Renting household appliances

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First of all, my apologies if this is in the wrong section but as it's not relating to a project etc I figured this would be the best place.

In the past few days my already tight budget has gotten even tighter (long story) so I'm looking for any areas that I can in order to save some money. One expense I have is my regular weekly trip to the Launderette, costing £12 to do my weeks worth of washing. Doesn't sound like a lot but when you're only getting £86 a week coming in and have lots of other little things to pay out for it adds up fast.

It's been suggested to me that I may save money, every little helps right now, by renting a washing machine; not a rip off hire purchase agreement from the likes of certain high street chains that pray on desperate people but a straight up rental agreement.

I've checked out some of the costs and a washing machine, Bosch baseline model can be rented from a reputable firm for less than £4 a week but I'm wondering with the additional costs on electricity, I have a pre pay key metre, whether or not this will be a false positive.

Multiple washes as opposed to a single wash, depending on the amount of electricity used could in my mind put me past £12 a week.

The model I've looked at is the Bosch WAE24061, what do you guys think, will it help save even a few quid a week or is it a wash out?
 
Whats your electricity rate? You can estimate power usage if you know this and the machines power draw.

With washing machines though, you will obviously need water. Have you thought about how to plumb it in?


The plumbing is already in place in my little flat, from what I can tell my rates according to the Scottish power website are 14.027p per KWH

Not sure what the draw rate on the machine is.
 
how on earth are you spending £12 week at the launderette? :confused:

my local charges £3.40 to use their larger machines. even with 3 pairs of jeans, a few t shirts, a few tops and a couple of large towels, it was still half empty. :p

Bedding, towels, clothes fill the large machine and a smaller machine nicely at £7.00, to spin them (getting the excess water out) costs £1.00 (well worth it as it saves a fortune in the dryers) Then to dry everything costs £4.00
 
£12 a week at a laundry is crazy. If i thought everyone was paying that - i'd set up a business and collect your clothes for you, wash them, dry them, fold them and deliver them back - and still be in with a hefty profit.


Tried that service once.... cost £20
 
You should sell your hex core PC that you cannot afford to maintain and purchase a decent washing machine.

Sell the one and only thing I have of any value, the one thing that provides me entertainment via gaming etc as I don't own a tv, games console or anything else?
 
lol you sound a lot like me but I'm not hard up as you can tell from the dulux paint which is bloody expensive..
check out my badboy living room

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btw that desk makes the room seem smaller than it is, it's one of the huge ass ikea gallants
I moved in at the start of January :D

started painting that room about 1-2 weeks back and just need to finish a wall where the radiator is then move my pc into that room using that new desk but I cant be bothered :(


You've got carpet.... Show off! :D
 
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