New washing machines built to last???

[launderess]

Don't Think It Is Just The Depression Generation

That is tight with money and or careful with savings. Anyone who has grown up not having much and or doing without lives with that experience the rest of their lives. As adults many either follow two lines: either they spend every cent they get, cluttering up their homes with "stuff" to make up for all those years of not having; or, they are as tight fisted as their parents and always worried about and saving for "hard times". The latter are usually the sort of persons that leave estates with lots of money socked away, and or where you find money hidden away in socks, drawers, inside of walls (that one was on the news), etc. Brand new things put away wrapped up tight, never used, while even their everyday things are well taken care of.

Closest thing many bommers have to remembering the Depression, was the inflation (stagflation) of the 1970's and early 1980's. It was the beginning of manufacturing closing US plants and moving overseas, Big Steel was being shoved aside by imports, and lastly imported cars started to kill Detroit.

 

[gyrafoam]

JeffG-----

You can make it possible to have a warm rinse by using some "splitters" and you'll need a couple of short hoses.

One of the splitters will need to be the type with the tiny individual valve controls on each side.

Install the splitter with the valve controls where it is most convenient for you to open and close them.

You attach a splitter to the hot water valve, then attach the hot water inlet hose to one side of the splitter and a short hose to the other side.
Then attach the other short hose to the cold water valve.
Take the other splitter and attach both short hoses to it.
Then take the original long water inlet hose and attach it to the single point on the splitter. Get the picture?

Then you can use the tiny valve on the hot water side to "mix" in hot whenever you like and make warm rinses possible.

Personally I like the splitter with the tiny individual controls down where the short hot and cold hoses meet--- so I can turn the cold off and have hot rinses when I want. I "hot rinse" a lot. Especially effective in the Unimatic and SQ.

 

[jeffg]

Thanks Gyrafoam, but we use the washer's control dial when we want a warm or hot rinse. After the wash/first spin we reset the knob back to the beginning of a wash cycle (so the washer fills with either warm or hot water), and then move the knob back to the rinse cycle after it's filled and begins agitating. The result is the same and we don't need to modify or manually open/close any valves.

 

[zodawash]

Beko

Yes Beko make some of ISE machines for them but they are not standard Beko machines they are specifically built to the ISE spec ie they have upgraded the suspension, bearings and removed common failures of machines by designing it to last and be easy to fix if it does break. From what i've heard from engineers they are not going wrong. The price is very good for peace of mind and a machine with local engineer back up. If only more would follow.

Obviously the Asko machine is already an increadably well proven design so its natural ISE would choose this as the top of line machine.

Steve