FRONT LOADER

The front loader is becoming more popular in homes and it operates using a drum that sits horizontally in the machine. It does not have an agitator like a top loader but rather uses gravity to drop the clothes back into the water as the drum turns. To fill and empty the machine, you open the door on the front of the unit. One of the biggest advantages of the front loader is its energy efficiency. Most front loaders have excellent energy ratings as they use around a third of the water that a top loader uses. Also, because there is no agitator, you can generally do larger loads of washing, so that you don?t have to do as many. Front loaders also spin faster than a top loader during the spin cycle, so that your clothes are drier straight out of the machine ? meaning less time on the line or in the dryer.

Semi Loader

A semiautomatic machine, by contrast, requires that a human control and oversee the process of adding and draining water. Aside from that, the basic principle is the same: moving clothes around in water and detergent until they are clean, and then spinning them until they are partly dry. Most, if not all, semiautomatic machines are top-loading, meaning you put the clothes in the top of the machine.