Abstract: A clothes washing and treating appliance in the form of an independently operable washing routine clothes washing machine 10 comprises an appropriately drainable clothes washer 12, clothes rinser 14 and spin dryer 16. The tubs 18 of the washer 12 and rinser 14 are each fitted ith an independently driven pulsator. The washer 12 and the rinser 14 are drainable via respective drains 28, 30 that are closable by means of valves 32 of which the discharge sides connect to a common discharge pump 36. The spin dryer 16 comprises a perforated spin drying drum 38 that is rotatably mounted inside a housing 40 fitted with a drain 42 via which water extracted from spin dried garments is removed. The machine 10 is fitted with an overhead cover 56 while its controlling is achieved via manual control switches 66, 68, 70, 72 and 74 used for switching appropriate circuitry.