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I have moved recently, so I needed a TL because of place issues.

I did want a tank built washer but the 1450 € for the Miele W 605 in the store are way too much for my wallet.

Otherwise I didn't want to trash 300-400 € into Indesit/Candy/Whirlpool stuff that lasts just 4 or 5 years.

So I started the hunt on ebay.it and subito.it .... some day later I found a 19 y.o. Miele W794 : same 1200 rpm as the W 605, but I took it home with just 150 €.

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control fascia

push buttons from left to right

- lid
- half load (lower level rinses)
- rinse hold (aka "spuelstopp")
- short
- without prewash
- gentle cadence (from 12/3 to 8/7)

cycles are (clockwise) :
- boilwash/coloureds 95°-->> 30°C
- regular permapress 60 -->> 30°C
- delicate permapress 60 -->> tap cold
- woolens 40 -->> tap cold
- starching
- spin only
- drain
- reset

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inside

I enjoy the fact it can run a short cycle **with** prewash. My parents Novotronic performs Short OR Prewash not both in the meanwhile ( that is useful for dusty but not stained loads)

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cylinder

it has 3 real baffles ... most of current HA toploaders have just one fake, flat plastic baffle

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Congratulations, I think you have spent your 150 € very wisely.
Good luck with it !
I envy you for the full choice of temperatures, wish my modern Miele would still do a 50°, 70° and 80° Bollitura Colorata.
 
Aferim!

What a pretty little machine! And what a great Italian lesson. I think I've learned more languages from reading appliance brochures that from many years in school. What does "Spento" mean? Stop? Off?
 
I've used many of these machines in your part of the world and it amazes me, given the number of city dwellers here in the US, that there isn't a market here for them; they're great little washers. They're so much better than the lame-a@@ portable units they sell here.
 
Yes, "Spento" means (switched) off

is the past participle of "spegnere", a verb that covers all of these cases: "to switch off" an appliance, "to turn off" a car, "to blow out" a candle, "to put out" a fire. This is one of the rare exceptions where italian is simpler than english.
Thank you : now I know what "to put out" stands for :)

BTW I'm very happy about this machine :
- it makes 4 rinses in every cycle (just woolens has 3 ones only)
- it does not wrinkle at all . Last week I I mixed polyester clothes with cotton ones in a cotton 60°C/140°F load. No matter the poly T shirt came out wrinkle free, thanks to the cool down and to the graduated interim spins. Actually the cotton cycle in this machine is pretty close to the permapress of the novotronics

Danke Herr Bollitura (opps Kochwaesche) :))
 
Diomede, guarda un po' cosa c'è ad Alessandria !!

A TRUE Hoover made in Merthyr Tydfil, NOT in Brugherio ;-)

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.... and it's a TWIN TUB !!!!

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http://www.subito.it/elettrodomestici/lavatrice-anni-50-alessandria-18408394.htm
 
Yes Toggles,

"I pompieri hanno spento (or "hanno estinto") l' incendio (or literally "il fuoco") nella foresta" = "Firemen have extiguished the fire in the forest"

the little girl runs great load after load, have just washed a polycotton sleeping bag with some towels .... just dont' push her over 1000 rpm, otherwise it sounds more than a Lockheed rather than a Miele. After all she's 19 *LOL*
 
the more I use her, the more I love her.

Just miss the Mini (now Express) 40°C programme .... sometimes when I'm in a hurry I need that half an hour cycle is veeeery useful *LOL*
 
Yes you can do prewash and short option with modern Miele washing machines. I have a W 3985 WPS and W 5949 WPS LiquidWash and its possible with both machines. What models are you talking about Mieledani?

Cheers
 
short and prewash

Hi Rod,
what you write is true for TOL models only as those you mention

Guess Daniel means the mid range Novotronic III models - eg W828 W844 W864 - and the Softronic W3264 W3265 W3201 W3205.

All these models have just one button to choose between short OR prewash OR soak OR no option
This is my sister's W844 :

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As you guess, I have a w828 model: so there is no possible in my Miele a short cycle with prewash. And I would like it specially for Coloured Cottons 40 cycle!!!
 
Baffles

I couldn't agree more about the baffles. My last two h-axis TL machines have had those terrible low profile plastic ones desined to be removed so you can access the sump. All very useful but in my opinion, hopeless at correctly turning over smaller loads that just flop, like the clothes in the Dyson advertisment. I am on the lookout for a Miele TL here in the UK but they are as rare as hens teeth. That looks like quite a find!!
 
Hoovermatic

why H-axis toploaders haven't ever been common in UK ?

- are they too french-style ? (I'm just kiddin' *LOL*)
- maybe most of people need to fit the washer undercounter in the kitchen ?
 
Hi Favorit,

My W2515 has one options button. Its a mid range variant.

Press it once, get Intensive
Twice get a soak
Three times Get a Prewash (Order May be wrong)
Four times get an Intensive Soak
Five times get an Intensive Prewash
Six Times, no options.

I guess the one pictured could be old enough that short wash with a prewash would be mutally exclusive, but in the last 7-10 years that hasnt been the case.
 
Hi Nathan,
that W844 is not that older than your W2512 *LOL* (1999)

The W2000 machines had default short main wash, so it has been necessary to have the six-step trick on the option button

Later with the W 3000 series Miele went back to default extended main wash. As a clue spot this manual of the W 3204 currently on sale in UK. the option button still works in the very same way as the W800 novotronic III series

http://www.miele.co.uk/Resources/OperatingInstructions/W 3204.pdf
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Favorit

I would think the reason they have never caught on in the UK is the same reason top loaders in general didn't - they don't fit under worktops and now with so many integral appliances being installed, they don't stand a chance. Maybe if UK homes had utility/laundry rooms when automatic machines started to appear on these shores, things might have been different. I understand Bosch have ceased production of their h-axis machine.
 
I wish I had access to a range of machines like that! They look fabulous. I wonder, now that production is being moved to Spain, if we will still have the option to buy in the UK at all or if the range will change?
 
the challenge

Last week I came back from Ikea with a thicker bed pillow. I threw it in the W794 and ran 3 times the "starch" cycle (actually a single rinse + spin), the first one with a bit of detergent, the last two acted as rinses.

We can't say a 50x80 cm pillow (somewhat 20"x32") is the best load for a perfectly balanced spin ..... I was ready for some noise ( this baby is steady no matter of the balance) ..... anyway all 3 spins were perfectly balanced and thanks to those 1200 rpm some hours later I could sleep with my new pillow
 

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