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Put the retro machine into the kitchen. It will look good.

Ireland vs England (or other parts of the UK differences ? I'm just wondering if any one in England could enlighten me a bit on this. I've moved around a bit in Ireland and I've lived in a few houses over the years and I am also familiar with most of my friends and relatives houses. I have...

The "Utility Room" is quite common in Irish houses. That's usually where the washing machine hangs out. Or, sometimes in the garage. It's really only in smaller homes that you would find the washing machine in the kitchen. It's usually banished to the utility room, along with the dryer and...

It depends which Persil you're referencing too. The liquids and powders will all do an excellent job at 30º-40ºC (or even cool/cold water in the cases of the liquids although, a little heat's definitely better for the washer!) I don't think boil-washing is very necessary at all unless you're...

@tomturbomatic I think it depends on the part of Europe you're talking about. In Ireland and the UK, the market was dominated by companies like Creda, Tricity, Belling and a few others all of which produced cooking appliances with sealed-rod coil elements similar to those used on US stoves...

Our regulations tend to go quite OCD about isolation switches and stuff like that: To give you a flavour of them: Fixed appliances : isolation switches located near by. Built-in : isolation switches if no easily accessible socket outlet is not present (and in a near by cupboard isn't acceptable...

No it won't wreck it that quickly but, a lot of UK and Irish people have a habit of switching the isolating switch off on their oven and hob immediately after using it. It definitely doesn't help prolonging the life of an induction hob or even a microwave to do that. The wiring rules here...

We've a De Dietrich (french built) 4 ring full size induction cooktop since 1997 and it's still working perfectly with pretty heavy use. Main thing to remember (is never, ever isolate the power or unplug a portable one) while they're still hot. There are cooling fans drawing air in to keep the...

Try it with a new bottle of Persil Small and Mighty Bio. They've added Pectate Lyase which is an enzyme that should tackle those kinds of stains. You may need to use a small amount of raw liquid on the stains themselves and let them pre-treat for a few minutes before washing for absolutely best...

Interestingly, high fructose corn syrup isn't anywhere nearly as widely used in Europe as it is in the USA. This is probably because of the large European sugar beet industry that meant traditional sucrose granulated sugar was more heavily protected. I found a lot of products in the States...

Just make sure you're not running to many of them at the same time as you'd need a lot more than a single 15amp circuit. Remember electric motors can draw quite a lot of power when they're starting up or switching direction. All it takes is say 3 machines to hit that in harmony and you'll trip...

I hope they've finally addressed the issue of the control knob that's difficult to line up with the correct programme? I've always found Bosch's control knob to be a poor imitation of Miele's novotronic setup. We've had a Bosch Logixx 8 washer and also a Bosch dryer and it was really hard to...

I read the ingredients very carefully and I tend to avoid anything that is full of unnecessary chemicals. My skin also reacts quite dramatically to certain ingredients found even in completely natural cosmetics and soaps. As a result I only use one brand of shower gel which is free from loads...

Hospital laundry needs to go into a bucket of disinfectant solution before it gets anywhere near the washing machine. That's how we treated laundry that came back from my granny when she was in hospital. Just had a big deep container with a lid and any items got 2 hours of soaking in...

@davetranter Yeah, that's a point regarding systems failures / power cuts. There are some combi-boilers used here, but they're definitely not the norm. They'd be more a feature of very small flats or some very old victorian-era houses that had instantaneous hot water retrofitted to them as a...

@chestermike : Definitely hasn't changed here. Almost all new build has airing cupboards, in many cases they're now bigger than they would have been in the past. I've seen quite a few that are more like a walk-in closet. The approach here has generally been to make that system more efficient...

€9,332 ??! for a glorified airing cupboard! They can keep it! I think I'll just stick to hanging the clothes up in the not so fancy, traditional airing cupboard! There's a lot to be said for old technology! Basically, in Irish (and most British) homes you've usually got a closest which has...

To be fair to medical researchers the link between smoking and lung cancer is very, very well proven epidemiologically without any need to reference those inhumane animal tests mentioned further up the thread. Exposing yourself to semi-combusted materials and deliberately inhaling them is just...

I have to say, I'm getting absolutely flawless results from Unilever's Sun All-in-One which is phosphate free and is usually a good bit cheaper than Finish. Maybe the built-in water softener in Euro dishwashers has something to do with it though? And, I'm also in a soft water area. Dishes come...

I'd also add : WHY? are they so obsessed with cold washi While we're a bit fixated on exceedingly low water levels in washing machines in Europe, so far the whole notion of cold-water washing hasn't really caught on at least not here anyway. I don't really see what the fuss is about it to be...