Miele Professional OctoPLUS Models

[mrb627]

Octoplus in AUS

Looks like Miele will sell Octoplus machines to the residential marketplace in Australia. Interesting they don't want to sell them in the states.



Malcolm

 

[henene4]

Retry

Why not just ask Miele again and point them to that video? I guess, this move could move them a bit?

 

[henene4]

Dryer noise

As this post came up again, I just checked the washer and dryer again.
The washer has a maximum noise level of 78dB during spin. That is about comparable with a normal washer on highest speed. Not anywhere silent, but normal.
But the dryer is labeled 82dB. That's louder than the washer. And it runs continously with no big interuption in noise during operation. For me, a continous hour of 82dB noise would turn me away from the dryer, even though it has 2 independent motors ( equals freely programmable reversing).

 

[mielerod69]

Miele Professional for the Home

Hi Malcolm,

When I worked at Miele, I was part of the Professional for the Home project. These machines had to be approved for home use by getting an energy and water label on them. Also the power had to be single phase 240 V, 25 amp to keep the running times short. A set with the pedestals here in oz sets you back $14K.

 

[mrb627]

Pricing...

I believe the pricing is on par with my last quote here in the states.
A little pricey, IMO.

Malcolm

 

[rapunzel]

Not only is it a bit pricey, but knowing that a significant number of consumers do only cold washes, it is overkill. Not only that, but I suspect that households prepared to fork out this kind of money for a set would probably have domestic help to do the laundry. For a business these machines would be ideal though.