2) water does splash a lot, because of slight downhill slope to concrete, the washer "wiggled", so didn't level it properly, (3) doesn't remove some cat hair (have 2 long-haired Ragdoll cats, and my brand-new Whirlpool washer doesn't do better), (4) there was a very small leak underneath and will have to see what the problem is, (5) haven't figured out how to get the filter out and clean yet, (6) the washer agitation and "dryer" spin are really good, (7) Read the 4/5-star reviews from other people on how this washer operates -- toss the little tiny booklet that comes with it -- had to use a magnifying glass to read some of the non-U.S. verbiage, (8) the water drained just fine on the concrete slope, just picked up one corner about 2 inches to see what else came out - not much, (9) AND MOST IMPORTANT TO ME -- this washer will NEVER be inside a home/dorm/apartment, etc. - only outside, and I can lift it when empty (82-year-old female). Don't believe the description that it will work inside an RV (trailer or motorhome - I've never seen an RV yet that would accommodate this inside unless in the shower - and I don't want to ruin the floor if it does leak or have to lift it in and out of the shower each time - I'll just leave it outside where we park for weeks at a time). Because we spend several months in the warmer southern states out in the desert with no hook-ups (i.e., retired seniors), I wanted a washer I could manually fill outside and drain. To fill, I will be using empty cat litter plastic jugs and draining on the nearby cactus and shrubs. I'll fill a lot of these jugs when we fill the RV tank in town. We hold 90 gallons in the tank and I can add some hot water in one jug, but usually wash in cold anyway. I've only done one smallish load, but the machine seems quite sturdy (although "rocks" when agitator is going) and drained okay. It will take one queen bed sheet at a time, and probably several more clothing items than the one load it did an hour ago. In case there were problems from the beginning, I didn't want to overload the washer on the first cycle. So far with just the one small load, I like it and for the several months we live in our motorhome, I won't have to haul clothes back and forth to a laundramat (wait for people to finish their laundry, get quarters, wait inside for a couple of hours, and sometimes get really dirty washers). Once we get to our southern destination (November 2025), and get set up, if there are any more concerns, I'll add to this review, but can't fault anything so far (other than small underside leak which I think is just coming from the hose hookup.

This is just my honest opinion. I’m only leaving a review because I rely on reviews before buying items on Amazon. So, I’m just trying to help out the next person who can relate. This item came in pretty dirty on the inside, which I thought was weird but soap and water fixed that. I live in apartments and it’s pretty loud, so I try not to use it too early or too late in the day. This is my second time using it - I had a regular size hamper full of clothes along with three full bed sized sheets I needed to wash. I started around 8am and ended around 2ish pm. (I was washing dishes, cleaning my apartment and working on hw in between). Very portable, and not heavy. I was able to lift it onto my kitchen counter (for the elevation) and I just stand on my kitchen chair while I’m using it. To get the water in, I just used buckets for now. The hose it came with is too small for my sink. I’m waiting for my detachable shower head to come in so I can just input the water from there and drain the water in my tub. Washing: For my clothes, if it’s heavy like work pants or jackets, I put only about 3-5 items and it worked well. For regular items like socks and underwear or light shorts and shirts, I was able to fit it about 8-10 items. Really depends on your clothes. But just know the spinner side will only fit half of what you washed. Example: I put 4 work pants to wash, but when I put them in the spin side, one two fit. For my bed sheets, two were super thin and I was able to wash both together but had to spin them separately. I washed a bedsheet that was thicker and had to wash and spin it on its own. Spinner: it’s true what they say. It won’t dry your clothes completely but it depends on the material. Some of my clothing came out dry and some didn’t. Whatever didn’t, I just hung up and opened the windows and by the end of the night - everything was dry. Overall, I love how this machine washed everything. On the first drain, the water was gross but after the second drain, the water came out nice and clean. The spinner does it’s job and spins most of the water out of your soaking wet clothes to 85% dry. Steps I used: I wash my clothes on “normal” with detergent first (left side) for about 12 min, drain the water, then throw my clothes in the spinner (right side) for about 2 min, then throw clothes back to (left side), put the cycle to “normal” to wash with fabric softener for about 12 min, drain water, then back to the spin side for about 5 minutes to finish off. Tips: 1. Use only a little bit of detergent and fabric softener. 2. Don’t over do it. It’s a small machine so it’s obvious that only a certain amount of items will fit. 3. Clean out your filter after you are done using the washer side (left side) 4. Wipe the inside of your machine down (on the spinner side there will be hair, lint from clothing and whatnot), and keep the lids up and open so it can dry out. One thing I didn’t like at all - there’s a weird smell that comes from the machine while you use it, it made me a bit dizzy and nauseous. I’ll update this review after I’ve done a couple more washes to see if the problem continues. I hope this review is helpful!

