Washing machine

On another point. Although many companies selling such things as washing machines, etc. etc. say it has a 12 or 24 months guarantee, it is totally immaterial.

Consumers Rights Act covers all new articles sold and can decide how long a new domestic machine should d work for. And that is likely to be several years.

Sorry, no edit button - last sentence should read ' tablecloths, sheets, etc sent to 'Best wash'.

It is thought amongst sociologists that the domestic washing machine, was the single biggest advancement in women's lives. Must say we did not get one until after the birth of our second child, just eleven months after the first. For the firlst, nappies were soaked in Milton, and then washed in the kitchen sink each morning, as was all the baby clothes, etc. Hubbie and my washing was taken weekly to local launderette.
Washing machine put in our bathroom, where - to fill it had to put the hose on the taps in the bath, and drape the exit hose over the bath. It often went 'walkies' as it emptied and we would find the bathroom floor covered in water!!!

Prior to that - in the fifties, when my Mum went to work,she would send a weekly 'bagwash'. Dad, Mum and my clothes all filling a pillowslip. tanlecloths. sjeets etc semt tp nest wasj

I heartily agree denbylover!!

…...please please please don’t touch the washing machine. Take anything else, but please not the washing machine. I still marvel that someone could think to produce a machine whereby you put dirty clothes in, then come back a bit later and they are not only clean but spun as well. Genius! Strangely I don’t credit that same thinking to any other appliance. I’ve only ever had an automatic wm, remember the trial of wash days with my Mum, what a laborious process and water seeming to get everywhere between rinsing in big tubs then feeding (sheets esp) through the wringer. Twin tubs made the job a bit easier. I think the person who invented the auto wm should get a Nobel prize!

I love having a washing machine however if I had to choose I might well go for a dishwasher instead!

Think about it - without washboards, we would not have had skiffle groups!!!

I have been very lucky with my electric appliances. My last washing machine was still going after 20 years. I only got rid of it, because the outside got rusty and it looked awful .

Shinamae

I bought a Bosch washing machine a few months ago and there was an offer with it that as long as I registered it, I would get five years free callout charges and parts…🤓

That’s good. My dishwasher was a Bosch, and under 5 years old and has been written off as too expensive to repair! Out of guarantee. I think they are a reliable brand so I must just be unlucky! I also have a Bosch washer so fingers crossed….

I don't care, I gave it a fanfare anyway.

Ooh I like my laundry to be a smooth operation these days too after early years of spindriers, then twin tubs.
Recently invested in a new tumble drier after repairs were getting too frequent on existing one. Thrilled with heat pump version, set to save a fortune over the coming years.

And fanfare for free parts and labour!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Sorry that was meant to quote my own post 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

MissAdventure

Fanfare of trumpets for the washing machine!! 🥳

And labour!!

I bought a Bosch washing machine a few months ago and there was an offer with it that as long as I registered it, I would get five years free callout charges and parts…🤓

Fanfare of trumpets for the washing machine!! 🥳

I have got an old fashioned spin drier luckily which is useful from time to time. My mum had one!

Hurrah!, the washing machine man has cometh! The wondrous machine is making a normal noise and turning round!

I didn't have hot water when my daughter was a baby.

I lived in a tumble down little caravan.

Our son bought a fridge/freezer which broke down after 12 months. He wrote to the Consumer protection services pointing out that a fridge/freezer should last longer than 12 months before breaking down. Consumer protection agreed with him and the store refunded him all the money he paid for it.

Your washing machine will be under the 12 month guarantee period so should be repaired or replaced free of charge but if it had been older than 12 months then people should complain to Consumer protection as the broken items are not fit for the purpose they were intended for.

I’ve been without a WM, TD and DW for several weeks due to ongoing house repairs. I’m fortunate that my dd leaves a couple of miles away and I could use her WM but I didn’t want to abuse her generosity by doing my ‘summer’ washing of duvets, pillows etc in her machine. Luckily, the weather has been good enough to hang out most of the laundry to dry.

To me, doing the dishes by hand is a chore but I could live without a DW if needs be. It doesn’t take long and isn’t as physically strenuous as hand washing clothing and bed linen.

My mum always had some sort of WM. I remember she had a tub machine with an electric wringer on top, then had a twin tub for years. My late sister chose not to have a WM for many years, handing washing absolutely everything! Her first baby didn’t wear plastic pants over the towelling nappies to begin with so each change of nappy meant a clean set of clothes and pram/cot linen, too. She used plastic pants on the second baby.

Even when I had my first baby I didn't have a washing machine. My mum bought me a spin dryer so I used to wash everything by hand (having soaked the nappies in a bucket) and spin it in the dryer.
Ironically when we let the house to go to Holland the letting agent made us put a washing machine in.

My mother had a full-time job as a ward sister but in the 50's could not afford a washing machine so sent bedding to the laundry but did everything else by hand.

We lived in the middle of nowhere so food was difficult to buy although one fellow came weekly with his horse and cart. My mother used to pick up the horse droppings for the garden!

Times are rather different.

Apparently things these days are built with a short life span.

Four months is very short, though!!

I couldn't manage at all without a machine.

I do remember my grandmother washing in a large tub placed on the ground outside the backdoor. She used a ponch to agitate the laundry which she them put through a manual mangle - it must have been exhausting.
Larger items - blankets, curtain etc were sent to the laundry in brown paper parcels tied with string and a label attached stating the customers name and the contents of the package.
That laundry is still operating today although I think the main customers will be corporate clothing, restaurants hotels etc.