Category: Washing Machine

Three year old Lewis Wrench from Crewe sadly lost his arm when a faulty washing machine allowed him to open the machine whislt it was spinning.

In a report that caught out eye today it is claimed that the UK population is bordering on illiteracy when they try to wash clothes according to their cleaning instructions. This will not come as a shock to any appliance technician as a whole heap of “faults” are down to people simply not underst…

I’m afraid that this is a proper “blog” post and full of personal comment so I will apologise in advance for the comments in this article and state upfront that they may not reflect the views of any appliance manufacturer or detergent manufacturer. The simple fact is however that there are loads …

It’s one of those stories that is a bit off beat but as International Women’s Day is celebrated, the Vatican had a novel message for the women of the world, to give thanks for the washing machine. The humble domestic appliance had done more for the women’s liberation movement than the contracepti…

The Sun has reported that an irate Tracey Fox was so sick of a company failing to fix her washing machine that she imprisoned a repair man in her house. Fed-up Tracey hasn’t been able to use her washing machine since before Christmas, despite a series of visits from service engineers. And when th…

After the success of Affresh a new product is being launched, first in the USA and later by us (UK Whitegoods) in the UK that serves as a powerful cleaning system to get rid of smells from your washing machine we are also about to stock the new powerful Affresh Cleaning Kit which cleans not only …

Leeds University spinout Xeros has won a provisional £500,000 investment from IP Group Plc for a revolutionary washing machine product which is claimed to use only one cup of water per cycle. IP Group said the investment was dependent on certain milestones being met. IP Group already has an…

Being great fans of innovation in what is a largely static industry we love to see new concepts and ideas to invigorate the appliance industry. But some of them are, thankfully, bound to never be produced. We came across one such product concept this week, the Washup which, we have a sneaky feeli…

A prototype washing machine which uses compressed air and negative ions to clean garments has recently picked up a design award and intended to be in home by 2020. The waterless AirWash device, created by Gabriel Tan and Wendy Chua, won the Index: Design to Improve Life prize and cleans clothes i…

A washing machine designed to work faster than any other model on the current market has been developed by a Japanese company. The Moving Drum appliance utilises the technical differences between washing and drying clothes to perform each task in what the manufacturer claims is half the tradition…