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When I was in the UK 2 years ago I had to learn how to do laundry all over again lol. Had never seen a combination washer/dryer (tumbler?) before and it was in the kitchen! Took about 5 hours to do a load of laundry from start to finish and it was so small I could only fit 2 days of clothes in it. I don't know if that's typical or not, but I couldn't imagine keeping a family's clothes clean with that little beast. 
WYP
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When I was in the UK 2 years ago I had to learn how to do laundry all over again lol. Had never seen a combination washer/dryer (tumbler?) before and it was in the kitchen! Took about 5 hours to do a load of laundry from start to finish and it was so small I could only fit 2 days of clothes in it. I don't know if that's typical or not, but I couldn't imagine keeping a family's clothes clean with that little beast.
Yeah, it can be tricky with a small machine (washer, we had no dryer). Wasn't that hard with just my wife and I. After we had our first washing has become a much bigger chore. Thankfully I invested in a dryer, and that has simplified things. Still a lot of washing though.
Excalabur50
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If you have to get a drier Alien get yourself a heat pump one, I bought an Electrolux 8 years ago it's still going strong and it hardly uses any power, I don't hang my washing here in Australia at all as it comes in like cardboard, whereas mines always soft without using fabric softener at all, best investment I've made in the laundry EVER.Well I have now lived in my flat for six years. Man time flies when you are happy huh?
When I moved in I was told there was no deposit. Which was odd. I had saved about 3 grand just to make sure I could pay said deposit. They then told me that because it was a permanent rent it had no washing machine etc. When I moved in here I needed almost everything. New bed, all new furniture and so on. So I bought a washer, cooker and tumbler. I had a choice between tumbler or dish washer but I am not that lazy lol. Thing is it is only me, and in the winter you can not dry anything. There is no outside space, so I have a airer in my bathroom under a sun window. So in summer I don't use said tumbler at all.
Any way, I bought sorta low to mid range kit. Better than I had ever had, but yeah. A while ago mum got a Samsung washing machine and I could not believe how dry her stuff came out after a spin. Mine? it is bloody dripping still. So I wanted a new washer and I wanted a high end one. Bugger is they don't make them in any other colour but white and it would not match anything else. I realised that the tumbler was in the corner so if I got a white oven it would look fine.
Cost me a bloody fortune that ! that said it's a 10 kilo washer so should spin up properly unlike the 8kg one I have now. Which will save me a lot of leccy in winter as I have to run the tumbler for about three hours to dry stuff. Mum's is dry in 30 mins after coming out of her washing machine.
It also stops me having to pay someone to come and clean my oven too, so there is that haha.
WYP
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Second this. It's hard to beat a heat pump tumble dryer. Much lower running costs and very reliable.
AlienALX
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Well the thing with the drier is it heats the room in the winter. I have literally used my radiators 3 times, every time when it was below 0. If I get up, put a hoodie on and do the wash and dry it heats the main room where I reside.
Edit. That said if it clacks it I will deffo get a new one.
Edit. That said if it clacks it I will deffo get a new one.
AlienALX
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When I was in the UK 2 years ago I had to learn how to do laundry all over again lol. Had never seen a combination washer/dryer (tumbler?) before and it was in the kitchen! Took about 5 hours to do a load of laundry from start to finish and it was so small I could only fit 2 days of clothes in it. I don't know if that's typical or not, but I couldn't imagine keeping a family's clothes clean with that little beast.
Those combo things are Satan's ball sack. They don't work well and just end up stinking.
AlienALX
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OK more audio related things.
I came to the conclusion the other day that I do not like the DACs in my "new" Tag Mclaren (7.1 with DAB) as much as the ones in my older one. Which is odd, but yeah. I started racking my brains for a way to upgrade the system without crawling away with my bum bleeding, and then had an idea.
The best DAC I own is my Chord Mojo. Like, it's literally unbelievably good. I've had it about two years or so and bought it used from CEX. The battery died about 6 months in, but I did not even want it in there as I don't use it on the go and besides it just makes the unit so hot that it can cause them to die. So I removed it, and bought a power supply which I hard wired into it. IIRC it was a odd voltage. Something like 17 or something.
Any way, it works flawlessly. So I rocked up with an idea. My surround system is fed from the TV's optical out. If I basically split the signal with an active splitter (IE powered for stronger light strength through the optical cable)
I can then send two optical signals through these cables (5m. My existing one is 3m and tbh it is too short)
That will take the optical signal into the Tag Mclaren (for TV and movie use) and then into the Chord Mojo. At which point I can send the analogue signal into an analogue input on the Tag Mclaren and get an enormous DAC upgrade for cheap.
