I bought this when my last washer/dryer gave up the ghost. It was the cheapest in the catalogue (didn't have the readies to buy outright!) and looked fine. Give the machine it's due, I'm still using it now, three years on, but it's performance has been far below my expectations.
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Advantages: Cheap - was £200 in a catalogue Disadvantages: Numerous - see below
I bought this when my last washer/dryer gave up the ghost. It was the cheapest in the catalogue (didn't have the readies to buy outright!) and looked fine. Give the machine it's due, I'm still using it now, three years on, but it's performance has been far below my expectations.
The washer is bog-standard with all teh usual options but I have found 4, the 40 degree wash is the only one curiously which gets everything clean. It has ... ...generally performs well.
The dryer however is a different matter. As with many washer dryers you can only dry half a load, what you don't get told is that it would take you 6 hours continuously to dry a half load of hand towels, don't bother trying with jeans and for goodness sake don't leave anything in dry or otherwise overnight because water seeps back in and you have to start again. I have had the machine maitained by a professional ... more
I bought this when my last washer/dryer gave up the ghost. It was the cheapest in the catalogue (didn't have the readies to buy outright!) and looked fine. Give the machine it's due, I'm still using it now, three years on, but it's performance has been far below my expectations.
The washer is bog-standard with all teh usual options but I have found 4, the 40 degree wash is the only one curiously which gets everything clean. It has an average cycle time of 50 minutes and the washer generally performs well.
The dryer however is a different matter. As with many washer dryers you can only dry half a load, what you don't get told is that it would take you 6 hours continuously to dry a half load of hand towels, don't bother trying with jeans and for goodness sake don't leave anything in dry or otherwise overnight because water seeps back in and you have to start again. I have had the machine maitained by a professional and it is apparently doing the job it was meant for, so it is not my particular machine.
