New washing machine needed

[Crankarm]

Washer only. Would never buy a combined washer/dryer, too much to go wrong.

Yeah I was looking at a Bosch Logixx 8 or 9kg. £360 is a VERY good price as JL does them for around £580-600 which is a serious wedge of cash when a cheaper model could do just as good a job. After all clean clothes are .... clean clothes. Buying a washing machine is dead money AFAIAC. I have heard a few people go on about how good Bosch cust service is, but my view is that the appliance should be so good and reliable so you NEVER have a problem so have no experience of how good or bad the customer service is. I guess there will be happy and disatisfied owners of each make of machines. Is it worth stumping up another £300 just to have a German brand name?

 

[Matt1705]

Washer only. Would never buy a combined washer/dryer, too much to go wrong.

I bought an Indesit washer dryer a few years ago - seemed like a god idea at the time lol.
Put it on to wash and dry when I left for work one morning and it was still 'drying' some 10 hours later when I got home :confused:

 

[Crankarm]

I bought an Indesit washer dryer a few years ago - seemed like a god idea at the time lol.
Put it on to wash and dry when I left for work one morning and it was still 'drying' some 10 hours later when I got home :confused:

A fortune in electricity ......................

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Washer only. Would never buy a combined washer/dryer, too much to go wrong.

Yeah I was looking at a Bosch Logixx 8 or 9kg. £360 is a VERY good price as JL does them for around £580-600 which is a serious wedge of cash when a cheaper model could do just as good a job. After all clean clothes are .... clean clothes. Buying a washing machine is dead money AFAIAC. I have heard a few people go on about how good Bosch cust service is, but my view is that the appliance should be so good and reliable so you NEVER have a problem so have no experience of how good or bad the customer service is. I guess there will be happy and disatisfied owners of each make of machines. Is it worth stumping up another £300 just to have a German brand name?

Bosch customer service = we have only needed them the once. It was really our fault. Installing the new washing machine which did not have an instruction book with it (display model and a discount) my OH had looked up online what he needed to do. So had taken the transportation bolts out but had taken the instructions literally and not run them through a slightly more fool-proof wife. We ended up getting the engineer out, with the line, if its the transportation bolts you have to pay... it wasn't the transportation bolts, it was the plastic sleeves they sat in that was causing the issue. Once the engineer knew the story, (no handbook etc) he didn't charge us at all. Machine works fine and they came out very promptly.

Shame it was not the same service with the freezer when it failed at 2.5 months old! Not Bosch I will add.

 

[Night Train]

I bought a Bosch washer, dryer and dishwasher 7 years ago. The washer and the dryer have been used twice a week every week, on average, and I have had no problems at all.

The only 'problem' is the 'Beep! Beep! Beep!' when they finish the cycle. It means I can't run them over night as I have to get out of bed to switch them off.

I have a Beko fridge freezer. It is one of those that is supposed to catch fire but I have never managed to get the 'hotline' number to answer to get the bodge fix done to make it safe. It also, when it runs, makes more noise then my three Bosch machines. It will get freecycled one day and I will find a Bosch fridge freezer.

 

[Crankarm]

Update. I bought a Beko 9kg 1400 spin top of their range washing machine. Large capacity as I am doing so much washing of cycling kit at the moment - two sets every day at the end of each day as kit from cycling to and then from work which comprise quite a few layers. It seems ok if a little agricultural in operation compared to my old Zanussi of the Appliance of Science era.

Btw I examined the drums of Bosch Excel and Logixx machines in a well known shop and found the holes through which water flows had roughish edges which didn't impress me much as I thought this could cause damage to clothing, bedding, etc. My old Zanussi and my new Beko machine have holes in their drums which are properly counter sunk with smoothed rounded edges which is what you would expect.

I am hoping my new Beko machine won't catch fire.

 

[presta]

Just checked the Which website. Miele scores top for reliability, followed by John Lewis, Beko, Bosch, AEG, Zanussi, Siemens, LG. My Hotpoint has lated 13 years.

 

[snorri]

. No washing machine seems to have a straight forward clock on the front and option to start at a specific time eg 12.40am and then finish at a certain time. They all have stupid timers which start the machine in intervals of 1 hour or 30 minutes..

It's true, gone are the days when electrical stuff had big knobs that you could turn and set without needing to wear specs.

 

[Herr-B]

I was a domestic appliance repair guy for four years, I know my two-penneth is a bit late but as I've explained in another thread recently Beko are aiming for a large stake in the European and UK appliance markets (as are Haier), to achieve this they are flooding the shops with really cheap crap. I would never buy or recommend their washing machines or dishwashers, for the simpler things like tumble driers and fridges they'd be ok.

Nor would I recommend or buy anything from the Merloni group (Hotpoint, Creda, Cannon, Indesit, Ariston).

My recommendations are Bosch, AEG (but not Zanussi despite same group), LG, or if you can afford it, Miele.

That said, some people get lucky and some unlucky with whichever brands they buy.

And, finally, for the record, Dysons do suffer from loss of suction. Sebo FTW.

 

[Crankarm]

FWIW I wasn't impressed with Bosch and I wouldn't buy anything from the AEG group which I believe includes Electrolux as well as Zanussi. I had a bad experience with a Zanussi freezer purchase a couple of years ago. AEG, Electrolux, Zanussi - they are likely all made in the same factory anyway. So this reduces the field some what. I nearly bought a Hotpoint but thought the powder drawer was crap plus no-prewash function or rinse hold. Crap delayed timer as well. I can't believe that with the huge technological progress made with phones, computers, laptops, cars that washing machines remain pretty much in the dark ages.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

FWIW I wasn't impressed with Bosch and I wouldn't buy anything from the AEG group which I believe includes Electrolux as well as Zanussi. I had a bad experience with a Zanussi freezer purchase a couple of years ago. AEG, Electrolux, Zanussi - they are likely all made in the same factory anyway. So this reduces the field some what. I nearly bought a Hotpoint but thought the powder drawer was crap plus no-prewash function or rinse hold. Crap delayed timer as well. I can't believe that with the huge technological progress made with phones, computers, laptops, cars that washing machines remain pretty much in the dark ages.

I picked up 2 second hand washing machines back in 1993. I paid £2 of something that looked modernish & £1 for something that looked like it belonged in a museum. One was a front loading convential spin machine and the other was a top loading convential spin machine. (convential spin being rotating along the horizontal axis rather than vertical which most top loaders did). Both were Zanussi and both as it turned out, worked well. I kept the top loading (£1) one because it fitted the kitchen in a lakeland farmhouse better than the other one. Over the years, I used it twice a week; it went to a friend of my mum's when I no longer needed it and then back to me when she no longer needed it and I did. She used it each and everyday for 2 years. In 1998 I moved into a house that could not accommodate a top loading washing machine at all. I traded it in for a Bosch washing machine which was still going strong when I sold it in 2011 to go off on a world tour. Having paid £1 for the first machine and having used it for 5 years, I got a £150 off the 2nd machine. I sold the 13 year old Bosch for £110 on ebay... Wish I had had the space to keep both of them - they were fantastic machines. I now have Bosch again.