Smart Appliances: Privacy

How your personal details and data are things that many of us rarely, if ever, think about, but in the modern world, they are becoming an increasingly significant issue. If you are one of the people that don’t care, that’s fine but a lot of people are growing more concerned about how their da…

Interesting Things About Updates

We keep on seeing manufacturers mooting so-called AI features these days, and along with that, often the mention of future updates seems to be common. We thought we’d take a look at that for people so that they can understand that these are unlikely and, even if they do happen, are not liable t…

What Do You Recommend? Tumble Dryers

Just the same as with washing machines, this is one of the most common questions that repairers get asked; what we’d recommend and that’s more true of the independent repairers than any others because they’ve no real skin in the game as it were as they often don’t sell them or make anythi…

Software Planned Obsolescence

This is a topic that hasn’t come up much, if at all, for kitchen appliances, but it is one that buyers should be made aware of because it is possible that, in some cases, that swanky connected appliance that you bought ends up becoming a useless brick. To date, this has largely been the preserve …

The Case For VAT Free Repairs

]In the past few years, there has been a shift, not a seismic one but a shift nonetheless, towards encouraging repair over replacement, which makes sense financially and also environmentally, but moving people away from the addiction of just throwing stuff out when it breaks and buying a new one …

Robot Vacuum Cleaners

Many, many moons ago, we tried out a robot vacuum, a couple of them in fact. At the time, it was a Roomba, as that was really the only show in town, and they weren’t all that great. Perhaps somewhat stupidly, we dismissed them as a gimmick and got on with our lives, that was a mistake. Rise Of …

Bagged Or Bagless Cleaners

This has been an ongoing debate, discussion, argument, whatever since Dson really took off back in the day and, these days, most all main domestic brands have gone down the bagless cleaner rabbit hole because, it’s what sells. That’s not to say that it’s actually better. Until the late 1990…

Power And Energy

In the past, we have had times when people don’t quite get the difference between what “power” and “energy” are, as it can be a bit confusing when people who deal with this sort of stuff (like us!) often fail to explain well. We thought it might be a good thing to offer a better explana…

Appliances, Automation, Monitoring & More

For many years, there has been a steady rise in interest in making homes smarter. This can be for to several reasons: in fact it can be one, some, or many. It all depends on what the user wants and the goals of it are. This makes the conversation about smart appliances a bit of a hard one as, dif…