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My opinion, based on 18 years of all makes hands-on repair experience (laundry and dishwashing) plus 22 years of Miele ownership:
Miele is head and shoulders above everything else
Bosch/Siemens and LG next
Electrolux group, Samsung and Smeg below that
Whirlpool group and Arcelik group following behind
Hoover/Candy and Vestel last
This is based mainly on build quality and durability, but also taking into account performance
I’m pretty sure it’s F06, therefore a door lock fault – either won’t open or won’t close – check lock, wiring and pcb, though as Dave says, not obviously backed up by the symptoms.
Twoten wrote:
I took legal advice on this and was advised my contract is with the agent as they give instructions. I can’t rely on the contract between the Landlord and Agent as this would be classified as transference of contract which doesn’t hold up in law.I don’t think that advice is correct. Lovetts Solicitors who are debt collection and recovery specialists suggest the opposite here (see last post):
https://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/threads/liability-for-unpaid-invoice.380304/
In electronically-switched appliances, the switching is usually single-pole, either live or neutral, so in most cases, insulation faults should be visible when tested at the appliance plug, provided both live-earth and neutral-earth are tested
No, mine is the 1587, which has additional functions auch as capacitance, apparently no superseded by the “connected” 1587 FC:
https://www.fluke.com/en-gb/product/electrical-testing/insulation-testers/fluke-1587-fc
This is versatile and never let me down:
https://www.fluke.com/en-gb/product/electrical-testing/insulation-testers/fluke-1577
Access to the fan and heater box should be straightforward through the top, if I recall, with just the usual risk of the heater bracket securing screw being seized in the casting. You might need to move the control panel and/or dispenser out of the way, but I don’t think so. Access to condenser requires the full back panel to be removed, so potentially tricky and time consuming if access is limited.
Unfortunately, with all property agents, your contract is with the landlord, not the agent, whether you sign a contract to that effect or not. The clue is in their name, they act as agents for the landlord, they are not your customer.
Agents generally pay you out of the tenant’s monthly rent, before it gets transferred to the landlord. If the tenant is in default, the agent will attempt to recover your invoice amount directly from the landlord on your behalf, but if they can’t, your only recourse in law would be to claim from the landlord directly.
Regarding so-called commission deductions, these clearly border on unethical, in effect being an additional charge by stealth on landlords. I suspect the last bullet point in Twoten’s initial post is to absolve the agent of any liability should the landlord find out about the additional costs they have incurred due to the so called commission deductions by the agent.
I took the view early on that I would not take work with so-called commission deductions, despite assurances that I could uprate my charges accordingly. This was in part because I found working directly for home owners and landlords more rewarding and straightforward than working through an agent, and in part because I didn’t want to get a reputation for high charges in my local area.
Direct Line were the competitive for me. Depends massively on driver age, vehicle and where you live, rather than insurer. Quotes can seemingly change by the hour, as my son found out when his quote from “Quote me Happy” (an online-only outlet of Aviva) for his Group 1 car fell from around £850 just before the site went on go slow due to overnight maintenance down to £500 when it came back up.
Always good to try a comparison site such as MoneySupermarket, though I tend to check out reviews and status of insurers and brokers at the top of the results list as they can sometimes be unheard of with questionable customer service.
Of course this involves another major government IT project. What could possibly go wrong? It looks as though we have missed the boat on responding to consultation and input to the user group.
It sounds like a very good thing, and probably brings UK into line with what some other countries in Europe have done for years, though my guess is the government’s consultation and “user panel” won’t have reached street level metal waste collectors, who I can’t see accurately logging all items of waste collected and transferred. Neither can I see it reducing the fly tipping this legislation among other things purports to address.Paying a customer up front for just the possibility of future work always seems a risky strategy. My guess is if you decline, if they need your services, they will still call you, unless they already have a panel of appliance repairers to chose from.
