Category: Buying Advice For All Appliances

All the time we see people getting all hung up on the energy use of new appliances but is it true you’ll save money? We’ve been here before, several times on this site trying to explain the whole energy saving thing to people and there are a number of articles on the site that delve i…

Many people appear to be led into thinking that some new machines have disruptive technologies, is it true? We see press releases all the time about the new, latest whizz-bang appliances mostly for washing machines then fridge freezers and after that cooker and built-in ovens with all the rest fo…

This website has been online since 2003 or thereabouts and at the time of writing, some thirteen years later, we have seen more and larger product recalls or safety problems that we can ever remember. We asked ourselves and others in the industry, is this something that we or the public should be…

Makers Rebrand Too Shush, don’t tell anyone, it’s a secret… Globalisation is a funny old thing that throws up some interesting collaborations, some of them are good and some, well not so good at all and then there’s the disasters. For the appliance industry, it could be argued that a huge…

  Avoid Being Stung Later Why people choose particular brands and what you should be looking for When people go appliance shopping, it is most of the time a case of, barring any specific requirements, the cheapest, with the most features and highest specification from a name that is rec…

  Will You Get It Fixed You wouldn’t buy a car you couldn’t get parts for would you? We will get this out the way first, we are a bit biased on this topic as we sell spare parts and you can read into that whatever you choose but what we will explain here is practical common sense advice…

  Own Label Brands Just what is an own brand label and are you getting cheated if you buy one?  Almost every day we see people that have bought an own label appliance from a retailer completely unaware and unsuspecting that the brand is not a brand that is its own entity but is act…

  Integrated Appliances Explained The perils and pitfalls of integrated appliances and how to avoid them   Integrated appliances are a bit of a problem for the industry for a good number of reasons and, all too often many of the reasons they can be problematic will not be evident t…

  Buying Advice & Help How to get the most out of the forums to help you choose what appliances to buy If you want to get free help and get trade opinions on what appliance may be best suited to your needs in the forums then there’s a few things that you should know to ensure you …

  Appliance Reviews Can you really trust the reviews that you read, or are they just adverts   What may seem to be a simple enough question, “Can you trust online reviews of appliances?” really isn’t a simple question to answer at all. There are four main categories that appl…