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Not the best cleaning machines Well the performance is comparable to most other European brands, and certainly blows Huebsch/Speed Queen front loaders out of the water, took me months to rewhiten my whites after having to use one of those things! If she can get a machine with a 240v heater...

220v problems on 240v supply The UK has a 240v power supply, mainland Europe has 220v power supply. Since the late 80s this has been referred to as 230v to standardise things. In reality though, the UK still has a 240v supply and mainland Europe is still on 220v. Electrical goods sold here are...

Heating As with the vast majority of British homes we have gas central heating and hot water, provided by hot water radiators. The boiler I believe is about 27 years old, and we have no plans to replace it anytime soon, given that our gas bills aren't very high and it has to this date, never...

Electricity bills For gas and electricity combined we pay about £90 a month, that's with two people in a 3 bedroom terraced house (one person at home all day). I think the split is about even between gas and electriciy. Obviously we have no air conditioning given our climate, dishwasher is on...

Persil dose That sounds about the right amount, these days we dose powder by volume (ml) instead of weight (grammes) 170g seems a pretty normal amount, if ou can get hold of a measuring jug with ml on it it might make it easier than having to covert the dose. Nothing will leave your clothes...

Thanks dan! That sounds most plausible! I'll give that a try. Gabrielle, the apartment building they live in was only built in 2005 and all the kitchens and appliances were installed then, so it cannot be more than 8 years old, the instruction book is copyright 2001 so I assume this is when...

Hi guys, My friends have and Electrolux Aqualux EW1200i washer/dryer. They have asked for my help in sorting a problem with it, but I'm not too sure what's wrong. It fills, washes, tumbles, drains, heats and dries just fine, timer still runs and all noises it makes sound perfectly normal...

Stained Coloured No ofcourse I would not wash coloureds on a 95c wash, infact, it's very rare that I wash anything above 60c. However coloured clothes simply do not require vigorous stain removal, the stains do not show up anywhere near as much as on whites. A tomato sauce or motor oil stain...

Tough stains Actually I quite frequently wash clothes and kitchen whites heavily soiled in dried on ragu sauce, red wine, tea/coffee and fruit juices, grass and ground in mud. These have always been completely removed on a 95c wash, and almost entirely removed at 60c, especially if they are...

Well I've never used a machine which can't remove 20 stains in one wash, so if it doesn't work then I'd be sorely disappointed!

Interesting Not sure how relevant the costs are for me, but apparently I only save $20 a year by owning a front loader. The whole dryer thing intrigues me, why on Earth would I want to use a dryer in dry weather? For those of you who do use the dryer for everything all the time, what do you...

Oh and... My secondary school replaced the beige Logic 1100 in the cookery room with one of these. I was gutted that they binned the logic but I still used to grab a seat beside it every lesson! It was always used on 95c with prewash. The smell of tea towels boiling in persil mixed with burning...

Just to further add to the nostalgia Here is a picture I found of my younger brother taken in about 1999, my Mum's WM52 is in the background, along with the mercury TL61, the Mistral Plus Fridge Freezer (which they still have) and the hand me down Siemens dishwasher, which I have never quite...

Some of you will know a few weeks ago I picked up a mystery dishwasher and washing machine from a family friend's deceased relative. Having no idea what they were but that I could have them for free I went around fearing the worst (but a crap dishwasher is still better than no dishwasher...

Compact dryers If it is a choice between a compact or a washer/dryer or no dryer at all, then a compact is best, but they are NOT practical if you can fit a full size model in.   Sheets will have to be washed individually and they are more expensive to run as you have to run more loads to get...

I fill it as you say right to the top until i cannot put any more clothes in it. This is how I was brought up to fill the machine and feel that anything less is just plain wasteful.   It is rare to see any videos on the internet of a U.S. front loader with anything more than a small handful...

Drum size They all have the same size drum they always did, from 6kg up to 9kg the drum is the same, it will just take a longer to dry 9kg than 6 kg and leave clothes much more creased. In reality most dryers will only hold around 5kg max. Matt

Tumble dryers Yes they are very useful in the damp winter months, definitely get a full size and definitely get one with reverse action.   It will probably cost you around 30-40p per load in electricity, so best to use them sparingly, but as you say for sheets and towels they certainly come...

Hi guys,   Just a bit of help and advice really, as many of you will know I have a Hoover Logic 1300 A3636 in daily use at the moment.   I have managed to repair most of the (minor) faults the machine had, with a lot of guidance and parts from Gary (Electron1100).   The last thing I have...

Hoover water consumption It's 134litres in total, but the wash I assume is only 14 litres, as from having a look around it's 120 cold plus 14 hot as far as I'm aware this is the same for all Hoover automatics from at least the 70s to the early 90s. It does a cooldown and 3 rinses, the wash...