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White Knight Condenser dryers... ...may be "good" in the respect of the fact they seem to hold out relatively well, but unless you're fond of earplugs or partially deaf, I'd give them a wide berth! I know because I have one. It sits at the very end of the house and can still be heard standing...

One UK member did in fact buy one of the Asko designed ISE washers earlier this year. Sadly, it went wrong within its first weeks and got swapped for a Miele! The thread is somewhere in the archives; I've just tried searching for the link but using the keyword ISE throws up a lot of posts...

On a slight tangent, I've been wondering if the new Hoover 8-Pulse and equivalent Candy models have any design change that addresses the problem of the moulded-in and apparently unblockable water level pressure system, currently attracting criticism from the repairs community.   Is the...

I think the 10kg drums are rated at 74 litre capacity and I suspect 11kg drums will be the same somehow...so realistically you'd only actually get 2 loads from a vintage 9lb loader into one of these. And even then that's nowhere near the same processing rate (though I'd say allowing 30 mins for...

Finger marks Ha ha ha! Oh yes - saw one of these in Currys in the week and whilst undeniably eye-catching, it was covered in fingerprints. Maybe one for Hoover to re-think.   Also, am I right in thinking the 8-Pulse range now only offer a 90 - 60 - 40 - 20 temperature selection? No 30 degrees...

Well aren't you the lucky one! I'd have been beside myself with excitement if I'd had one of those at your age (in fact, I probably still would be). Alas, in the mid 1990s, a 9605 cost about £550 and my Mother would never have had one at any price. I can't quite believe the previous owner was...

Noticed this myself earlier when I happened to visit the site on a whim. Note that if you download the brochure they still show the new range.   I find modern Hotpoint fairly yawnsome to be honest...not even sure why I visited the site!

I couldn't help thinking there was some irony in the fact that two of the Indesit owners have replaced their exploding machines with Hoovers. I wonder how the Indesit cases have made it to TV whereas the Candy cases didn't? Both seem to have been caused by occasionally faulty drum welding.

A good guess would be... ...somewhere around 1991, which is about the time Hotpoint stopped making their original dryer designs with polypropylene drums. The absorption of Creda into the overall company structure - whatever it was at that time - meant Hotpoint started using the Creda design for...

"Spewed out" fluff might be an exaggeration; it's definitely the case, however - as with pretty much any dryer not vented outside - that you get more fluff in the room as a result of using it. When my sister had hers (previously mine) in a kitchen without using the vent hose, the worktops needed...

Get one! I'd have no qualms in recommending one of those compact dryers, having had a couple of them. They're quick, quiet and well suited for laundry for one or two people. You don't absolutely need to vent them with the hose, but do open the window otherwise it gets a bit too humid. You may...

If programme 11 for wool is anything like on the Bosch WFB I had, it's a short cycle with short agitation/long pause wash action (not slow tumbles though), at high water level achieved by timed fill, then two rinses and a final pulsed spin at maximum speed - perhaps 3 or 4 short pulses.   The...

Other way around... ...I think Bosch/Siemens bought in the Balay machines and rebadged them as their basic line. The Bosch machines had model numbers starting with WFB. I loved the slightly later version I had for a while - basic but flexible programming and generally very sturdy in...

True... ...it's not the very hot water per se that causes the creasing, but the effect that heat has on the fibres if the wash is incorrectly handled (as mentioned a few posts above by someone far more knowledgable than me). That said, it's usually difficult to achieve the necessary cooling in...

A good idea? It's not so much that it's a bad idea to wash sythetics at higher temperatures - up to 60*C - but that if you do, you need to be prepared for the the creases that ensue! They can be a lot of work to remove properly.   Washing sythetics at anything over 60*C - e.g. using the 95*C...

Yellow and white? There were no "yellow" and white machines; they all started out as Polar White (e.g. 95xxP) but the plastic trims aged terribly, as is so often the case with white plastics. They only tended to stay white for 2-3 years. I think the later high-gloss white plastics fared better...

The other tumble dryer dry cleaning product around at a similar time was called SVIT. Catchy name, eh! Possibly about as effective as spit...   I think the Persil version replaced it in the shops.

Out of balance interims... ...if the imbalance is serious enough, the interim spin is always cancelled on my WM12. It can be an annoying quirk!   I think it gives things 3-4 attempts on the final spin before giving up and just doing a long distribution...which has only happened on a handful...

Ecologic savings Perhaps it's just me but I always thought the "savings" from the Ecologic range were pretty underwhelming compared to those touted by the other manufacturers of the time. 10% something...I'm sure Hotpoint's were more like 50% something (admitedly mostly through increasing...

I fully understand the frustration of having a machine you don't really get along with. It's so difficult to pick a new machine that operates the way you'd like it to. There's always some kind of compromise to be made: a "good" washer can be endlessly reliable but do terrible things to your...