Moved Again...More New Appliances!

[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