Recent content by moon1234

Check the washing machine trap for paper clips, coins or other items that rust when they sit in water since the trap is ALWAYS full of water. That amount of sediment is quite a lot. Do you have a lot of iron in your water and have iron consuming bacteria? Is this city water or well water...

Other than a little green oxidation of the copper the existing plumbing looks fine. Hammer arrestors are less of a "thing" today unless you buy really cheap appliances. Hammer does not occur during a spin cycle. It is due to valves that open and close immediately. Modern valves, almost all...

Here is the thing with Miele today. They are offering “cheaper” modes to compete on price. To do that they are stripping cycles and features. It would be unfair to compare these budget models with previous lines. Until the W1 was released Miele didn’t have bottom models. The proper...

You bought the bottom model. All of these things are known on the Miele website if you look before your buy. The low end Miele models removed a lot of cycles and customization. It is how they push people towards the more expensive models. If you can, return this model and buy one of the top...

Not too surprising. Our consumer magazine released it's latest test of washing machines. They buy three samples of each model they test and run them through 1.640 cycles. Both Samsung and LG failed, due to bearing failure and cracked concrete weights, respectively. I a Miele W1 with 8000 hours...

We have a Miele T1 that has over 5000 hours on it and has been trouble free. The clothes are never overheated and the dryer does have temp control and adjusts based on the dryness of the laundry. The dryer has a de-superheater. Essentially a small radiator that refrigerant is passed through...

Lol. You learn to tune out what you don’t want to hear, sometimes to their chagrin. I have four boys. One is an adult and out on his own. The next is 20 and helps me on our vegetable farm. We do about 15 acres to supplement income. Next is 13 and then 10. We all work together on the farm...

34-45 loads per week, but we have 12 people in the house, nine females. A little more than most for laundry.

It depends what the item is made of and where it is worn, both on the body and the environment. Wool items like socks and pants can be worn many many times before laundering. The lanolin in wool items has anti-bacterial properties. Bacteria does not grow on items with a high wool content...

Actually Miele rated the large machines at no more than 8KG. That is the same as the current W1. Sure you can shove more in, but the suspension, bearings and motor were bot designed for it. That’s why so many had failures. The w4840 and w4842 would hold more laundry than the octoplus...

I would go for the W1/T1 set with Miele when ready. These are good machines. We had a w4800 and t9802. Use them both past the 10k operating hours. Got close to 14 or 15K hours out of the washer, but had to replace the water path control unit once and the door boot (girls underwire from bra...

Doubt it will have much impact. This was a planned maintenance window. It will be more of an issue when winter arrives if Germany is not able to finish filling winter storage tanks. Germany only gets about 25% of it's energy from Russia. They are already planning to put coal fired electric...

The rated capacity for the w484x was exactly the same as the W1, 8kg max. The issue with the w484x series is that it was easy to fit a lot more in them than they were designed to handle. This routinely resulted in broken machines. The W1 in the USA is the same, capacity wise, as it’s sister...

This is very interesting. We have a high use household and I don't like having dishwasher tabs in the house. My wife loves them so we have the plastic jug of finish tablets. The killer for me would be having to buy the detergent from Miele. I wonder if it would be possible to drill a hole in...

Electrolux also has steel outer drums, but from what I can see that is mostly on the commerical side of things.