Appliances - Miele vs Siemens vs V-Zug
Discussion
We are in the process of buying an apartment in Switzerland (where we live) which needs a lot of renovation including a new kitchen. I've never done this before and my girlfriend has only bought at the lower end of the range in the UK over a decade ago, so we are pretty clueless.
We went and took a look at the Miele showroom today and came away quite impressed. At the moment we have mainly selected near top of the range items, the exception being the dishwasher, which is somewhere in the middle buying the fridge/freezer from a different brand as Miele don't do an American style (with ice and water dispenser).
We are looking at a washer-dryer as the convenience of dirty clothes becoming clean, dry clothes while we are at work appeals greatly. There's only the two of us, so don't think there will be bandwidth issues and if there is, we can buy a separate dryer later. Ovens will be a normal and a combi-steamer. Double height warming drawer. The hob is induction with downward extraction. Dishwasher will be integrated.
We went to Miele first, because that's where all of our appliances in our rental apartment are, apart from the American fridge/freezer, which is Siemens. We've been very happy with all of them so far. Once I'd priced it all up, using a Swiss price comparison site, I thought it would be interesting to compare with similar from Siemens and it works out about 1/3 cheaper. For further comparison I added the Swiss brand V-Zug in too, although they don't have a directly comparable integrated induction hob/extractor, so I had to spec separately. There isn't a huge amount in it between Miele and V-Zug price wise.
The question is then - Are Miele and V-Zug worth the premium over Siemens and if so why? Bonus points for whether V-Zug is better than Miele or vice-versa. We're comfortable spending the extra if it makes sense and are also happy to mix and match brands where sensible i.e. the ovens and drawer should be the same brand, but the others can differ.
Products and prices below for anyone interested. Prices in CHF which is c. 1.31 to GBP at the moment.
TL;DR Are Miele and V-Zug worth the premium over Siemens? If so, why? Is Miele better than V-Zug
Cheers!
We went and took a look at the Miele showroom today and came away quite impressed. At the moment we have mainly selected near top of the range items, the exception being the dishwasher, which is somewhere in the middle buying the fridge/freezer from a different brand as Miele don't do an American style (with ice and water dispenser).
We are looking at a washer-dryer as the convenience of dirty clothes becoming clean, dry clothes while we are at work appeals greatly. There's only the two of us, so don't think there will be bandwidth issues and if there is, we can buy a separate dryer later. Ovens will be a normal and a combi-steamer. Double height warming drawer. The hob is induction with downward extraction. Dishwasher will be integrated.
We went to Miele first, because that's where all of our appliances in our rental apartment are, apart from the American fridge/freezer, which is Siemens. We've been very happy with all of them so far. Once I'd priced it all up, using a Swiss price comparison site, I thought it would be interesting to compare with similar from Siemens and it works out about 1/3 cheaper. For further comparison I added the Swiss brand V-Zug in too, although they don't have a directly comparable integrated induction hob/extractor, so I had to spec separately. There isn't a huge amount in it between Miele and V-Zug price wise.
The question is then - Are Miele and V-Zug worth the premium over Siemens and if so why? Bonus points for whether V-Zug is better than Miele or vice-versa. We're comfortable spending the extra if it makes sense and are also happy to mix and match brands where sensible i.e. the ovens and drawer should be the same brand, but the others can differ.
Products and prices below for anyone interested. Prices in CHF which is c. 1.31 to GBP at the moment.
TL;DR Are Miele and V-Zug worth the premium over Siemens? If so, why? Is Miele better than V-Zug
Cheers!
Thanks everyone. Bit of a mixed bag then. I think it's going to come to design more than anything.
FWIW I'm of the same opinion about the washer/dryer but gf seems pretty adamant.
Bill - Toppreise is showing better value for Siemens that Amazon.de Miele isn't available and I didn't check V-Zug.
FWIW I'm of the same opinion about the washer/dryer but gf seems pretty adamant.
Bill - Toppreise is showing better value for Siemens that Amazon.de Miele isn't available and I didn't check V-Zug.
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