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…
Category: Buying Guides And Help
Appliance Buying Advice
This area of our site gives you extensive knowledge about choosing and buying new domestic appliances including washing machines, tumble dryers, dishwashers, fridge freezers, cookers, ovens and more.
If you need help picking the best washing machine or any other appliance these guides are designed to help you do just that and learn about what to look for and what to avoid. And some, you really should avoid!
You will find a section for each of the major appliance groups and buying guides and help for each within each section. However before you buy please look up the brand/s you are looking at in our manufacturer section to find out what you are really buying and from who as many are own label brands.
If you still need more help please use the forums to ask the expert people in the trade for their opinion.
Should you not see an article that you think should be in this section then please feel free to email a request to us on admin@ukwhitegoods.co.uk and we will do our best to accommodate your requirements.
New Appliance Technologies
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…
Lower Appliance Safety
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…
How Much Should A Tumble Dryer Cost
All the hullabaloo over tumble dryer safety and the subsequent comments that we’ve made got us to thinking more about tumble dryers and the value of them. We started to think on what we’d done previously in an article called How Much Should A Washing Machine Really Cost and so, here we are ba…
Manufacturer Rebranded Products
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…
Tumble Dryer Load Capacities
Tumble Dryer Drum Sizes Should you care about the rated capacity or not? As with washing machines almost invariably all you will see the it comes to load capacity on a tumble dryer is the old kilogram rating which, in our opinion at least, isn’t really all that much use to most people…
What Brand To Choose
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…
Washing Machine Features Explained
Busting The Jargon All the time we see stuff written by marketing departments that honestly crack us up with laughter. Some of it is just complete tosh, some of it just spin. All of it to try to part you with your cash on their machine rather than someone else’s. Like all other …
Fridge Freezer Features Explained
Busting The Jargon Many of the things we see and that people seem to get all bothered about are often not explained very well for all appliances with the vast bulk of them being little more than a marketing spin on stuff that everyone does to try to sell it as a unique feature. Mostly…
Performance Cheating
Have You Been Sold A Lie Are the ratings and claims you see the truth or not? You would be forgiven for thinking that the wash program that you select on your washing machine did what it said that it does but is that really true? There have been several long running debates on …