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“Lasted 8 years and multiple home moves.”

written by engelskjente on 19/09/2015

I rented a place that had one of these and I fell in love with it. As soon as I was in a position where I needed to buy a washing machine I bought this one.

I love it. Regular use for general use (non colourfast cotton), work clothes (synthetics) and relatively regular hand wash and handwash wool usage. Not used the dryer part for a long time to be honest but used to use it a lot when I had less radiator space.

It has survived the fire escape to one flat, and down again, the fire escape to another and down again, a storage locker for about 9 months and all the jostling and craziness that involved moving it to and from there and trying to not crush it with something else. It then survived a move to a 4th floor walk up.

From there it has remained loyal to me with so many washloads and never once, literally not once, ruining/running colours in my clothes... although of course the choice of detergent is also a big factor there.

Now, just under 2 years since my last move and 8.5 years since I bought it, it's started to leak. It's been getting louder recently (from starting as practically silent...) and finally it decided to leak from underneath yesterday.

I am gutted that it's no longer available and that the newer versions do not have the much needed handwash option. I would recommend this model to anyone as a washer. I think I have only used the dry function once in the last couple of years as I needed something urgently.

Great, reliable and long lasting.