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New washing machine – family of 4.
My old (cheap) Indesit washing machine is about to die after what has been 5 1/2 years of trouble free service. We’re a family of 4 (2 young children) who put the washer on 6-7 times a week. We’re not looking for gadgets/features – just something reliable to wash clothes at 30-40 degrees (happy to do a monthly empty wash at 90 too as maintenance).
My gut instinct was to replace it with the equivalent Indesit machine available now, the Indesit Innex BWD71453WUK for £220 (from John Lewis to get the additional year guarantee). However, after some research it would appear these now take 3-4 hours to do a wash (economically) – the only other option being a quick 45 minute cycle but only for 1/2 loads up to 3.5KG!
I’ve come across what is essentially one of the cheaper Bosch models – the WAN24100GB for between £300 and £330, which also does the slow eco washes, but apparently has a ‘Perfect Vario’ option, allowing you to override each eco wash into a quick wash (taking the traditional amount of time) when time is an issue. It’s also a Which? best buy (which I guess gives a good idea of it’s day-to-day performance).
I’m wondering whether it’s worth spending the extra £80-£110 (i.e. an additional 50{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of the Indesit price) to get the Bosch (for I guess reliability/quality). What are people’s thoughts?
I realise that even the Bosch has a sealed drum, and will likely need replacing once something goes wrong now that these ‘cheap’ machines are no longer economical to repair.
I just can’t bring myself to spend £590 on what would essentially be the cheapest Miele (which would still only get me a 2 year warranty, and from reading an article linked to on here would still be really expensive to service/repair anyway).
Any thoughts/opinions most welcome 🙂
Re: Family washing machine
Beko would be a perfect choice. No frills, does the job, good for 5 + yrs, no great capital outlay, sorted!
Re: Family washing machine
Hi
If you are washing 6-7 loads per week now with two young children the loads are only going to get more as they grow older. Lets say that grows to 7-9 per week that’s about 2.5 times the average weekly usage :eeek:
You’re Beko as suggested by Martin is not going to take that sort of hammering to be fair. I would still go with a Bosch but not the one you suggested but the WAP28378GB this range of machine is a great workhorse just what is needed for a growing family.
HTH 🙂
Don
Re: Family washing machine
Old post.
My take is to have bought another Indesit but a “My Time ” model where all the important programmes are an hour or so, £230 buys you one.
The Bosch WAP28378GB also has a sealed tank ( just looked it up ) as per all modern Indesits difference is 1) both tanks are apt to fail: had a nearly 3 year Bosch tank fail @ 2 weeks ago £217.26 for the new tank + LABOUR and CALLOUT £ …..? Couple with no children…abysmal quality based on this. It was scrapped. If / or rather when the Indesit tank fails it`ll be under a 10 year freebee parts warranty so you would be only stung for £110 labour/call out.
Buying the Bosch only makes sense if you get a better warranty chucked in to the purchase deal if you don`t frankly I wouldn`t bother with Bosch, frankly I wouldn`t buy anything circ 400 quid and certainly nothing anymore with the exception of one of those 1000 quid Miele promotion models ( no I wouldn`t but someone might ) where you get free parts and free labour and call out for 10 years……whooppeee I hear you say £100 a year…. except for the fact that after the 10 years you will be hammered mercilessly on the spares / labour costs; in other words that 1000 quid machine IN COMPARISION was not such a good deal afterall even if it was built for 20 years use…..but notice no one ever mentions that it might cost an extra £500 in order to achieve it! I`d go for the Indesit and stuff the whole appliance charade after all if you were lucky and your Indesit pride and joy reached 5 to 7 years before it spat out its pcboard OR drum bearings you could say well I`ve had say, 7 years for example, out of it if I get the free part at £110 at that age what next, all I would need is another failure and I`ll be short of 80 quid ( allow for inflation but a total guess, who knows in 2 years times it could be running at 18{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} a year and those who laugh at this did not live through the 1970`s ) against a brand new replacement so call it a day there and then seems to be the most logical thing to do having cost you nothing in repairs other than a measley 230 odd quid to buy it. If your worried about the environment be very worried, I am, bloody terrified, either way it is a total cock-up: wrong type of plastics used for the last 40 years on appliances; leaving it all a bit too late.
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