[Closed] Which washer dryer?

Siemens or Bosch is my recommendation. Not sure if they do any grey ones though - might limit your choice a bit.

Skip the combined ones and get separate appliances, the combined ones are pretty universally badly reviewed.

@airvent - don't have the space for separate ones plus the ones I have been looking at are 80+ 5 dink reviews.

I agree, from memory they certainly used to be rubbish but the new breed seem to get decent write-ups.

The dryer bit would be for emergencies only. Will double check though - as I say your thinking matches mine...

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We’re moving to a house that only has space for one appliance. I’ve heard the run cycles can be very long?

I have a grey LG washer dryer (no space for 2 appliances), it'll wash 8kg but only dry 5kg, weighs the load and sets time depending on the actual weight, has loads of programs I never use and cost around £600 when I bought it around 4 years ago. No problems so far and it has a 10yr warranty, I rarely use the dryer but good 2 know its there if I need it

I know its not what you want but I would recommend avoiding them. I had one (years ago) and it was a compromise on both fronts, crappy small drum for washing and it was even sh!tter at drying anything more than a couple of items at a time, used to take half my washing to my parents house and it was the worst thing ever with bedding. Swore never to get one again.

Daz won’t brighten it up

As evidenced in the politics threads.

(only joking 🙃)

DO NOT GET A SAMSUNG

I can't stress this enough. It's been the most hateful piece of crap we've ever owned and it wasn't cheap.

The warranty process is worse than painful too

And I'm normally a Samsung fanboy for tech

The problem with washer-dryers is that the dry cycle not only has to dry the clothes, it has to dry the machine too. Which is a lot of extra work.

To be fair my personal experience with them is 20 years old, so they may have found a way of drying just the clothes (but I doubt it).

I've had washer/dryers for the last 23 years and just two different ones in that time. First was a Samsung and lasted about 15 years (only annoyance with it was some fluff from the drying cycle would stick in the drum so the next wash would deposit the fluff onto the newly washed clothes). For the last 8 years I've had a Siemens, it's been fine to - it even has a fluff clean cycle so if I know there's likely to be fluff in the drum and I'm washing a load that I won't tumble dry (e.g. t-shirts) then I just run the 15 minute fluff clean first - never had any issues with fluff as a result.

If I had space I'd probably have separates as the dryer isn't the most energy efficient but I'd happily recommend a washer/dryer to people without the space for separates. No clue what good current models are out there but looking at Which? they rate the John Lewis JLWD1614 highly (although slightly over your budget), the LG FWV796STS & AEG L7WEG841R both get good reviews to and are under £700

We had a couple of washer/dryers but have now gone back to separate. If you go down the w/d route I'd recommend you take on an extended warranty as it will go wrong at some point. On one of the times we had the repair man out he explained that they fail so often because you can't get to various filters without taking them apart so they always fail in the end. Also, the drying side really was occasional as they are terrible compared to a separate dryer. I think we payed about £7pm for the warranty (Domestic and General?) and certainly got our money's worth!

As for Samsung, we replaced our last Hotpoint w/d with an expensive Samsung washer. Hmmmmm, don't think I'd get another as the seal failed quite quickly and it's had various other hiccups. To top it off it decided to stop working 2 months after the warranty expired. To be honest Samsung were great and fixed it anyway but we had a few weeks without a washer and I'd expect something that cost what it did to last longer. Typically, having kept the w/d in the garage for a couple of years I'd given it away a month before the Samsung went bang!

We had a Samsung, it wasn't great. Died pretty quickly (drum bearings).

I really like our LG. Dries as well as any dedicated tumble drier I've used. Had an AEG washer/drier too. Also good, but I prefer the LG.

If it's only occasional you might be better off with a drying rack and a dehumidifier.

All new washers and dryers take longer now, it's part of making them more efficient I think.
Washers spend more time soaking clothes to get dirt off rather than shaking them about.
Dryers use a lower temperature (and possibly heat pump too).

I am our local repair agent for most brands and as such have to fix the damn things!
If you need a washer/ dryer please get a washer and a dryer. ALL makes of washer/dryer will become clogged with, politely, fluff and stuff.
Make room and stack one on top the other, never, ever get a built-in job these are even more pointless.
Are you on a water meter? The issue is that it will use at least as much water to dry (uses cold water to chill) as it did to do the wash, if you have a loose pipe/airlock the constant filling/draining will do your head in.
Bosch group stuff is a good bet, Samsung does not seem to be what it used to be.
I am not bitter, only had to dig crap out of one washer/dryer today!

We have a HiSense one that does ok for the two of us. If you're a family with kids the Bosch ones last a long time (or used to). Our was in daily use for around 10 years when we were raising the ankle-biters before we moved it on.

I have a Hotpoint one and although it works, it’s not brilliant. Small loads dry OK but larger ones need two passes. It uses a lot of water too, and because of the way it works (no filters) it tends to transfer lint from towels onto anything else that uses the machine.

Hasn’t caught fire yet.

Would buy separate in future, even if it meant having one of them in a garage or something.