My mid-range AEG is about 13 yo and uses, according to the booklet, 50 litres on a standard cotton wash for 5kg. When I got it to replace an ancient AEG auto, the water consumption for the house dropped by about 100 litres per week on 2 washes!
If you do the calculations, which may well vary amongst the plethora of tariffs, benefit can easily be achieved on E7 without storage heaters. It certainly works for me.
Chris
I don't wish to readjust my life to night-time. I would say most of my electricity is my fridge (I can't leave that off all day), my computer, which has to be on when I'm awake not asleep, and my lights (which are pointless being on when I'm in bed).
We use about 40% of our electricity at night without storage heaters (which I don't like either):
Wow!
So the only things there that use more at night are the dishwasher, and the washer dryer.
I prefer to hand my washing up, it's free!
Indeed. The modern machines haven't, of course, reduced the useage linearly. My AEG is 10 li/kg; modern 7 - 8kg ones are around 7 - 8 li/kg. The washing time has also gone from a nominal 2h to 3h for the bigger ones.
Maybe that's factored in for a h/c fill. Generally they only fill hot on the first fill and then only if the wash is over 60C. But not knowing exactly how energy efficiency is measured I couldn't comment further.
I do remember one being that stupid. Even if it's not bright enough to adjust the mixture, running cold and hot at their full pressures wouldn't exceed 40C, so it should have used it for that too.
I mentioned the other things because they are running intermittently all the time, even when you're not "using" them.
It's not free unless you have unmetered water & you're washing them in cold!
Full loads in a modern dishwasher are more efficient (in terms of water & energy) than hand-washing. Dishwashers are also more hygienic.
The main programmes on mine are 2:10 to 2:25. There are some shorter ones, and even a 20 minute one (which actually works for not very dirty stuff).
(I checked the dishwasher manual for comparison; it uses 6 to 15 litres/load.)
... and your time is worthless. Which in the case of Lt. Troll, it most definitely is.
What weight does that take and what's the make & model, please?
We have a 15 min one on our Bosch Logiixx. 3kg.
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It doesn't take long to hang washing up.
Yeah,we have one like that on our Bosch Excell. Not really a wash so much as a freshen up really, and normally our stuff is too grubby. But it has other programs in the 30-50 min range , which are more useful.
Oops, I thought "hand my washing up" meant "do the washing-up (the dishes) by hand". I agree about hanging laundry up (when practical) instead of using the dryer.
I hand it over the bath. In Scotland it never dries outside. It's either very humid or raining.
AEG L14850 (I think there 2 or 3 otherwise identical models with different maximum spin speeds). The limit is 7 kg for the main "cottons" programmes, reduced for the quicker options, 3 kg on the 20 minute programme, & 3.5 kg for drying.
I'll be honest: I don't weigh my laundry. I just fill the drum without stuffing it (for drying, I fill it loosely halfway up).
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