Ant

What does all the women and scooynet wives recommend? (as we all know men don't do this stuff)

Treating my wife to a dishwasher

We're looking for a slim one there's only 3 of us so no need for a full size one.

What would you recommend that doesn't break the bank .

Also for installation can we t-piece the cold water feed to the washing machine?

jonc

Marigolds - Heavy Duty + Fairy liquid..

scoobyster

Slim ones use near enough as much energy, water and detergent as a full size one, and cost as much or more to purchase. They soon fill up so just get a full size one if you have the space.

jonc

Seriously, one thing with dish washers is that once you have them, you'll run out of crockery and cutlery just when you need it as they're all sitting in the dishwasher waiting for it to be filled before a wash cycle. Also you say you are buying it for your wife, she will definitely need some form of "training" as I guarantee she will stack the dishes in randomly that all the space will be taken up even though it is half full, it will be down to you to rearrange the dishes to use the space efficiently.

Otherwise buy a German make from John Lewis as you'll get 2 years free warranty with it. We have an AEG and has worked faultlessly for 6 years so far.

oldsplice

I hope it's not her Christmas present!

Ant

No of course not the pan set is though , mIght have to measure up for a full size one then.

Splicer it was something we was going to get for the house with some Xmas money. Stops the arguments about me "forgetting" to do the pots

oldsplice

Phew, that's ok then!

Yeah, get a full size one. Although we hardly ever use ours. Mr OS does the washing up by hand, because it's his 'quiet time' (if only!)

Coffin Dodger

Had two Bosch ones, a free standing one that we flogged on eBay recently as our new kitchen has an integrated. Been faultless to date and do a good job getting stuff clean.

I'd echo the above, get a full size unless you really can't fit one in, even with three of us with a Sunday dinner including a few pots and pans + the rest of the days stuff and it's full. A slimline job would be a right pain.

If you want to spend a lot of money on one then Miele is the best out there.

Nimbus

This!

I've lost count of the number of times I've had to pretty much take everything out and reload it after my wife's attempt to load it. Plates and blows seemingly places at random meaning you get about half the number of things that if you had done it properly. My brother in-law reported the same problem when we went to visit recently, so it's obviously a common issue

As to what to get, we have a slim-line only because we could not fit a full size into our current kitchen. It does a good job but we could do with a full size one when we get the kitchen re-done. It's a Beko DE 2541 FS which we bought from Co-Operative online. Not had any issues in the 18 months we've had it, and it's used about twice a day sometimes.

Jay m A

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What is it with women and loading dishwashers? Thought it was just mine. A saucepan wedged on top of another, yep that'll work!

Oh and we have an old Hotpoint Aquarius, came with the house so no idea how old it is. I thought it would be the 1st thing to go wrong but 5 years on its still going..

The Zohan

yup

got one of these, had it a year and it has been faultless and a 100% better in terms of cleaning, noise, etc than the one it replaced: http://www.reevoo.com/p/hotpoint-fdd914

from here: http://markselectrical.co.uk/ where brilliant, delivered 2 days from placing the order (Sat night) at a time to suit us

austinwrx

ditto re: wives and loading dishwashers.

yes can put cutlery in and plates,but everything else......... I have to empty and start again. we fill a full size one virtually every day: there is only two of us and a 2 yr old !!

we do cook and eat proper meals all the time: i.e as oppose to any frozen/microwave stuff though.

I have a kenwood: was dear, but been fine for last 4/5 years

Funkii Munkii

Another vote for Bosch, my first lasted 14 years and my second is only 15 months old but no issues and does a fantastic job

Ant

Cheers everybody, I'll look into the models mentioned and let the wife choose

Funkii Munkii

Ant, I suggest you look after the Dishwasher, it's a fine piece of engineering after all, I look after ours.
The amount of times I have had to "reload" it after The Wife or as I say to her who loaded this ? Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder? "I haven't got time blah blah blah" I swear she just throws it in and shuts the door

Dr Hu

LOL - my wife is also shiat as packing the dishwasher....

If she's doing it, I can't help myself but to start re-arranging stuff, then she slams something in, stomps off shouting, "well you bloody well do it then!"

Wimmins - have no concept of water flow & basic laws of physics!

Galifrey

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Bosch here, had 4 dishwashers over the years, and only the Bosch's have never had a problem.

ChefDude

We have a miele and it manages to clean dishes we've left crusting up for 3 days. it's awesome.

BlkKnight

Take one of your dinner plates to make sire it fits

DARB

pointless bit of kit, they just dont clean very well at all

They tested the top three on the gadget show and not one coped well, you need to rinse the pots before puting them in the dishwasher

ScoobyWon't

How do you forget to do her job?

dpb

We use ours every couple months to polish the plates knifes , gfriend is a past master at loading it - i get it wrong every time
other than that i just wash up , complete waste of time unless youve decnt sized family

AndyC_772

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We had a Bosch - 3 failures requiring repair in as many years, so I said "sod it" and bought a Miele. It's quieter, cleans better and comes with a 5 yr warranty. (Designed to last for 20, apparently).

Ant

we've opted for the hotpoint aquarious from mark electronics, pay day next week so will be ordering then

5 year parts warranty and 1year labour and marks was the cheapest i could find.

cheers for the link

Dr.No

Had Bosch and Neff, and no problems at all with either.

The Neff is almost identical to the Bosch, but as it's integrated and slightly better featured it's 3 times the price.

I'd recommend anything in the Bosch/Neff/Siemens ranges - Bosch being the cheapest of those and pretty much as good as the others.

Fat Boy

+1

We have a Miele dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer - they are not cheap but come consistently top of group tests.

Also incredibly quiet.

DCI Gene Hunt

Here's a really good one... cheap and reliable

jonc

Surely they should be more like this..