I waited a few weeks to write a review so I could get plenty of use out of it first. My overall opinion is if you don't have a washer and dryer set for whatever reason you absolutely should get this! Especially if you are in a small space like I am. Pros: -Only takes 20 minutes run time (see cons), so even though you have to wash smaller loads, you can get quite a bit done in a reasonable amount of time. - Compact. I have it sitting in my kitchen/dining area, which is not big at all. You do have to make sure it is level, so be aware of that when planning where to put it. -MOSTLY quiet. (See cons.) -Comes with a water-filling hose and connection. I was originally holding it to my faucet (I don't have an adaptor, so I had to hold it) and it worked well enough, but honestly, filling up pitchers worked much better. -Works brilliantly on 2 gallons of water, so it doesn't take a lot per load. -EVERYTHING IS CLEAN! Cons: -Has about 5 seconds of noise and shaking at the very beginning and end of the dryer's cycle. Overall, this isn't really an issue for me, because it's such a short amount of time. -Does not completely dry. I have to hang my clothes up for a day before they are completely dry. However, it does dry MOST of the way. Much, MUCH more than I was expecting. -Getting the ratio of soap to water to clothes down takes practice, which is frustrating. -Having to have somewhere balanced for it to drain is kind of a pain, but easy enough to figure out. (I.e., it won't work in most bathtubs, because they tend to be slanted.) The drain hose works on gravity, so you have to be careful. Something to note: the instructions said powdered detergent, so I haven't been brave enough to try liquid in it yet. I do know you can use both a dryer sheet and the scent booster beads in it. Overall, I absolutely recommend it! I have been having to go to the laundromat and this thing has made my life so much easier. The money you spend on this will save you quite a bit in the long run.

This washer is excellent in quality, leaving clothes spotless. Despite its compact size, it delivers outstanding cleaning power

5/21 Update, down from 4 stars. Sigh, the Assurant warranty plan won't 'kick' in as it's still under manufacturer's warranty. Guess who will not respond. 5/10 Still love the machine BUT guess what the motor has died (and after I just left an update barely a month ago. TSK TSK TSK). I turn it on and can hear the timer ticking away but it will not spin. Reached out to Assurant, as it is clearly beyond the 30-day window. The price has gone up since I purchased, but still within the insurance plan range. I fully expect them to let me simply order a replacement, but we shall see. If they don't I shall order another one and throw down with the insurance company. Like I said still love the machine, still think it's worth the money and deserves four stars, just go ahead and spend the extra $16 for the 3-year insurance plan. 4/7 Update: OMG, okay since I spent the first 8 months using with a garden hose I never realized what the purpose of the two intake areas was for. I naively thought you attached the hose to whichever side was closest to your faucet. Nope. The one on the washer side is to fill the tub, the one on the spinner side shoots water into there. This means that you can spin rinse. Thus cutting down on the number of times I have to spin thus decreasing the amount of time I spend doing laundry. It's ridiculous how excited this makes me. Original Review Below Okay, first my dryer died. No biggie, I'm a country girl you know I had two old fashioned accordion clothes hangers so we kept right on trucking. Then my washing machine died. SIGH! I'm not dedicated enough to wash in sink/tub. As significant other and I telecommute I guess we could go au natural, BUT my 6-year-old not really gonna be happy about that. The washer died at the end of July 2018, I ordered this on August 2nd and had it within a week. To be honest the shipping box was a hot mess. Dang thing was so busted and torn we couldn't even get it into the house in the box, but the washer itself was fine. Today is April 3, 2019, so we have been using this for 8 months. The directions are completely useless, not to mention so tiny who can read what is said, but set up is not complicated. Well, it wouldn't