[adamhornsby]

Re: rowenta iron not heating

Thanks for the reply, it didnt work when we were given it, and it doesnt look like it will. Another look shows the bi-metal conduct strip isnt working properly, and neither is the thermostat. Looks like a new iron then. 🙁

[adamhornsby]

Re: AEG Dishwasher having problems

Yep, it is the Favorit F86070VI an integrated model. After a bit of digging around on the internet, it says the 30 code means the leak prevention system has been activated. Is there any way to cure it without a £47.50 per hour engineer?

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Re: Maytag MAF9601AES door lock issues……time for a Miele

This does not seem like a surprise. For long enough the Maytag/ASKO/ISE or whatever has been chanted as the best machine and that Miele machines are expensive when they break down.

True enough they will be, but as I have said for long enough, Miele machines are not designed to be disposable and are built to sky high standards.
The Maytag is made by Asko, and looking at the prices they should not be any different spec to the Askos.
It suprises me that Miele gets a slating and yet they are a team of highly qualified designers and engineers who know what they’re doing, and yet the ISE brand has its machines made by Asko which as stated has faults, straight off the production line, this is something you would expect with a £200 Haier, and a brand with little presence in the UK. The budget ISE machines are made by the Arcelik brand which I believe make the Beko machines which are hardly high quality either.

Despite your Miele being more expensive, they don’t ram in more features and sell it for any less. You are buying a tank like build with no fussy features, and its made by a brand who know what they’re doing.

Feel free to take a dig anyone, but that is my honest opinion.

[adamhornsby]

Re: W3922 vs ISE10

Penguin45 wrote:

And Adam did get the Spin protection bit right – it was initially marketed as a safety feature (1980’s Hotpoint Microtronics?) due to the lack of sophistication available with electronic motor control at that time. They were originally a weighted mechanical knock-off device. Now they are a machine self-defence device to prevent some flimsy, under-engineered bit of plastic carp battering itself to bits on it’s cheap ineffective dampers and Bacofoil strength cabinet.

Penguin45.

Thanks Penguin, i thought it was a safety feature, after all in a logical sort of way, an out of balance machine wouldnt be safe for young children around it.

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Re: W3922 vs ISE10

All recently made machines should have spin balance protection for safety. I suppose the WMA machines are very similiarly made to each other, we have the WMA35 which says in the instructions that it clearly has out of balance protection, and although the machine is level and packed, it still seems to shake and vibrate a lot.

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Re: W3922 vs ISE10

I have also found that when washing heavily stained towels especially tea towels, 2 dessert spoons of Napisan (found under the baby aisle!) in with the powder on 60c wash, works a treat.
Ariel is still a good detergent, but Morrisons Cyclon seems to work just as well and does the Simply Active tablets

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Re: W3922 vs ISE10

hotpnt wrote:Maybe also Adam, you should review some of your customers thoughts on Miele’s before you start slating machines you know nothing about!!

WhirlpoolQueen wrote:

I do have a Miele machine which I bought from John Lewis’s in town, yes it is quiet, yes it washes well, but it has needed a couple of service calls within the first year, & if am honest I do regret buying in my haste now.

WQ

I didnt mean dodgy engineers sorry about that 😉 , of course the only dodgy thing is Indesit. We do have a Hotpoint at the moment, it was given to us, as some friend of my dads was having a new kitchen installed so didnt need this machine. It is far from perfect though, but will last untill we get the new machines in. Just because one person isnt so happy with their Miele, doesnt mean thousands of others arent either. I have heard many people raving about their Miele’s. Miele have an extremely low failure rate after all unlike Hotpoints and Indesits. 😉

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Re: W3922 vs ISE10

2 rinses? Isnt the minimum supposed to be 3? I guess this is down to daft Indesit programming. Our Hotpoint does 3, strange that the new ones dont.

