Washer dryer

[nicholab]

Can any one recommend me a washer dryer for two adults and a baby that live in a flat?

 

I am currently looking at Samsung WD8704RJA and a Indesit Start IWDC6125 don't really what to spend over £500

[Danp]

Do you have space for separates?

[Edu-IT]

Can any one recommend me a washer dryer for two adults and a baby that live in a flat?

Can you not just use a shower and a towel?

[elsiegee40]

I've just checked out Which? (We're members)

 

Their best buys under £500 (with the best of the best buys first):

AEG L14840 - £486

Indesit PWDE8148S - £431

Indesit IWDE126 - £319

Indesit PWDC8125W - £400

Indesit IWDC6143 - £430

 

 

Neither of yours are Best Buys

The Indesit IWDC6125 gets an overall score of 59%

Pros: Good cotton cleaning, quick drying programs, excellent water efficiency

Cons: Very poor cotton rinse, very noisy when spinning and drying, easy care drying has poor energy efficiency

 

 

Samsung WD8704RJA gets an overall score of 58%

Pros: Good good washer, easy to load

Cons: Confusing, slow dryer

[newpersn]

Wont touch them... Washer and dryer (white knight are the best i feel)

 

We just brought a new washing machine (beko 1400 spin. A++) and not had any problems thats on once a day (twice somedays)

[Norphy]

My girlfriend and I have a Hotpoint washer/dryer which we bought when we moved in together. It's a 7kg wash/5kg dry unit. It cost us about £350 from Best Buy before they went under. It works well for us and it comes with a five year parts warranty from the manufacturer which is a bonus. I'd love to give you a link and a model number but the Hotpoint site is a bit* rubbish and I can't even browse the thing.

 

*very

Edited May 8, 2012 by Norphy

[tech_guy]

Just use the wife / girlfriend as a laundry woman and save yourself £500?

[sister_annex]

Before I moved I had a great Washing machine, it (read she) cooked, cleaned and did the dishes too

[K.C.Leblanc]

I used to have an Indesit Washer Dryer (and they are the same company as Hotpoint), I had to have them out about 4 times in the first year. Horrible piece of junk.

[Flakes]

get two seperates, with washer dryers you tend to find there ok at one thing and complete rubbish at the other, you could always get a condenser dryer and stand it ontop of the washing machine if you have limited space.

[HarryMonkey]

Just use the wife / girlfriend as a laundry woman and save yourself £500?

 

Rubbish! The running costs of a wife/girlfriend are a helluva lot more than £500. TCO is enormous!

[Danp]

get two seperates, with washer dryers you tend to find there ok at one thing and complete rubbish at the other, you could always get a condenser dryer and stand it ontop of the washing machine if you have limited space.

 

That's what we did, makes it so much easier with baby clothes, one lot drying while another is being washed

[nicholab]

It a flat so there is no space for separates.

[Flakes]

^^im in a flat myself (3 bed), i had the dryer in my study and the washing machine in the kitchen, i just recently pulled out a cupboard in our back hallway(just between kitchen and stairs) and moved all the stuff into a green plastic garden bin thing, and put dryer in there instead, can you do something similiar?

[tech_guy]

Get one of these - best thing we ever bought for when it's wet and windy outside and you need to dry stuff:

 

3-Tier-Heated-Tower-Airer

 

Costs less than 5p an hour to run so you have more money to spend on beer!

Edited May 8, 2012 by tech_guy

[HarryMonkey]

We never replaced our dryer when it broke down a few years ago and haven't really missed it. (We've used the space in the kitchen for a dishwasher which has proven to be far more useful, apparently, according to my wife).

[chazzy2501]

ebay! do a search for local sellers <10 miles (every day for a week), I got a nearly new indesit for £68! The pump is a little noisy (not a fault just cheap) but it is on the first floor.

 

Indesit Start IWDC6125S

 

saved loads of cash..

[jinnantonnixx]

Wont touch them... Washer and dryer (white knight are the best i feel)

 

 

Agreed, another vote for White Knight dryer. The dryer has its own water tank so it doesn't need any plumbing, so that's able to live in the small bedroom.

 

My mum has a washer/dryer combo and the dryer function is fairly useless.

Edited May 8, 2012 by jinnantonnixx

[chazzy2501]

ok, my old dear has a condensing tumble dryer and it make the loudest noise! A vented Tumbler requires a wide hose to the outdoors but is quiet. This is why I like washer dryers so much, they are condensing but use cold water instead of cold air so work faster and quieter.

[Sirbendy]

I have an Indesit WIB111 washer that's survived 2.5 years of DD1 and real nappies, and is about to be walloped good and proper by the arrival of child #2, backed up by a basic white knight vented dryer. Simple, boring, bombproof. The dryer is small enough to stand on a shelf over the washer. The Shelf WAS originally a big built in cupboard in the kitchen I ripped out. Kept the frame, washer in the bottom half.

 

Also have an older white knight auto-reverse tumbler in pieces awaiting a new belt. That's my fallback unit. Stuff an all-in-one machine, far too complex and fault probable. Plus, lose 1 bit, lose the lot. Major inconvenience.

 

Have to say I do like my cheapie indesit. Doesn't get an easy life at all, refuses to cry about it. It's faulted once, and that was a digested hair clip jamming the pump impeller, not really the machine's fault.

[woodham]

ive got that samsung washer/dryer and to be fair it works very well, it's nice and quiet too.

 

one thing you need to be aware of is that it is deep as in it sticks out from under the counter top by a few inches but if you have the space go for it

[Oaktech]

My brother in law has a Daewoo 9kg thingy, which has been going for a year now and is very impressive on both economy and performance!

 

Daewoo DWCLD1421 Washer Dryer. They are generally under your budget...

[K.C.Leblanc]

ok, my old dear has a condensing tumble dryer and it make the loudest noise! A vented Tumbler requires a wide hose to the outdoors but is quiet. This is why I like washer dryers so much, they are condensing but use cold water instead of cold air so work faster and quieter.

 

It also means that it's dumping clean water down the drain.

 

Also with the conventional condenser dryer the heat stays in your home instead of warming the local sewer.

[chazzy2501]

It also means that it's dumping clean water down the drain.

 

Also with the conventional condenser dryer the heat stays in your home instead of warming the local sewer.

 

The water also carries the fluff out (which if you're super lazy ((me)) is a value add) my dryer is b rated.

[Martin]

I have used washer-dryers for 20-odd years (Hoover, Hotpoint, Zanussi (all never again) and now Miele) and the Miele condenser dryer no longer works properly (so much for them being bullet proof ).

 

However, i have thus seen the light, and a high spin-speed washer will dry out your clothes most of the way. Add a simple wooden airer (or a leccy one as tech_guy suggests) and you should be sorted.

 

I'd prolly still go Miele, but i'd get it when the 10-year free warranty was on offer!

 

mb