New washing machine - options please

veryintrigued

scotsman4th wrote: »

In this day and age? :eek:
We just leave them out the front and the appliance fairies have them away in no time.

We popped the old one to a scrap merchants this morning and got £16.

veryintrigued

Some great advice here - thanks all so far. Will hopefully be ordering tomorrow after a day of research!!

mikeandrach_2

hotpoint an dindesit are not reliable, and they havent just become part of the same group, they always have been the same, part of merloni. bosch are not great these days, cheaply built in spain not germany as they used to be. which reccommend beko, which is a bit like a turkey voting for christmas but as some people seem to live their lives by which i thought id mention it. at the cheaper end i personally would say hoover, but zanussi are worth a look too. in 12yrs as a store manager for currys i would only put my own money on an lg or a miele. personally i went for lg, as they are quieter then miele and in my experience i had more fualty mieles than lg's, despite selling less mieles. hotpoint/indesit come with a pretty uniqure guarantee though, they will let you down. sadly with wahsing machines, buying cheap does mean buying twice, ive seen it time and time again over the years, but if you can stretch teh budget a little the difference in quality is huge, and i do mean truly huge. i didnt enjoy spending th ebest part of £800 on a machine, but i do know over the course of the next 15years the odds are iw ill be massively quids in.

eslick

hotpoint were taken over years ago, indesit took a 50% stake in 2001 and bought it out in 2007

We bought all new hotpoint appliances 8 years ago.

Our hotpoint washer would have an engineer out at least once a year, just after a year old there was an massive bang and two of the retaining bolts that keep the concrete slab on top of the drum came off. Customer Service and their Managing Director told us it couldnt have been a manufacturing fault and we would need to pay for the engineer to come out. The fridge has had 6 of the milk shelves, the brackets that hold them to the doors shatter. We had 2 dishwashers from them, both flooded the kitchen at less than a year old, the company we bought them from replace the first but after the second kept on breaking down we gave up and bought a Siemens, 5 years old and touch wood never had a problem.

hopeless the brand isnt what it used to be, just google it and you will see

stone7

6kg Samsung with £130 off HERE.

Best Buy also take your old machine away for free.

Kathy535

I had an Indesit Washing Machine which lasted 25months. The customer service was terrible and while I'm prepared to concede I might have been unlucky with the machine I got and others will have had better experiences, I would never ever buy Indesit again simply because of the unwillingness to help and the downright rudeness of some staff.