General Chat

Hi Shirley

Check out the new ones for quality first,before you plan ditching yours.
You can paint or get old ones sprayed,dont know much about it though.
Or just put new handles on them.

WELL we are thinking of having the kitchen remodelled . the current one was put in with my redundancy money in 1989 so is very outdated and the carcases aint worth just putting new doors on .BUT the Miele one stays even though its now about 4 years old . touch wood it aint broke down as yet and i don't think it can be bettered ,well not at the price it cost lol

lol Carol

Hi Marion, glad you had a good camping trip, see you don't need a dishwasher, nothing like doing it in open air ha ha.
Carol

Hi all.

Well I'm just back from camping. Now, you should have seen their washing up facilities....It was one sink/drainer, outside,cold water only,no plug infact the waste pipe wasnt even there, water just went on the ground.

Weather was great and my wee basin came in handy..

Marion

Carol here, have to admitt never do washing up husband does it all, he is to mean to bye a dishwasher, I'd love one. lol

Hi all,

I have tried many many times to get him to help me with the dishes, with the latest attempt last night. Every time he finds some reason to get out of it and I end up getting shitty with him. The only time I get a break from the dishes is when his kids come to stay with us at weekends, I get them to do the dishes.

He was at home for quite a while a few years ago recovering from spinal surgery and he always cooked the evening meal so the deal was then that he cooked and I did the dishes. Since he has returned to work he makes me cook and do the dishes. Now he has selective hearing when I ask him to help. I have started making him cook at the weekends to give me a break. Have tried and failed to make him see that I spend all evening during the week in the kitchen while he's on the couch in front of the fire or in his chair watching the telly.

Also I have got the top drawer of the dishwasher full of stuff, so am now working on the bottom drawer LOL : -)

Annie from NZ, if he wont let you use the dishwasher, hand the rubber gloves to him and tell him to do it from now on. Then cook and use everything in the cupboards and draws that you can find, like they do when they cook.

There is also only 2 of us at home, so only used once a day, sometimes a day and a half before I put it on. Mine uses 18 litres per wash, my sink holds 24 litres of water, which I would be using 3 times a day without the dish washer, so saving water and hot water as well, our electricity bill has not changed using the dishwasher. So there is an economy in using them.

Gail

Marion, I'm always up for a dinner party, if I am fed I don't mind washing up. lol
Carol

Glad it was useful Marion.

I hand wash as there is no space for a dishwasher in o.h.'s poky kitchen, but I never dry dishes only glass ware, leave the rest to air dry as it's more hygienic.

I do rinse stuff well after it's been in the washing up bowl, as I can't bear bubbles left on stuff, o.h. is hopeless and doesn't rinse things properly so you find a clean plate with a sticky rim - he can't understand that the soap bubbles don't have to overflow the sink, it's just like that in the ads to make you use too much w.up. liquid, and then it stays on the crocks with food residue etc in - urgh! I always have to rinse stuff he has washed up, so easier to do it myself, much as I hate it.

Lizx

Annie, when you have the big dinner party,invite Carol,she can do them and keep you washer nice and new lol

Annie ..have a dinner party and tell OH he's on the dishes

Marion still like washing by hand, just wash and drip dry, leaves more cupboards in kithen to store junk lol Carol

Just seen what Annie said, proves my point.

We have the Fisher and Paykel 2 draw dishwasher at our house. We have lived in this home for 3 years all the appliances were brand new and the house had only just finished being built when we bought it. Its a nice looking stainless steel one too ........... my only problem is that OH won't let me use it. He reckons that as its only 2 of us in the house it doesn't justify the use of it. Everytime I bring up that I want to use it, he says that because its brand new still I shouldn't use it and it would then be "used". OMG. He can't understand how much I hate doing the dishes.

So because I am not allowed to use it, I have now started using it as extra cupboard space in my kitchen to store stuff in LOL

Annie
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lol Sue

I had a slimline dishwasher once, but then he put on weight.

I'm not sure if he was possessed of "a variable thurst impeller sprocket and a decarbonising filter on the inlet dispersion valve"

Let me search my memory bank - I'll get back to you...

Sue x

Hi Carol.

I'd rather wash than dry.One of my sons uses his to the full, it seem so much quicker to get cleared up and sitting down when at theirs. They seem to put everything but...the kitchen sink in it lol

Liz I've had a quick look at that site, looks great I've added it to my fav to have a good look at it, Thanks :))

Marion don't want my spanner back, as I said quite happy doing it by hand. I have a large kitchen no gadgets, son tiny kitchen every gadget under the sun lol
Carol

Shirley,Ive heard they are the best. but......I'll be happy with a cheaper one lol.
I like the idea of walking away from it :))

Tesesa...One of my sons has a slimline one but they dont use it much. as dil washed all dishes first and its behind their door so not in a good position when you have kids running about.


Carol... you just take your spanner back...I want one lol.
The kitchen is a fair size but to have a big one would mean removing a corner cupboard etc.The cupboards are good strong ones made of real wood. our joiner who fitted it for us about 15yrs ago, told us they are not the same quality now. He didnt know you got slimline ones that will fit under the sink unit. He is going to do the work for us.