Washer dryer recommendations?

getmore4less

HappyMJ wrote: »

I just had a look at the manual and the Quick cycle only takes half the washing (3kg) of the full cycle which is 6kg. I suppose one advantage is I can set it to dry as well and don't have to pull out half the load when the washing bit is finished.

They say that, but you can still load up the drum just don't pack it solid

6kg would be a load of at least 20 shirts(mix of T and regular)

if you can fully auto the wash/dry that make sense to do as you can just leave it.

GaleSF63

chelseablue wrote: »

I'd love to buy separate but there is not room in my kitchen (oh how I dream of buying a house with a utility room!)

Is there anywhere in a bedroom you can put a dryer? You could cover it with a table cloth and it could double as a bedside table - particular if it's a smaller one.

dragonette

I got a new washer/dryer when I moved in last summer. Its a fairly high capacity - 7kg wash and 5kg dryer. Has a 32 min cycle, and a choice of sensor or time determined dryer cycles.

Would have been ecstatic to recommend it before Tues - but I suspect its being huffy as some pipes have been knocked or something. Its a Candy Elise, was about £100 and its a fantastic wee machine. If it works fine as soon as someone else comes to look at it, I'll be back to let you know

got mine from ao.com, but I'm shopping around should find you the best price

tomtontom

What a bizarre thread - OP asks for recommendations, and instead gets people blindly diagnosing what is wrong with the current one!

OP, I've got this one. Nothing fancy but does what it should

belfastgirl23

My experience was that everything came out of the washer dryer wrinkled, no matter how careful I was not to overload it. In the end only useful for underwear as everything else got so creased I couldn't look at it. Not great for drying bedding either (one sheet at a time). I agree with the others, it isn't the answer to your problem!

dragonette

Mine is working again candy alise - what sold it for me was the 32 min cycle, and is spin goes up to 1400rpm, so even without using the dryer function, things come out half dry.

I'm so grateful I got a combo, it's been hard enough keeping on top of washing while ill. Would be impossible without the extra ease of a dryer on the bad days

HappyMJ

tomtontom wrote: »

What a bizarre thread - OP asks for recommendations, and instead gets people blindly diagnosing what is wrong with the current one!

OP, I've got this one. Nothing fancy but does what it should

It's a decent 4 year old machine. Whatever is wrong with it is very unlikely to be beyond economical repair and worth fixing. This site is called moneysavingexpert. There's no point wasting money on something that does half the work in twice the time of the current machine and will probably last less time than just fixing what is already there.

I was just offering my opinion and advice. I have a washer dryer provided by the landlord in my flat so was just offering my experience of them.

The review of the washer dryer that you have referred to are awful. It has many of the same problems as my Bosch machine. The full wash and dry cycle takes forever (6 hours), the dryer function is terrible either destroying clothes, getting them scorching hot and clothes come out badly creased. All the reviews say the washing part is great.

edit: this is the machine that I have and it is quite a good machine http://ao.com/product/wkd28350gb-bosch-exxcel-washer-dryer-white-21327-2.aspx It's not cheap but there are no bad reviews of it. It did break down a few weeks ago. The machine stopped spinning. This is a normal and expected break down on a washer dryer. It was the carbon brushes that had worn out. Carbon brushes are the electrical connection to the motor and as the motor is running so much more they will wear out much faster on a washer dryer needing replacement before the machine has reached the end of it's useful life. That was around £50 to repair. It would have cost the landlord at least £50 just to scrap it and pay for the delivery and installation of a new machine (let alone the cost of a new machine itself) so well worth repairing. You could expect to carry out this repair every 5 years or so (used 200 times per year) on any washer dryer that you buy as the life of the carbon brushes is about that long.

Sod's law will mean that this expected break down will happen the Friday before a bank holiday weekend so you can't even log a call until the Tuesday and it'll take the engineer another 2 days to arrive and you'll be without a machine for a week, it'll happen during a cycle and you will have a machine full of soaking wet clothes that you can't spin dry.

Savvy_Sue

Either August or September Which reviewed washer driers, so get to the library and look at the reviews.

However, as well as considering the heated airers from Lakeland, I have friends who dry their clothes on an airer with a dehumidifier running in the room. They say it's very quick and much cheaper than tumble drying.

FreddieFrugal

I'm sure someone may have already said this:

My recommendation would be not to buy a washer/dryer. They're less efficient than the single machines. More prone to malfunctions and breakdowns because of added complexity.

If you can get two seperate machines that would be best.

Don't buy Indesit or hotpoint, it'll probably explode.

Go on ao.com and look at what's available and best buys. AO have very good delivery and price match. Usually have cashback too.

FreddieFrugal

GaleSF63 wrote: »

Is there anywhere in a bedroom you can put a dryer? You could cover it with a table cloth and it could double as a bedside table - particular if it's a smaller one.

:rotfl:

You could put the microwave on top and use it as container to store your underwear in when not in use for cooking!