Buying New Machine (Washing Machine Guide Help Appreciated)

[Ascent]

Getting a new kitchen fitted and wanted to replace the old and ailing washing machine and could use some help as I didn’t have a clue where to start, I did a bit of reading online, understood the basics with the help of a washing machine guide and checked out some models that seemed to have good reviews, but there is still quite a bit of choice to sift through.

There’s several people in our household and we go through many loads, so a decent sized machine is a must that can cope with the hammering we give it. Ideally don’t want to spend too much but don’t want to end up with a piece of junk either. I’m kinda sold on the Miele W5740 but it costs around £900+ which does seem quite expensive but people have good things to say about it online.

Aside from that, I’m considering the LG Steam Direct Drive F1402FDS6 because it has a bigger 9kg wash load and boasts about the ‘direct drive’ motor with 10 year warranty. I’m only just reading up about ISE Appliances, is there any recommendations that can be made or information provided about these models mentioned? Thanks.

[Martin]

Re: Buying New Machine (Washing Machine Guide Help Appreciat

The former is a great purchase for anyone to decide on.:tup:

However your latter choice? Well let me say this, that only the brave dare venture into STEAM DIRECT DRIVE bearing in mind its a Korean heap of tin and will, sooner rather than later cause your head to steam in direct drive. Nuff said for now I think?.:wink:

[Dales-Electronic]

Re: Buying New Machine (Washing Machine Guide Help Appreciat

In the round selecting an appliance is fairly straight forward – look at the labour guarantee, a manufacturer will only warranty the labour on a machine if he thinks he will not have to pay a service engineer to go out and fix it. Most decent appliances will have a minimum of 2 years labour warranty as the manufacturer expects the appliance to last, say 4 years before a callout. Forget about free parts in the first 5 years, if the part costs you £0.10p but you have to spend £100 on call out you feel robbed. Therefore look at what is on offer, Miele very good appliance but how long is the warranty, ISE equally good 10 years parts & labour. LG not quite so good but not quite so expensive. Horses for courses really. So Miele good appliance but expensive to repair outside of warranty. ISE good appliance much cheaper to repair outside of warranty. LG good appliance, not so reliable and average price to repair outside of warranty. The choice is yours – good luck.

[Ascent]

Re: Buying New Machine (Washing Machine Guide Help Appreciat

Thank you both for your comments and assistance – Dales, that was a wealth of helpful information and I like the tip on the labour warranty, that makes sense and seems like a good indicator, and true on the callout charge part – I have to confess and share a story from my teenage school years..

I was about 15 or 16 at the time and being a bit mischievous I kinda vandalized one of those smart card payment system thingies (you stick a plastic credit card like card into the device and put money in another slot, then you can use your card to buy lunch and stuff from the vending machines).

Anyway, one of those days I ended up handling the smartcard interface a bit roughly and ended up ripping or pulling off the plastic casing from the front. The machine itself still worked, it was just the plastic cover/fascia that had come off. In a twisted sense of fate, when the school checked the CCTV footage, because they used the crappy recording quality with a low frame rate, it looked really sinister as it showed my head facing to my left, then abruptly to my right and then the thing comes flying off (even though in reality it was all quite casual).

The school head of year called in my family, and wanted me to pay a bill for the damage, if I remember correctly it was something daft like £178 – then my brother got involved and challenged the school on the extortionate figure.. it turns out they were charging £3 for the plastic cover and £175 for the freakin call out charge, saying they only had about 3 engineers in the country – and even that was probably made up on the spot because after a little discussion they agreed and let me go with a warning and a £3 fine (and ofcourse an increasingly murky school record ) 😈

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