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The technical manual for that range of DWs is available online. https://www.manualslib.com/products/Miele-G-5605-9508907.html It describes the "magic" of Mieles SensorDry feature pretty well. Since it uses ambient air as cooling medium for condensation and only has the final rinse heat as...

Out of the blue, this just showed up, ready to be shipped: https://www.lg.com/de/waeschepflege/trockner/rt18vt/ Now, it's actually kind of impressive. In the Eco rating cycle, the usage is pretty much linear. It's rated at 18kg (close to 40lbs!) so 9kg is a half load. At half load, it's pretty...

Saw some earlier this year - but now there's just a bunch that's really weird. When Whirlpool aquired Indesit/Hotpoint, they hybridizing was pretty straight forward - laundry mostly Hotpoint, with some Whirlpool holdovers (like the dryer drums). We have examples where a manufacturer churns out...

The W1 was basically useless with pods on any PowerWash 2.0 cycle. I don't know why no body has made a bigger fuzz out of it. But yeah - at Mieles price point you'd expect some better refinement. But with metal tub, lots of hardware features and such, something had to give somewhere.

Besides the typical things (don't like the washing action) a lot of the complaints look very similar to W1 issues that started appearing after they started their cost cutting programs. It's really such a shame that these machines are let down by Software issues. Software development does take...

Have to say I was somewhat iffy about rolled up mattresses at first. But I bought my Emma something like 5 years ago and very happy with it. Got my now ex an IKEA pocket spring mattress and was very happy with that as well. US bed sizes weird me (and I think many EU folks) out. Just give me...

What a novel idea... I mean, you could also do that before the wash, perhaps even with less water and recirculation so you get a more concentrated detergent solution. But wait... No, that would be "faffing about" and "useless" and what ever everybody called it when the direct drive floating...

The TLs are just Haier rebadges, yes, but actually haven't seen much in terms of actual trustworthy usage reviews. F&Ps FLs were very heavily based on Haier, at least in their physical design. But UI and programming has always been different (and honestly better in many ways) than the Haier...

Actually not very sure, but that looks a lot like a Vestel made machine - just a very old design? I don't think I've seen a Midea DW like that... Or it's something completely different.

They should I would think. However, there could be a lock on it. The setting menu on these is usually locked with a code and that might keep you from accessing the programming menu. Or Miele has completely locked that out for the Professional machines. On these, you can have the machine on and...

Keep in mind the use case for these (small space situations) also marks out the majority of the market segment (more price sensitive customers). If you are paying a big margin of your income for a small space, you probably won't be abled to spend Miele money. Portable DWs just do not exist over...

There have been recalls for DW fires (BSH), dryer fires (Indesit/Hotpoint) and washer fires (Indesit/Hotpoint or WP respectively - honestly don't know if the recall started before or after the buy up) here in the EU. Any electrical appliances can fail in catastrophic ways, no matter how well it...

That is a heat pump washer dryer. No heater for drying, barely any water (just coil cleaning), no more than a couple hundred watts of power consumption. LGs standard combos over here have the option to dry with air cooling or water cooling. I never really got how they made the former work -...

Given this is (basically) the exact same to any WP DW, those aren't really alternatives. For the prices you pay in the US, anything from the likes of Arcelik (Bloomberg, Beko, etc.) or Vestel (Sharp) aren't really recommendable. Bosch has the big advantage that EVERY dishwasher uses the same...

That's about right, yes. As far as I know, all ELux baffles are just clipped in, both compact and standard size FLs. I actually wasn't aware US ELux FLs had splittable tubs still. The EU ones don't and baffle replacement is still a standard service procedure. Removing the baffle can be as...