Washing Machines under £250

ian103

We always used to buy Hotpoint / Zanusi (until we started getting reliability issues), then switched to Bosch, but brought a beko cooker for our new house- it looked / felt better made than others for the money, we have a beko freezer in the garage (due to operating temperatures) and a beko dishwasher (cost / value) - again for the money it looked better than some of the own brand stuff in the big electrical retailers sheds.

In my view you have to judge the product against the cost to buy. We had a Rangemaster cooker and it was loads better than the Beko but it was 5 times the cost - was it 5 times better - No! But if money space permitted I'd happily have either of them again.

shakeitright

bazster wrote: »

Just took delivery of one of these (except we got a black one):

http://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/p/iwd7145/indesit-iwd7145-free-standing-washing-machine

Wanting black our choice of models was limited, but it seems to work very well.

Wouldn't touch Beko with a bargepole.

So you bought an Indesit,,werent they listed as the most unreliable brand along with Hotpoint,Creda and Hoover.

nlj1520

If you have time, we got our son's washing machine from a local auction.......£50 for a Bosch. It is a bit of a gamble as it may have had faults and we had to shift it ourselves, but it has worked out fine.

cheap_charlie

Got this one at my rental property a few months ago from my landlord...for the money I have been very impressed. Had I been buying myself I'd have dismissed it as too cheap when in fact it's actually a very good machine - takes a 6kg load, has up to 1400 rpm spin and a good selection of programs, along with a digital display. Cleans really well I find.

http://www.appliancesonline.co.uk/product/WMB61431W-Beko-Washing-Machine-White-23624.aspx

katejo

shakeitright wrote: »

So you bought an Indesit,,werent they listed as the most unreliable brand along with Hotpoint,Creda and Hoover.

I have had 2 hotpoint machines. The first lasted over 12 years. The 2nd is now over 6 years. i have just donated it to a BHF shop as I am having a new kitchen but it is still in good working order and has not needed any repairs.

Sues48

cheap_charlie wrote: »

Got this one at my rental property a few months ago from my landlord...for the money I have been very impressed. Had I been buying myself I'd have dismissed it as too cheap when in fact it's actually a very good machine - takes a 6kg load, has up to 1400 rpm spin and a good selection of programs, along with a digital display. Cleans really well I find.

http://www.appliancesonline.co.uk/product/WMB61431W-Beko-Washing-Machine-White-23624.aspx

I've got that model too, my old Bosch machine died just before Christmas and as money was tight I thought I'd give it a whirl. So far I've been really pleased, my main niggle is that the drum size is a little bit small for a family, but for someone living alone it should be fine.

kwatt

Before you go buy a cheap machine, I got hacked off one day with people not putting their brain in gear before parting with their cash and wrote this...

http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/buying-advice/washing-machine/3502-washing-machine-cost-breakdown.html

I will admit, I was a tad annoyed at the time with people buying washing machines without any consideration or realisation of what they were actually paying for. When it comes to washing machines under about £350 or so, you're not getting very much machine for your money really.

HTH

K.

bazster

shakeitright wrote: »

So you bought an Indesit,,werent they listed as the most unreliable brand along with Hotpoint,Creda and Hoover.

So Indesit, Hotpoint, Creda and Hoover are listed (by whom?) as the most unreliable brands, huh? Doesn't leave much to choose from, does it?

FWIW, our last Indesit kept going for more than 10 years. The only Beko we have ever owned (a fridge-freezer) packed up terminally in just over a year.

So really I don't give a fig for your "listings", whoever compiled them.

bazster

kwatt wrote: »

Before you go buy a cheap machine, I got hacked off one day with people not putting their brain in gear before parting with their cash and wrote this...

http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/buying-advice/washing-machine/3502-washing-machine-cost-breakdown.html

I will admit, I was a tad annoyed at the time with people buying washing machines without any consideration or realisation of what they were actually paying for. When it comes to washing machines under about £350 or so, you're not getting very much machine for your money really.

HTH

K.

The fatal flaw with that rant is that you omitted to say what's actually wrong with cheap washing machines. All your rant boils down to is "they're so cheap they must be crap", which isn't much of an argument really.

kwatt

You may view it as a rant but, for a lot of people out there it's a bit of a reality check.

The fact is that, when it comes to cheap appliances there are fixed costs from which there is no escape leaving little to spend on actually building a product of any quality.

The more cost you strip out the actual build then, logic would dictate, the poorer the materials that are used, the cheaper the labour the less skilled and therefore not as good and so build quality suffers as a result.

So no, it isn't as simple an argument really. The point is to make people think about what they're actually spending their hard earned money on and what that they can reasonably expect to get in return.

If you don't understand that or choose to ignore it, that's fine.

K.