be IF the stupid intake hose had an adapter for the sink. That is VERY important for you to realize before you order this item. I had read enough reviews and seen some clever ideas on how to work around this that I was prepared. Not to mention this was not going inside our apartment but outside on the patio, where I used with a garden hose. We bought a weatherproof tarp and covered when not in use. We were living in CO at the time. This bad girl survived the winter in the snow, rain, etc. We have since moved to N.C. and putting her outside no longer an option; fortunately the new apartment has two full baths so we can use in the front bathroom tub no problem. This, of course, meant I needed to use the intake hose or a bucket to fill her up. Yeah, I did about 5 loads using the bucket method, and while it was nice to be able to use hot water as opposed to only cold with the garden hose, my back was not amused. So here is what I did. I purchased (all items off of Amazon) a shower converter, Blue Monster Pipe Sealant tape, a plastic flex hose connector, and oh yeah I already had duct tape. I removed the shower head, slid on the converter (I wrapped some monster tape to help with any leaking, but as the shower is never used in this bathroom, the 6-year-old- takes a bath, I don't mind if a bit of water drips when in use) connected the flex hose to the converter, used a pair of scissors to cut off the metal nut/bolt (I'm not a handy person I have no idea what it's really called) on the other end and then simply slid the connector hose about 6 inches into the intake hose. Wrapped some more monster tape (sorry forgot to take a photo of that) then covered that tape with the duct tape. Voila, I can now use the shower to fill up the washing machine. Please note that while in the photos the machine is NOT in the tub, I do put it into the tub when in use. Mainly because otherwise gravity will not drain it into the tub, the exit/drainage hose rises at too high of an angle, thus requiring that I drain into a bucket. Well hello, I'm trying to avoid buckets. I can pretty easily lift the empty washer in and out of the tub for usage. THAT being said, let's talk about this baby. Significant other and I are not tiny people. He's 6 foot and about 230 lbs, I'm 5'7 and about 295 lbs. I say this so that you can get an idea of how big our clothes are and how much this will do in a load. The Typhoon, aka 6-year-old normal skinny kid. If I'm doing his clothes I can wash a week of colours in one load. He typically wears a shirt, pants and two pair of boxers (one to sleep a fresh pair to start the day) a day. The machine can handle that in one load easy peasy. If I'm doing S.O. and my laundry, well that is a bit different. Typically I can do about 5 of our shirts (think t-shirt) 2 pairs of either his or my shorts per load. If long pants are involved it depends. I mainly wear leggings so I can usually do 3 shirts and 3 leggings at a time. His pants are more like track pants and I can usually do 3 shirts and 2 pants. If jeans are involved I only do 1 pair of his jeans with 3 shirts. One thing I really like is this has a soft (in my head gentle) setting. I use that for all my underwire bras and knickers. Again I'm a big gal so the unmentionables tend to be washed as their own load. My bras are a 44/46 DD with underwire. I can usually do 3 or 4 with 5 to 6 knickers in a load. I do put them in mesh bags, but I'd do that in a traditional washer. If I'm not washing bras I can throw in S.O. boxer briefs from the week with all my knickers in one load. All of these I use the large load water line setting (FYI it's on the inside of the washer to back right. There is an S line, M line, and L line). I have washed two bath sheets and three wash clothes as a load; 1 bath towel with about 7 dish towels as a load; and I typically take everyone's socks for the week and wash them as their own load. I have also washed as a load a twin fitted sheet and a twin thin fleece blanket as a load. Our bed is a queen and I can wash the fitted sheet with two pillowcases and the flat sheet with the other two pillowcases as a load. I don't really measure the amount of liquid detergent I use, I'd guess maybe a quarter of the laundry cap. Fabric softener depending on items anywhere from a quarter to 1/2 a cap. I