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I use one bath towel a week, handtowels and dishcloths etc get changed when they start to look grubby or don't smell so fresh. My towels all get washed on cottons 60 with a regular bio powder regerdless of colour, I normally use softner to prevent them feeling like sandpaper. I always line dry...

My vote would go for the Bendix drum Nice and roomy, metal baffles with holes in them and that lovely design on the back. Don't really like plastic paddles, so that's a downside of the Hoover/Servis drums for me. Hotpoint drums always used to catch things and leave little holes in tshirts...

thanks good to know parts are still readily available, the brushes were changed in January though and it's been used many many times since then. Ah well, it still soldiers on! Matt

Thanks for all the help everyone! Glad to know the machine isn't faulty afterall, really put my mind at rest. I'll just leave the timer be, as long as I know how to get the correct programme it dosen't really matter that it's out of line. I think I'll be needing new armature shortly, after I...

I do hope Hoover are having some kind of joke. Theres is no way in my mind that you could cram 10kg, 9kg, 8kg or even 7kg in one of those things. The drums just arent that big. Not to mention the fact that I highly doubt they have made any difference to the machines internally, I'm sure...

Programme D is "fast coloureds" Thats the most vigourous action the machine does. The more gentle action is just the first part of the tumble before the pause, then rests until it reverses. Woolens action is only the anti-clockwise, first stage of the tumble before the pause. I guess it...

Hi all, Well for quite a while now I've been suspecting my Hoover has a timer fault or something thats making it do strange tumbles. I include a link to a video of it. Please watch it and give me your opinions, also if you know of any way of sorting the problem any help would be much...

Quick wash would be ok if it weren't for the fact that with quick wash pressed it does 2 rinses at cottons wash level with no spin after the wash and 2 split second bursts at about 150rpm after the 1st rinse. Disgusting! Matt

Well of the machines we have owned there are a number that have been the worst in a number of ways. Wash results: Hotpoint WM52, just couldnt shift stains like the others. Rinse results: Whirlpool AWM 5125/S, final rinse looks like a sudsy wash water! Reliability: The WM52 again, broke down...

Awwww Darren! Thats such a shame. I really hope you can get it sorted. Those are such cool machines! My local chip shop has a brown Quartz that they wash the aprons and stuff in. I've never seen a machine in such bad condition though, soooooo rusty! I guess it would be a good excuse to find...

Helps to add a link dosen't it Duh! http://www.youtube.com/user/Ecologic1000

Well after much trouble trying to get my videos to upload I gave up on youtube, turns out my camera was the problem. Now armed with a new camera hopefully the problems will be sorted. Filmed some of my Mum's machine. Will get some of her dryer and the Hoover ASAP! Matt

Well for a start the unusual machines will be desirable So thats things like the Dyson, Titan, Indesit moon, Aqualtis, the Reason (if anything comes of that) and machines like that. Miele will always be a classic, as with any of the better quality machines, such as Bosch, ASKO, etc. Just my...

OMG That selectamatic is simply stunning!, I've never seen one in person before, I believe they are really rare :D Matt

That is what I meant ooooops :) Matt

What I have a problem with is the attitude that front loader Well in terms of water and energy consumption they are superior. If energy and water resources continue to be depleated as they are, they will be inevitable too. Some of the claims made here are rediculous. I suppose I should just...

"I would almost pay money to go to a US wash-in with a whole bunch of TLs running full of water not washing hardly anything just to see the foreigners run around screaming as if the sky was falling down." That is possibly the most irrational and immature comment I have ever heard. Thanks by...

Well first things first A front loader could take all day to run a cycle and would still use less energy than a top loader. I believe something like 90% of the energy used in any washing machine comes from heating the water. Since a front loader uses so much less water than a top loader, it can...

Chris Very well said. Thank you for supporting me. Not wishing to cause offence but some people really need to see that older and less efficient does not mean better results. You could run like 4 loads through a front loader and use the same amount of water as a top loader, yet have the same...

How can a front loader wash better than a toploader? Well the longer wash times and better control over temperature for a start, not to mention the more efficient action of the clothes being plunged in and out of the water and rubbing against the other clothes and the drum. Also the evidence...