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UK plugs I am not at all sure that the fuse make UK plugs much safer: the fuse in the plug is required because of the very peculiar way electric circuits are made in the UK, and the fuse is there to protect the wirings in the wall. I feel much, much, much safer with the Residual Current...

Other cleaning products than Affresh... I would add dishwasher detergent to your list, DADoES / Glenn: powder is better than tablets, tablets are better than gel, and gel is better than PODs, but they all need to be use in high dose and with hot water to work

To sell Affresh, of course If the message says "clean with Affresh", the reason is to sell Affresh. As it has been stated by many members here, whether a cleaning cycle is actually needed depends on how the washer is used: if your use does not require a cleaning cycle, why not just ignoring...

Start sweetly I would start with a long soak in hot water with a good detergent and sodium percarbonate (or hydrogen peroxide): unlikely to do any harm, but then you can see what stains remain and act accordingly. Bleach may be aggressive to fabric

Clean and dry dishes, what more do you want? I would not be unhappy if the dishwasher unloaded itself...

Citric acid and sodium percarbonate... ...are almost eternal if they are protected from humidity. In my experience, liquid detergents last a very long time with minimal degradation of performance, while instead fabric softeners do not grow old well and become a gloopy mess loosing much of its...

"a bipolar construction project" Maybe I am even more bipolar than you, sarahperdue / Sarah, but all the projects I have seen in my life have been as bipolar as your new home, whether they were work projects or personal projects of the DIY type. Believe me: how you feel it's nothing strange...

Maybe the wrong answer... But if you enjoy making videos, do it! And if you want to put them here, just do it!

Isn't it just normal? In my experience, sarahperdue / Sarah, what you are feeling is the inevitable intermediate stage of any project, especially for big projects. It's absolutely normal, it just means that you are about half-way to success. Hold on, and believe me: everything will be OK, it...

I cannot answer the question My washing machine believes she is very "smart" and "ecological", so no matter what temperature I set, she decides that she "knows better" and sets the temperature at whatever level she sees fit. The only exception seems to be the "90° wash", where the stupid girl...

I cannot help wonder... ...the mighty, wonderful, top-quality Miele get stained just by some tomato sauce?

Any info about this machine? Looks like an odd beast: an Asian washer rebranded "Ariston" while the "Ariston" brand has been dismissed since a while. Does anybody have any info? I am curious...

A VPN solves the problem If you use a VPN, foraloysius, you appear to be in another country, possibly a non-European country, and hence you are not blocked. My understanding is that many USA sites simply do not know exactly what GPDR is about and do not want to bother: just in case, they...

@foraloysius "I don't think it has anything to do with the GDPR, why would the website of some stores be unaccessible and others not" I cannot tell why not all the USA websites are not reachable from the EU, but you can take a look at the links below (just the first two that fell in my...

Some USA sites... ...are not accessible from Europe because of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (but I suspect you already knew, foraloysius)

I know I will be hated here... ...but my laundry pet peeve is people swearing by the big brands detergents (and especially the heavily advertised ones). Yes, please: feel free swearing at me :-)

How much dishwasher detergent... Well, I would say "a lot" on the basis that a topload washing machine fills much, much more water than a dishwasher (being European, I cannot give you precise figures for US machines). And I would suggest to use hot water, the hotter the better

Citric acid and... ...oxyclean (sodium percarbonate), (sodium) bicarbonate, washing soda (sodium carbonate) and all that sort of stuff ends up with the same result: sodium citrate, which is quite ineffective, and if sodium citrate is what you want, well, then just buy the stuff. However...

Plug Am I wrong, or the plug is a European one?

As you write and as henene4 explains, iej, it "seems" aggressive but it isn't: the garments "stick" to the drum and hence are not rubbed or flexed, which is what damages wool. However, to achieve that, the drum must turn fast enough for the centrifugal force to "push" the garments against the...