Owning your own home

Personally I've always owned beko washers and tumble dryers. they have never let me down and are at a price point where if any big repair did need doing after a few years youd just bin it rather than repairing.

It's certainly not ideal and does nothing for landfill though. That said I've never had a beko machine let me down - they are excellent imo.

How noisy are beko?

Beko are pretty high on the risk of death from fire list though.

Second hand Miele washer dryer (approx 10 years old) cost me £85 on eBay and works better than anything else I’ve used

Pretty quiet. I have these ones and they cost pennies to run

https://www.johnlewis.com/beko-wtg721m1w-freestanding-washing-machine-7kg-load-a-energy-rating-1200rpm-spin-white/p3291200?sku=237063368&s_ppc=2dx-KELKOO-EHT92700045366061414&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclsrc=aw.ds&gclid=CjwKCAiAuqHwBRAQEiwAD-zr3WqchOvWxjxi99Mtbml8n-zxXDFd2GfC3oPXcolzYPsE7fHtt55IShoCJ2MQAvD_BwE

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/household-appliances/laundry/tumble-dryers/beko-dhy7340w-heat-pump-tumble-dryer-white-10136326-pdt.html?istCompanyId=bec25c7e-cbcd-460d-81d5-a25372d2e3d7&istFeedId=4d7eb93e-055f-499d-8ee5-1cdcc50d67d1&istItemId=xttqwlprr&istBid=tztx&srcid=198&cmpid=ppc~gg~0125_PLA_AO_BAU_Hoc3-MDA_Hoc1-TUMBLE+DRYERS_MA-TUMBLE+DRYERS_P-Tumble+Dryer_G_None_High_~0125+(PLA)+Tumble+Dryers+Core+ad+group~Exact&mctag=gg_goog_7904&kwid=GOOGLE&device=m&ds_kids=92700047129209216&tgtid=0125_PLA_AO_BAU_Hoc3-MDA_Hoc1-TUMBLE+DRYERS_MA-TUMBLE+DRYERS_P-Tumble+Dryer_G_None_High_&gclsrc=aw.ds&&&gclid=CjwKCAiAuqHwBRAQEiwAD-zr3XRzqtMJ5PRgjIEbkpkB6E5iZHsgO2R77MjFrU6_zs2dJyXDGi7qHxoCrs0QAvD_BwE

Although I think I paid 185 for the washing machine and 300 for the tumble.

I'm not too worried about them burning my house down - quite often leave them on overnight or if we are out

Is this true? I have a beko dishwasher, fridge freezer and washing machine. I rate them better than the stuff they replaced.

It's my understanding that cheap tumble dryers are the chief cause of white goods related house fires. Basically the seals in the air circulating system are not quite as good as their more expensive counterparts so more lint and fluff is able to work is way into the electrical innards of the machine, as a results any arcing in the electrics is then surrounded by what is effectively tinder.

Yeh that’s scary . Also found this:

https://www.which.co.uk/news/2018/02/revealed-the-brands-linked-to-the-most-appliance-fires/

magnetic motors

Aren't all washing machine motors magnetic?

Maybe they mean brushless

I'm quite tempted to go and view this just to work out what is going on at the back of the house. There seems to be far more in the way of doors, walls and windows than you'd expect.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-80027480.html

Floor plan makes it look like a bit of a mess!

Nothing like a freezing cold toilet that opens out on to the kitchen

We got a samsung just before Christmas, works well, around £500.
Not noisy, fast daily wash lasts around an hour,
Picked it up from ao as currys took a week to deliver

2 loads a day.

???

Kids

Aren't their clothes smaller though

Looks like they had a self-contained granny flat type thing at the bottom of the garden?

Strange looking place.

Than mine?
Cue....

Strange looking place.

Looks like they’ve tried to do a side return and ground floor extension but given up.

Are you still looking for packing boxes?

We have eight up for grabs at the moment. I can leave them assembled for a couple of days if you can get to East Ham.

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Thanks for the reply, appreciate it. I’m SW though so will look for something a bit closer. Cheers.

What is it with Harringay and weird diy extensions?

The wife and I have been in our place about 18 months now. We took out a 5 year fixed term mortgage at the time because we assumed that with both of us working here, we had no short term plans to move away, and the mortgage could be ported if we needed more space.

Needless to say, circumstances changed, and we don't need to be in London anymore, so considering a move back to Ireland, where we can't port our mortgage to.

We had a valuation visit by purple bricks back in October and they estimated it at about 20k more than we paid, but after fees and fixed term fine, we'd cancel out the 20k "profit", so we shelved it.

Just before the holidays, a neighbour told me theirs sold for 45k more than we paid for ours, and given ours has a bigger garden we decided to ask purple bricks again.

The agent was back onto me almost immediately to say he has a single middle aged woman from the area very keen to downsize from her 3 bed to a 1 bed on our road, and is willing to pay what we're asking, as her house is already sale agreed and she's already mentally moved to our area, but that I need to move fast before she finds another like our house.

It all seems a bit too good to be true. Is he likely just pushing me to get the fee in to instruct them? Or am I being too cynical?

It might be legit. There's very little housing supply on the market at the moment so buyers with needs are desperate.