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There is a certain wisdom to washing clothing - "Sinnerscher Kreis" (in english Sinner's circle, that was his name, don't blame me). It's the basic understanding that any cleaning process involves chemistry, time, heat and mechanical action. You can offset certain things with other things...

I don't think aiming for a price is the issue - it's getting there. When I worked at BSH's cooling department, we just couldn't price match Samsung, neither built in or free standing. With the architecture and requirements at the time, or BOM cost was just the few tens of euros to high, so...

Temperature drop off is quicker the higer the temperature difference between the ambient and the tub is. Smaller loads would also mean quicker drop off as there is less thermal mass and thus less heat energy storage with the same surface area for that to go through. On the other hand, depending...

I can tell you that it certainly would not be to rough on clothes. My T-Shirts run through 2+ hour cycles on the regular and some of them are years old. The Express cycle says it does 2 rinses - which surprises me. The EU version does 1 rinse, period, from what I've seen. QuickIntense does a...

If it only does the quick alternating back and forth (was that LGs swing, or which of the 6 motions was it?) on partial loads, that would take some strain off if the drive components anyway. But with certain loads (wool, light synthetics like the typical lacy kind of curtain) I'd be very...

With the belt it's just a design thing. If you design the belt to transmit a certain force, it will do just fine. Belts might be a bit wider and sizing of the pulley might be different to get a bigger portion of it touching the belt. But I wouldn't be surprised if it just uses adapted rpms to...

I saw the parts catalogue, too. It is listed as "not a spare part" (which I'm not even certain is legal in the EU under right to repair law). But the way the dampers are attached with a cross brace plate is what tripped me up. The tub also looks like they typical stainless steel construction...

It doesn't make a very big difference, but if you check the door status electronically anyway, there's no real reason not to get that bit of efficiency. The less turbulent airflow present the less mixing occurs. Some air exchange always happens, that's un avoidable. But you don't have to force...

EU Sharp DWs are Vestel made - their own thing, basically. My partner had a very basic freestanding slim Vestel DW - single speed motor, no alternating spray arms, no soil sensing, nada. Cheap, loud, rackety, flimsy, inefficient - but cleaned like a champ for more than 5 years. We replaced it...

From the wash plate and controls these definitely are some variety of Samsung TL.

In Germany, when you install a wood fired fireplace or similar in a living space, you have 3 options: 1. You don't have an exhausting vent hood. 2. You have a window switch that doesn't allow the hood to operate when that window is closed. 3. Your fire place has an external air supply. All to...

Weren't there even the extra large TL matching dryers with 8+ cuft by Maytag and/or Whirlpool? Those certainly were front filter, but I can't say if these were 27" or 29" wide. I imagine one of the main reason the top filter dryers were kept 29" even when machines went to 27" is drying...

I don't have the fully integrated machine, so mine is the start button. Hold it down, power it on, pres 3x/5x and hold on the final one. As soon as it flashes let go. Because of the weird standby / boot behaviour I found turning it on first, waiting till it shows the remaining cycle time...

Depending on usage, that's about the time some people begin to experience belt issues. If you want to be preventative, you could get an idler/pulley kit for like 50$ direct from Alliance and do that. Otherwise check the faucets that they still close properly and that the inlet valve ports look...

Well, now look at this: Only one TQ model, but a few WQ. There is a WQ0900 aswell aparently.

Huh My current rate is about 30 cents per kWh. I use just about 1000kWh a year, and about the same for heat and hot water (which is central gas in the apartment block I live in, which comes to about 10 cent per kWh gas). Though I have to say: My flat is only about 270 sqft and I've trained...

Forced air heat just like forced air conditioning is INCREDIBLY reliant on proper airflow. If the new system has a TXV and the old one didn't, that screams airflow issue. If there is just a static flow restrictor (capillary/orfice) and a single speed compressor, with low airflow, the heat...

It's funny how you're "not trying to be political" yet if one just uses the words that you throw at others back on you, suddenly, it's about economics and being lucid. Stop to attack people's opinions with your so called facts. Stop trying to put people down with no reasoning as to if they know...

Powders for DW are exceedingly hard to find in Germany - and honestly haven't bothered to find any in a long time. There is a cheap detergent only tab that's made by one company for several discounters. It's high in oxygen bleach and works pretty good, though it can suds up in slimline DWs on...

@chetlaham Oh no, not this site in general. Just you and a few dozen others.