Category: Buying Advice For All Appliances

  Delayed Start Is delayed start a good thing or should you just avoid or ignore it?   Putting appliances on when there is nobody in the home or everyone has gone to bed is generally ill advised and many instruction manuals will clearly state that electrical appliances should not b…

  Commercial Use If you are using a domestic appliance at a business, you better read this!   We often come across people who require a repair to an appliance where the appliance is on commercial property and the fault not covered under warranty. This can lead to a debate with the …

How Much Energy You Really Save All the time we see claims of savings on energy use compared with previous generations of appliances and, all the time, we are deeply skeptical about these claims. Mostly we are a little suspicious of them because they are sweeping claims with little or no evidence…

It may come as no surprise to most people that a lot of appliances and appliance parts are now produced in China. To that end, I’m splitting this article into two parts to explain some things about Chinese (or Asiatic) produced spares and appliances and how they work in the real world.  &nbs…

  Eco Confusion Are the eco-friendly features you are being sold any use or truthful   It is often, especially when talking about better quality machines, that we will get people that are totally confused about green issues and how things actually work in practice. Of course, this …

  Cheap Appliances The perils of buying the cheapest hunk of junk in the shop   It is not uncommon that we get people looking for the cheapest washing machine, the cheapest dishwasher or the cheapest cooker on the site. Generally what people are looking for is a good, cheap applian…

  Go Green, Save Money Being more efficient and saving cash isn’t always about just buying “green” stuff   We often get asked about the best ways to go green with laundry especially and appliances in general and much of the advice we give people is to help them maximise the life of…

  Sound Levels Can you believe the noise level rating published on the label?   We are often asked to recommend a quiet washing machine, dishwasher or fridge freezer or people will use the published dB ratings to compare different machines when in fact these figures are of little o…

Very often we hear people talking about price comparison websites about how cheap they found something on Kelkoo or Pricerunner etc. as if it’s some sort of game or contest to find the cheapest possible supplier of an appliance or, well pretty much anything these days. Recently in the UK Whitegoo…

Cheap Doesn’t Stack Up Originally this article started off as being an explanation of how appliance repairs was a far more environmentally friendly option to replacement but, as we wrote the piece, it became more evident that we had to first explain what we have had to explain to hundreds of peop…