Quiet washing machine

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From experience Miele and Bosch are amongst the quietest there is. Neither quote decibel figures but quote quiet, very quiet etc. Apart from that it much depends on how the machine is installed ie a solid floor is much much better than a suspended floor. Have a read of this article on the Which online site and scroll down to “My machine is noisy, is there anything I can do about it?” for a bit more info on noise levels.

HTH

Don

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Sorry about that, try this one then This part of the site is free 😉

Don

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timberford wrote:It just seems crazy to me that this information is not easily available as it would be such a good selling point.

Noise levels are not generally a much sought after criteria to be honest. Some manufacturers do state the Db levels on just some of their products but not very often as you have discovered.

However, one of THE quietest machines on the market is the Bosch WAS28466GB at just 53dB. So maybe you could start there? 😉

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To give you an idea how noisy 53db is. Human converstional speech is about 70db. Which makes that machine very quiet.

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Don

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Noise from appliances is subjective though and the actual amount of noise depends on the environment in which it is placed. I suspect that’s why there’s not too much information around.

There’s been a few posts about this before.

K.

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I suspect they don’t freely proffer that information as noise is such a subjective thing…one man’s squeak is another man’s whistle 😆

Besides, as has been previously stated, the actual noise level when the machine is running depends greatly on other factors than the design of the machine. We have all seen what are generally regarded as noisy machines installed in such a way that makes them fairly quiet, and vice versa.

My advice would be to buy a decent make, probably a miele, make sure it’s installed on a solid floor, then ensure the units either side are not actually touching it but are well fitted around it.

Finally, accept that whatever machine you buy, there will be some noise coming from it. By all means get the quoted db levels where you can but only use it as a general guide…a difference of a db or two will be negated by the installation!

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Partly.

But also if it sits outside of kitchen units and is truly freestanding then you’d think that would be quieter. In reality it doesn’t quite work that way I’m afraid, as when on spin particularly, there can be resonate noise from the cabinets, things on the worktop rattle and so on. In effect this means that comparison made solely on the db rating is unfair as stability also comes into the equation.

Then consider, as Martin pointed out, the flooring. If it’s on a wooden flotation floor which is common in the UK, then the noise is far greater than on a solid concrete floor on which most appliances are tested. In fact I am not aware of any that are tested on a wooden floor as that seems only to be common in Northern Europe. Again, this makes the comparison unfair.

These are the reasons that many manufacturers don’t publish the figure as it’s all very well saying that your machine has a db rating of XX but someone will just improve on that for less money. The fact that the cheaper machine may bounce about like Tigger on a wooden floor doesn’t matter when you use a shopping comparison search engine as they won’t (and can’t) tell you that.

You could consider the ISE machine (http://www.iseappliances.co.uk) as, whilst Which commented that it wasn’t the quietest that’s not the feedback that we get from customers. I should hope not too, we had a whole load of sound deadening fitted for that very reason as well as using air-shocks to dampen unwanted vibrations.

Hope that helps.

K.