Recent content by lavamat_jon

Not sarcastic/facetious at all. Yes, they do. It will use a third more water and higher pressure in the wash to achieve the same results, with the trade off of using slightly more energy to heat the water, and ever so slightly more noise with the high pressure. Soils are still held in suspension...

If you can’t see how your comment was racist and could come across as offensive, there’s nothing more I can say. Which is all caused by global warming… but that is perhaps a topic which should be discussed on the paid forums without digressing too much from here.

Whatever your opinion on appliances is and where they’re made, there’s absolutely no need to describe them in a racist manner. And yes, without opening a can of worms, as much as some deny it we do need to be kinder to the planet whether we like it or not.

Looks great Louis! I wish you all the luck with it. I love the colourway too! My parents have recently retired their 2004 Citroen C3. I had to eat humble pie as I told her not to get it and buy German when she bought it years ago, and it turned out to be the most reliable car she has ever had...

Again - people don’t pre rinse here, it’s of the exception rather than the norm if they do and that’s born out of misinformation. People stack as they go and then turn on the machine when it’s full. The only pre rinsing that happens in our house is from the dog who tries to stick her nose in...

That is quite frankly disgusting, and not reflective of an average dishwasher with a filter. Not even the very neglected dishwasher of my family member was that bad when I used it. If you choose to believe filter dishwashers don’t work, or simply prefer one with a macerator that’s absolutely...

Taking 30 seconds every few months to clean a filter under a running tap is hardly back breaking.

But manual clean filters can handle this. We’ve covered this before and you struggled to understand then. I’ve deciphered that perhaps it is more your opinion rather than fact that they don’t work, and that you prefer a non filter machine (which is fine), but facts prove otherwise that they do...

There must be some pretty poorly designed dishwashers in the States if that is indeed the case. Of course it’s always pertinent to take any online reviews/rants with a pinch of salt, as more often than not it’s due to incorrect use - and also bear in mind the phenomena that people don’t...

Do you have quantifiable evidence, or is your statement speculative? Even our cheap dishwashers here will perform well without pre rinsing, and I find it difficult to believe that American dishwashers can’t do this.

We’ve had this discussion before, but you don’t need to pre rinse with modern dishwashers, at least here in Europe. Nobody I know does this.

Do they, though?

Might be worth keeping an eye on it and see how you go. I must say ours is very economical with its salt usage even compared to my previous Miele dishwasher, and much more so than the Siemens IQ700 that we had for a couple of years before the current one. I’ve not yet finished the 1kg box of...

When salt regeneration is needed, it will do it before the cycle begins as soon as you hit start. You can tell if it’s going to regenerate as it will start to fill when you hit start rather than drain. It will do a series of fills and drains over a couple minutes or so before the cycle begins...

Thanks for the pics, was always really intrigued by these. They sold these here for a while maybe 10 years or so ago. They had one sitting gathering dust in the John Lewis outlet near where I used to live for years, never seemed to have garnered much interest which I suppose makes sense as it...