Hi Tom.
Not too au fait with the mid 90s Creda offerings, but I have a feeling that the machine you own will be mid 90s. Is it something like the machine below?
If so, then yep - its a Hotpoint 95 in drag essentially.
Owned by the same company, Creda machines were restyled Hotpoint machines - hence why you are plowing your way through brushes! lol
Good thing about the brushes is that that is pretty much all that goes awry with them.
They are generally long lived and rugged machines which, though they can be fragile on the outside, are built quite solidly and robustly on the inside.
In the later years of the Creda brand, it was generally the case that the previous generation of Hotpoint machines carried on in production, but being branded Creda.
You are right in that there is no removable filter on the machine - you have to remove the plastic central core from the sump, which serves the same purpose as the removable filter - but a lot ore hassle to clean.
I know what you mean about the heating noise - they perculate, is a way you could describe it.
Paul
