Cold wash doesn't work well. The only option to cold wash is to use water level 4 and select cotton wash. It starts off by saying 60 minutes which is normal but then proceeds to have things come up like A9, A8, A7 etc in time remaining and then goes onto say 98 minutes. 98 minutes is far too long for a small load but you can't change it and it constantly stops and starts. Other washing options are fine as it automatically detects how much washing is in there etc and that works fine but I'm a household where I cant afford to run a hot wash everyday but I also don't want to run a machine for 98 minutes everytime I do a relatively small load. So good machine but you can't use cold wash effectively so you would be paying out an arm and a leg for power bills each month due to having to hot wash any washing you have.