OT: which washing machine (assuming it's not worth replacing bearings)?

[NoSpam]

My tenant has just reported that the bearings have gone in the Indesit W103 washing machine. On the assumption that it isn't wirth fixing an Indesit, what's the most reliable one to buy as a replacement?

[dpydotsmw]

A basic Miele

[meow2222]

Miele? Not worth buying for a tenanted property though, try something midrange & reliable like a basic bosch.

NT

[Tim S]

[e-mail] coughed up some electrons that declared:

I'd agree with both sentiments.

A Bosch Logixx is cheaper than a Miele and still German and reasonably well built. Other Boschs are however not entirely German built (Spain is involved).

A bottom end Miele (what I have) has as many features as a top end Bosch and it's built like an outhouse. Probably would last a long time. However, if the tenants might not treat it as well as if they owned it, spending less money on a Bosch would be a good idea.

Cheers

Tim

[NoSpam]

Thanks for the thoughts. An idea that's just occurred to me is that I could buy a new one for home and give the tenants our old one (Zanussi jetsystem 1200) - tediously heavy to move though!

[meow2222]

You could, but I'd only do so if its because you want a new machine at home. Why? In a rental property you really want reliability, any callout costs you money & time.

NT

[Bob Mannix]

Being impecunious we bought a Beko for £199 2 years ago and it has been faultless and very heavily used. I would certainly buy one again and just replace if and when it goes.

[Stephen Howard]

The uhwhitegoods site has a decent few pages about such things - one of the interesting recommendations is to avoid excessively high spin speeds on basic models as the bearing aren't up to it, and that many midrange models are built around the basic chassis with a few extra bells and whistles.

Regards,

[Al]

Personally I think that supplying white goods these days is a bad idea. I'd supply the cheapest you can find, dump the tenant at the end of the agreement, retrieve the machine and get a new tenant.

Sellers market these days - No need for freebies. Besides, you might get sued if anything you supplied caused injury.

Socialism: Like fascism, but with higher taxes.

Al.

[Owain]

Actually, there's something of a a surplus of rented properties in many areas. Owner-occupiers can't sell and if they must move have to let out the property; tenants who have been cwedit cwunched are moving back with mum'n'dad. Landlords are having to work hard to get and keep good reliable tenants.

Only if you were negligent, and as far as civil liability goes, that's what landlord's insurance is for.

Owain