Dishwasher

As I’ve mentioned, we needed a new appliance.  More particularly, a dishwasher. The faithful machine we’d had for quite a few years had stopped heating, so was giving the dishes a cold wash and not drying them. Ah-ha, I thought, the heating element. But things aren’t as simple as that these days. The service guy arrived (on schedule) and merely pressed a few buttons so that the display indicated a “fault code”, apparently in the motherboard or whatever the dishwasher equivalent is. Yes, it was repairable, but was it worth it? It was a border-line decision, but predictably the outcome was to get a new machine.

There’s quite a range of brands and models out there, so some basic decisions needed to be made: a rotary dial machine with a white door? Or an electronic display machine with a stainless steel door? Or a premium brand with interesting (but perhaps not very useful) features, such as “bottom rack only wash”. And various combinations of these!   The place to start one’s research is obviously on the internet, where you can get hopefully-reliable data on everything that might matter, including noise levels.    This was important to us, and I was better informed than the sales guy when we got to the store.

For me, it’s still important to “touch and feel” the machine before committing to it, although as it turned out, this was just a formality – as was the price (having of course done the research on this aspect, too).

But, just the same, a visit to the store was useful. There might be quite an array of machines on display, but they’re not all in the warehouse. Some have to be ordered in, which results in a delay factor. The sales guy can look this up. Likewise, the store can set you up for a delivery slot.

Bottom line? It was well worth doing the research, the machine arrived when it was promised, and works as it ought (in particular, it’s nice and quiet).   The only thing I hadn’t noticed in my research was that it was made in Turkey.