Washer-drier drum-bearing replacement: DIY or GAMI? What was that parts place again?
Wot 'e said! Domestic appliance engineering was my Late fathers business and he refused to take on the Phillips franchise. I'm not sure, but I think Whirlpool is still part of the Phillips banner. -- Greybeard FLHR -03 UK (95 cu-in Stg 2. Big Boy2!) Trumpet Trophy 1200-03 Garmin Zumo 550, To get me home! ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk
GASI (Get a _skip_ in) It's not worth the grief. Even if you get the bearings, the bloody lip seals are proprietary items and they *will* bend you over on price. Go to John Lewis and buy one of their own brand WMs. They're made by AEG (more like hacked out from the solid by AEG). My missus is *the* undertaker of domestic appliances. I have learned to get the best I can (or can't) afford, as it means I don't have to spend my evenings working on cheap shit appliances which are designed for easy manufacture and NOT easy maintenance. <rant over> JB
Indeed. When the ancient Whirlpool top loader at the chateau gave up the ghost I had a quick look inside. The drive belt had jumped off. So I got our wonderful French neighbour who is an electrician and white goods engineer to come round. He pointed out that the belt had jumped off because the pulley had come loose. The pulley had come loose because a bearing had gone. He had the part on his van, but then as he probed further pointed out that another bearing had also gone (which is why it rumbled like an earthquake and tried to walk round the room on spin). We asked how much and he said it would be better to get a new machine (well he would wouldn't he?). TBF he got us a similar, basic 'Laden' (no Bin) job out of his catalogue and had it delivered and installed the next day even though this was 5 in the afternoon in deepest rural France. Does everything we want and knowing his labour rates (all to do with tax on small business men) was probably very little more than the cost of a repair would have been. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
I must admit this is my favoured option - the poor thing's 9 years old now, and was included in the cost of the house. I always allow myself some sort of toy out of my bonus each arch, so this year, I gees I get a washer-dryer. Trouble is, the new one won't "go" with the cooker, so that'll have to be changed, too, no doubt. Ho-hum.
Don't get a combined washer/dryer. It should be one or the other. WDs are always shite. A nasty compromise at best, and only ever designed for houses with no space for both separates (info from a friend of mine who was head of design for Philips consumer appliances in Eindhoven for 7+yrs) Trouble is, the new one won't "go" with the cooker, so that'll have to Oh yuss. JB
I live in a modern house -there is no space[1] - which is also why there is no dishwasher. [1] A big improvement on the kitchen in my old flat - where I could touch all four walls without moving my feet.
AOL.. except I got a countertop dishwasher, which takes more of the kitchen than makes sense, but allows me to be lazy.
Most garages are too small to house a car these days, and, ISTR, Dodger doesn't own one anyway - meaning that he should have plenty of space for a dryer in his garage, alongside the bikes.
The garage has a GoldWing, a CBX, a Blackbird, workbench, hydraulic lift, shelving, and a sash window in it. A sheet of paper would be a tight squeeze at the moment, let alone a tumble drier.
Madam has plumped for the AEG[cos it got a higher score in Which?], and the nice folk at JLP are taking the dead one away.
I think I'm going to join this club. My last washer dryer lasted from 1993 - 2006, it was the cheapest one in the shop, an indesit if I recall. It's replacement was also one of the cheapest ones in the shop, this time a Bendix.
ginge wrote: [washer/dryers are OK] I had one of those Hoover or Hotpoint ones that were all over Watchdog, allegedly chewing up the clothes and spitting out rags. I never had a problem with mine, so it could be that I was either lucky, or it was just used far less than with a family and thus behaved itself.
