How much is this cooker?

[RichB]

loughran said:

Ive had to assemble the side panels and rear grilles on a couple of Lacanche Clunys.

They are utter tat. Do not buy one.

I already did that 15 years ago hence when I move house and re-fit the kitchen I am exploring alternatives. Hence my Q about La Cornue. My guess is that Westahl are serviced by the same company as La Canche who are so laissez-faire I hate dealing with them

[IanA2]

I've had some very "interesting" experiences with Miele this last couple of weeks. I found these comments chimed with my experience:

https://www.complaintsdepartment.co.uk/miele-uk/

On the range front we have a Britannia which is ok but I'm not sure is really worth the money. If/when it packs up I'll be looking at:

http://www.nisbets.co.uk/Buffalo-6-Burner-Natural-...

[RichB]

NorthDave said:

Cant tell if serious or not..... To the guy saying about one service guy for the south - that isn't my experience.

That was me. You have to phone Lacanche at their place in Dorset, they'll say they're really busy (I wonder why?). The parts cost a fortune and - when their chap came 2 weeks ago - he told me that since another chap retired, he is now the only authorised service chap covering the whole south of the country. He lives in Wales and was doing a job in Richmond before coming to me in Maidenhead and then driving all the way back home to Wales. Perhaps he made the whole story up but I don't think so.

In the 15 years I've owned it it's had: 1 new grill element (left side), new oven element (right side), new fan, now door seals, new hinges both sides, new hinge rollers one side. Oh and all the temperature markings have work off the face plate. They now engrave them because they recognised the problem but being an older one the markings were just put on with what looks like Letraset! I called to see if they could offer a fix but I wasn't prepared to pay over £200 for a new face plate.

Looks great but built like a 2CV.

[hairyben]

IanA2 said:

I've had some very "interesting" experiences with Miele this last couple of weeks. I found these comments chimed with my experience:

https://www.complaintsdepartment.co.uk/miele-uk/

Yes I've a couple of clients very unhappy with newer miele gear, very much trading on past rep. but who isn't? (Theres a thread.) Fitted an oven for someone the other day who specified a bosch of a few options I gave her and I honestly personally thought she'd just paid £100 over brand x for the nameplate.

[IanA2]

hairyben said:

IanA2 said:

I've had some very "interesting" experiences with Miele this last couple of weeks. I found these comments chimed with my experience:

https://www.complaintsdepartment.co.uk/miele-uk/

Yes I've a couple of clients very unhappy with newer miele gear, very much trading on past rep. but who isn't? (Theres a thread.) Fitted an oven for someone the other day who specified a bosch of a few options I gave her and I honestly personally thought she'd just paid £100 over brand x for the nameplate.

In your opinion, who makes the best dishwashers? I'm leaning towards John Lewis with a five year guarantee. To replace the existing almost dead john Lewis which has lasted 10 years so far.

It's about £350 but happy to spend more if it's worth it.

[loughran]

NorthDave said:

loughran said:

Ive had to assemble the side panels and rear grilles on a couple of Lacanche Clunys.

They are utter tat. Do not buy one.

Cant tell if serious or not.....

Seriously serious, I can see nothing to commend these stoves. If they were £800 then perhaps the look would lift them above the competition..... but they cost four grand. For the last couple of years, whilst we've been doing the house up, we've used a 50 year old Tricity Tiara which is far superior in it's construction to anything Lacanche are cobbling together.

[NorthDave]

anonymous said:

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I honestly can't reconcile either of the above negative experiences with mine but we are all different and you pay your money and make your choice!

[hairyben]

IanA2 said:

In your opinion, who makes the best dishwashers? I'm leaning towards John Lewis with a five year guarantee. To replace the existing almost dead john Lewis which has lasted 10 years so far.

It's about £350 but happy to spend more if it's worth it.

Whatevers cheap and disposable, you won't be hopping mad when it breaks then. I see john lewis bundle 3 year warranties on theirs. I struggle to recommend anything. I'd go maybe AEG in preference to bosch/neff but they're not without complaints, perhaps less though. Panasonics stuffs great IMO but they dont market the dishwashers here as we're too hung up on ze germans being the be-all-end-all.

Currently I'm using £30 worth of cheap nasty noisy secondhand proline which looks like outlasting my integrated bosch which decided 3 years was quite and checked out.

oh yeah and siemens (which is tarted up bosch anyway) seem quite proud of all the av scamera stuff they produce too so even if they were on the list they'd be boycotted on principle.

[IanA2]

hairyben said:

IanA2 said:

In your opinion, who makes the best dishwashers? I'm leaning towards John Lewis with a five year guarantee. To replace the existing almost dead john Lewis which has lasted 10 years so far.

It's about £350 but happy to spend more if it's worth it.

Whatevers cheap and disposable, you won't be hopping mad when it breaks then. I see john lewis bundle 3 year warranties on theirs. I struggle to recommend anything. I'd go maybe AEG in preference to bosch/neff but they're not without complaints, perhaps less though. Panasonics stuffs great IMO but they dont market the dishwashers here as we're too hung up on ze germans being the be-all-end-all.