personally put the laundry detergent and fabric softener in first, start the water running to activate them and then put the clothes. I make sure all the clothes are wet before starting the machine. I just think it doesn't make the machine work as hard to get the cycle going if everything is already wet. If you do NOT see a whirlpool suction in the middle when it is churning, you have overloaded and you need to remove some items. I typically wash for 15 minutes. Drain. Spin. You will need to do at least two spin dry cycles (sometimes three depending on the size of clothing). I then toss everything back into the washer and fill it up again with water to rinse. Why do I spin in between cycles you may ask. I personally found if I didn't then the detergent and fabric softener weren't rinsing out as well as I liked, by spinning them before the rinse it sort helps jump-start that process. I typically spin for about 90 seconds or until I no longer see water draining. Please note that you can fill up the washer machine as you are spinning clothes, this helps speed up the process. For the rinse, I typically do for 9 minutes. If I am busy doing something else I'll do for 15 minutes just for the heck of it but I find 9 works well for me. I thin spin them dry again, the same process about 90 seconds per batch, until no more water is being wrung from them. Then hang them up on my handy dandy accordion clothes dryer. In CO I would just leave outside to dry until I had time to fold and put away so never really noticed how long it took to dry. Here in N.C. since they are inside I turn my fan on them as they are drying and typically I'd say anywhere from 30 - 90 minutes (again depending on what was washed) they are dry. Plus since the fan is blowing on them, the fresh smell from the fabric softener is dispersed throughout my house, you'd swear I had been cleaning as well as doing laundry. We love the money we save on electricity by not using a traditional washer and dryer. To be fair both S.O. and I have white collared jobs so it's not like the washer is being asked to do serious cleaning for someone who does hard manual labor. But the Typhoon has rolled around in some serious mud puddles and this thing has cleaned his clothes INCLUDING his tennis shoes with no issue. I am very pleased when I see the dirty water drain out, I know that the clothes are getting clean. OH!!! Please note you will need a lint brush. You never realize how much lint a traditional dryer removes from your clothes until you no longer have one. I have two cats so all my clothes tend to be covered in cat hair to boot. I've tried some of the gadgets I've seen for portable washers to eliminate the lint, but have yet to find anything satisfactory. For quilts and heavier blankets we just take those to the complex's laundry room and wash there. That's about the only real drawback, but not enough to make me regret the purchase. The machine itself is simple enough to use, even Typhoon has done some of his own laundry. I liked it so much that in January I bought one for my mother, who had failed to tell me that she had been doing her laundry by hand for months or paying to have someone do at her local laundry mat. I had a video of both Typhoon and me doing laundry but I couldn't get the video off the phone to upload on the website. Shoot. Now since I love it so much you may wonder why not 5 stars. I docked a star for the HORRIBLE intake hose that will not fit any US sink that I have ever encounter. It would have been nice in the description for them to mention that if you wanted to use a faucet you would need to make some additional purchases. That just annoyed me, but now hopefully, if you have read all of this then you know what else you will need. In total with all the additional parts I paid less than $130 price a traditional washer and dryer and that price right there is golden. I am a Prime Member so I did not pay to ship on anything I ordered. I was a bit nervous about it breaking so to be safe I did purchase the 3-year appliance protection plan, haven't had to use it and hopefully won't need to, but I didn't want something to go kerplunk after the 30-day return window closed. Nor did I want the seller to disappear. This way my mind was at ease. It's been 8 months and I'm happy as can be.

