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Good call on energy consumption, that'll do it for me. Will take a look what's around.
Going to be a pig to replace it - up 14 steps from the street, 5 ft travel, then 3 more steps to the door, 4ft in the porch to 3 more steps to another door, 50ft corridor to the kitchen, 2 steps, 35 ft to 4 very narrow tight steps (going to have to take down a shelf that's half blocking it) then 8 ft through another another cramped door. Tempted to get it delivered while I'm still away : )
CYOA
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Lower end white goods, in my experience, have a shelf life of about 8 to 10 years. If you are confident enough to diagnose the fault and source replacement parts yourself then you may be able to eek another few years from it. Personally I'd never get an engineer to look at something that old when there is a decent chance you'll be calling on them in 6 months to repair something else.
Looking at it from an environmental standpoint if you make sure it's properly recycled, then the act of buying a new machine will be better for the environment and your wallet as running costs and energy consumption are MUCH lower. Especially with the more spendy (A rated and upwards machines). We had to buy all new white goods when we moved a year ago as our old ones had to stay at the flat for the tenants. We went for the best we could afford rather than the base models and Mrs Bobbo's spreadsheeting skillz have decreed that we recovered the extra outlay after about 9 months because they consume that much less energy.