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Dark clouds are on the horizon. Much used and much loved, my Hotpoint WM12 has started to make a new noise. She's always been a noisy presence; over the years I've got used to the odd rattle and such but none have ever been fatal. This time, however, I rather suspect the bearings are finally...

Some people just won't know any better... It strikes me that anyone with more than a passing acquaintance with the process of laundering fabrics in a front loader should dismiss a 12 minute total cycle out of hand! The trouble is, so many people now have no real clue how clothes actually get...

The 95620 in an exclusive Cheshire location is sick? Rob, my thoughts are with you in this dark hour! I'm sure it was sickening moment when it ceased to function as normal...I'm perturbed just sitting here well away from the scene! Were there flashing lights and a Police escort to the...

Ah, the Hotpoint 95260...you were a lucky boy growing up then! What a delectable machine. The 9510 we had during the same period was, frankly, a bitter disappointment for a Hotpoint fan like me! Why, just this weekend gone I had a rendez-vous with some fellow site members and I got to see at...

mystery noise Dear me, Solsburian, that really DOESN'T sound healthy! Do you think it's the drum or the motor perhaps? Definitely needs someone a bit less clueless on the case. At least it's still in its full guarantee period! Maybe you've just got a wrong'un... Haxisfan - I know exactly what...

we're spinning out of control! Feel I should point out that my sentiments on fast and long spins were very much personal preference if anything...in the abstract, today's machines combine speed and duration to give much improved extraction rates. So as an example, a 1400 rpm Hotpoint from the...

...I don't doubt the existence or the fact that people would use a half hour cycle for a mega load that includes the fast spin, Dex - hell, if it's there, the uninitiated will use it! And given that such a lot of laundry these days is barely soiled it's entirely possible those using such a cycle...

Are we a nation of speed freaks? Picking up the trail from earlier on, it was revealing to me that in markets where Candy sells strongly there was little call for the super high spin speeds the UK market is offered as standard. Just when did we decide that ultra fast was the only thing...

Hoover Reviews I was reading a lot of those reviews yesterday and it really does reveal just how uneducated many of the general public are regarding clothes care: lots of complaints about not having the fast spin on the short programmes. Well, of course not! They're designed to cater for mixed...

Tepid bought out lukewarm and after a re-branding exercise we are now being offered the all new and improved "cool"! Quite whether this is the circa 30deg C we knew and loved is a moot point and possibly subject to a low-energy govermnent directive.

The rising cost of clean clothes... Washing powder has gone up in price a bit in the last couple of years but £2.99 for a 10 wash box of Persil is not far off what you'd pay for the smallest box now...it's still about £3. At 35-40 ml per load you'll certainly get FAR more than 10 washes...

Head to the Supermarket.... As a native to London, I can happily say you'll be well enough served going to any of the major supermarkets for boxes of Persil...so that's Sainsbury's, Tesco, Morrisons, Asda or Waitrose. They're all forever having deals on this or that detergent so you may well...

Machine Washable Wool I think there's a distinction to be made between the programmes we've been used to for Machine Washable Wool and the new breed more intended to cover Handwash Only woolens. In order to render the wool wash suitable for handwash items (which is, of course, a desirable...

Answers... Thanks for the responses and compliments on the thread, chaps! The pics unfortunately tend to come out a bit grainy but with only the camera on the phone to use it will have to do. Dex: the wash was done with 150ml Aldi Almat washing powder and it does have a tendency to foam a lot...

We've seen these pictures before - someone else posted them earlier in the year. Still a shocking state of affairs. Something about a faulty drum weld as I recall. What is the latest news as of now? Interesting to see inside the machines, albeit in their mangled state!

Conclusions It's difficult to come up with anything particularly useful after only a short time but overall I quite like this little machine. If this is today's basic, it's certainly a marked improvement in terms of what it offers. I'd prefer some more flexibility in the programmes; this does...