I am SUPER greedy with my 5 star reviews but I'd give this one a 10 star if I could. I bought this to use while my full size washer was being repaired. It came in and I ALMOST returned it because my full sized was fixed. THEN there was an issue with the drain pipe from my full sized washer. SO, I opened this one. I was reallyyyy skeptical because its so light and small..I mean, my first thoughts were, "Can this REALLY possibly wash clothes and get them CLEAN?!" Uhh YES. Setting up: I have a second bathroom so I just placed the whole set up by the tub. (This can EASILY be set in and out of the tub if you wanted to do it that way) The plug in cord, water line and drain hose are all relatively short. The diameter of the water line is about nickle sized, the drain hose is about golf ball sized. (my awful measurement descriptions, sorry, lol) Its pretty cut and dry. Don't expect that water line to fit pretty much any standard faucet or water outlet. Be prepared to manually fill it with a bucket until you figure out what to connect the line to. I actually went to a hardware store and got a rubber hose and tension clamp. First use: I plug it in and put 4 full sized towels, 3 tshirts and a handful of socks in, a teeny amt of laundry soap and washed for 12 minutes. The guide says to wash fora bout 6 minutes. I went longer because i thought it wasn't going to work for just 6. Wrong again, for that load, i could have easily went for 6 minutes...10 minutes if I wanted to drag it out. To drain the water, you turn the dial from Normal to Drain. Its a gravity drain but works well. After draining the water, I rinsed them and eyeballed the spin dryer. Rinsing: There are really two ways to do this. (1) is to hook the water line to the right side of the machine and as it spins, turn the water on for about 5 seconds and then turn it off and let it spin another 15 seconds. (2) is to drain the wash, add clean water and let it run another 3 minutes then drain and spin. (IF you want to use fabric softener: drain, fill, add softener, 3min cycle, drain and rinse) The spin dryer: I dropped a towel in (soaking wet) closed the lid and turned the dial. WHOA. 15 seconds of spin and i cut it off. Opened it up and pulled a "damp" towel out. By damp, I mean, if you shower, get out and dry your hair and body off with a towel kind of damp. I was super impressed. When you spin dry, only put in 3-4 things and make sure to drop them straight into the middle so it can balance it as it starts to spin.It only takes 15-20 seconds to spin the hell out of anything you put in there. Why this timer goes up so high is beyond me. You should NEVER need to spin anything that long in this machine...unless you're using it to churn a gallon of butter. ONE LOAD: 1 min to fill, 6 min to wash, 3 min to rinse with spinner (4-5 to rinse with washer tub) TEN- TWELVE minutes for ONE load of laundry. You can NOT beat that. Overall: I am shocked. Highly impressed and I am SO glad I kept this. I have 3 daughters (ages 10-15) who LOVE changing clothes 11 times a day. This is now THEIR washing machine. 9pm and you realize you don't have your favorite skirt clean? Go wash it in YOUR machine. For my teenager, one load will hold 3 pair of uniform pants, three tops, 2 skirts, a tshirt or two and underclothes. This could be a serious game changer for dorm rooms, extended vacations and guest houses. I can't tell you how underestimated this thing is. This machine makes it ok to just wash a shirt and a pair of pants. You control the amount of water, time and soap so you aren't wasting anything. If you're on the fence about it, rest assured that this little sucker will surprise you. As a side note, those who use cloth diapers, reusable menstrual underwear or cloth feminine products, this is the PERFECT laundry machine. Its almost like it was made for it. We cloth diaper and I can easily soak, wash and strip a days worth of diapers in no time. AND it spins out the water so well that it takes MINIMAL drying time.

I love these washers! But the Durability is just not there for long turn uses I've had two of these over the years and they have worked great in a pinch. they wash better than most full-size washers I've seen/used. the design isn't bad, but the plastic is a little on the cheaper side. Where this product fails is in the washer motor the agitation is fine and the sin rate is okay but if you put any heavy clothes in it can't handle the load over time. when I had one at my apartment, we just use it for if we needed something washed fast for next day wear. But I got a new one when I got my camper and i was washing more. it worked well for about a year washing every other day and then the motor went out. The price point is good and if not seeing a lot of uses it'll last my first one lasted two years.