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Re: Where to go to get washing machine down stairs?!!
Given the litigious nature of today’s society and the apparent fixation with protecting children from anything and everything I am not sure you will get very far asking the Scouts to move this machine. You would probably end up on some register or other as an exploiter of child labour!!
As Jumpty said, hire yourself a stair-climbing trolley for about £15, then you will only need to worry about controlling the direction and not about supporting its weight.
For example, HSS hire shops have this available:
Re: Indesit WDE12UK brushes
Thanks for the info chaps, I have obtained and fitted new brushes and they are now bedding into the comm..
In fact, there is clearly some thing odd about this machine because the 047317 was not correct, (different shape fixing lugs and pillars), although the bevel on the end of the brush is correct.
105214 has the correct housing, (screw position & pillars), but the bevel is in the wrong direction.
The brushes I actually used are Indesit part number C00194594. They are labelled as being for the CESET motor, but the motor fitted is labelled INDESCO.
Perhaps these companies have merged or some thing.
I just thought it worth mentioning in case anyone else meets this odd state of affairs.
Thanks again for the help.
Lee
Re: Indesit WDE12UK brushes
Thanks for the quick reply… it is an Indesco motor, (I cannot see a specific model number on it though).
Lee
Re: Miele – not as good as everyone says.
S-Express wrote: Engineer is coming tomorrow afternoon 🙂 If it’s not fixed then I’ll class it as a lemon and demand a replacement.
Just for your info, in law you are not entitled to a replacement, only to a refund. It is up to the retailer from whom you bought the product to sort this out for you as your contract is with them and not the manufacturer.
Of course, their phone line will only try to send you back to the manufacturer, so the best bet is to visit the shop and sort it out face to face.
Personally, I would get my money back from Dixons and go to an independant dealer for a new machine, (of whatever make).
Good luck!
Re: Large top Loader Please
Hi Mike
Probably your best bet is to put a ‘wanted’ ad in the local papers/newsagents etc around the Mildenhall/Lakenheath/Brandon/Thetford/Newmarket areas. You may well unearth one from a US services family who are leaving our shores , and leaving their machine behind.
I’m not sure if this will help or not, but for the last few days there has been a pick-up parked on the forcourt of the, (now closed) Jet station on the Barton Mills roundabout (A11). It has an ‘authorities aware’ sticker on the window, and what looks like the type of machine you describe sitting in the back of it. I do not know any more than that about it, and I am not suggesting you help yourself, but people working in the area may be able to throw some light on the situation.
Good luck.
Lee
Re: Removing Lock Nut on Hotpoint wm31
Martin wrote:And as for ‘nut splitters’? :rolls:
Well then , the ‘Caution Notice’ at the very bottom of this page says it all….. 😆
🙂 Excellent! 🙂
Re: Removing Lock Nut on Hotpoint wm31
I think that I would be inclined to buy myself a nut splitter for a job like this if I had any doubts about how to wedge the pulley or how to release a threadlocked nut.
Obviously it would mean obtaining a new nut, (and possibly a tube of threadlock), as the nut, once split, is unusable.
Re: Ariston motor fault
Hi Jim
Where I work we have ‘one off’ repairs and rewinds made to motors quite often, (a wide selection of motor makes, types and voltages). This work is done by a rewinder in Bedford, (I think).
Some motors may well be too expensive to repair, but in view of the OP’s comments about costs etc, and as it costs nothing to ask, it is worth trying.
Obviously if it is not cost effective then so be it.
Perhaps the guy you speak of is now running a caravan park precisely because he felt he could not do ‘one off’ jobs?
Re: Ariston motor fault
You could try removing the motor and taking it to a rewinder for repair. That would be a lot cheaper than a replacement and would give you a motor that has been refurbished and comes with a guarantee.
Worth thinking about.
Lee
Re: Can I reduce the heating element power?
Just an idea.
What about adding a diode in series with the heating element?
Naturally, it would have to be a heavy-duty device, able to cope with the current drawn by the element, but by half-wave rectifying the AC supply to the element it would reduce the current by about 50{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d}.
