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TeaGeo t1_jctq0xb wrote

Bosh built over 15 years ago were great. I have one now I installed 9 years ago new. Works okay but not as well built or designed. Door lift cable system failed. Obvious bad design but no Bosh support for their poor design and manufacturing. So I had to buy parts and do repair. The fault light is always on for last 7 years for the Rivne Sid dispenser. And can not put tall plate in first couple of positions on rear left dish rack or water splashes out the vent hole, fills catch tray and trips fault sensor.

It is okay, but has issues. Never buying one again. Like everything German not what it used to be.

My good buddy buys the cheapest and just figured he replaces every 5-10 years. Replacing a dishwasher is a fairly easy DIY project.

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Village_Spinster t1_jctospy wrote

I had decided on the Winix 5500-2 and in October of last year, when the price went down to $119, I purchased two.

I wanted one with a true HEPA filter, carbon filter, reasonably priced replacement filters or off brand options. The first filter, I regularly clean off outside, as it's reusable.

I don't need the auto mode, but find it useful, as it turns the filter on when it senses enough natural or artificial light, in the morning, and goes into sleep mode when the lights go out.

It controls odors well in my teen son's room, cooking odors, and rainy day dog smell on the rest of the first floor. My son's allergies are impressively non existent. He has a mild issue with dog dander and severe allergies. The filter has the dander under control and so far tissue and allergy med usage has dropped. We'll see how it does in the spring months as pollen count rises.

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shwaak t1_jctm6x8 wrote

The bottles have two layers of stainless steel and they suck out the air between those two layers, this is what insulates the bottle, if there is no air in that space there is minimal heat transfer, that’s the vacuum part. So the air has leaked back into that space somehow, probably a slow leak from crappy construction as I didn’t damage the bottle, and now the bottle doesn’t insulate what’s inside. You can tell just buy filling it with hot or cold water, you feel it holding the bottle quite quickly, a good bottle you can’t tell if it’s hot or cold inside, it also sound different when you tap it, when it had a vacuum it sounds really tinny, now it’s more dull.

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