For the last twenty odd years we've had economy seven, the idea being that washing machine and dishwasher would be set to run during the off peak period. Now the dishwasher timer sticks and has to be manually nudged on to complete the stages of the cycle. As this uses about 10 % of our electricity and without it I would have to do a share of the washing up I'm loathe to do without it so I cannot decide the best course of action.
Without the dishwasher off peak the economy seven tariff, which has higher peak units, becomes marginal but EDF will not change tariff without changing the meter, this does not seem logical to me as they could just lump the units into one tariff at no extra expense to them. Is anyone aware of a supplier that might do this?
The dishwasher is working otherwise well but my experience of messing with these old clockwork timers is not good, weighting the handle with a string wound round it to help it along causes it to jump steps. A replacement is over 100 quid! As the dishwasher is 20 years this repair doesn't seem worthwhile.
AJH