What appliance are you putting up with?

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I HATE my cylinder vacuum cleaner. It does a good job but I hate cylinderd for several reasons. Bought in a moment of madness 15 years ago.

Can't afford to replace just for the sake of it.

What are you putting up with until it breaks down?

My shark liftaway vacuum cleaner. I wanted one so badly that I requested it be my birthday present last year from my mother. I am doing my best to kill it outside of warranty conditions, but the fucking thing lives on :(

my kettle, occasionally i get a tea with random bits in it, just scoop them out, and the lid doesnt seem totally secure.

my dishwasher cutlery drawer, the forks slip through, they can only be placed in the edge
lots of my drawers in the freezer are broken, as with the shelves in the fridge, held up by wood

my miele cylinder vaccum only works intermittently. nowt wrong with the vacuum, just the user who hates hoovering.

😂😂

GTec vacuum cleaner. It’s brilliant at cleaning the variety and really light, but it doesn’t get anywhere near the skirting board and there’s no tools to do the edges left.

I hate Henry. Hate him with a passion. Dd and I have shoulder length hair and he just drags it around, doesn't lift it. So hoovering takes hours. And he smells and is heavy. Dh doesn't believe in throwing things out (neither do I usually ) so the only escape I can see is sending Henry to uni with dd- in two years time. I suspect Henry won't die of his own accord. And if he does (accidentally) perish we have a five year warranty! 😩

I hate my shark lift away, too.

It’s better than a Dyson tho’

Our awful oven. Previous owners, replacing kitchen so can’t replace, it has 2 settings, off and furnace.

@nannynick

Dishwasher, great for 3 years and now every 3rd or 4th use it does not pump out fully. Replaced the filters and still does the same thing. Run cleaner through it, no difference. Now just putting up with it.

Are you using those tablets or hat you don't need to unwrap? If so, unwrap them! I had that, suddenly the dishwasher wouldn't drain properly, but not every time. Since I've stopped using those tablets without unwrapping them, it hasn't happened.

My Henry hoover. Had a dyson big ball but didn't like that either. It was too heavy. The Henry annoys me by toppling over all the time and I don't think it's picking up much. I want a shark.
My oven is also crap

Lol so many people despise their hoovers!

Our oven only has one shelf and the grill doesn’t work so we can’t have burgers or bacon ever

Eww to fried burgers and bacon.

A slimline dishwasher. Fucking hate it and have since we bought it. The place it lives is only big enough for a slimline though (under the draining board, next to a wall) and we can't just replace it with a standard sized machine without moving cupboards and / or the sink around, meaning the washing machine would also need to move.... New worktop etc.

I keep thinking I should replace it but it’s become a challenge to see how long it will last

This is where we are with our fridge freezer. The fucker is 22 years old and still works as well as the day we bought it.

However a couple of the plastic drawer inserts are falling apart due to age and are held together with tape, but I'm mildly curious as to how long the fridge freezer will actually live for.

I would like a new one because the veg drawers are too small to hold a cauliflower or ice berg lettuce, so I'd like one with deeper drawers. I don't know if these things used to be smaller, like dinner plates and kitchen cupboards - we bought Ikea plates that wouldn't fit in our perfectly standard looking but horribly 1980s MFI type kitchen.

Our tumble dryer is also shit, but sadly only about 3 years old, so is probably with us for the long haul, given our experience with appliances, who's lifetime seems to be measured in decades rather than months or years.

We can afford to replace them, it's just that it feels wrong to do so and I couldn't bring myself to sell a tumble dryer that is so ineffective - like a PP it seems to steam rather than dry and the sensor setting doesn't seem to work at all - it's supposed to know when the clothes are dry and then do a few minutes to cool and stop, but what usually happens is that several hours later I will think 'is the tumble dryer still not finished' and over-ride the 'run until dry setting' with the '15 minutes to finish off damp' setting.

Mine was a Samsung washing machine.

I had a Miele for about 25 years and then it finally died a death. I really couldn't stretch to a new Miele at the time, so I bought a Samsung Ecobubble, the blurb was fantastic, 7kgs, short eco wash etc etc. And for a good price in a sale. All sounded great.

Between ds and I we get the machine inside, plumb in it and bobs your uncle. The short wash (15 mins), what a waste of time that was, and the only cycle that cleaned anything was the one hour and half. I was so upset about it, as on my Miele I would pick the 20 minute wash and general clothes came out perfectly clean. So I was spending a whole day washing instead of just a morning.

I actually cried about this bloody washer!

Then by some miracle a few weeks later (I was probably still in a mood) I found a shop that was selling off demo machines of Miele and the bottom of the range one was the same price as what I had paid for the Samsung. I drove there (it was about an hour away) and got this Miele in the back of my car...... if you have ever had a Miele you will know they have a cement block in the bottom so you can imagine what my car looked like hauling it home.

Anyway, I sold the Samsung on Marketplace but I did have to buy the Miele on my credit card, which at the time, only just had enough credit on it.

All this drama for a washer. But I am less moody and am pleased to be able to do my washing in one morning once again.

GTec vacuum cleaner. It’s brilliant at cleaning the variety and really light, but it doesn’t get anywhere near the skirting board and there’s no tools to do the edges left

You need a handheld Dyson or similar. We got one for that very purpose, Aldi special, was about £80. As well as doing the edges, I also push the envelope with more creative tasks like clearing the crumbs out of the toaster, or bits that drop into the oven door hinge.

Also good for the nooks and crannies in the car.

I hate our dishwasher and our freezer.

The freezer was installed when we extended our kitchen over 15 years ago. The baskets have plastic fronts and over the years they have gone brittle and bits snap off. It's also an under counter one that was fine when I was more mobile but I hate trying to get anything out of the bottom drawer.
The dishwasher was a cheap/value/stores own brand model that we bought in a hurry as a replacement for a branded one that died. Its little more than a cupboard that makes cutlery and crockery wet.

@MrsMoastyToasty

I hate our dishwasher and our freezer. The freezer was installed when we extended our kitchen over 15 years ago. The baskets have plastic fronts and over the years they have gone brittle and bits snap off. It's also an under counter one that was fine when I was more mobile but I hate trying to get anything out of the bottom drawer. The dishwasher was a cheap/value/stores own brand model that we bought in a hurry as a replacement for a branded one that died. Its little more than a cupboard that makes cutlery and crockery wet.

Cupboard that makes cutlery and Crocker wet

My DH tried to have an input on our last washing machine. We had (more than one) rows in washing machine shops about it. I stuck to my guns and it was absolutely worth it. Large drum, the wash cycles I wanted and it weighs the wash so I don’t feel guilty about smaller loads.
Can you start washing things like trainers in it on a regular basis to encourage it to break? Or don’t brush the hair off the dog bed before you squish it in?

Isteamagoodham - So basically, I've bought an expensive, electrical dustpan and brush..

The built in fridge freezer. It was in the house when we moved in and barely holds anything. Also, the fridge part is always either too warm or freezes the salad veg solid. I despise it and do not understand why anyone would give up functional space just so they don't have to look at a fridge door. Can't wait to get a new kitchen in.

@slopesoff

I think we have the same washing machine! I hate it. Everything you say about it is true, plus it lies about the time left on the cycle. I also hate that the timer doesn't work so I have to be up and about when what I really want is to program it to start early and finish just after I get up. And the bloody bastard noise of the beeping when it's finished drives me crackers. Can't wait for the fecker to die, but it's only 2 years old. Arsehole.

@OwlMother

I hate to tell you this but my Henry is 23 and shows no sign of dying. He does have lots of chronic illnesses, but troops on, ineffectively.