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For what it’s worth ours doesn’t vibrate. Also checkout if you are eligible for the Bosch cash back offer. I’ve just got £550 back.
Spec me a washing machine
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I don't know if all heat pump dryers have this setting, but on ours, you can essentially tweak the dryness level you want to achieve the programmes that use the dryness (humidity?) sensor. I found the middle setting worked well, the default was the lowest setting out of the three.
As the heat pump is recycling the warm air, you might feel a slight dampness when you take the items out but I find giving them a quick shake works wonders.
Just get a washing machine with auto dosing as it saves soo much faff and time. You can just grab 5l tubs of bio detergent/fabric conditioner and you're laughing.
Ours is an LG direct drive with said auto dose, paired with a matching heat pump tumbley tumbley.
We use faith in nature 5l tubs, bought when on offer. I can't remember the last time we bought them as it was probably 12-18 months ago for x2 pairs of 5l.
Ours is an LG direct drive with said auto dose, paired with a matching heat pump tumbley tumbley.
We use faith in nature 5l tubs, bought when on offer. I can't remember the last time we bought them as it was probably 12-18 months ago for x2 pairs of 5l.
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Didn't bother with the Microwave. I've never really "got" using them. It was funny as the kitchen was originally being pushed with a microwave and a second oven but nope. Not needed for the size of home and us. We didn't bother with the steam oven version either. We've used the inbuilt temp probe a couple of times which is ok, but we normally use a cook-in-a-bag for chicken and everything else seems fine.
That's weird on the screen - the series 8 screens change for the selections and display the temp plus the time left, or the time set etc. Only when the oven is off does it display only time and you can switch that off in the settings.
The only annoying thing I've found is that on a power cut, the Bosch hob hood defaults to the light switched on. Which is fine except when you get a night time or holiday power cut.
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We went with a wider hood so the panels underneath match the hop outline, it gives better extraction, especially given its extraction pipe is 150mm rather than 70-80mm. Turbo mode pulls the kitchen French doors open due to the negative pressure
but it does really well when you want to empty the entire kitchen and dining room air mass in a short period of time! It's great that the Turbo mode switches back to normal speed automatically after 15mins - perfect if there's something burnt.Yes, whilst our kitchen was being redone I had to use a non-autodosing machine and it reminded me how much better autodosing is. Having to manually add stuff to each wash like some kind of peasant
Another point - the Mrs is a religious user of calgon, as her mum is too. As a result when we had the kitchen electrics done the guys thought the washing machine was new when they were moving it around. It was over 5 years old at that point. So I'm pretty much a convert with that too.
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We do a lot of bulk cooking, freezing and then defrosting so do use a microwave a lot.
It was a Series 4 that we got, I didn't want a Series 8 as it was pushing the budget a bit on what isn't our forever home. Comparing the Series 4 to a similar priced AEG tho the AEG I would say is better.
We went with a wider hood so the panels underneath match the hop outline, it gives better extraction, especially given its extraction pipe is 150mm rather than 70-80mm. Turbo mode pulls the kitchen French doors open due to the negative pressure
Our kitchen is U shaped, with the hob and oven at the 'end' of the U. The hob is 75 cm wide but we had limited space between the wall cabinets on either side of the U. The extraction hood we have is 80cm (with 150mm ducting). It's wider than the hob (just) and lets the cupboard doors clear it on each side. If we'd use the 90cm Bosch one then it'd wouldn't have cleared.
The version we got looking at the images was the Series 4 90cm. It's got the touch panel at the front and flat but has 3 filter panels underneath.
The main problem I have is that the modern extractors all tried to be 45 deg or really narrow. That may work the wide covers all the hob for the times when there's 5 pots on the boil.
The main problem I have is that the modern extractors all tried to be 45 deg or really narrow. That may work the wide covers all the hob for the times when there's 5 pots on the boil.
What about a British made washing machine? Our washing machine is still going strong after many years (Siemens) but I will look seriously at an Ebac for our next machine.
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yes also have had a Siemens for 10year and asko top loader 20 years before that .. siemens seems to be ~£700 now so the 8kg ebac would be an option - oos
I don't see the point in oversizing machines at 10kg more wear on the bearings especially on unbalanced partial loads