triumphtoledo
Well-known member
Hi all,
My first post is asking for advice, so be gentle...
We have two washing machines in the house. One is a modern Bosch (well, a WFL2260, which is getting on to a decade old and has only needed a door seal and a set of brushes to date) and a very old V696 from the early 1980s. The elderly Bosch has had a set of drum bearings, a door seal, a motor capacitor and two drain pumps in the last eight years and just keeps going.
Yet, the older Bosch has a hard time and has to wash very dirty items, such as oil soaked overalls, so I do not contaminate the usual household machine and get into trouble with my wife. Also, the newer Bosch also does not cope very well with the very dirty items, because it does not use enough water; I view it is a compromised machine that is excellent for domestic laundry but not ideal for more industrial filthy clothes/cloths etc.
The older machine works much better for my heavy-duty laundry, despite using more water and, possibly, more electricity. Every now-and-again, when we have loads of washing to get through (we have a 14 months-old daughter in the house), we also use the older Bosch and have not had any problems with our own clothes being damaged. The issue with the older machine is that my wife cannot figure out how to work it!
In terms of our domestic set-up, we have a separate utility room with hot and cold water supplies. We have an efficient combi-boiler, which can hot-fill both our washers, this being a more economic proposition than allowing the machines to fill-up with cold water and then heating the water electrically. We do not have a water meter.
For anyone, who has not dropped off to sleep yet, it would be useful for us to have a machine with a larger capacity than the older Bosch, so we can wash larger loads that may include blankets and possibly curtains too. I have been offered a top-loader Hotpoint 15792 and am wondering whether or not it should replace the older Bosch. The V696 would not be scrapped, just relegated to my warm garage in case our modern machine finally dies. Am I right in thinking the V696 washer/dryer is rare now? I have never seen another one
So, taking into account my circumstances and that the old machine only does 2 loads a week, maximum, is it a wise idea to replace the front-loading V696 with the Hotpoint? Also, is the 15792 a robust and reliable machine?
I feel confident in the reliability of the older Hotties, as my mother had an old Hotpoint Liberator 1848 and that just went on-and-on… maybe I am deluded.
Your comments/advice would be most useful and appreciated, as always. Thank-you.
Rob
My first post is asking for advice, so be gentle...
We have two washing machines in the house. One is a modern Bosch (well, a WFL2260, which is getting on to a decade old and has only needed a door seal and a set of brushes to date) and a very old V696 from the early 1980s. The elderly Bosch has had a set of drum bearings, a door seal, a motor capacitor and two drain pumps in the last eight years and just keeps going.
Yet, the older Bosch has a hard time and has to wash very dirty items, such as oil soaked overalls, so I do not contaminate the usual household machine and get into trouble with my wife. Also, the newer Bosch also does not cope very well with the very dirty items, because it does not use enough water; I view it is a compromised machine that is excellent for domestic laundry but not ideal for more industrial filthy clothes/cloths etc.
The older machine works much better for my heavy-duty laundry, despite using more water and, possibly, more electricity. Every now-and-again, when we have loads of washing to get through (we have a 14 months-old daughter in the house), we also use the older Bosch and have not had any problems with our own clothes being damaged. The issue with the older machine is that my wife cannot figure out how to work it!
In terms of our domestic set-up, we have a separate utility room with hot and cold water supplies. We have an efficient combi-boiler, which can hot-fill both our washers, this being a more economic proposition than allowing the machines to fill-up with cold water and then heating the water electrically. We do not have a water meter.
For anyone, who has not dropped off to sleep yet, it would be useful for us to have a machine with a larger capacity than the older Bosch, so we can wash larger loads that may include blankets and possibly curtains too. I have been offered a top-loader Hotpoint 15792 and am wondering whether or not it should replace the older Bosch. The V696 would not be scrapped, just relegated to my warm garage in case our modern machine finally dies. Am I right in thinking the V696 washer/dryer is rare now? I have never seen another one
So, taking into account my circumstances and that the old machine only does 2 loads a week, maximum, is it a wise idea to replace the front-loading V696 with the Hotpoint? Also, is the 15792 a robust and reliable machine?
I feel confident in the reliability of the older Hotties, as my mother had an old Hotpoint Liberator 1848 and that just went on-and-on… maybe I am deluded.
Your comments/advice would be most useful and appreciated, as always. Thank-you.
Rob
