Dishwashers lifespan

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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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In my experience the quality soft or hard of your mains water has a huge impact on them unless you constantly maintain them - and the cheaper ones probably suffer more. Where I lived awhile back had low mineral content in the water and appliances lasted for ages, my parents in recent years moved to an area with really hard water and cheap appliances last no time at all and even the better brands struggle.

This is my new thinking, we have always lived in a hard water area. We use to get through kettles so quickly it was silly. Our current one, still going after years and regular cleaning to remove limescale etc.

Washing machines, the cheap ones never last long, even with regular maintenance and cleaning. The more expensive ones have served us well with regular maintenance.