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I don’t know what it is about detergents here but even Persil non-bio smells a bit like Dove soap. None of them are totally scent free except Ecover Zero or maybe some of the specialist ones you would have to buy online. Ariel smells like, Ariel - sort of odd pine/citrus indescribable smell...

They seem to push a few versions of Woolite here and get a bit more shelf space, and then just you'll see the shelf space kinda shrink again and mostly just the standard pink Woolite with 'Keratin technology' focused on actual wool / silk products ... You can usually pick up the dark fabrics...

Reckitt (Reckitt Benckiser) really are very much focused on other product ranges. They're HUGE in dishwashing with 'Finish.' Developing a new laundry detergent might be easy for them, given they've got the plants, production facilities, technologies and distribution chain. Marketing it however...

They make Botanical Origin detergent and softeners. Found it to be very effective for an eco detergent and smells great.

It’s very unlikely tbh. They are effectively two universal standards: 230V 50Hz - originating in European electrical systems 120V 60Hz - originating in the U.S. There a dew odd outlier, notably Japan 100V 50Hz and 60Hz, but most of the world fits into option 1 or 2. Plugs and sockets in...

Over here I've always found Fairy, which is the equivalent of Cascade, way too foaming in my Miele dishwasher. It works very well but it's just you can hear the dishwasher choking on foam. Finish is excellent and seems to get consistently brilliant results without any significant foam at all...

Not sure I've ever used Henkel Persil. The version here is Unilever which is still a nice product, but not the same formula. I've used Le Chat in France and found it good though.

It's a once a year type thing for the proofing caps, down care and some of the obscure ones, but they also do fabric softener, wool care, sports care etc - many of those are just regular cycles. I'm just wondering, if you're not using fabric softener, if you just set cap dose, can you use the...

I’m not sure how we pronounce it relative to the U.S., but here’s an Irish review: Peugeot here isn’t pronounced the same as the U.K. “Per Jo” either, including by Peugeot Ireland itself (wait for end of ad).

I remember we'd an old Hoover Constellation when I was a kid. It never really got that much use though, as it was pretty ancient and I think it was just held onto as it was such an oddly retro space age looking device. We'd a Nilfisk GM 90 which was a little more boring, but probably far...

It feels like Miele decide to attempt to do Nespresso for washing machines. It’s a gimmick in my opinion and, if you did use it regularly, a colossal waste or plastic, for a company that often prides itself on being eco friendly.

I did a price conversion using an inflation calculator, and in modern terms the fancier of those twin tubs would cost €2000 ($2199) which putting as slightly more expensive than the a maxed out TOL Miele these days, yet it wasn't even automatic. An automatic back then came in at the same kind...

That was Novon, and the Sainsbury’s ad was quite unusual, but I haven’t seen any effort put into advertising laundry brands much here at all anymore. You see the odd and for Persil or Ariel, more effort seems to go into selling softeners and additives and dishwasher tablets these days. Laundry...

Omo in France is the same product range as Surf in Ireland and the UK. They didn’t or currently don’t use Surf as a brand in the French market. Also the French Unilever Persil range has no equivalent here. It’s a bit of a confusing one too - sort of natural scents focused but also sort of a...

Unilever Ireland really pushed Surf quite hard in the early 1990s on value for money terms, but it seems to have very much faded. They never really seem to know what to do with that brand. It’s all about scent these days, but it used to be a second tier value brand.

Internally Unilever seem to refer to their top of the line detergent as OMO. It’s an old British brand that originally stood for Old Mother Owl and featured an owl on the packaging in about 1900s It remained on the market in the U.K. and Ireland until sometime in the 1980s, when Lever Bros...

While I know this is a forum where people may be fond of the technology and machines used in dry cleaning, I’m glad to see it disappearing. It’s an extremely environmentally unfriendly process, even with newer solvents. Environmental regulations here (and I can only speak for the EU) tightened...

Irish wiring is like a hybrid of UK fittings and more like continental European wiring practices. We usually use a lot of 16 and 20amp radial circuits. Rings are permitted but they’re way less common than in the UK. Lighting circuits are usually 6 or 10amp. RCDs (GFCIs) were require originally...

I have a T2 fairly high end version of it since 2018 or so and can’t say a bad word about it. Excellent machine and produces great results. Heat pump dryers like these aren’t really comparable to condenser dryers that use simple heat exchangers. They’re a very different beast. Effectively...

The cotton cycle as I have it setup is very intense rinsing with deep levels.