Washing machine rant

Post by **billlobban** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:02 am

Like I said earlier what you pay for is what you get. No doubt design and manufacturing trends have changed over the years but cheap is still cheap and for a good reason! Bearings being a prime example. My personal favourite is ASKO their small 5 kg washer was also sold under half a dozen different names as a commercial machine. No difference inside but many hundreds of pounds difference in price.

Post by **dunketh** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:00 am

I recently bought my first 'new' appliances when fitting a new kitchen.
The washing machine is no longer a 'washing machine' - it is a computer controlled laundry device.
It has PCBs, logic chips.. you name it! Even has an LCD display and a load of buttons and menus.
The thing is CRAZY.
I resisted 'new tech' for years, preferring the old mechanical ones. When the timer breaks you buy a new one and plug it in - nice and easy - bearings go - just ignore it... lol .. old machines last forever.

However, the new machine is amazing and washes stuff like no other - my old black overalls turned out to be a fetching navy blue! Who knew...? lol...

Also, the new oven can turn itself on, turn itself off and all sorts and the hob is touch control so no knobs or other bits to clean around.
Heaven help me when all this new stuff starts to break.....

Post by **ASL642** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:22 am

My washing machine weighs the washing, adjusts the amount of water it needs to wash it and the time it will take. It also has a sensor to tell what temperature the cold water is from the ground and how long it will take to heat it. It then works out how long it will take to wash it all

Gives me more time to play "car"!

Post by **billlobban** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:26 am

You know that sucking sound laundry repair men make just before they tell you how much its going to cost

Post by **davidmiles** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 5:26 pm

well it arrived today,looks nice and neat, wonder how many years trouble free service it will give us, at least this time the delivery/fitter did spend a lot more time checking it all works. he was disgusted with his colleague who had been in a hurry and hadn't bothered doing a basic wash program check. All sins forgiven, only regret is, its taken a week and the washing has piled up. What lessons can be learnt from this? better consumer research?
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Post by **MarkyB** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:08 am

Probably luck of the draw whether you get a conscientious fitter or a bodge it and scarper type.

Someone in the company would know which fitters to avoid.
You need to speak to them first if you can find them.

Post by **pjh56** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:28 am

billlobban wrote:You know that sucking sound laundry repair men make just before they tell you how much its going to cost

That sucking sound is quite common these days with a majority of repair persons, I needed a couple of tyres for a Micra went to K**k F** got the sucking sound from the fitter for something so straightforward, they then tried to sell me top of the range tyres for a car that did less than 3000 miles a year, I walked and always do now no matter what it refers to.

Pete

Post by **Furrtiv** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 7:50 pm

Let's see, my car's twelve years old, my washing machine's around ten, the video machine's somewhere around five years, the computer's cobbled together from various bits and pieces (with a newish motherboard and other innards, but the monitor and peripherals are getting on in years), the TVs about five or six years old, the fridge is over fifteen and still going strong, and may be closer to twenty years old than fifteen, thinking about it, the food freezer's about ten years old, and I recently bought a secondhand chest freezer for the taxidermy critters (can't keep them in the food freezer!) that I really don't know the age of. Everything's still going strong, I own it all outright - no credit payments - and if it breaks, it may catually cost less to repair than to replace, as I know various people who can fix stuff for me.
Even the sofa's secondhand, it's a gorgeous two-seater that came from a Barnado's charity shop for £50 - and I only got that because the last spring in the previous, twenty-five-year-old sofa, finally snapped after a quarter of a century of bums on it!
I kepp thinking that I'd like new stuff because it looks so pretty, but it all seems to cost more than I can afford and the quality is terrible on a lot of manufactured items - including cars.
And the next person who tells me to get a new car on the scarppage scheme so that I can get rid of my "old banger" (which is a perfectly good car) will get lamped!