Recommend me a washing machine...
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Sy1441 said:
We have the top of the range LG one with a touchscreen. It's horrible, the screen (so buttons) don't work half the time due to moisture and it plays a horrible tune when it completes a cycle. Avoid.
Christ you must have the same one as my next door neighbour... "da diddly did da da da, da diddly did da da"We need a new one as well. Six year old Samsung (so out of warranty) has now started to refuse to do anything after about 2-3 minutes of a cycle. Drains and fills, but refuses to spin the drum. Normaly, a quick search on ukwhitegoods.co.uk of the model number and issue brings up a sure-fire diagnosis, but not this time. Could be the PCB, could be brushes, could be the motor. Normally can make a judgement on whether to repair or not, but I'm not fancying bothering for this one.
We've never got on with it - its horribly noisy in use so we can't realy set it running overnight, and plays tunes whenever at the start and end of cycles for no benefit. My better half refuses to turn these off but they drive me mad.
Ebac looks promising with the 7-year warranty
We've never got on with it - its horribly noisy in use so we can't realy set it running overnight, and plays tunes whenever at the start and end of cycles for no benefit. My better half refuses to turn these off but they drive me mad.
Ebac looks promising with the 7-year warranty
netherfield said:
We've a Bosch which also can't seem to balance itself very well, when it gets out it slaps and bangs about all over the place, no idea why, if I pull the towels out which are still rather wet, put them back in and spin it will now go and balance itself again.
In fact with such as towels it appears the more you can stuff in to it the better it works.
How old is it? Our old (was probably 15yrs old when it did this, and the machone was probably from the late 90's) Bosch used to throw itself around and it was because the drum shock absorbers had failed. That machine was so old they were bolted in (they use plastic pegs now) so changing them was easy and could be done from the front (front came off, it was integrated machine). The old shocks were completely shot. That machine didn't have out-of-balnce detect - it would just spin regardless.In fact with such as towels it appears the more you can stuff in to it the better it works.
Our new one just refuses to get going if unbalanced - there's no throwing itself about.
mdw said:
We have a Siemens that after 10 years and a lot ilod washing stopped. £5 for a new set of brushes and still no other problems 3 years later. The only issue I have with it is it seems to eat those colour catcher sheets that end up in the filter which needed draining to remove so we don't use them anymore.
You can get a mesh bag to put the colour catcher in or any small socks etc and this stops them getting eaten. We had the same problem until we used one of thesehttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185937703624?hash=item2...
Edited by oblio on Tuesday 11th July 07:52
I've had a Gorenje similar to the one in the link below for 11 years,it's been utterly faultless.
https://www.sotel.de/en/Elektrogeraete-Kochen/Elek...
https://www.sotel.de/en/Elektrogeraete-Kochen/Elek...
595Heaven said:
We need a new one as well. Six year old Samsung (so out of warranty) has now started to refuse to do anything after about 2-3 minutes of a cycle. Drains and fills, but refuses to spin the drum. Normaly, a quick search on ukwhitegoods.co.uk of the model number and issue brings up a sure-fire diagnosis, but not this time. Could be the PCB, could be brushes, could be the motor. Normally can make a judgement on whether to repair or not, but I'm not fancying bothering for this one.
If it's got a brushed motor then at 6 years there's a good chance that'll be the issue. Standard advice is to buy the most basic Miele you can find. That's what I did, to replace a 25 yr old Miele that finally died. Do make sure it's got a timer, though, so you can run it overnight with eg Octopus Go.
I do wish they'd make a washing machine with just two buttons marked "wash my clothes" and "wash my delicate clothes." I only ever use the standard cycle, never had any need for anything else except a delicate cycle for gore tex stuff..
I do wish they'd make a washing machine with just two buttons marked "wash my clothes" and "wash my delicate clothes." I only ever use the standard cycle, never had any need for anything else except a delicate cycle for gore tex stuff..
We've had two Miele, now moved onto a 11kg drum Samsung (https://tinyurl.com/58r53mx6). The Miele had decided to make another noise the day the refrigerator died after 18 years of service. Having already replaced the sump on it last year, I couldn't be arsed to take it apart again.
Samsung direct had a 15% off deal on buying 2 appliances that weekend (including 36 months interest free) if you wanted, overlaid over another discount, we saved ££££'s. I think someone had made an error, come Monday, all deals had been pulled!