This is one method that is used to create the lower power setting on electric blankets and the like.
Naturally, great caution should be observed in doing this, to maintain good standards of insulation etc.
I am not necessarily suggesting this be done, but I would be interested to hear others’ thoughts.
That said, if there are machines designed especially for this situation they must surely be a better bet than modifying a standard machine.
Re: Latch for LG WD1045FH required (not entire door assembly
A long shot, but try looking around your local rubbish tip… WHOOPS! I mean ‘recycling centre’ 🙂
White goods usually have their own area, so if there is a machine present you should see it easily.
Re: ‘B’ grade hotpoint washers sold as ‘A’ grade on internet
I have never worked in the white goods industry, (unless you class mirowaves as white goods), HOWEVER, I spent many years in the brown goods sector, working for a retailer, a service agent, and a certain well-known Japanese manufacturer.
What we have here is a typical retailer/dealer trick.
This business has nothing whatever to do with the manufacturer, (even if it is they who provide service back-up). Since you have paid your money to the dealer, (in this case Fires-Cookers), your contract under the Sale of Goods act is with THEM, not with the manufacturer.
When I was employed by that Japanese company, we were forever getting calls from members of the public who had bought one item or another, and had experienced a problem, only to be told by the retailer to contact the manufacturer for a replacement or a refund, even though they knew dammed well that it was up to them to sort out the customer’s problem and then for them to seek a refund from their supplier, (the manufacturer).
The white goods industry is a bit different in that the manufacturer still provides the service aspect, BUT that assumes that the retailer has not bought out the warranty, as may well have happened in this case. If this were to be so, the service support may well be provided by a third party service organisation, in which case Hotpoint would be within their rights to refuse to carry out a warranty repair. HOWEVER, if they knew that the item had been purchased from an outlet who had bought out the warranty they should have told you at the outset and not sent an engineer first.
Exchanging emails, phone calls and letters will get you nowhere, except running round in circles.
The best thing you can do is to complain to the Trading Standards dept of your local council, (although you may well have to complain to the same dept at Leicester Council, as that seems to be where Fires-Cookers are based).
Also contact BBC Watchdog, and tell Fires-Cookers that you have done so…. it tends to concentrate the minds of such people wonderfully!
Don’t struggle with this yourself…… get some help with it, that’s what Trading Standards are there for, (and what you pay council tax for!).
Wishing you the very best.
Lee
Re: Black Mould in Soap Dispenser Drawer
The indesit machine we have is hot & cold fill, but only cold water is used to carry the conditioner into the machine, so there is no ‘sterilisation’ effect.
Ecover conditioner, (like all their products), is plant derived rather than petroleum based with a byproduct of the slaughter industry thrown in for good measure, (most fabric conditioners use carcase-derived ingredients such as tallow).
I still wonder if the mould is related to the presence of animal fats in the likes of ‘comfort’ and ‘lenor’.
It would be really interesting to hear if a change to a plant-based conditioner, such as Ecover, cures the problem.
Lee
Re: Black Mould in Soap Dispenser Drawer
No black mould problems here, – and the drawer is only cleaned when necessary, which is not often!
We use Ecover non bio liquid which goes straight into the drum, (not the drawer), and Ecover conditioner which does go in the drawer.
Maybe you could have a go with Ecover conditioner and see if the mould problem returns….. I would be interested to know.
All the best.
Lee
Re: WD12 UK Indesit – draining immediately after filling.
brianmccallum wrote:The issue with my machine is that on setting 3 the machine fills with water but then immediately the drain pump kicks in and drains all the water. It then starts filling again and seems to go in to the normal washing cycle.
Our WDE12, (not quite the same machine), has always done this, so I rather assumed it was supposed to for some reason best known to someone else.
We always use washing liquid & put it straight onto the clothes in the drum so it is not washed away.
If it’s washing Ok after doing this fill-drain-fill-wash thing, I’d be inclined to cancel the call, save the money and put it toward a better machine next time, (that’s what we are doing anyway! 🙂
Lee
