We have one that’s 10 years old but stopped working recently. My wife says when it’s done there is still water in there not hot . Any ideas to repair or do I just get a new one?

How are you going to control it without Bluetooth though??

I don't live in Canada either. It's definitely regularly below 5 deg C for the high temperature in Canada.

I think it depends on who the board is from and what is fancy on it. $110 is my board replacement cost. Boards don’t usually fail quickly anyway unless they are just crap from the start.

And even in some cases where it does get fancy. If anything fails on the main control board of a washer or dryer, the only "answer" is typically a $250-$500 board replacement. I just got done replacing the heating element relay on my driver's board for the high high cost of... 10 dollars. This does require soldering to remove the old relay and install the new one, but close to everything is fixable.

Get the one on their website with the lower spin cycle RPM. The newer models spin a bit faster with the direct drive (one of the positives of direct drive) but the old bulletproof style with the transmissions are still made.

Eh, I don't recall the test engineers mentioning anything on them really ruining clothes or anything. I tend to run them on either normal or heavy soil, cold wash.

That's fair. I guess parts of Canada would do that? Does it get below 5C regularly?

If it only goes below 5C a few days in a year, it's not too bad

Ah, so you were from a rich family.

adore my speedqueens. It's only been 4 years but the only issues we've had with them were user error. They'll outlive me for sure.

Oh no! I've only worn mine a couple times. I'll have to watch out

Personally, even though I understand that the efficiency isn’t the same as newer machines, I find that reliability to price is unbeatable. Knowing that for the next 20 years, this thing will be a tank, and I won’t have to mess with it, (and when I do, repairs will be simple and affordable) beats out the day to day efficiency issues. Efficiency isn’t necessarily the primary concern for all consumers.

I have that exact set. It’s fantastic.

PRO TIP: if you want to be able to open the washer and keep it running, there’s a switch under the back right that can be held down with a clothespin or piece of foam. Here’s a video of it.

I do not live in the UK. It gets colder than 5 deg C where I live.

This is Buy it for Life. BIFL items are usually expensive.

But then it doesn't actually clean very well.

FWIW, my parents have one in the cellar which is as cold as a garage. It works pretty well

They stop working so well when you get below 5C which is quite rare, at least in the UK

Oh for sure. I mentioned my own requirements because I couldn't set why I'd need to spend a few hundred extra to save minus still a few hundred

That's the main reason that stops me from buying a Miele solar save dish washer. Like yes it uses so much less, and yes, it makes better use of my solar panels but also its a lot more expensive for what's realistically little gain (for me)

My D rated dishwasher uses 0.85 kWh per cycle. An A rated one uses 0.54 kWh per cycle. If you use it every single day, you're looking at a saving of 113.15 kWh in a year. In the UK, assuming April 2023 pricing that's a saving of £61.11 a year

When electricity was 15p/kWh, then you'd have to use your dishwasher multiple times a day for it to be cheaper. Assuming you're using it once a day, that's a saving of a mere £17 a year. Assuming also that it lasts ten years, I'd look to have spent £200 extra, max.

But again that is if I was using it once a day, which I'm not.

LOL okay thank you .

Yeah don’t even need the dryer just use it to clip a clothes line to

I hear you but those little energy efficiency gains and better cleaning jobs really start to add up with families doing daily or more runs.

I'm very jealous of people who have space to have their laundry equipment inside their house so they can have heat pump dryers as an option. My laundry equipment is in the garage, so a heat pump wouldn't work unless I insulated and heated that portion of the garage. I did consider it, but I mostly hang dry my laundry except bedding, so the cost wasn't worth it to me. I was surprised to learn that heat pump dryers don't work in a garage since I have a heat pump water heater in my garage.

The simplicity these old push-lever rice cookers are so underestimated. Sometimes people overengineer solutions to such simple tasks, like cooking rice…like why the fuck do I need to pay $200 for a microprocessor to COOK RICE??

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You don't have to. There are decent brands that produce even more energy efficient machines.

If you simply want to find an energy efficient laundry machine that's available where you live I'd just check the webshop that people tend to use for this and short on energy efficiency. I guarantee that some cheap and decent washing machines will pop up.

If you want to find the most energy efficient laundry machines available, you can use the product database of the European Commission for this. It contains all products that are required to have an energy efficiency label. See their page for washing machines and sort on energy efficiency. Among the top results are Electrolux, AEG, Hoover and Candy. I'm not an expert on this, but I believe some of these brands are known to be decent and affordable.