My hotpoint washing machine was still going strongly when I left it in the house when I moved. Had purchased it in 2005, the first few years I was also doing washing for my ex. and he had a lot of problems with continence, so it worked very hard. Okay, for past ten years it has only had to do my twice weekly wash. The
great thing about this machine was that it had a 1600 rpm spin, and I could (manually) set that with any wash that I did.
Did not feel I could take the risk of moving such an elderly machine. So I purchased a new one with a 1600 spin, but have discovered that only about one programme on it uses that and I am not able to overide the set spins on most programmes.
Had a Zanussi full size dishwasher, that washed well enough, but the bottom basket did not work well as it was designed to be able to collapse part of it, and that broke after a couple of years and when I tried just to purchase a new basket (about 12 years back), I was quote in excess of a hundred pounds, so did not bother. Now I have a nice slim line with fall parts of basket fixerd (Hurrah), and cleans beautifully within a very short time.
Am going for one of the new Heat Pump tumble dryers, more expensive to purchase, but cheap to run. My original Indesit vented tumble dryer was wonderful, but some wires burnt out at the back and I had to replace it three years ago with a new one, never as happy with that as I had been with the old Indesit.
The manufacturers all seem to be under the illusion that we all want more and more programmes, and operated from our mobile phones. I am certain there is a large place in the market for a simple washing machine, with just five or six programmes - easily set, and probably similar for other machines.