Dishwashers lifespan

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First time using one I had chilli, dessert so pan for the chilli, rice bowl, another pan for the custard, wooden spoons and another dish for the apple pie. Plates, bowls, knives, bowl for tortillas and dipping sauce etc...whilst that was doing it was watching a movie.
 
Bought a Beko from AO in 2019, and it's been brilliant. I live in a hardwater area, this machine has a dial inside to adjust depending on water quality. Not had a problem yet and have never cleaned it inside with "life" enhancing products. I do have salt and rinse aid but rarely add it and just let the tablets do their thing.
 
There's a Hotpoint dishwasher in our kitchen that I believe was installed when the house was built and that was 20 years ago. I've not had to repair or replace anything in the 7 years we've lived here and it's still seemingly going strong.

Noisy when the pump runs and probably eats electric, but still keeps things clean in our hard water area.
 
inflames said:
Just interested to see what others have experienced with dishwashers, their durability and lifespan? Admittedly ours is a slimline one so maybe it’s a contributing factor, who knows and we live in a hard water area. Our first one was a Indesit that lasted 8 years and I only replaced drain pump towards the end of it lifespan. The whole thing failed a week before Xmas.

That’s how we ended up getting a Candy dishwasher, it was the only one in stock, in the colour my wife wanted and would be delivering before Christmas. We have had it two and a bit years. It’s was nothing but problems, I have had to replace drain pump three times during that time. It would drinks rinse aid like an alcoholic. Anything I the corners of never get cleaned. Then it flooded the kitchen last week. What was the last straw…..

Currently waiting on a delivery of our new one, a Hisense one hopefully it will be better than the Candy dishwasher we had.

What have other experienced with dishwasher. I am just thinking we just had different ends of the spectrum. A good machine, with quality and well tested components or was it just luck? To a cheap of the cheap and it’s all about maximising profits, but using the cheapest components.
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Dishwashers are for lazy people..
 
My first dishwasher is still going. I think it was second hand when I got it. Must be a decade old.

Edit. Just checked.
It was a refurb and is 8 years old.

A hotpoint.

This is the 3rd house it's been in!
 
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I've owned 4.
First one was a second hand Bosch. Lasted about 7 years. Second was a Bosch. Lasted unknown as we sold it when we moved as inherited a built in Lamona one that came with the Howdens kitchen. That was rubbish so we replaced with a Bosch. Still going 5 years later.
 
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Our dishwashers have varied in life from about 3 years to 10 or so, I'm actually just about to ring and get someone out to look at our 2 year old one because the salt low light simply won't stop flashing*, we're in a hard (very?) water area so it tends to be a bit tough on the appliances.

I sort of miss the old mechanically controlled appliances, where you didn't have an appliance die because a 30p EEPROM failed and the technicians can only get a complete board that they have to programme for £100 plus callout.


*Yes I've filled it, about 3 times in the last 8 weeks.
 
koolpc said:
Really? Dishwashers are for lazy people!! How hard is it to wash up after u have eaten? Really???
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Ah someone who is healthy, has plenty of time and doesn't mind spending time at the sink washing stuff less efficiently* than the machine can do it ;)

My dad got my mum their first one when he was working long shifts and she was recovering from a major joint replacement op.


*IIRC most modern dishwashers are significantly more efficient in terms of water and power usage than washing by hand (I think my current one uses around 2 or 3l a cycle).
 
koolpc said:
Really? Dishwashers are for lazy people!! How hard is it to wash up after u have eaten? Really???
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They are great when you have lots of greasy things IE Sunday roast.

Saves time whilst it's doing that I can be doing other stuff .

They're not expensive £180 for mine . Also since I don't have combi it means heating up 80 gallons tank or putting kettle on.
 
Got a Samsung a year ago after moving and my sliming bosh not fitting, the crap beko the sellers left has no labels left on it so it was guess work and had a slight leak where had to till and drain it onto the wooden floor, I don't reckon the Samsung will last long seems very needy
 
inflames said:
Just interested to see what others have experienced with dishwashers, their durability and lifespan? Admittedly ours is a slimline one so maybe it’s a contributing factor, who knows and we live in a hard water area. Our first one was a Indesit that lasted 8 years and I only replaced drain pump towards the end of it lifespan. The whole thing failed a week before Xmas.

That’s how we ended up getting a Candy dishwasher, it was the only one in stock, in the colour my wife wanted and would be delivering before Christmas. We have had it two and a bit years. It’s was nothing but problems, I have had to replace drain pump three times during that time. It would drinks rinse aid like an alcoholic. Anything I the corners of never get cleaned. Then it flooded the kitchen last week. What was the last straw…..

Currently waiting on a delivery of our new one, a Hisense one hopefully it will be better than the Candy dishwasher we had.

What have other experienced with dishwasher. I am just thinking we just had different ends of the spectrum. A good machine, with quality and well tested components or was it just luck? To a cheap of the cheap and it’s all about maximising profits, but using the cheapest components.
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we are on our 2nd dishwasher in 16 years... albeit the 1st one did have a repair person out to it twice.

that one failed again and we got rid about 6 (at a guess) years ago , The repair guy always said it was a rubbish one and so we got one he recommanded and that one appears to be running well (it wasnt especially expensive either).

it gets used every other day apart from every other weekend where the inlaws come for sunday dinner then it always goes on before and after that regardless.

I will say I cannot recommend highly enough getting one with a 3rd top drawer for putting in utensils rather than a basket. Sure you lose a little bit of height on the other 2 shelves (but we needed to get smaller dinner plates anyway) but it does such a better job of cleaning cutlery and makes for more space for other stuff too.

As for those who call people lazy for having them 1) my understanding is these days a decent diswasher is more efficient than washing by hand in terms of water and energy use (we run ours over night on an economy cycle)..... however more of interest to me

do these people have the same logic for other white goods such as a vacuum cleaner or washing machine? if so I hope it is them who goes outside and gets the mangle out in the cold of winter and they dont expect their other halves to do it (and next time you bake a meringue i hope you dont use an electric whisk!) :D
 
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bigmike20vt said:
we are on our 2nd dishwasher in 16 years... albeit the 1st one did have a repair person out to it twice.

that one failed again and we got rid about 6 (at a guess) years ago but appears to be running well.

it gets used every other day apart from every other weekend where the inlaws come for sunday dinner then it always goes on after that.

As for those who call people lazy for having them 1) my understanding is these days a decent diswasher is more efficient than washing by hand..... however more of interest to me

do these people have the same logic for other white goods such as a vacuum cleaner or washing machine? if so I hope it is them who goes outside and gets the mangle out in the cold of winter and they dont expect their other halves to do it (and next time you bake a meringue i hope you dont use an electric whisk!) :D
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I gave a carpet a good beating with my big stick.
 
hornetstinger said:
I gave a carpet a good beating with my big stick.
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lol The dish washer is one reason I cant really go away on holiday with the brother/sister in laws. the Brother in law loves to cook (he is damn good at it as well to be fair) but he really has a problem with using a dishwasher. OTOH if he has cooked he doesnt want to do the washing up himself either, which has lead to ... lets say heated debates with me ultimately saying...... "if you dont want me to use the dishwasher then you are welcome to wash up and dry the dishes yourself mate!" which didnt go down well. :D (I dont go on holiday to cook OR wash dishes!)

I do a good (but basic) BBQ however.... but i digress!.
 
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