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I splurged for the fanciest dishwasher and it was worth it

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Re: I splurged for the fanciest dishwasher and it was worth it

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Post by latexr »

andrewfromx wrote: post #3

The irony, you really need two. One for clean dishes ready to be used, one for dirty, and do away with cabinets!

I once saw a kitchen in Italy which had a cabinet right above the sink. You wouldn’t notice when it was closed, but if you opened it you’d see it didn’t have a flat bottom but dish racks.

So you’d wash your stuff, put them in the cabinet, and they’d dry in there with the excess water falling directly in the sink.

I haven’t used the system myself, but the people living in the house liked it.

Re: I splurged for the fanciest dishwasher and it was worth it

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Post by LazyMans »

j-pb wrote: post #16

This is quite funny from a german perspective. My first thought when I saw the headline was "oh cool a start-up that disrupts dishwashing, I wonder what fancy overpowered tech they throw at the problem". And then it turns out to be a Miele, one of the common go-to brands for household appliances in Germany. Fun fact: Miele is actually one of the few companies that has technicians that carry a ton of spare parts in th…

The repair comment is interesting. It seems in the US if you have a warranty claim for an appliance they contract with some generic repairman who has to order parts.

Re: I splurged for the fanciest dishwasher and it was worth it

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Post by fowkswe »

steveBK123 wrote: post #7

Dishwashers are absolutely an appliance to splurge on. The difference between bottom-tier, adequate-tier and high-end is basically a few hundred bucks. Bottom-tier are loud, don't actually clean dishes well, are ugly, and fail early. Top-tier are near-silent, clean dishes without a pre-rinse, have all sorts of intelligent drawers & racks to fit all your needs, and look great. Some of them even have fancy features lik…

Here in the US, luxury appliances are what sell houses. Usually the investment pays handsomly when you go to sell.

Re: I splurged for the fanciest dishwasher and it was worth it

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Post by dsfyu404ed »

whitemary wrote: post #17

Why is the “average life span" given as a range?

Because it depends on how you use it and your water quality.

10yr for hard users, 20yr for light users. Most people are presumably in between.

Edit: On second thought the lower bound is heavy use, the upper bound is probably "we can't guarantee all the rubber won't degrade and leak after this age".

Re: I splurged for the fanciest dishwasher and it was worth it

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Post by azinman2 »

LazyMans wrote: post #22
j-pb wrote: post #16

This is quite funny from a german perspective. My first thought when I saw the headline was "oh cool a start-up that disrupts dishwashing, I wonder what fancy overpowered tech they throw at the problem". And then it turns out to be a Miele, one of the common go-to brands for household appliances in Germany. Fun fact: Miele is actually one of the few companies that has technicians that carry a ton of spare parts in th…

The repair comment is interesting. It seems in the US if you have a warranty claim for an appliance they contract with some generic repairman who has to order parts.

I just had a Miele serviceman come out recently. Wasn’t a generic person at all. Everything including the truck (and the pricing) was branded Miele.

Re: I splurged for the fanciest dishwasher and it was worth it

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Post by frosted-flakes »

jeffbee wrote: post #15
steveBK123 wrote: post #7

Dishwashers are absolutely an appliance to splurge on. The difference between bottom-tier, adequate-tier and high-end is basically a few hundred bucks. Bottom-tier are loud, don't actually clean dishes well, are ugly, and fail early. Top-tier are near-silent, clean dishes without a pre-rinse, have all sorts of intelligent drawers & racks to fit all your needs, and look great. Some of them even have fancy features lik…

I wouldn't splurge on a luxury fridge either but I wish I understood why there aren't any good ones. I should be able to install the compressor and the rest of it outside. Coils on the bottom of a refrigerator is undoubtedly the stupidest architecture. And having to listen to the compressor isn't great either.

That's why variable-speed scroll compressors are great.

Re: I splurged for the fanciest dishwasher and it was worth it

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Post by sokoloff »

V__ wrote: post #8

One thing to note about Miele's (but not unique about them): It's not trivial to repair them yourself. You need a specialized inductive cable to read error codes and if you don't want to lose warranty, only a certified repair technician is allowed to fix it. Also, the brand itself is getting more 'blurry'. Miele refrigerators are actually made by Liebherr.

In the US, the Magnuson-Moss Act provides significantly more consumer protection than most people think. If you work on a warrantied item and break it, the warranty doesn’t protect you from your own breakage. If you service an item and it has a defect unrelated to your service, the warranty still applies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson–Moss_Warranty_Act

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