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As I said above, mostly at 40°C, sometimes hotter (usually not more than 60°C), with powder detergent, and very infrequently use liquid when washing wool jumpers etc. In this machine I've mostly used Surf bio powder (Unilever's budget offering) which has oxygen bleach (apparently perborate at...

My machine was pretty clean inside and the outside of the drum was as shiny as the centre, when I stripped it down to replace the bearings at 11 years old. There were some unsightly patches of limescale, some of it with fabric lint embedded in it (the bluey grey scale around the door hole)...

I'm no network expert either, but if the appliance is 2.4ghz only, and the network is dual band configured with shared SSIDs as is common, then I believe the issue is often to do with band steering, which tries to force wifi devices to connect using the higher frequency bands by kicking them...

Care labels are easy to understand: 60°C wash cotton cycle (normal agitation), do not bleach, tumble dry on the minimum setting, do not iron, can be dry cleaned with whatever dry clean chemical starts with a P. The 1980s care labels also had a wash cycle number separated by a wavy water line...

Well I think it says 30°C, it might be 50C, it's difficult to read on that scan. I used to have that manual, not sure if it came with the machine or the replacement processor card, although that was a later processor. Perhaps the introduction of TAED in washing powder was a factor, since the...

I do most my washing on 40°C programmes with powder detergent to save electricity and sometimes use the 50°C cycle if something got a difficult stain on it like dirty bike chain oil. I also occasionally use hotter washes for cotton towels etc. I used to wash most stuff at 50°C or above. The...

The oxygen bleach per(oxy)acetic acid produced by the powder will break down the enzymes, although I don't know how long it will take before they are completely inactivated. The hot and cold fill washing machines we've had before would turn on the cold water valve to part fill the machine...

I've got my dad's old e-bike, he ordered from Tesco when they use to do 2-3x the value bonuses on their Clubcard (grocery shopping) points, although I've only ridden it a few times. It has a 200 watt (output) front wheel hub motor, limited to 15.5mph which was the pre 2016 e-bike limit in the UK...

I would actually quite like to have wifi on some of my appliances, although none of mine do, because they are all far too old, but I wouldn't be willing to pay much extra for it, and probably no more than an extra fiver. One reason is I normally put the dishwasher, washing machine and dryer on...

My 2009 Zanussi (Electrolux) has an operation hour counter, it's not in the manual, but is detailed in the 2007 service manual for the control board, which is also used in AEG machines etc. It maxes out at 6550 hours, and stops counting. Current AEG/electrolux models have their instructions to...

I was wrong about the single cold wash cycle on my current machine being unheated, according to the service manual for the board, the hand wash cold cycle is at 20°C.

I've watched a video of a tumble dryer being torn down and repaired on youtube, where the previous owner had used dryer sheets, the stuff from the sheets had run down inside the case and had also coated the conductivity sensing wires so autodry didn't work properly until they were cleaned up...

I think major detergent manufacturers typically mean 30°C when they are talking about a cold wash for products sold here. https://www.persil.com/uk/laundry/laundry-tips/washing-tips/temperature-use-wash-clothes-towels.html My current machine has two hand wash cycles, one of which is cold...

There's a similar themed video by a washing machine repairman complaining about planned obsolescence and in particular, sealed washing machine tubs here: What he doesn't cover is the lower cost of the machine as a result of welding the tub instead of holding it together using screws and a...

^ Found the image via google as I couldn't see it either. Maybe this works