My front loader does not like towels, at all. I can do maybe 4 shower size without the machine sounding like it’s shaking apart during the spin cycle.
Back when I had a top loader, I just piled the towels in and went about my business. As a daily gym goer, I need my towels!
Try mixing in some smaller towels and washcloths or similar items. My machine does best when it’s full.
Yeah. I tried that and filled it up with socks and undershirts. Still the machine wanted to shake itself apart. I took 3 towels out and the machine worked great. Very frustrating if I have to hit a laundromat to do towels.
I just throw then in with everything else, although I would rarely have more than 2 towels in a load. My machine is high-end and quite expensive, but it takes stuff like that in its stride - it goes to some trouble to stop things clumping on one side of the drum, by doing slow back-and-forth rotations until it senses things are balanced.
I’m using the heavy-duty laundromat version that’s in my building’s laundry room, and I agree that I have no problem with towels mixed in with clothing and other items. Maybe this is because I tend not to have more than four towels in a given load, but perhaps you don’t have the best washer?
Odd. My front-loading Maytag handles towels better than any of my top-loaders ever did.
Mine too. I wash every towel in the house (basically) and it’s fine. That’s at least 10-12 bath towels.
SNIFF!!! 
I miss my MOST awesome frontloaders (I had a beautiful, not quite top of the line, but close to it, pair). I’d bought them about a year and a half before my move, and just couldn’t afford to ship them, and I needed the money from selling them to assist with the move.
What was your question? Oh yes, no I never had any trouble with towels. I could put as big a load of towels in as anything else and it was just fine and dandy. It had this funny little thing it would do to even out its load.
I use a front loading Maytag, just put in a mixture of full size and two beach towels, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
I would be sure they’re evenly distributed. As in, maybe half-folded and lying on top of one another till the machine is full; no bunching or randomly throwing them in or balling them up.
If, after that, the problem persists, google your brand name and model # and see what comes up. People may be having similar problems.
I also have no problem with a full load of towels. Maybe if you don’t have enough towels they have more of a chance to get unbalanced? I have the cheapest front loader on the market. I put towels in until I can just close the door without packing things together.
Do you have an 8 year old Kenmore? That washer has a lot of problems and what you’re talking about sounds like the beginning of one of them. It’ like the world is ending in the laundry room.
My one year old Maytag is okay with washing towels, too - I was hoping this thread would be about the way front loaders ball up the nap on towels. I have to dry my towels in the dryer instead of line drying them to fluff them up again - kind of making the energy savings moot.
Same here.
I suspect one of the bearings are bad in the wheels that the drum rides on. It is the reason I purchased a Maytag. This was 15 years ago so I don’t know if they are still as beefy but the bearings were double the size of the ones I replaced in my mom’s dryer (dealer actually had an exploded view model showing the parts).
I treat them like any other piece of clothing: dark with darks, light with lights, red with reds. No special treatment needed. I always use the cold cycle, since it’s the one required by part of my clothes and the rest come out fine with it.
OP, are you doing washes which are towels only? Do you also do washes which are underwear only, shirts only, trousers only?
I just stick them in with the rest of the washing. I’ve never heard of towels causing a problem. Are there problems with other washloads of the same weight?
I cram every towel I have in mine and don’t have any problems- it’s a three year old LG, FWIW.
BTW - not adding towels to general loads will prevent some of the little balls that clothes get from forming making your clothing look better longer.
I always do towel only loads. I use less detergent, no fabric softener (if I use that at all) and generally an extra rinse.
(I will frequently do underwear/socks/white tshirt only loads as well)
I’ve never had a problem, but then, I don’t tend to do ‘towels-only’ loads. When I do laundry (just about every weekday), I usually put in a pretty comprehensive combo of my clothes, my daughter’s and husband’s clothes, and towels and washcloths.
I’ve never had a problem, and would do a towel only wash once a week (4-6 towels or so). This is a 3 year old Bosch.
Really? Interesting. Mine’s a washer-dryer, so I like to add a towel or something else that doesn’t need to go through the dryer and take it out in between, so that I have a full washload but not a full dryer load (because drying needs a smaller load, obviously).