Reply to: Washer dryer, repair or replace

[ace00]

Get pissed, throw it in your neighbours garden, then key the b'stads car when he complains.

Aaaaahhhh. Wise are you in The Way of the Chav.

[NotAllThere]

Move to a bigger house that can accomodate a seperate washing maching and dryer.

[Jubber]

Get pissed, throw it in your neighbours garden, then key the b'stads car when he complains.

[Halo Jones]

If you have the space get seperate washer dryers, this way they tend to be more simple & less likley to go wrong & when one breaks you only need to replace 1 unit

But if you do get a combo unit then yes get the insurance - it saved me alot of money

[TheBigYinJames]

£2.50 a month? Isn't most breakdown insurance much more expensive than that? I'm normally opposed to insurance when it can be avoided, but I am curious who this is with and what the smallprint says.

Currys/Comet usually always offer you either a 'lump sum' 2 or 3 year extended warranty, or in recent years this ongoing neverending drip £2.50 or £3.50 a month (depends on the value of the goods insured)

We havent actually bought a dishwasher in years, when they no longer deem it fit to be repaired they send us a voucher covering it's replacement cost which we take down to Currys and get a new one, and another policy.

After the first couple of times I thought they would stop offering me the policy, but seems not.

[IR35 Avoider]

£2.50 a month? Isn't most breakdown insurance much more expensive than that? I'm normally opposed to insurance when it can be avoided, but I am curious who this is with and what the smallprint says.

[TheBigYinJames]

I'll order the new machine then.

When we buy a machine, we get one of those £2.50 a month insurance jobbies which does a like-for-like replacement if they can't fix it.

[IR35 Avoider]

Well this poll has been far more useful than I expected. Thanks to all who voted.

I was leaning towards repair, but in the face of more than 80% saying otherwise I've changed my mind.

In the meantime I've discovered I can get a machine for £280 delivered that has a feature mine doesn't, sensor as opposed to timed drying.

When my plumber re-appears to complete work on my bathroom I will see if he has the time to do repair, I doubt he will charge me more than £30, but then I doubt he has the time as he should have finished the bathroom weeks ago. (He does all sort of jobs including electrical work for me, and he did comment in passing that he could look at the machine for me.)

(The £98 cost of repair was the fixed-price quote by manufacturer's people.)

Assuming he doesn't have time, I'll order the new machine then.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Well, yeah. I might do things like that

[Troll]

Miele Washer dryer was least reliable one I ever had - wouldn't waste the money on a "quality" one again.

Ditto for Bosch

[Peoplesoft bloke]

If current machine = miele
then
Fix
else
Buy a miele from John Lewis.
Done.

Off you go.

Miele Washer dryer was least reliable one I ever had - wouldn't waste the money on a "quality" one again.

[s2budd]

It's simple.

If current machine = miele
then
Fix
else
Buy a miele from John Lewis.
Done.

Off you go.

[Advocate]

Buy a new one – get the economy going. Shinny new buttons and lights etc.

Not sure I’d bother with the dryer bit. Just drape your clothes over the backs of chairs etc and they dry anyway is my feeling, or am I being too much of a ‘bloke’?

[Xenophon]

8 votes for buying a new one and 1 vote for repairing the old one.

The CUKers have spoken.

Splash the cash.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Buy a new one – get the economy going. Shinny new buttons and lights etc.

Not sure I’d bother with the dryer bit. Just hang the stuff up and they dry anyway is my feeling, or am I being too much of a ‘bloke’?