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Re: Siemens S1438 (5 year guarantee) 500£ – really Calgon Q
A maintainence wash is a very hot wash (as hot as the machine will go usually 90/95 degrees) run with washing powder to clear bacteria, mould and any effect of limescale, this should be done once per month and will help to stop the drum support spider rotting away.
Liquids do contain a water softener, but no bleach which will cause a smelly mass to acumulate in your washing machine, this is what rots the drum spider. All engineers will recommend using powder, eg. Ariel biological, not the colour stuff, that contains no bleach. Liquids are bad for your washer. :rolls:
The dosage instructions for the detergent are on the package and will give you the correct amounts for soil level, machine capacity and water hardness. 😉
HTH,
Oliver.
Re: Siemens S1438 (5 year guarantee) 500£ – really Calgon Q
Just use the correct amount of washing powder for the water hardness in your area. The powder contains builders which soften hard water if used properly. Calgon is unnessercary if you do this, IMO calgon is a complete waste of money! 😉
Also run the monthly maintainence wash with the powder and your new machine will be fine!
HTH,
Oliver.Re: Reason W/M.
lordhelpus wrote:helo works for comet and they are all comics there ha ha.
You have just signed your death warrant there Lordhelpus!!!!! 😉
Helo is nice really, damn good knowledge of the white goods industry!Thanks for the info. on the Reason and the out come will be very interesting!
Cheers,
Oliver.
helo_75 wrote:
ooh im on a roll arent i
Yes! 😉
For anyone who thinks Indesit etc. are reliable, read this……
I got my own home when I was 17 (in 2005) and bought a Hotpoint WF530T (nice almond colour) I spent £500 on it thinking had bought an excellent quality and reliable bit of kit. It started playing up after a few months of owning it, instead of it letting all the rinse water fully pump away before spinning it immediatley put the pump on and just spun filling the tank with huge torrants of foam so always activating foam control. Then the timer/PCB went funny, it would sit there on was just rocking the drum instead of tumbling correctly, so bad washing performance. And the amount of time it spent balancing the load before spin was a joke, it would try to balance a fully even load and not bother with a badly distributed load.
At home before I left we had and still have an IAR Siltal which always washed better than the Hotpoint ever did, in 8 years of 10-15 loads a week it has needed a new pump which I fit myself and kindly supplied by UKW. The Hotpoint finally got unusable after 2 and a half years of use, a mere 4 loads a week. I looked after the Hotpoint with maintainance washes etc, kept it in good condition and still got no service life out of it. 👿 I use a good quality detergent (Ariel Biological Powder), so it did not get scummed up.
I may only be 20 but I just happen to have my head screwed on and whats more COULD NOT afford a new machine so bought a reconditioned Bosch WFF2000, which washes just as well as the IAR Siltal. The Hotpoint ruined all my towels, they smelt awful even on 60, luckily they were all saved by a boil wash in the IAR Siltal. After all that I repair all my own things, don’t always get it right but I’m only human, but I could not be @rsed with the Hotpoint any longer.
For Gods sake DO NOT buy any Merloni appliance not only are they crap, the only thing worse is the after sales service. And for reference I still have the Hotpoint in a corner with a cover over it as I spent so much money on it I could not bear to part with it. :rolls:Oliver.
Re: Best quality tumble driers ever made.
The_Fridge wrote:You would be suprised at the low call rates for the Indesit machines.
Thats interesting, when I had a Hotpoint I couldn’t get anyone to repair it for ages, all the engineers were booked solid or is that just up here in Brighouse? :rolls: Just purely out of interest do you work for Indesit ❓
So much so I got rid of it and bought a reconditioned Bosch, that performs a hell of alot better in every respect. I will never look at a Merloni appliance ever again. I thought I had bought a good washer (£500) for the Hotpoint but silly me bought it thinking of the Hotpoint of old not the modern Merloni sh1te.
Luckily the honourable Mr Chantrell (:p45:) has put us onto a good local engineer that he apprenticed many moons ago and he now owns Brighouse domestics, so he will beable to keep the Bosch running for some time yet.
Oliver.
Re: just a query – smelly boschs
I have a Bosch WFF2000 about 12-15 years old or so. It does not smell. I bought it reconditioned and it was scummed up and hummed to high heaven but maintainance washes with Ariel Biological powder and Affresh has solved the problem for good. I always use Ariel powder and the smell has NEVER returned. But I do not wash at low temperatures, always 60 degrees (cotton 60 and cotton economy 60) also with short wash and higher water level selected, and get excellent results.
8)
HTH,
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Oliver.Re: Best quality tumble driers ever made.
Thats interesting, never thought that highly of Beko personally, but I could be wrong. A friend of mine has a Beko washing machine and she likes it, although it does about 6 loads a day, so my money is on it won’t last! 😕
Nice joke on Reason thread though Helo! 😈
Oliver.
Re: Best quality tumble driers ever made.
How can anything Indesit (Merloni) be better than anything else, in this case Beko, they are built to too tight a budget. If Indesit wanted to make an ISE quality machine, they could but just choose not to! 🙁
Re: Reason W/M.
helo_75 wrote:did they show you how to fix washer dryer fans whilst you were there?
:rotl:
Re: Reason W/M.
The one in the promotional video looked like a shell, the washing goes in dry and comes out fluffy and dry, no one said it was a dryer as well :rotl: , there really is no “Reason” for that!!!!! :rotfl:
I know don’t give up the day job :rolls:
Re: Best quality tumble driers ever made.
Exactly Jim! :rotfl:
I would never touch a Merloni appliance and nor would my friend that wants the new tumble drier!!
This is what happens when you buy an Indesit……… :hitfan: and then this when you have to deal with the call centre………. :bang: .
Hence my signature! 😆
Re: Sebo vacs are they any good?
Sebo vacuum cleaners are EXCELLENT as Helo says, we have commercial ones to clean our house. I am a carpet cleaner and use them in the trade and as you can see practice what I preach!! 8) Sebo machines out perform any other brand available today. They are the only machines to remove deeply embedded grit from a carpet thus extending the carpets life some what considerably! Also filtration is good, S-class hospital standard.
They not only filter the allergens but pick them up also.They way out perform the cheap plasticy Dysons, and work how a vacuum should, also computer controlled height adjustment on domestic models and computer guided on commercial models.
Highly recommended, people often ask me what cleans a carpet the best and ALWAYS recommend Sebo, often get asked about Dysons but people do not like to hear the truth about them, piles of junk all round!! (Sorry Mr Dyson but they just don’t work, and I bet you know it). :rolls:
HTH,
😉
Oliver.PS. I bought my Mum two Sebos (JohnsonDiversey Ensign 360 Contract and JohnsonDiversey Ensign SM1) after having Dysons for years, the Sebo filled a bag with grit and other fine dust the Dysons had failled to remove, the carpets look a million times cleaner, there is about 90{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} less dust on the furniture in a week as it is all removed from the carpets properly. She is extremely pleased with the machines, and thats saying something. 🙂
