Appliances, etc .... ugh

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Ok, as long as my house sale goes through ok, and the property that I am purchasing goes through ok I need the following and am now losing the will to live. Someone please help me.

1. Fridge freezer maximum height 171cm normal width and depth - Family of 2 Adults/1 Teenager/1.5 Children (Part timer!)
2. Washing Machine (Do I spend on a decent make)
3. Tumble Dryer (Do I spend on a decent make)
4. TV - 55"
5. Sofa bed - do not want to spend too much on this - hate visitors

I have about £2400 to cover all of this.

1. Samsung if you can afford it. Look for an older model, might have fewer bells and whistles but will work well

1. Bosch

1. Bosch

1. LG

1. Go straight to IKEA.

Your budget is very tight. You need to look for older models. You can go for makes like hotpoint but the longevity won't be good.

vented tumbledriers are cheaper than condensing of equal quality. Have you already got a 100mm hole in the wall that an exhaust hose could go through?

OOI, why 55" TV? It's rather large and room-dominating and will cost you £1k-£2k. I prefer Samsung, but they and LG are ahead of other brands.

For white goods I like Bosch (or Siemens, also made by BSH which they jointly own). Keep an eye on JL. Although not the cheapest, if the have a "last years model" on offer it can be a bargain. They have good guarantees.

Don't buy the sofa bed, refuse visitors, job done.

A 55" TV means a colossal room. Why?

p.s.

I just had a look at Which best Buy TVs. There are a few 55" in the region of £800

look at (best first)
LG 55SJ800V, also LG 55SJ810V, scored 76% on test, £899

Samsung UE55K6300 , 75%, £700

Samsung UE55KU6670, 73%, £770

Samsung UE55KU6510 73%, £821

A 55" TV is huge... is it a massive room?

Huge downstairs space - think 40ft, so yes massive (and I'm blind as a bat so need a large TV).

Sofabed - might have a point but actually can't really get away with it because my step son will be coming to stay (he's the only nice visitor) eow.

I'll look at those PJ. I think I can eek another £1k out the budget if I cut back in other areas and make do with existing stuff.

Get a vented tumbledryer. Very simple an a work well. We have a Bosch which has served us well.

A Miele washing machine. It has been going for about 9/10 years now and shows no sign of its age. I do still love it! We've had it repaired once and even then it wasn't really a repair, more that we didn't know how to empty the filter.

We had a fridge freezer from John Lewis - possible Bosch and got a great deal.

Get an air bed instead of a sofa bed.

Can't really get vented due to the dynamics of the house unfortunately.

As long as you have an exterior wall, should be possible - just have someone use one of those drills?

If you can't go vented, we recently got a bosch heat pump dryer ( I think it's a serie 8 one, 8kg load) and it's actually very good. it can be connected to the plumbing so although it's a condenser it doesn't need emptying, and so far it hasn't fried or shrunk anything and hasn't sent our bills through the ceiling.

Inflatable mattress, fitted sheet, duvet, pillows are fine for visitors under 50. I am over 50 and even I can sleep on that!

bear in mind that if not already fitted, you will need holes in the walls for your kitchen extractor hood, and in all your bathrooms, shower rooms and WCs.

It is possible to take the duct through the ceiling, but it must exhaust outside the building, not into the loft or other void. Holes in roofs encourage leaks.

So if you are hiring a core drill, or getting someone in to do it, you may as well make one for a tumbledrier as well. The cost saving, and reliability because it is such a simple machine, are significant.

If you hire one you will enjoy it so much that you will be looking for reasons to drill more holes.

Thank you everyone. I'm on it!

Our " fridge space" is also a restricted height, although a bit shorter than yours (168 cm I think) and we had trouble finding a fridge-freezer small enough. DD and I ended up going to John Lewis with a tape measure to measure fridges and bought the biggest one that would fit. I know the dimensions are usually given online, but it was going to be so close I didn't want to trust any "rounding up".

We have also had a lot of bargain appliances from Co-Op electrical, who do a lot of older models and their delivery service is superb.,

Thanks Bike. I'll have a look.

More stressed about this than anything else right now. Mind you I think it's deflection.