i used a twin tub in phil, found it just as hard as washing by hand, give me a front loader anytime,
my zanusi is well over 20 yrs old now, one of the 1st built abroad,with metal outer drum, just before they started building them here, with poor quality parts and outer plastic drum,at most youd get 5 yrs out of one now, i have never had a repair on mine yet, not even the drum door seal