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Re: Washing machine Beko WM5101W
Have you looked to see if there’s anything obvious?
Could be motor related, carbons or pretty much anything that’d cause that.
K.
Re: Miele WDA101 – fabric stretching in synthetic wash
I’m not quite sure I understand the logic in what they’re saying there.
It is not a concept that I am familiar with as water level should have no bearing on shrinkage to my knowledge unless Miele know something I don’t or the machine has some weird function that could account for that statement.
As to testing, you really don’t wanna know as if you got it lab tested you’re looking at a cost in the £1000’s.
K.
Re: ‘STORE’ doesn’t work on iPad.
Yeah Jim it does look like Safari isn’t rendering it correctly for some reason but, as you’ve found out, it seems a browser coding issue and not one with the site itself so there ain’t much we can do about it. 🙁
K.
Re: Miele WDA101 – fabric stretching in synthetic wash
If they don’t find any fault hem it’s very likely you will get hit with a charge for the call.
K.
Re: Miele WDA101 – fabric stretching in synthetic wash
Honestly, it’s probably not the machine.
The wash care symbols are set out here:
http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/stai … sh-symbols
The line denotes a gentle wash action, two a more gentle action.
If you wash items with either on a more harsh wash action program (cotton wash) then the fibres will be broken and over time the garments will become damaged. That could happen on one wash, could take twenty or more, there’s no way to tell as it depends on many variables including the fabric itself.
Stretching though is an odd one, usually I’d expect that to be a problem with drying, the program used or a problem with the garment but, to get it on multiple garments is very peculiar.
What the technician will do is a standard spec test in that, he’ll make sure the machine operates as it should, drum turns properly, spins, the machine fills and empties as it should and so forth. What he likely won’t be able to do is tell you what is causing that, merely that the machine is working as it should which is what I suspect you expect to happen.
Thing is, if the machine is doing what it should then the problem must lie elsewhere but in order to eliminate it with confidence you may well have to soak up the cost of it being tested.
Other things to consider though are, what detergent are you using and are these synthetic mixes?
K.
Re: Time for a Cup of Coffee and Read
To be honest Martin, there has been for some years now a growing concern over this and other industries that generate massive volumes of waste in government and not just ours, a number of them.
Getting governments to do anything is a long, slow, laborious task or an immediate clear and present danger or, a financial drain or, you throw money at the issue to lobby them to move faster.
We don’t have the money for the last option so, that’s out.
It is a financial drain with the cost of waste etc but, it’d possibly cost more to solve than the loss so that probably won’t happen.
It’s not a clear and present danger unless you count a few dryers in Blighty going up in flames so that’s not going to fly.
Which leaves us with option number one.
You just keep on fighting the good fight in the hope that one day you win it or at least get some kinda result.
K.
Re: Siemens F/Fzr obsolete after 5 years?
bagman wrote:I thought they had to stock parts for seven years minimum?
No.
There is no legal requirement to stock spare parts for any period of time at all, a total myth.
http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/spar … nd-the-law
K.
Re: Whirlpool/Hotpoint/Indesit dryer safety issue
They’ve tried that, it’s a washer dryer.
Not good at all. In my opinion, a hugely greater risk on many fronts.
K.
Re: Whirlpool/Hotpoint/Indesit dryer safety issue
Camperdownfamily wrote:I just can’t believe that in this day and age of safety consciousness there aren’t stricter regulations to require these machines to be designed with seals that can’t leak lint into the machine, with filters that seal tight to prevent lint loss into exhaust pipes etc. and inherently safe heating elements that don’t get hot enough to ignite the lint.
You could but then air wouldn’t get though either and, airflow is paramount to how a tumble dryer works.
Not helped by fancy fabrics that shed lint like there’s no tomorrow, along with plastic polymer fibres that if you Google, you’ll see clogging up oceans as well as tumble dryers across the world. Many calls for them to be outlawed.
All that stuff in any dryer is highly flammable, hence the importance of keeping them clean as if the filters don’t get it, into the dryer it goes and it turns into a potential fire hazard. The brand of dryer is wholly irrelevant for the most part, they can all suffer the same way.
And, if it doesn’t go on fire, it chokes the air, makes it run longer and be less efficient so costs more in energy use.
What may seem a simple thing to do, isn’t.
So long as you need to blow air through it and, there’s clothing in it that produces lint then this issue cannot be solved by manufacturers in any way. They can improve it for sure, use different heater designs and so forth, put in more safety elements but all that costs money and would push up the price of dryers and, how effective it’d all be, who knows.
K.
Re: Time for a Cup of Coffee and Read
2013.
I have the video somewhere from it, I think I used it at one of the meetings, not sure. Can’t publish it openly due to copyright.
K.
Re: Amica Service
Yes it is moving to CDA from Jan/Feb time which is no great surprise really as the integrate stuff as they say.
To be honest I’m not directly involved all that much in what Amica does or doesn’t do as we just hosted it for them.
I’ve known about it for a while but was sworn to secrecy on what they were doing until it was announced to all agents and staff so, I respected that and did as asked.
K.
Re: Saturday delivery
Yeah, this time of the year you start to see that as they’ve largely all got the drivers out seven days a week.
We’ve seen stuff delivered on Sundays and so on as well as they try to keep the Christmas madness under control.
K.
Re: Hotpoint Fridge/Freezer Module PCB control units.
Err, that part number you have for the board… it’s not configured.
So unless whoever supplied it to you has set it up it for the specific model it’s about as useful as a chocolate fireguard, why we won’t sell unconfigured boards.
To program it, I think they’d need to plug it in and program it with keypresses I imagine.
I don’t think they’ll have done that as they’d need to plug it into the machine, assuming that they just happened to have a suitable donor one kicking about and unpacked that board, plugged it in, configured it, took it back out, repacked it and sent it to you. You can perhaps see why I don’t think they did all that.
It is programmed apparently but requires configuration and the instructions for that you will only get from Hotpoint, if they’ll give them to you.
K.
Re: Bosch WAQ28460GB/01 Stinking!
Bullski wrote:Frustratingly we also do weekly maintenance washes using bleach….but nothing seems to keep the smell at bay.
Depends how much laundry you’re doing to a degree but, with the use it’s going to get bad and it will happen regardless of what machine you use.
Bullski wrote:unless there are machines on the market that are less susseptible to bacterial build up when using non biological products.
Afraid not, they all operate to HLCC guidelines and as it’s down to use, as I’ve said, no machine will escape from the problem you’ve got. Degrees of severity perhaps if you buy a machine with a stainless tank but about the only way to get that now (maybe) is a commercial machine or perhaps a top end Miele.
So, that’s gonna run you a couple of grand with no guarantee it won’t fall prey to exactly the same issue.
In any event, this will not be covered by any warranty as it’s use related so it’d be a lot of money to take a punt that it might work or, might not.
K.
