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Here's that ariel vid with english text. The advice I normally follow is a full load should be about two thirds full when wet.

stinky front loaders Only once have I ever had a foul smelling machine, that was about 34 years ago, and my parent's machine. It had been fine for the first few years while we were using powder detergent, then we switched to using a liquid detergents, first Whisk, then Radion and were mainly...

Front loaders "exploding" There have been some incidents with front loading machines in the Uk of the drum seam failing while spinning at high rpm smashing the machine apart and breaking through worktops. There was also a recall on one make due to the glass doors exploding and flinging glass...

Pah! Call that an explosion! :) In the early 90's the mains filter on my parents washing machine detonated while I was in the kitchen, about 12 feet or so away from the washing machine. The shockwave felt like I'd been slapped really hard across the side of my face and ear, which stung like...

Persil and Ariel were still called Automatic on the boxes in 1995 1995 box of Persil colour automatic here https://www.mylearning.org/stories/the-story-of-persil/1218 "automatic" is less prominent on the box. and here's a 1995 Ariel Ad:- The standard non-automatic stuff was sold for...

Hotpoint branded Bosch Meant to say the liquid detergent ate through the dispenser flap seal and the seal between the dispenser and door, letting the detergent get into the wiring. Not the door seal.

Hotpoint branded Bosch Ah, we also had a Hotpoint that was made by Bosch, it was a bargain price for a Bosch and a Which? best buy. It washed better than my current Bosch, which might have a few more programs, but lacks the stand alone rinse cycle, and doesn't have air drying either, so...

As far as I know it is only certain types of oil that spontaneously combust due to them oxidising which can generate enough heat to reach their combustion point if they are scrunched up. My father was a keen woodworker and woodturner, and used a lot of Danish oil (a blend of oils including tung...

Neither of the dishwasher I've had have ever smelt of fish, might have been a problem for Vincent Price:-

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/tsd-2020-2326/html?lang=en "In conclusion, PVOH used in liquid detergent capsule films does not meet any of the definitions of microplastic:(1) it is not micro- or nano-sized; (2) it is highly water-soluble; and (3) it is biodegradable in the...

Finish powerball quamtum ultimate LOL, in the UK at least, we've now also got Finish Ultimate Plus, and Finish Ultimate Infinity Shine, and Finish Ultimate plus Infinity Shine, although I think they are probably all the same product and they can't make their mind up what to call it!

Which? uk detergent test netmums posted the overall results of the consumer magazine Which? 2023 UK detergent tests. Their top 4 were powders, with an Aldi product at no.1 https://www.netmums.com/life/the-budget-supermarket-washing-powder-officially-named-best-on-market

Hotpoint were at it in the 1980's, when the energy efficiency labels were just a proposal. I had to replace the failing microcontroller board on my mum's 1980 Hotpoint, and one of the changes of the replacement board, which had also been used in the later models, was that it reversed the...

Possibly something sharp, like a broken zip pull attached to a bulky item pierced the seal, or hooked through a drain hole in the seal and the seal ripped and twisted up rather than the item ripping. A common problem with some early washer dryer designs was fastenings like buttons getting...

"60 condenser ones" - That should have been 30 condenser models.

"Remember condenser (or vent less if you will) dryers largely came into existence because European appliance manufacturers saw a niche that wanted filling. That is households that wanted clothes dryers but venting for various reasons was not possible. Couple this with size of average homes or...

The machine in the second video looks to me like somebody tipped it over to work on it, having forgot the draw was still full of fabric conditioner and liquid detergent. Also from all that mould and bacterial sludge, I think they probably leave the door and draw closed between washes, so the...

This is probably my favourite washing powder advert, but only because we had that machine at the time. In fact it was also featured in this later ad.

Gas tumble dryers never caught on in the UK, they were expensive to buy, and expensive to install, as it needed a gas safe/corgi gas engineer to run the pipe and connect it up, plus they should have an annual gas safety check. And of course you'd need a vent hole knocked through the wall, which...

Never had the problem with LEDS, but we had a CFL lamp in the landing light at the top of the stair for some time that would flash on every couple of seconds, or so for a while after it was turned off until the lamp cooled. The reason for that is our lighting circuits are looped in at the...