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The nice young man from Independant Service in Rochester brought my new washing machine a couple of hours ago.
I’ve started with the mountain of towels! First load of about 8… I shall do all the rest over night on the cheap electrons, so I can test all the other programs. I like the delayed start option.
First impressions:
Smart looking machine with easy to read ‘face’.
Controls are all horribly logical and sensible, after reading the manual.
Lovely big door!
Dead quiet! I’m in the living room with the door between it and me open, and I can’t hear it. I can hear a rude whisper across a bust classroom usually… 😀I’ve set it on 1200 spin and I’ll see how well that does. If the towels are too damp for the tumble dryer, I’ll give them another higher spin and remember to set it higher for the remaining towel loads.
I’m a little disconcerted by the boil wash program not having a pre-wash built in, but we shall see how it goes. If the towels come out good and clean, I’ll forget the pre-wash. I’m all for saving the time, money and washing powder, as well as the water! 🙂I’ve started with the Persil so I can do a more direct comparison with the old Whirlpoo machine. The gent from the shop was surprised it had lasted as long as it had, so I suppose I ought not to diss it too much! However, it did feed regularly on socks!
More later, as we progress….
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Excellent stuff Kate, I hope all goes well.
I’m glad you read the manual, means my taking so much time writing it were was worth the effort and its good to hear it all makes sense. 😉
K.
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The manual is very logical, but the English teacher in me wants to take a red pen to it and correct the few punctuation and grammar errors! 😀 😳
The towels came out beautifully, and so has the synthetics load that followed it. I dropped the temperature on program 5 (resistant synthetics) to 40 degrees, as they really don’t need the higher temperature, and left the spin speed at 1200. Things seemed a little damper than with the old WP machine, but I always kept that at maximum for anything other than delicates or woolens or they came out soggy! Over night there’s another towel load in (only 5 more to go! :rolls: ), and I’ve set the delay to take advantage of the white meter. I love that feature! 😀
When I took the towel load out there was a faint smell of rubber gloves! I’m presuming that this is from the door seal and will fade. It hasn’t affected either the towels or the clothes that went in after them. I didn’t notice it when I put the second towel load in just now.
So far I’m a lot more impressed than I expected to be, and that’s even taking into account that a washing dolly and a coal fired copper would do better than the WP at the end! 😀 😀
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Kate XXXXXX wrote:The manual is very logical, but the English teacher in me wants to take a red pen to it and correct the few punctuation and grammar errors! 😀 😳
It’s a trademark feature of my writing, almost right, but not quite. 😉
So long as it all makes sense, makes it easy to operate and doesn’t confuse then job done.
All the ISE5’s and 10’s are wet tested individually (not batch tested like most), so that they’re right as right can be but also to keep the quality high and this may lead to a slight odour on the first run or two that is unavoidable really. Sorry about that but once it clears it should be just fine. That’s the reason that the advice is there to run a maintenance wash first to clear that away, it’s not essential but it would probably have avoided that minor issue.
HTH
K.
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kwatt wrote:
It’s a trademark feature of my writing, almost right, but not quite. 😉So long as it all makes sense, makes it easy to operate and doesn’t confuse then job done.
Mine too, I’m afraid! How I managed to teach English for 20 years on and off , and sometimes up to A level (AND get an MA in modern lit!) as a dyslexic, will remain forever a mystery to one and all! It mainly attacks the spelling in my case. Thank the gods for spelling checkers! Now and again something odd gets through that, as they don’t read context. The results can range from the sublime to the illiterate! And it does all make sense, too. Infinitely better than a lot of the manuals you get, which read like they were translated from Japanese to Esperanto by an on-line translator, and THEN into English by a different one!
As or the slight smell, fret not! It wasn’t offensive: much better than some of the new machine/furniture/car pongs I’ve had in the past! Just a very faint whiff of rubber glove, and probably gone by now as I don’t remember it on taking the next load out. 🙂
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