Ladies, can we talk washing machines please?

aliasojo

Spendless wrote: »

How often do you pop it in the wash? if it's frequently then certainly take into account what you are looking for. if you only wash it occassionally and another WM fits the bill other than the capacity size, would taking duvet to a laundrette do?

Laundrettes here are rarer than hen's teeth these days, I'd be looking at a sizeable round trip up the motorway.

I would really prefer to wash my duvet more often than it gets washed at the moment. I'm getting to that age, you know, the one where you get hotter at night than you do sat on a beach in Barbados.

sunshinetours

aliasojo wrote: »

I'm not sure tbh. I was thinking around £500/£600 ish for the washing machine, £300 ish for the dryer and maybe £200/£250 for each of the larder fridge and freezer. All amounts are flexible to a certain extent.

When I said rental property, I meant were were in one, not that were were furnishing one for the rental market iyswim. I have no idea as of yet just how long we will be in this place or where we will end up or in what type of house so everything is very much up in the air right now. All I know is that I need these appliances now and the washing machine needs to be of a decent spec, the tumble dryer need to be a condenser and the fridge needs to be less than 57cm wide.

I have Siemens and Bosch appliances in our own home that we left for our son to use whilst he is staying there. I half feel like going to get them and replacing them with Beko things. I'm not sure he'd appreciate the difference.

Ah sorry misunderstood!
Big thumbs up for Siemens for me. now have FF, washing machine and dishwasher as they have gradually all needed replacing. The 5 year parts AND labour warranty that they sometimes offer is well worth it for piece of mind. their website tells you which models are covered at which time

£500/£600 will get you a low/mid range Siemens but £300 may struggle with dryer of same make

Fridge and freezer I would consider spending less on and stretch your tumble dryer budget - reason - they are much lower tech type appliances and less prone (he says!) to failure than a washing machine or dryer

Don't car how many fancy feature a Hotpoint has wouldn't touch one ever again with a barge pole and neitehr would many in the trade

My advice is to find aone or two local indepenedents and go in with your specs and see what they recommend and then get them to price match best prices in the internet. This is exactly what our local one did and why we ended up with Siemens and also why we will return there for any future appliances

As a MSE site i would also consider whether you can retrieve any appilance you already have from home. Would your son use a dryer or freezer for instance?

aliasojo

pulliptears wrote: »

Mine is on a tile floor. Can't understand that comment though as it doesn't move at all when it spins, its so incredibly quiet we barely hear it.

The direct drive motor is quieter and less agressive than a belt drive.

Example....

From shortly after I bought this machine it has been producing a 'Load unbalanced' error whenever it reaches the spin part of the cycle. I have had an engineer out twice. The first time he replaced the PCB board but the error still recurred. The second time he was parked illegally and so did not examine the machine; he told me he would report to LG that he couldn't fix it and they should replace the machine and I should wait for them to call me. After waiting a week on top of the several weeks I have already spent trying to sort this out, I called LG to be told that the machine was not on an appropriate surface and that therefore the job had been closed and they would take no further responsibility for the machine uness I test it on a concrete surface.

Taken from the Which site.

aliasojo

sunshinetours wrote: »

As a MSE site i would also consider whether you can retrieve any appilance you already have from home. Would your son use a dryer or freezer for instance?

Yes, without doubt. He works very long shifts and has little free time so needs his work stuff washed/dried quickly and he tends to shop and stock up freezer/cupboards to avoid having to shop often.

Tropez

aliasojo wrote: »

Tropez / pullip....are your LG machines on concrete floors or wood floors? I've been reading of people whose machines wont spin properly because they are off balance and LG wont entertain them because they are not on solid floors.

Originally it was on the laminate flooring in the kitchen and it worked fine. It was there for about 8 months or so.

I have since been forced to move it into the utility room as I needed the space in the kitchen and the utility room has a solid, concrete floor.

Tropez

aliasojo wrote: »

I have Siemens and Bosch appliances in our own home that we left for our son to use whilst he is staying there. I half feel like going to get them and replacing them with Beko things. I'm not sure he'd appreciate the difference.

After the whole thing about Beko freezers catching fire, I know I wouldn't be happy about it! :rotfl:

pigpen

gratefulforhelp wrote: »

Just got one, so far it's ace. I keep loading it and thinking it can't possibly take any more, and it tells me it's only 2/3 full.

Ok.. I hate you... passionately ... I am ebaying madly to buy one.. £312 and counting!

aliasojo wrote: »

It was one of the new Aqualtis machines I had been considering. Perfect spec for my needs, just wary of the brand. Hotpoint haven't really been good to me in the past.

Dont do it!!! Some of the reviews are shocking.. i know people write a review as a way to complain but on the Amazon site Hotpoint have hundreds of complaining reviews and the LG had 3

Ask a washing machine engineer which make they never go repair .. they usually say.. dont buy hotpoint but xxxxx is good.

gratefulforhelp_2

pigpen wrote: »

Ok.. I hate you... passionately ... I am ebaying madly to buy one.. £312 and counting!

I knew that:rotfl:

Good point to ask an engineer, I rang them up and asked if they could fix LGs, and they said yeah fine, after my experience with SMEG (well named) dishwasher.

Consider this - launderette cost to wash kingsize duvet £8, quoted cost per cycle on this machine (11kg one) 24p:j

pavlovs_dog

as a real curve ball out of left field, as your current rental is a stop gap (or intended as such at present), have you looked into the costs of renting a WM and drier, assuming that there is a company out there servicing your part of Scotland?

i have absolutely no idea about the costs or contracts or how much choice you'd get with regards to spec of machine. Just putting it out there as something to consider.

KiKi

I'm another one voting for Zanussi / Bendix. I have a Bendix washer dryer that I bought for around £400. On my second, but only because I sold the first one with the property when I moved. Bought another one, still going very strong after six years, no issues, no problems, great washing and very solid build.

Don't know if they do one with your spec, but the make is fantastic, and my local independent store (which only sells industrial-strength brands, rather than home brands) said it was a great make for performance and consistency.

HTH a bit.
KiKi