Maytag U5450

Advantages: Powerful Suction
Disadvantages: A bit on the heavy side

...Maytag U5288 Our very basic Hover model had given up the ghost and retired to that vacuum haven that all old and out of suck vacuum’s go to. It’s poor lung’s were so full of dust and sand that one morning when I plugged her in, she just made a wheezing, whirring, coughing noise and died right there in front of my eyes. Now over the grief, we realised that a replacement was badly in need and off to our local Carrefour store we went to see what we could find. The selection was rather limited with most being the cylinder type. I can tell you I just don’t like these models, not sure why but they give me the feeling that you should be going WALKIES with them and not hovering a home. Anyway I had the choice of 2 uprights, first being another rather basic Hoover model and I couldn’t bring myself to kill another one as I knew it just wasn... Read review

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Advantages: Quiet, large inside, easy to clean
Disadvantages: Intermittant fault that doesn't seem to be fixable, expensive

...I have had the Maytag for nearly two years now. I bought it to match with new appliances in my refitted kitchen. The machine holds a lot, more than our previous model. It was so quiet that when we first used it we didn't think it was working! It is easy to use, with lots of programmes. It has a low salt and low rinse aid indicator. It has an economy programme as well as all the usual programmes that you would expect for a top of the range dishwasher. About a year ago it suddenly started tripping the electric off and we needed to get an engineer. I bought the machine on line and I looked up Maytag and phoned them, they then arranged for a firm of engineers to send someone round. The engineer arrived, tried the dishwasher but it was fine, so said he couldn't do anything but let Maytag know if it happened again. He noticed... Read review

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Advantages: Cools any drinks in seconds
Disadvantages: Needs plenty of ice.

...+*+*+*+*+ Maytag Chiller +*+*+*+*+ Price :~ Bought the chiller from Asda at half price at the end of the summer season 2005 for £25 they still retail now for £54.99. Mine is not the silver one as in the picture but packaged in white with the Carling logo on the side, but everything else is the same. Manual :~ The manual is very straight forward and there is a step by step guide on how to use the chiller with photos to help. it even gives you a guide on how chilled wines should be. http://www.maytag.co.uk/Assets/U&CHandyChiller.pdf This site will show you the full manual for the Handy Chiller. What can be chilled :~ Anything can be chilled in the Maytag, soft drinks, beers, wine even milk. It can chill round containers bottles, cans, and also non round containers and drinks that you do not want to disturb much, as you... Read review

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