My Miele

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Right & left compartments now are swapped

Launderess, that's true in "last century" mieles ... in the last 10 years miele has swapped prewash on right and main wash on left.

My mother who was used with the "old style" W780, took a while to remember that in the W844 it was the contrary, despite of the "I" and "II" prints ....... finally she uses both machines with no mistakes )

Latest machines (W3000-4000-5000-6000) even have the FS dispenser no more in the front but on the left side

Thomas, the cover on the FS dispenser is useful to avoid to have the last rinse done with fabric softener and washing powder ...

In a shared house during work in summertime I had to rinse the drawer of a Candy Aquamatic before each load. A girl was used to put tablets in EACH compartment ... maybe she enjoied sudsy laundry ???

 

[paulc]

Thanks guys for all the comments. Richard, it sounds like me and you are fully paid up members of the Miele fan club!! I wish I'd got one years ago, rather than buying a string of average ( ish ) and some rubbish machines.

Favorit, my sister recently bought some "wool wash" from Lidl, she thought it was fabric softener, so she too had very soapy washing!!

 

[rolls_rapide]

Stability of Mieles on suspended wooden floors.

How well do they cope on wooden floors?

My parents have a Bosch which is fine on solid floors, but was dreadful on the previous house's chipboard floor panels. It leapt about like a 'Jack-in-the-box'. We had to bolt it to the floor.

 

[paulc]

We have chipboard floors, the Miele is steady as a rock.

 

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wool wash ........

Paul,I remember those times when Henkel came out with the "green" ATLAS series : it was a nightmare, all the bottles were almost identical.... my mother sometimes washed with softener and rinsed with detergent )

For our sake
-here Calgonit is called Finish
-we have soft water, so don't need Calgon

Otherwise I had the dishwasher done with Calgon tabs and towels with a sparkling 3 in 1 scent ;-))

 

[paulc]

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That would make for interesting smelling washing!!

So guys, I've shown you mine, let's see your Mieles! What are your most used/favorite programmes and is there anything you would change about your Miele?

 

[mrwash]

8 months b-day

Hey, my set got 8 months old too 2 weeks ago.

 

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my dream ..

.. would be to have a wider settings menu, just like the Little Giants one. So I could set 4 rinses on minimum iron

Most used cycle chart :

1 Minimum Iron
2 Handwash
3 Mini (your Express)
4 Coloured/Boilwash
5 Delicates (your Synthetics)

I never use Mixed Loads (your Automatic), in these cases i use M.I, so I'm sure to have the cooldown.
It's a stupid cycle : a very small load of cottons is washed as M.I. , while it senses a medium load of poly as if it were heavy cotton (... so no cooldown and full spin)

Here a pic of a the W844

@ MrWasch tolle Navitronic !!

 

[paulc]

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My "Automatic" cycle does a cool down if 40 deg is selected and the machine thinks it is a mainly synthetic load.

MrWash, your machines are lovely!

 

[samsungfl]

My Miele

As most of you probably know, we got the W3922WPS almost a year ago, a year ago on the 19th infact . It truly does amaze me, the build quality, the wash, rinse and spinning results, just seems flawless to me, in comparision to many other machines I've had, makes for a very smooth running machine I really couldnt be happier!

I think so far, my favourite program is Minimum Iron, alot of my washing goes on that at usually either 40*c or 60*c, seems to be a very good cycle which gives some impressive washing and rinsing results, and actually does what it says - leaves stuff really crease free, esspecially if you hang stuff up to dry afterwards, t-shirts and the like dont seem to need ironing, the spins just the right length to remove alot of water, but not too long to set creases in

Even my mum really likes the machine now, and believe you me, after the luck ( or luck we havent had) with washers in the past few years, it takes some serious convincing as she was skeptical, was is fair really

Here's a few pics

Rich

 

[samsungfl]

Drum Shot.....

 

[paulc]

Rich

Lovely machine! I would love a machine with a drum light! Can you keep it on right through the cycle or does it switch off automatically?

 

[mrwash]

drum light

Too bad, but it switches off automatically after a short while. It happend a few times that it turned itself on during the cycle. Don't know why but looked pretty cool.

 

[paulc]

It would be cool if you could have the light on all the time.

Here's a load of white towels,teatowels etc waiting to go in.

 

[paulc]

Washing

Cotton cycle

 

[samsungfl]

Great pics Paul You can get so much in these machines dont you think!?

Mrwash.... Mine has done this a few times too, switching the drum light on during the cycle, It always seemed to happen when Ive been taking pictures with the flash switched on which sounds strange I know, but its good to know someone else's Miele does this too LOL

Nice Thread

Rich

 

[mrwash]

Yeah, I think our Miele's have their own life. I think they like it being shown on youtube and being photographed all the time. They are kind of stars and we are the paparazzi *lol* Maybe they say "Yeah come on, more photos baby" by turning on the light :-D

 

[mark1973]

Hey Paul

Lovely machine you have there! Glad to hear its still working away without any problems (But what else would you expect from a miele).

I love mieles but I could never have a machine that lasted so long as I get bored of them 2 quickly...lol

Although I lie as I did have a miele in my flat when I lived in my home town of Luton. I gave it to my mum when I moved up to Scotland. She recently replaced it with a Zanussi as it was messing about apparently. I was very tempted to ask her to keep it until I was next down to visit when I would bring it back to Scotland. But she has never really treated machines well and it had become a bit of a mess cosmetically and the door seal was manky and starting not to seal. Also very hard water in Luton and the machine would have been totally scaled up.

Mark
x

 

[paulc]

Hey Rich, yea I was amazed how much laundry a true 6kg load is!!

Mark, I was worried about getting bored with the machine too.....but as the newer Mieles have different wash rythms depending on the load no two washes are quite the same. Posted you a msg in the imperial section to re your LOVELY Hotpoint T/L....am super jelous!!

 

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11 y.o. novotronic W844

here on main wash.
It would be overloaded for minimum iron, so the compromise is boilwash-coloured 30°C with quick and waterplus and spin set @ 400 rpm ----> 4 rinses.
At the end I'll take out the most wrinkable items, then respin other ones @ 1200 rpm