Currently I'm using £30 worth of cheap nasty noisy secondhand proline which looks like outlasting my integrated bosch which decided 3 years was quite and checked out.

oh yeah and siemens (which is tarted up bosch anyway) seem quite proud of all the av scamera stuff they produce too so even if they were on the list they'd be boycotted on principle.

I've heard that JL's are badged AEG's. Don't know if that's true. So probably the JL with the 5yr warranty is the way to go. You can spend a hell of a lot more than £350 on one of these damn things.

[Countdown]

IanA2 said:

I've had some very "interesting" experiences with Miele this last couple of weeks. I found these comments chimed with my experience:

https://www.complaintsdepartment.co.uk/miele-uk/

The thing is, that's a Complaints website. So you are only going to get complaints on it. And I'm guessing that only people who are seriously p155ed off with [Insert product name] are going to log it on that particular website. Although funnily enough Neff and AEG don't have any comments so maybe I've disproven my own point....

We have a few miele appliances (washing machine, diswasher, vacuum cleaner). Never used the dishwasher, Washing machine cost £80 to fix, and VC works perfectly. All 3 seem better built than previous Indesit, Hoover/Hotpoint, and Phillips stuff. We used to buy Vax vacuum cleaners which used to break down on a regular basis

[IanA2]

Countdown said:

IanA2 said:

I've had some very "interesting" experiences with Miele this last couple of weeks. I found these comments chimed with my experience:

https://www.complaintsdepartment.co.uk/miele-uk/

The thing is, that's a Complaints website. So you are only going to get complaints on it. And I'm guessing that only people who are seriously p155ed off with [Insert product name] are going to log it on that particular website. Although funnily enough Neff and AEG don't have any comments so maybe I've disproven my own point....

We have a few miele appliances (washing machine, diswasher, vacuum cleaner). Never used the dishwasher, Washing machine cost £80 to fix, and VC works perfectly. All 3 seem better built than previous Indesit, Hoover/Hotpoint, and Phillips stuff. We used to buy Vax vacuum cleaners which used to break down on a regular basis

You may be right. I posted it because it rang absolutely in tune with the most outrageously bad CS I've had for a very long time. It flabbered me gast. They simply ignored me me for over a week despite time sensitive nature of the issues and my daily reminders. It was only after I wrote to the CEO that they replied. Fulsome apologies sure, but still a pretty limp response that did not resolve matters. To say that I found them to be even worse than the new shiny improved JL Crapita CS would not be a stretch.

Edited by IanA2 on Saturday 10th December 22:10

[klmhcp]

Welshbeef said:

klmhcp said:

'A simple question' equates to 'I saw my mate has one of these and didn't ask him how much as I was jealous and didn't want him to know I was impressed - I phrase this as 'stroking his ego'' which enables us to assess your character.

I cannot imagine a situation where a friend of mine has bought something that I'm interested in but rather than ask the friend, I ask the internet for fear of inflating my friend's ego. For me, friendship doesn't work like that.

Merry xmas to you too, I hope you enjoy it with friends.

Why do you assume jealousy?
Just because I liked the look of a widget doesn't mean I want it - in this specific instance I appreciate it and that is all not really the taste of oven we'd have (note I'd have little say in oven choice anyway that's down to the boss).

Jealousy doesn't need you to want the thing.

[Downward]

Looks very industrial.

[Monkeylegend]

swerni said:

But you miss the point. Welshy is trying to show everyone that he has wealthy friends.
Either that or google has stopped working

I always think if him as the John Prescott of Pistonheads.

[Welshbeef]

Monkeylegend said:

I always think if him as the John Prescott of Pistonheads.

No thanks I'm a Tory voter life long.

[Monkeylegend]

Welshbeef said:

Monkeylegend said:

I always think if him as the John Prescott of Pistonheads.

No thanks I'm a Tory voter life long.

I wasn't thinking in terms of his political persuasion.

[Welshbeef]

Monkeylegend said:

I wasn't thinking in terms of his political persuasion.

2 Jags yep love that.

[anonymous-user]

swerni said:

But you miss the point. Welshy is trying to show everyone that he has wealthy friends.
Either that or google has stopped working

This was exactly what I was going to post.

[Welshbeef]

desolate said:

swerni said:

But you miss the point. Welshy is trying to show everyone that he has wealthy friends.
Either that or google has stopped working

This was exactly what I was going to post.

Google still doesn't give a price for the cooker I showed a pic of in page 1 we have assumed it's c£25-26k

Anyway merry Xmas to you both .

[Wozy68]

Welshbeef said:

desolate said:

swerni said:

But you miss the point. Welshy is trying to show everyone that he has wealthy friends.
Either that or google has stopped working

This was exactly what I was going to post.

Google still doesn't give a price for the cooker I showed a pic of in page 1 we have assumed it's c£25-26k

Anyway merry Xmas to you both .

It's been a while since I supplied one, but I can't believe they're that kind of money now. Could well be wrong mind.