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Re: XCans of worms disguised as boxes of washing powder…
The product is OK, but my skin is not! That stuff eats me. I used to use it in a hotel kitchen, and I needed industrial strength rubber gloves. They had to get me several pairs of Extra Small in specially.
Septic tank would be lovely, but the cesspool is in the back garden of a terraced house built in 1928, and is shared with two properties. Access aside, we are both single income families due to age and infirmity. The cost of changing over is too great for the present circumstances. Between us we can probably drag together enough shekels for a scour-out (£400-£500), which will help, but not for a total rebuild (last costing about £10,00 for one that fits local planning and what-have-you conditions. We’re in a restricted area on the edge of areas of ‘outstanding natural beauty’, and designated conservation areas), not including restoration of the gardens… Last person in the row who looked into this type of replacement was refuse planning permission as well.
I bought a lotto ticket this week, but missed Wednesday’s roll-over of £12m.
Re: New house, first Dishwasher
That looks like a good bargain. Go for it, if you need to buy now. Don’t forget to try the dinner plate in it… 😆
Don, how does it compare on price and specs with the ISE dishwasher due out later this year?
Re: General Dyson question…
The trouble I found with the bagged cleaner was that I was replacing the bags almost as often as I used the thing, as the decline in levels of suck was both marked and rapid. Even with a new bag I found the second half of the living room (not quite 20 feet long) harder to clean than the first half. With the Dyson this doesn’t happen anything like as much, and as soon as the suction level goes down noticeably, I wash the filter… Maybe as often as every six months? I’ve never found emptying the thing a problem: I stand up wind of the bin, tip and tap it a few times, and that’s it done.
As for mending it… Nope! Professional help not needed in 10+ years. It’s needed two new brush bars due to driver error: first one was a couple of years back when a long strip of fabric (about 2m long and 5-10cm wide – a sort of very long narrow wedge) got sucked up and jammed the belt, and friction melted the ends and welded them to the brush bit so it wouldn’t turn, and this latest one where I fed it a needle which cut the bar in half!). It’s also needed a few belts when it’s swallowed bits of paper and jammed. Other than that it’s coped with cats, kids, dogs, mud, builder’s demolishing a wall, spilled plaster dust, wodges and Wodges and WODGES of thread, fabric scraps, hair (mine is long and known to defeat hairbrushes), and seems to take it all with perfect equanimity. Alan changed the brush bar without a problem both times and I gave it a new hose myself after splitting that (err… I stretched it out tight, bent it round a sharp corner, and then put a hoof on it. I weighed over 15 stone in those days!).
The Miele before it went through 3 sets of motor brushes in less time, didn’t have kids or builders to contend with, ate bags a a distressing rate, and things like the silly holder for the bags, the hinge and catch for the tool cover, and the ‘turbo’ head all failed. I wasn’t sewing anything like as much then either… I thought it good until I tried the Dyson.
It might take a lot to make me do more than merely look at something with bags again.
Re: ISE 5 review: rather long!
I haven’t felt the need for it. 1400 has spun things out better than expected.
PS: Postie just came: second brush bar and plate have arrived! Will need to ring Dyson UK and get this sorted, but later…
Re: General Dyson question…
iadom wrote:TBH Kate, Meile and Sebo vacuums are better built, perform as well if not better and are not as overpriced and plasticky [sp] as Dyson’s Asian manufactured cleaners.
Hm… I want bagless again, with permanent washable filters. These are features I like bout the Dyson. Not having needed to buy one in over 10 years, I don’t have much to compare with, but I did like my Miele cylinder when I had it. I just like the Dyson upright a lot better! But I’ll certainly look at these two when I DO need to buy a new one.
I’d need to stand a new Dyson next to my present one to judge the plastickyness or otherwise of the two…:lol:
iadom wrote:They are also much nicer looking. 🙂
Jim.
As with blokes, that aspect is optional… Function and performance rule! 😈
Re: General Dyson question…
kladave wrote:We have been waiting for over 5 weeks for those brush roll kits so you are lucky and we are still waiting 👿 As for the the ball the jury is still out.
They must have heard a leery-eyee-look in my tone when I rang them and asked ever so sweetly why the belts pack had arrived but not the plate/roller kit.
To be honest, I’d have been happy with just a replacement old style roller. The new plate will prevent something I never do (try to munch on cables!), but not filter out needles and pins and the occasional strip of fabric.
As for the ball, I’m in no hurry: it’s just another thing to contemplate when the time comes.
I got a pin and a wodge of thread jammed in mine once (occupational hazard in this house). Took a (clean!) drain rod to it, and that sorted the problem…
Be aware that once you have bought a dishwasher, THERE IS NO GOING BACK” 😉
As a 2-3 person household which has occasional influxes of guests, I have to say that the dishwasher is an excellent invention, and we put everything in it that we can. We have some lead crystal wine glasses and desert dishes that can’t go in, and certain glasses and crockery with surface decoration should not go in, so check when buying this sort of thing too. Other than that, almost everything that will physically fit in the machine goes in!
One thing to check is the size of dinner plate the dishwasher will take. Some cannot accommodate the larger plates: our 13″ dinner plates only just fit in the lower basket with the upper adjustable one in the highest position. The smaller dinner plates will fit in both top and bottom with the basket in the lower position. Take a dinner plate with you when you go to buy!
Re: ISE 5 review: rather long!
Please do. You can see I believe in working my electric slaves hard! 😆 😆
Re: AEG Lavamat 620 tumble dryer.
Thanks! I’ll get on to that tomorrow… Brain is on the fritz after last night.
Re: AEG Lavamat 620 tumble dryer.
Hang on…
E-Nr.607.624 110
F-Nr.050.796672 (In case you want that too. I’m just surprised they are still legible after all this time!)
Sorry this is so late/early… Went swimming, got back late, needed supper, and then the excitement with the blue flashy lights started.
