Category: Washing Machine Buying Advice And Guides

It’s one of the most common questions that repairers get asked, unsurprisingly, is what we’d recommend, and that’s more true of the independent repairers than any others because they’ve no real skin in the gam,e as it were, as they often don’t sell them or make anything from what people…

You buy a washing machine to clean stuff. So how do you know how well it performs and it is doing what it should? We started doing some science stuff a few months ago and testing, imperially, a bunch of washing machines for review purposes to gauge the performance and claims made. The results thu…

Automatic dosing of detergent and conditioner, is it a good thing or a bad thing? In the world of commercial machines, automatic dosing or auto dosing has been about for a while and in full-blown commercial use, we can understand why. The primary reason is to control costs, preventing operators f…

  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 …

  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 …

  Useless Features Don’t waste money on expensive features you don’t need and probably will never use Washing machines are workhorses, they are intended to save you the time and trouble of a manual, repetitive and laborious chore and that chore has not altered much at all in many decade…

  What Washing Machine Should You Buy Things to think about when you go shopping for a new washing machine We get asked this. A lot. If you read through the other articles about washing machine (and other domestic appliances) you might get the impression that we’re a bit desponden…

  Connected Washing Machines We think these washing machines are a waste of money and here we explain why that is   If you are a reader of this site you will know that we are not fans of connected appliances and, we have some very good reasons for this dating back to almost when th…

  Integrated Washing Machines We explain what they are and the diferences between your choice of washing machine   The choice between integrated and what we refer to as freestanding washing machines is often down to personal preference but, as service engineers, integrated washing …

  Steam Washing Machines Steam powered cleaning… is it any good and worth the money?   Sounds brilliant to many people in the brochure, a washing machine that cleans using the power of steam and reduces the need for ironing, a true wonder. Marketing departments around the world s…