[adamhornsby]

Re: W3922 vs ISE10

Its probably possible, of course as the programme parameters are programmed electronically after all its only a microchip, i cant see it not being able to be done, but the only thing is whether Hotpoint’s dodgy service, will actually allow a engineer to do it for you.
Have you tried emailing them your enquiry?

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Re: W3922 vs ISE10

dan0k5 wrote:IF a brushless motor is supposed to be super silent then why does my hotpoint brushless motor make a racket at any speed above 1200 rpm?

My friend has a miele w3922 with brushless motor and it is silent when washing and spinning. all you hear is the air whooshing around in the drum when its spinning.

My hotpoint however is rather audible at any speed above 1200rpm. I know it states “Super Silent Wash” so the spin is expected to be audible, however I thought all brushless motors although different in design and performance were designed to be super silent at domestic washing machine spin speeds?

I hope I havent confused any of you with that!

Thanks! 😀

Hotpoint just lie in general, so much for ‘designed for the real word’ hehe, Hotpoint dont know what the real world is. My idea of a real world is a machine that doesnt break down after a damned month!

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Re: Miele Prestige Plus 6 problem

PaulaD wrote:Thank you all very much for your help – especially putting me straight on Adam’s solution as I’d have believed him otherwise! 😳
The clothes have been coming out clean so it must be ok. Thanks for putting my mind at rest – I don’t understand why Miele couldn’t have explained it to me as simply.
This is a great site and I only wish I’d found it beforehand as I might have gone for the ISE!
Thanks again.
Paula

I did think of absorbing times and water temperature, but didnt know how to word it. 😉
The sensor controls would also as Trilobite says possibly remove a rinse by a ‘turbidity’ sensor, but this is rarely found on washing machines and is more common on dishwashers. Another factor that will affect cycle times is the load balance when spinning, if the load isnt balanced the machine will try distributing it several times to rebalance it, usually if they can’t they just stop and you have to do it by hand, that was just another idea.

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Re: W3922 vs ISE10

kwatt wrote:Adam, I know this is drifting way off topic but, just looking your kitchen design have you ever come across a thing known as the “work triangle” for kitchen design. Do you even know what it is?

I will tell you that most designers don’t, especially on new builds and it leads to a very awkward way of working when you actually use the kitchen. I appreciate it has to look nice and you’ve only got a finite amount of space but I place function way over form when it comes to kitchen design.

It also serves other purposes but I’m intrigued as it appears that your designs have more to do with appearance than function. It’s not me criticising, I’m trying to help you design better.

K.
Indeed i know of the triangle, but a triangle isnt necessarily a ‘equal’ triangle, but there is one there, more of a skewed triangle, it does work though as everything is one on side that relates to the triangle. thanks though

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Re: W3922 vs ISE10

r600a wrote:Hi

I work with my boss designing them, but she employs fitters

Case rested..fitters are fitters not engineers,most dont use there head and think going forward,they just follow drawings that are thought out by someone sitting at a computer thinking of how good its going to look rather than the practical or realistic use of the appliances .

Yes I have seen bad kitchen fitters and good ones (good ones are quite often the householder).

Bryan

You’ve obviously not met my boss or my father. Both do an excellent job.
I’l show my talents, prepare to be impressed. These are what I did for our extension at home, and the smaller one is what I did at work, both done on a cheap cad package which i have mastered…. just in case anyone is interested
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii23 … owview.jpg
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii23 … island.jpg
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii23 … ngarea.jpg

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Re: W3922 vs ISE10

iadom wrote:

adamhornsby wrote:
Working for a kitchen design company

So they don’t actually fit kitchens, they just design them, or are they really kitchen fitters who like 99.9{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of kitchen fitting firms do their own designs.

Reminds me of the time I worked on the farm as a youth, used to tell the girls I was an Agricultural technician. 😆

Jim.
I work with my boss designing them, but she employs fitters

[adamhornsby]

Re: Miele Prestige Plus 6 problem

iadom wrote:Is that your ‘fuzzy logic’ kicking in adam, :rolls:

haha, nope, that was just a commom sense idea

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