Poostix

you are 90% right we are scared to put even £1 on the cost of a machine, but its not because of a price war with anyone else its because £1 onsite is arount £20 by the time it gets to the shop. I know from being a customer that if I can get the same specification machine (1600 spin with 7kg load and 4 easy programs AAA etc...) but I have a choice between a white box with a oval shaped door, a white box with a round door or a graphite box with these 2 options I'm going to go for the one that goes with my kitchen thats £20 cheaper. After all its just a washing machine I'll get 3-5 years and move on or get a new one. Its the throw away society we live in today. This is the way I think, well did think, Now if I'm buying I weigh up the name, the tests and use sites such as this to get my information. purely because I work in the industry now. but would it affect my choice. I have to say I've had as good an experience as you can have with domestic appliance's. (only ever had a toatster and a kettle go wrong) so I can say I would buy HP washer and seperate tumble drier. I've had electrolux and LG fridge's never went wrong so I'd go with them again. some weird eastern european cooker or one of the big arger's?? I'd have both again.

Currently all of our 7kg and and washer drier range are all screwed drum, but this is changing. I'll take your thoughts to my boss as I had the same when I first turned up here. If it was unable to be damaged with debris and the coin trap/ filter was easy to get to I think alot of out problems would be resolved. I like this site I can get improvements for the machines from people that know what they are talking about.

Your right it is a cost saving but its also a good way to ensure the best seal rather than having 16 screws. Also I would leave the aqualtis for a short while. I have not had any chance to take one apart yet should be about 2 weeks. I'll also be doing this with the new MOON model, which looks quite cool but again I have not had chance to look at them to see if they are any good. My boss worked on the aqualtis range and is so happy with it he got one for him mum and himself?? I've seen his car so I'm not sure if its a good or a bad thing. ha ha

Hi all, Well I've just started working for hotpoint in the wet laundry design department so I'm hoping to get reliability up to scratch, if you have any suggestions / questions don't hesitate to contact me. Again I am quite new to the company but will help out where possible. In response I think the wf860 is one of our good machines we test for up to 3 years use with some machines running cycles for 3 months solid, only break is changing the loads between washes. If it was me I would have been going for the 960 ultima to be honest it still retains more of the UK based parts rather than the european bits. Again this year we have been informed our focus is improving quality so expect to see much better machines in 2008.