Recent content by hvtech42

Production of this model dishwasher started in September of 1997, so from around the era your friend bought the condo. It's a pretty BOL model so may well have been put in just for the purposes of selling the condo. The Hotpoint dishwasher plant closed in the early 90s, so this unit is just a...

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It looks like they gave all the upgraded members from the old site Platinum which is the highest tier. There are several tiers below Platinum which are much cheaper - the lowest one was $20 or $30 a year, which gives most of the upgraded features from the old site if I remember correctly. But...

Thank you! Before I was upgraded I could by clicking my username in the upper right corner then click "Account upgrades"... however now that I'm upgraded I can't see the screen. I guess someone who isn't upgraded will have to take a screenshot...

I'm impressed with how quickly the forum was migrated over, given the homegrown custom software setup it had before. Only one issue - I upgraded to a paid membership on the old site a couple days before it was migrated over. The upgrade never took effect. I had just been waiting because there...

What genuine Maytag products still exist Not to set the thread too off topic, but the main Maytag products still in production today are the bottom freezer fridges (actually date back to Amana pre-Maytag) and the double oven ranges (which are based off the Maytag Gemini. Whirlpool made many...

These mergers can often take a while to fully work themselves out. When Maytag bought Whirlpool over here, the laundry changed over relatively quickly, but the kitchen products took several years to become fully merged - that didn't happen until 2009-2010 or so, more than 3 years after the...

It wasn't just a decade ago. They were still using the linear compressors until very recently - I'm not sure if some models might even still have them? It's hard to tell since it's no longer something they're advertising as a feature. LG certainly tried very hard for many years to get these...

Whirlpool turns over $17 billion a year and has 44,000 employees. Bosch turns over $92 billion a year and has 430,000 employees (and does a lot more than appliances). They're simply a much bigger company than Whirlpool is. And it's kind of the way of the world that smaller companies get eaten by...

This is Whirlpool's explanation of the problem: "Whirlpool experienced an increase in service claims for this issue in early 2024 and its investigation identified that the supplier of the pressure sensor for these control boards provided a batch of sensors that may malfunction prematurely. The...

I concur with the above advice. Over the past 20 years I've seen the fewest service issues with GE ranges. That said I don't think you'd go wrong with a Frigidaire or a proper self-cleaning Whirlpool either. Make sure to stay away from anything Whirlpool that has the "AquaLift" self cleaning...

Yes, it will increase their cleaning power. This isn't exactly news. It won't increase their relevance, because they still be using multiples of the water as modern machines, with less stain removal ability than a modern profile wash.

Consumer Reports on front load vs. top load performance Agiflow, it's not the 40s - or the 80s - anymore. For a long time CR did find front loaders performed worse, because, in the context of the US market at the time, they did. Except for a few niche European imports, the front loaders...

I didn't even realize F&P sold dishwashers anymore other than the drawers. Are the non-drawer F&P offerings in AU/NZ actually their own design, or just more warmed-over Haier? I used to have a GE Profile 18" dishwasher made in China that I think was made by Haier. It was awful. Poor wash...

That's a shame the SmartDrive is gone. Perhaps it's a matter of the market shifting to front loaders, and F&P could no longer justify their own separate top loader production line so instead consolidated around the (likely much higher volume) Haier factories. Are the Haier top loaders decent...