Recent content by alanlondon

Thanks for all the comments, views and discussion about heaters. Having been a washing machine repair guy here in the UK I can say that heaters were/are extremely reliable things, I can’t actually remember replacing one to be honest. I have seen quite a few melted pumps and blackend control...

Here's its replacement let's hope we get 15 years out of this one!

But, it has been a really good washing machine up until now I fitted it 15 years ago and it's not needed a single repair and has been abused by numerous tenants over the years. I was only saying to my husband the other day that at the very least we should plan to change it or I will need to...

Lucky for us... ... the heater had melted the rubber door seal, allowed water out and put out the smouldering heater and tripped the electrics

Took the bottom plinth off and this is what I found

Here it is in situ:

We had a message from our tenants recently to say there was a burning smell when they came back home and they had traced it back the washing machine. When I went round to investigate first bad sign was this...

The instructions

Update Hi everyone I went to the villa in Sitges and it was like a time capsule, it had been closed up for ten years and was more or less left with everything still inside, old betamax and VHS videos, stereo systems, full to the top of things of the past. I only had a couple of hours there so...

Great get together, looks a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing the pictures. Cheers Alan

The brochure I had a few of these to repair in my time and yes they are very noisy! No wheels on the the bottom basket and a central tube to the spray arm under the top basket. They didn't work very well as I recall, but I wonder if it would be better now with some modern tablets? Here's some...

A friend of ours is buying a villa 10 minute drive from Sitges/Spain and last week when he was showing us some pictures of it here in the UK I just couldn't believe what was still in the kitchen, an old (probably 1980) Indesit dishwasher. He's going to completely renovate the place, but I asked...

Here you go! Hi Tom, saw your post the other day and thought I have these, only had a chance to look now. This is quite a big range, if there's something in particular (model) that you want details on let me know, in the meantime here's a selection from this range. Cheers, Alan

Know this is an old post... ... but I found this old brochure of mine today when I was looking for something else and thought I would share on a relevant thread. Hope you find interesting. Cheers, Alan

Thank you Richard for posting these pictures and the explanation of how it works, really interesting. Cheers, Alan