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Re: Moral problem ? or business sense ?
sparepart wrote:.. so the lettings agency asked for their money back on that machine
Sparepart !If they’d payed for it, it’s their washing machine. Their washing machine has gone missing. It’s got absolutely nothing to do with you that. If they find it, maybe then you can have a look at it and decide what to do.
Re: Cleaning stainless steel appliances
Johnson’s baby oil is also useful for strippers, to rub over certain bits while performing. They also like to get a male “victim” and rub it all over him, in his hair and on his clothes (underpants even). I’ve seen it 😉
Not that it happened to me personally, but I remember thinking how the ‘ell would I explain that to the missus? 🙂
Re: Child Safety READ THIS
kwatt wrote:You’d have to just happen to be doing a boil wash, just happen to have a failure or power cut before the wash is done and just happen to have an unattended child near the machine. I fancy I’d get better odds on winning the lottery than all that from happening. Don’t get me wrong, it’s possible, but then anything is possible but it strikes me as being highly improbable.
K.
Or you could be doing a 60 degree wash which is pretty scalding, and the kid could switch the machine off itself, then open the door. Much less odds of that happening? 😉
Consumer legislation doesn’t normally shy away from long odds, it’s more concerned with consequences, but I suppose a scalded hand is the only real potential consequence as water levels are so low.
[edited to correct spelling mistake of the word “consequences” because I became concerned about the consequences of posting with glaring spelling mistakes]
Re: Child Safety READ THIS
Aye, there’s a wave of apathy sweeping over this place 😉 maybe we’ve said it all? 😛
Re: Mental Block?
Why am I laughing at all these posts? It’s not funny – but it’s the best thread for ages 😉
After each one I find myself thinking (in a Yorkshire accent) “aye, and you try telling that to the kids of today – and they won’t believe yer.”
Re: MENTAL BLOCK ?
Penguin45 wrote:….. which wasn’t there. Drum with new spider still sat in van. Customer was greatly amused.
Chris.And so was I Chris reading that, so was I 🙂
Re: How do the Hotpoint washer dryers dry full loads?
Interesting. So is it as mind-numbingly simple as extending drying time? Why is that such a good idea now, when for the last 20 years it wasn’t? No one’s thought about it – or decided to do it before, yet customers have always wanted to dry the same load they just washed, and hated taking some out.
It’s hard to believe that all it needed was to extend the drying time to achieve this. It sounds similar to the A rated dryer that takes 8 hours to dry – in that machines are starting to be designed to give people what they want, even if it’s impractical or has financial implications in running costs and wear and tear that may well more than outweigh the perceived benefit.
Re: MENTAL BLOCK ?
funkyboogy wrote:i re-built a hoover logic 800 after changing drum bearings…whilst tidying up i found the bearing water seal…
bummer..That’s gonna take some beatin’ 😉
Re: Child Safety READ THIS
Why is it not illegal to manufacture and sell a washing machine that allows access to scalding water so easily? Most of them do it now, simply to shave a few more £££’s off production costs.
I suppose an argument could be that ovens allow their doors to be opened while extremely hot? But an oven that locked it’s door until temperatures were safe would be useless, it’s fairly straight forward to make a washing machine safer in this regard, without affecting function.
Re: MENTAL BLOCK ?
I always used to forget to put that black plastic heater cover over the Hotpoint heaters. 😳
It wasn’t so bad when they were just a push fit, but then they introduced the plastic screw fixing one and I had to take the front off again to fit it.
Re: Engineers who want no work
There’s a whole generation of customers who don’t seem to appreciate simple old fashioned service. They are attracted by gimmicky adverts not professional ones. They scan for words like, “fast”, “cheap”, “free”, No callout” “all makes”, “immediate” “7 day service”, “discounts” etc.
Using phrases like, “expert”, “reliable”, “specialist” “friendly” “personal service” don’t seem to impact them unless sufixed by “free”. People over 50, and particularly over 60, do still often really appreciate the good old fashioned service. They came from a generation that genuinely respected tradesmen. Trouble is they are all dying off 🙁
Re: How do the Hotpoint washer dryers dry full loads?
It doesn’t make sense, the situation has always been that clothes need space to fall through the hot air. Drums have become bigger, but they are claiming that they can tumble dry a full wash load. All washer dryers (that I know) have always needed to have some of the laundry removed to create this drying space.
If the solution was as simple as increasing the drying times they could have all done it years ago. I’m wondering why all of a sudden this is possible where it wasn’t before? Have they combined it with more powerful dryer fan I wonder – or is it just another sales gimmick that has consequenses that most customers won’t look into before buying?
