We've done a lot of house renovating in the past few years and have had to buy a lot of new equipment. As a family we waste far too much time on unreliable modern machines, it's financially untenable, a constant niggly feeling of no confidence, and above all, it's an ecological disaster. These machines just don't seem to be viable.
This morning we spent one hour on the mobile phone to get our house phone and internet back after a short power cut yesterday evening.
Went to empty washing machine (Ariston Hotppoint, is is really 3 years old already, seems like yesterday that we replaced the last one which was broken) water flooded out, will not re-start.
The Polti Steam Cleaner's alarm goes off all the time, even when it's not empty, and it worries me
The state of the art water boiler (Frisquet) burned out it's motor, and had trouble with his electronic remote thermostat.
The dishwasher (Whirlpool) has in it's short life already had 2 repairs and isn't washing that well, I'm pretty certain the part is coming loose again. (1.5 years old)
My oven is difficult to programme and keeps skipping on the timer, and is not as hot as the old tatty one.
My Dyson Vaccuum cleaner was totally ****ed after a few months, was dealt with over the phone, and sent inappriopriate and unecological replacement parts until I worked out what was wrong with it myself and ordered the correct part - and it only has a one year guarantee (I thought Dyson was proud of its quality) and so the next time it goes it will be for the bin. I'm really cheesed off about this as I went for quality long-lasting and expensive.
The kitchen Hobb (Whirlpool) was faultily wired and had to be repaired within months.
Our car (Renault) falls to bits on a regular basis at 1000 Euros a time thanks to their encased multi-parts scam.
Don't even ask me about compter printers.
WHO CAN WE TRUST?
So far, Magimix - I'm very pleased with the food processor which was a wedding present and is fifteen years old, and with the Magimix blender which is used every day for smoothies and soup, 1 year old so far but I feel confident in it - before that I bought a Moulinex, the internal plastics melted after 2 weeks and the whole thing returned, they never wrote back to apologize/explain/make good, and so I chose Magimix when I replaced my 25 year old toaster (Morphy Richardson) in the hope that it too will last 25 years. They also have a real customer service, the only one that replies and they have repair shops.
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I am sure that you must be sending off negative electrical karma! No-one can actually have THAT much go wrong!!!
ReplyDeleteGood thing spring is around the corner and you can get out with some old-fashioned, simple tools like a shovel and a spade.
Exactly, the hermit things involves a certain simplicity, washing up the one food bowl and spoon per day, hand washing one's loose garment every few days (one to wear, one in the was, ok also underwear) sweeping out cell with broom, digging garden with the old fashioned simple spade.
ReplyDeleteI hope you don't have to buy new equipment for your house, the old stuff lasts much longer.