There's more options, than the Miele we had. Smart connected so you can look on phone, rather than scrolling through the programmes, send the wash menu to the machine. The 'end of wash' song can be disabled.
I like that it tells you when it needs a service wash/clean. Being much cheaper than the Miele, time will tell on cost vs longevity, it's on a few times a day, so they are pretty well used.
Samsung direct had a 15% off deal on buying 2 appliances that weekend (including 36 months interest free) if you wanted, overlaid over another discount, we saved ££££'s. I think someone had made an error, come Monday, all deals had been pulled!
There's more options, than the Miele we had. Smart connected so you can look on phone, rather than scrolling through the programmes, send the wash menu to the machine. The 'end of wash' song can be disabled.
I like that it tells you when it needs a service wash/clean. Being much cheaper than the Miele, time will tell on cost vs longevity, it's on a few times a day, so they are pretty well used.
drmike37 said:
Standard advice is to buy the most basic Miele you can find.
That'd be fine of they'd guarantee them for 10yrs like they used to. Unless you hit an offer, it's 2yrs now, same as everything else, and if it goes wrong it'll cost the same as buying a mid-range Bosch to get it fixed.
Rough101 said:
We have a Samsung, long warranty but also has the self balancing faff. I believe this is common to anything spinning at 1400rpm, it won’t do it unbalanced.
Good warranty, but it’s been repaired twice in 5 years.
Hotpoints are basically disposable, 3 years average before it’s unrepairable.
We have a Samsung and I'm very happy with it. It's got to be 10 years old now and it still look brand new and has been faultless.Good warranty, but it’s been repaired twice in 5 years.
Hotpoints are basically disposable, 3 years average before it’s unrepairable.
Ambleton said:
https://www.bosch-home.co.uk/product-list/washers-...
This was the machine we bought. Seems very fussy.
I thought it was a relatively basic "good" one, but even that's "too smart".
Thanks for the input all. Looks like I'll be looking for another BEKO...
What I don't like about the Bosch is that most of the programmes are absurdly long so I use mixed wash mostly. And programme spin speeds are slow, so there you are bent over it scrolling through each time. It does take quite a bit and is quiet though. My old one died the Weds before Christmas and this was delivered and installed Friday morning, so can't complain, but I think I'd look for a less smart/non-digital display next time if that's possible. This was the machine we bought. Seems very fussy.
I thought it was a relatively basic "good" one, but even that's "too smart".
Thanks for the input all. Looks like I'll be looking for another BEKO...
Sheepshanks said:
That'd be fine of they'd guarantee them for 10yrs like they used to.
Unless you hit an offer, it's 2yrs now, same as everything else, and if it goes wrong it'll cost the same as buying a mid-range Bosch to get it fixed.
I don't know anything about them but I looked at the EBAC website after the earlier recommendations and they offer a 7 year full parts and labour warranty.Unless you hit an offer, it's 2yrs now, same as everything else, and if it goes wrong it'll cost the same as buying a mid-range Bosch to get it fixed.
They seem reasonably priced too so will probably try one when our current slightly glitchy Bosch finally gives up the ghost.
98elise said:
Rough101 said:
We have a Samsung, long warranty but also has the self balancing faff. I believe this is common to anything spinning at 1400rpm, it won’t do it unbalanced.
Good warranty, but it’s been repaired twice in 5 years.
Hotpoints are basically disposable, 3 years average before it’s unrepairable.
We have a Samsung and I'm very happy with it. It's got to be 10 years old now and it still look brand new and has been faultless.Good warranty, but it’s been repaired twice in 5 years.
Hotpoints are basically disposable, 3 years average before it’s unrepairable.
One bit of advice is not to put bath mats in the washing machine.
K87 said:
98elise said:
Rough101 said:
We have a Samsung, long warranty but also has the self balancing faff. I believe this is common to anything spinning at 1400rpm, it won’t do it unbalanced.
Good warranty, but it’s been repaired twice in 5 years.
Hotpoints are basically disposable, 3 years average before it’s unrepairable.
We have a Samsung and I'm very happy with it. It's got to be 10 years old now and it still look brand new and has been faultless.Good warranty, but it’s been repaired twice in 5 years.
Hotpoints are basically disposable, 3 years average before it’s unrepairable.
One bit of advice is not to put bath mats in the washing machine.
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