dishwashers – any (black friday?) deals out there?

looks like ours has finally given up the ghost.  13 years old, lamona (howdens) integrated, its had a good life and served us well.

firstly are all integrated dishwashers going to swap over easily?  i get that i may have to drill new holes in the facia to match, but do they generally just interchange easily enough?

if not then i spose a standalone one would do, just not as neat.

not after paying bosch prices, so does anyone know of any offers at the moment while its still ‘black friday time’.  its a full sized jobbie, 600 wide, 900 tall, 600 deep.

thanks

I’m waiting for a compact free-standing Bosch to arrive this morning, so not much help really.

Good luck.

Dunno about deals but installation is piss-easy imo. As you say the trickiest job will be aligning the facia. It’s pretty much just unplug, unscrew inlet and outlet, unscrew any fixing, pull it out, reverse.

Take a look at the Miele outlet near Oxford if your near.

Very STW.  Says he doesn’t want to pay for a Bosch, so someone recommends a Miele (insert smiley face)

Whilst not a difficult job for some, I wouldn’t  describe it as ‘piss easy’.  They should mostly be like for like behind the door and the plumbing requirement is standard.  Levelling them up and attaching the door can be more challenging on some than others.  With time and patience you should be alright, depending what the last person who fitted it left behind for you to work with.

Tried Johnpye auctions? Loads of dishwashers on there last I looked. I got a £500 Bosch for £250 the other week. Had to fit it myself (built in, so wasn’t easy)!

Ha, missed this

firstly are all integrated dishwashers going to swap over easily?  i get that i may have to drill new holes in the facia to match, but do they generally just interchange easily enough?

Yeah, in hindsight, I wish I’d paid £100 for AO to fit one of theirs, but I did manage it. Firstly the Johnpye one didn’t have the template for fitting the facia, so I had to make one and it didn’t work out perfectly (I am totally shite at DIY).. . then I got careless and drilled a hole (tiny, luckily) right through my facia board lol.. doh. Plus the mains connection on the new DW was on the opposite side from the other one (mine was an old Howdens too) and the lead was about 4cm short of reaching the mains socket. And then there’s crawling about on the floor of course.

Connecting up the machine is easy, aligning integrated bits not always so…..

As part of our (5 yr!) house warranty from the developer, we had warranty on the appliances. The dishwasher died and couldn’t be repaired so the developer replaced it. Despite having a drilling template, their joiner/kitchen fitter completely messed up fitting the door. I photo’d/documented all of this and asked them to send me the door parts again to do it myself. The reason (apart from incompetence) that the first attempt a fitting the door failed was because the opening was a bit too tight and slightly misaligned with the other units. I got there in the end

So if there is plenty of tolerance/space and everything is square then it should be straight forward.

The replacement dishwasher (both were AEG) is actually pretty good
https://ao.com/product/fss64907z-aeg-6000-satelliteclean-standard-dishwasher-black-97087-23.aspx

Careful with the John Pye route.  They sell a lot of broken crap as well as ‘bargains’. My mate is a serial auction buyer from them and he’s amassed quite the pile of almost perfect looking, but completely unsafe/unusable kitchen appliances.

If AO want to fit one for £100, I’d let them!

I have a siemens which refuses to die, i do a hot wash and lidl cleaner every month or so and clean out filter. I was planning to get a miele but apparently they arent as good as they were, neff seem to be better value but reviews are mixed. I d have a look on mktplace as theres loads near me.

haha well i fitted this kitchen and swore id never do another, so i dont mind limited drilling and crawling.

had a look at john pye and dont think im totally comfortable bidding on one at an auction, probably come away with a double decker bus or something.

Oxford if your near.

no, lincoln, but thanks.  think itll have to be online really.

johnpye is good. Stuff is usually new, unless otherwise stated. I’ve bought a iPadPro, the dishwasher, a microwave and some Fox 38s from there, (oh and a weird drawing tablet thing, but I sold that on ebay for a slight profit). All been brand spanking.

just had another look and yes, interesting the stuff you could get on there.

sadly, no dishwashers that would do me, altho a lot of the auctions for the next few days havent got a list yet.  its certainly somewhere id go to to look for other stuff tho.  i assume you need to get a login/account prepped before bidding on anything.

cheers

Look at Ikea dishwashers too, we’ve one in a non-Ikea kitchen 5 year warranty.

i assume you need to get a login/account prepped before bidding on anything.

Yep. Card payments afterwards if you do nab anything. Was chuffed with the iPad Pro. My old one was 9-10 years old a d got exactly the one I wanted for £800 cheaper than retail. Gotta watch for the auction fees + VAT (+delivery) . 🙂

In what way is it dead? Ours “died” a few years ago, so I thought I might as well have a look, I couldn’t break it worse… cleaned some sludge out of a float chamber on the side of it and it’s been fine again ever since!

In what way is it dead?

been packing up slowly for the last year or so.   select a programme, press ‘go’, nothing.  leave it til next day, it works.  week or so later, same.  now its more often than not.  slect programme, nothing.  switch it off at plug try next day, sometimes works sometimes doesnt.  but its always worked in the end.

now it hasnt actually come on for about 2 weeks so we’re calling it dead.

Often these issues are caused by blockages, it might be worth checking as well as the inlet valve.

Could save a load of cash.

If you’re buying new avoid statesmans.

Beko are about as good as any and parts easily available.

well i thought the old gal had had a reprieve when we’d just about given up hope, i pressed the button one last time and hey presto it worked!!  much to mrs ex-punks dismay 😀

however, my joy was shortlived, twas just the once and it hasnt worked since, so ive had to accept she’s right and ordered another.

after contacting howdens and asking if they still did the same model (this ones lasted 13 years after all), we were going to order another lemona, but common sense has (probably) prevailed and we’ve paid £50 more for a discounted bosch from john lewis.  still more than id have liked at £400, but im hoping itll be worth it and give us 20+ years service 😀

thanks for your help