Moved Again...More New Appliances!

[chrisbsuk]

Yep....I have moved again; long story, wont bore you all with it.
So, the place has come with new appliances, some pics below

 

[chrisbsuk]

Close up of the dishwasher. Its made my Caple (think I saw a thread about Caple a couple of days ago)

Only used machine twice so far; I have used the rapid cycle (crap!) and the Eco 50*c Cycle - this was excellent. MAchine is very quiet too

 

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Inside of dishwasher; note its stained orange; i'll get some cleaning stuff in there when i have the time

 

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Washing Machine...
its an Indesit washer/dryer. Not my first choice but it came with the place, and beggers cant be choosers. Its in the utility room, which is a blessing because its very very noisy; even when washing. Seems to have exactly the same type of drum rythym as an Ariston Washer Dryer i had a few years back. Guess thats because they are from the same factory!

 

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Washing machine controls & buttons

 

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Cycles:

 

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Condensor Dryer Stacked on top

 

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Two machines

 

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Oven:

 

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air conditioning/circulation unit

 

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Sorry the pictures are so blurred....clearly I have an unsteady hand!!
Chris

 

[hooverkeymatic]

Even though i own a new Hotpoint, NOOOOO! Not an Indesit lol.If you could of chosen one yourself, which one would you have chosen? Oddly, I think Hotpoint are way better made than Indesit.

 

[chrisbsuk]

...Guess Hotpoint because they "look" more attractive. I bet there is no difference in the wash rythyms etc in the three brands (Ariston/Hotpoint/Indesit) For example, the wool cycle on this Indesit is exactly the same as Ariston and Hotpoint, in so much as the drum runs at distribute speed for the whole cycle

 

[toggleswitch2]

Looks great.Thank you for sharing!

Is the condenser dryer your own?
What does the air coddtitioner/circualiton unit do?

Please tell me again why oven and hobs there are seprate units. Here the majority in ordinary homes tend to be one-piece jobbies with 4 burner/hobs over an oven. It is interesitng to note that either the hobs or the oven is about the same pice as a one-piece stove. Meaning two pieces costs you double for the same utility (usefulness).

 

[rolls_rapide]

The benefit of separate ovens and hobs is that the ovens can be placed in eye level or counter-top positions, doing away with the need to stoop. Of course, the traditional under-counter position can still be accommodated.

Slot-in cookers can still be bought, but they are generally perceived to create a disrupted line in the cabinets and also, allow food debris to fall down the gap between the appliance and its adjacent cabinets.

 

[foraloysius]

Oooh! Sleek looking kitchen! I assume the oven is a Caple as well? The discolouring of some parts in the dishwasher could have been caused by using the 70*C cycle. I used that cycle once for cleaning my dishwasher and some parts turned a bit orange like yours too.

 

[ronhic]

Stoves

Steve,

We are the same as the UK on that front too and have been getting more 'built in' since the 1960's.

My parents kitchen was fully built in with separate hotplates/oven only with the oven 'wall' mounted rather than underbench in 1968. It is the normal to build in rather than the exception....though there is a trend to large, freestanding 70, 80 and 90cm combination (gas/electric)stainless steel stoves.

All main manufacturers that retail here that I can think of make/sell separate ovens/hobs. On the other hand, they don't always have an upright stove in their ranges.

http://www.thegoodguys.com.au/porta...porate/products/search?storeId=12&groupId=117

 

[favorit]

Caple.....pool

I guess this Caple DW is made by euro Whirlpool : compare it with my Bauknecht pics I've posted a couple of weeks ago.
Lower rack, tub. Definately it's even closer to that model Whirlpool makes for Ikea

Tomato/carrot discolouring : such a thing happened to me too when I had the machine hooked to the cold water supply. As here cold water is actually liquid ice greases in the wash water were set and primed by the first rinse.

For this reason we changed to hot fill. Despite the machine fills always with hot water we save money, as hot water comes from a condensation gas heater

To revome the orange dye : run the quick 40° (empty machine, no detergent); when you hear the wash pump running open the door and pour inside about a glass of LCB, close and let it run

Sorry, but .... why did the landlord put the Indesit washer/dryer combo stacked with a separate Zanussi dryer ?? I rather had gone to a simple Zanussi washer too ...

 

[toggleswitch2]

AHA!

An admission that cold water fills are anathema!
(ducks and runs!)

 

[rapunzel]

We are the same as the UK on that front too and have been ge

Not really actually. Until the 90s our kitchens were uniquely Australian and had more of an American flair to them. Only since the demise of our domestic appliance industry and the overwhelming flood of European imports has the Europeanization of Australian kitchens gained momentum.
Most of it looks sleek, shiny and stylish, but falls way short when it comes to safety, durability and functionality. I don't even want to understand why they put these tiny square cooktops into a full-size kitchen. In a bedsit or caravan it makes sense, but, unless you only use them to warm up your take-out leftovers, they are a complete waste of time.

Just my ten cents worth.

rapunzel

 

[newwave1]

Chris!
Congrats on the new place! Looks v nice! My mother in law has an indesit WIL163 which i used for 2weeks when we looked after there place...very noisy indeed. Identical cycles to the hotpoint WT960G I had, shouldn't be too dissimilar to your Aqualtis either!!

One good thing is the flash clean programmes just like fast wash on the hotpoint, constant long tumbles with short pauses, and on the rinses you get ridiculously high water levels! Which if you combine with the extra rinse will get you some old school rinsing topped off with a 1200rpm spin!!

Looks like you did better on the appliance front than your last place! Those diplomat (servis) washers are god awful.

Though i agree with favorit, a simple zanussi washer underneath that dryer would have been much nicer ;-)

Best of luck

Darren

 

[rapunzel]

An admission that cold water fills are anathema!

They sure are - and another folly that is being foisted on unsuspecting Aussie consumers by appliance retailers as being 'superior'. Plumbing for dishwashers used to 'always' be connected to the hot water supply once upon a time. We have always made sure that our dishwasher connections feed off the hot water system.

rapunzel

 

[ronhic]

We've cold connect....

...on our dishwasher and have never had a problem with it turning the spray arms orange...

...yet we don't rinse dishes (just pots) before we load so maybe it has something to do with the water hardness and/or detergent being used?

 

[favorit]

Guess it has to do with water temp

Here up in the Alps cold water is really chilled water, so a cold fill is prone to the "orange" issue.

Down in the plain in our town cold water is "warmer" and we never have had any problem. Even in scalding August, when I switch off the gas heater as I shower tap cold and the dishwasher is filled with cold water too

Toggles, only B.S.H. (Bosch Siemens Neff) require preferably a cold fill, because of the heat exchanger involved while drying. Otherwise since the seventies Zanussi and Miele manuals recommended to connect dishwashers to hot water supply in case of a cheap hot water source (gas heated, solar heated, heat exchangers from industrial processes ...)

Current TOL Mieles (euro versions of La Perla) have a "no heat" cycle that relies only on hot fill. To have a decent temp in the main wash it does two prewashes so at the 3rd fill water is hot enought. Anyway if the water isn't hot enough there's an alarm that stops the machine and warn to raise the heater or use a heated cycle
It's a pity this cycle isn't available on all models.
It could be very useful while one has washer, dryer, oven and dishwaher all working in the meanwhile