Bosch dishwasher powder compartment problem

[Si]

Thanks for the info Huge.

Where did you get the replacement tray from?

[Huge]

Fenny Appliances in Milton Keynes.

[Lobster]

If you go to the official Bosch spares site at

if you enter the model no, it gives you an exploded view of all the parts, plus parts list and you can order them direct online

David

[Bob Eager]

I didn't say it wasn't, to be fair. Looked easy to me, anyway.

£40 from the Bosch spares division.

Bosch spares division; prices as I stated.

[Si]

hmmm - that link throws back "No correct login".

But going to

gives this rather detailed page... :)

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I guess I go to the Bosch Uk site and follow links from there. I'm nowhere near the roundabout town.

[Bob Eager]

I just use:

[Lobster]

to (ie the "Quickfinder" application)

David

[Bob Eager]

I realise that, but wondered if it might eliminate the error that was reported.

[Mike Barnes]

In this house dishwasher detergents still are powders. I see those boxes of tablets at several times the price of powders and wonder why anybody buys them.

[Si]

I only buy them when they're BOGOF.

[Bob Eager]

I buy powder (industrial strength) for about 2 quid a kilogram.

[Si]

Where from? We wouldn't need anything with salt in as we've got a softener. (Problem here is that SWMBO is emphatic about using the main brand name. :(

[Bob Eager]

CPC!

course, there's a min order charge but then I buy from them all the time.

[Mike Barnes]

Sainsbury's online has own-brand powder at £5.49 for 3 kg, which works out at 4.5p per 25g dose. The cheapest tablet (Finish All In One x42 Introductory offer £5.00) works out at 11p per dose: nearly two and half times as much.

That's a bit of a problem: I don't think the leading brands *do* powder any more (not enough money in it), so you can't even buy a container of (say) Finish powder for refilling with Sainsbury's.

[Huge]

Particularly since the first (and only) time we used them, a small piece of the tablet failed to dissolve and jammed the pump, resulting in an engineer callout.

[Andy Hall]

To make a fair comparison, one would also have to include the costs of rinse aid and salt, although the cost of the latter is not significant unless you buy the small packages of dishwasher salt rather than 25kg bags. Finish Rinse Aid at £1.70 for 250ml. If that covers 50 washes, which is generous, that's another 3.5p per wash, plus salt, say 4p. So really the comparison is more like 9p vs 11p.

Don't forget also that there's around 10-15p in electricity cost per cycle as well plus depreciation (average £400/5 yr/1 load a day) = 33p a wash.

Then the saving is really 2p in 44p or about 4.5%.

Ergo, if you really want to save money, the way to do it is not to have a dishwasher at all.

[Pete C]

Hi,

If not washing anything aluminium/zinc/diecast, a teaspoon of washing soda and a /small/amount of dish detergent might do a good enough job. The glycerine in the detegent will do away with the need for a rinse aid.

To protect ali/zinc a small amount of sodium silicate is needed.

cheers, Pete.

[Huge]

Tsk. I'd have thought that you were the last person to ignore the elephant in the kitchen; the cost of your time. :o)

[Mike Barnes]

To make a fair comparison you should do the same as I did and look for the cheapest at Sainsbury's online shop. There you'll find Sainsbury's rinse aid at less than half the price you quote: £1.52 for 500 ml.

My calculation reflected our actual usage. My impression was that rinse aid was a negligible cost, as we get through probably less than a bottle a year. Mind you, I suspect that sometimes we simply don't notice that it's empty (or to be more accurate *I* don't notice: I don't think SWMBO has ever filled it), but one bottle a year is a generous estimate of what we actually get through.

And we've never used any salt, ever.

So make that 0.5p for rinse aid and (no) salt: now 5p vs 11p.

Obviously the figures depend on the water type. We have very soft water, so we don't need much powder or rinse aid, and no salt. So I suspect people are wasting more money around here, where the tablets contain lots of stuff that simply isn't needed, than they are in many other parts of the country.

That's about right: 13p by my calculations.

Our Bosch cost £379 in 1996 and has never put a foot wrong: about 9p per load, and falling. [Crosses fingers]

Well, every little bit helps. For us I make that a saving of 6p out of

33p, which is about 18%.

Nice try :-), but I'm talking about saving money without putting yourself to significant extra trouble, and without reducing the hygiene level.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no penny-pincher. Far from it. But when I see new alternatives to products that I'm perfectly happy with, I can't help looking to see what the benefit is, if any. And with dishwasher tablets, I just don't get it.

[Andy Hall]

All accounted for. Why do brides wear white?