Haier HWF85KW1
8.5 kg front loader, priced from $624 at the retailers tracked (checked 28 Oct 2026). 5 stars, 185 kWh a year (about $59 at 32¢/kWh), 595 mm wide by 565 mm deep.
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Prices, key specs and fit
Prices
| Appliances Online | $624 | Check price |
| The Good Guys | $649 | Check price |
| Bing Lee | $649 | Check price |
Prices checked 28 Oct 2026. Retailers may change prices during the day.
Key specs
- Capacity
- 8.5 kg
- Load type
- Front
- Width
- 595 mm
- Depth
- 565 mm
- Height
- 850 mm
- Labelled cycle
- 5 h 00 m
- Water stars (WELS)
- 4.5
- Energy stars
- 5
- Energy a year
- 185 kWh
- Cost a year at 32¢/kWh
- $59
- Cost per wash
- about 16c
- Manufacturer's warranty
- 2 Years
- Made in
- China
- Registration no.
- ACW1713
Size, weight, spin, noise, water, series and warranty figures, where the registry is silent, come from retailer listings and manufacturers' own product pages, checked 28 Oct 2026.
Depth is the cabinet figure and leaves out hose and tap clearance behind the machine.
Will it fit
The cabinet measures 595 mm wide, 565 mm deep and 850 mm high, from the register and retailer spec sheets. Enter the space it has to go in.
Not included. These are cabinet figures. Manufacturers state a ventilation clearance per model in the installation instructions; a figure typed into the Clearance box applies to both sides, the back and the top. No clearance figure for this model is held here, so the answer above allows none until one is entered.
Manuals and guides
These links go to Haier's own site. One guide often covers several models, so check the model number on the document reads HWF85KW1 before relying on its figures.
Price history
Checked daily since 8 Sept 2026. Lowest recorded: $518 (The Good Guys, 23 Oct); highest: $714 (Appliances Online, 17 Oct).
Appliances Online · Bing Lee · The Good Guys
One line per retailer, stepped where the daily check recorded a change. Prices exclude delivery and promotions.
How it compares
- Best price $624 against a median of $1,149 for similar machines with current prices.
- 565 mm deep; 13 of the 78 with a listed size sit shallower.
- 185 kWh a year against a median of 244 across the 110 other front loaders within a kilo of its size; 3 of them use less.
- Labelled cycle 5 h 00 m; the median for similar machines is 4 h 53 m.
Listed at #7 on The cheapest washing machines in Australia; #4 on The most efficient front loaders (7.5–10 kg); #2 on Front load washers under $1,000, ranked by running cost.
Front loaders by price and capacity
None of the other 66 front loaders with a current price costs less than the Haier HWF85KW1 and holds at least as much.
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Figures trace to this machine's entry (ACW1713) in the Australian Government's energy-rating database, and to retailer checks on the dates shown. Energy and cycle figures are from the government's labelled test program, which assumes one warm wash a day; household bills vary with use and tariff.