Total cost was around £70. A high end HIFI DAC is uber expensive. So yeah, pleased with that. I just switched back to my Graham Slee Novo and other than it needing some contact cleaner on the volume pot it still works as well as it ever did.
I came to the conclusion the other day that I do not like the DACs in my "new" Tag Mclaren (7.1 with DAB) as much as the ones in my older one. Which is odd, but yeah. I started racking my brains for a way to upgrade the system without crawling away with my bum bleeding, and then had an idea.
The best DAC I own is my Chord Mojo. Like, it's literally unbelievably good. I've had it about two years or so and bought it used from CEX. The battery died about 6 months in, but I did not even want it in there as I don't use it on the go and besides it just makes the unit so hot that it can cause them to die. So I removed it, and bought a power supply which I hard wired into it. IIRC it was a odd voltage. Something like 17 or something.
Any way, it works flawlessly. So I rocked up with an idea. My surround system is fed from the TV's optical out. If I basically split the signal with an active splitter (IE powered for stronger light strength through the optical cable)
I can then send two optical signals through these cables (5m. My existing one is 3m and tbh it is too short)
That will take the optical signal into the Tag Mclaren (for TV and movie use) and then into the Chord Mojo. At which point I can send the analogue signal into an analogue input on the Tag Mclaren and get an enormous DAC upgrade for cheap.
Total cost was around £70. A high end HIFI DAC is uber expensive. So yeah, pleased with that. I just switched back to my Graham Slee Novo and other than it needing some contact cleaner on the volume pot it still works as well as it ever did.
AlienALX
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You may have noticed I have been awfully quiet.....
About 4 weeks ago I was sat down with mum and we were having a chat. It started when we both said how as you get older you can no longer do things you used to. Like you know? going up ladders, etc etc.
Mum hasn't been very well. The lining around her heart has too much fluid in it and she has been very short of breath. She is currently undergoing a diagnosis etc but she is now in her late 70s and I would do pretty much anything to make her happy now. She is an amazing woman (personal, won't go into it but yeah she is the best).
Any way, one of her "I wish I could do it again" things was her kitchen. 15 years ago we had someone come in and fit a new kitchen. Only the sad thing is it was never really what she wanted, even though it cost 7 grand. See, the budget kitchens she had to choose from were all sorts of fake veneer. To go with plain white was another 2 grand. Which she could not afford. As such she picked Maple. Which was much nicer than the oak or dark oak.
The shells of the cabinets are fine. The doors were swelling and splitting etc. Mostly from where she could not reach the old extractor and thus had steamed them lol. She isn't very tall, and her shoulders are crumbling (osteoporosis) and thus she can't reach up.
So here is what I got up to in 3 weeks. A lot. If you look closely you will see how much.
Sadly the kick panels (down near the floor) arrived the day I had to leave. So I am going back next week to finish up. She is beyond stoked, and the whole thing cost me (I paid for it) less than 400 quid, extractor, handles etc and all.
About 4 weeks ago I was sat down with mum and we were having a chat. It started when we both said how as you get older you can no longer do things you used to. Like you know? going up ladders, etc etc.
Mum hasn't been very well. The lining around her heart has too much fluid in it and she has been very short of breath. She is currently undergoing a diagnosis etc but she is now in her late 70s and I would do pretty much anything to make her happy now. She is an amazing woman (personal, won't go into it but yeah she is the best).
Any way, one of her "I wish I could do it again" things was her kitchen. 15 years ago we had someone come in and fit a new kitchen. Only the sad thing is it was never really what she wanted, even though it cost 7 grand. See, the budget kitchens she had to choose from were all sorts of fake veneer. To go with plain white was another 2 grand. Which she could not afford. As such she picked Maple. Which was much nicer than the oak or dark oak.
The shells of the cabinets are fine. The doors were swelling and splitting etc. Mostly from where she could not reach the old extractor and thus had steamed them lol. She isn't very tall, and her shoulders are crumbling (osteoporosis) and thus she can't reach up.
So here is what I got up to in 3 weeks. A lot. If you look closely you will see how much.
Sadly the kick panels (down near the floor) arrived the day I had to leave. So I am going back next week to finish up. She is beyond stoked, and the whole thing cost me (I paid for it) less than 400 quid, extractor, handles etc and all.
Excalabur50
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Chuffin nice job dude!You may have noticed I have been awfully quiet.....
About 4 weeks ago I was sat down with mum and we were having a chat. It started when we both said how as you get older you can no longer do things you used to. Like you know? going up ladders, etc etc.
Mum hasn't been very well. The lining around her heart has too much fluid in it and she has been very short of breath. She is currently undergoing a diagnosis etc but she is now in her late 70s and I would do pretty much anything to make her happy now. She is an amazing woman (personal, won't go into it but yeah she is the best).
Any way, one of her "I wish I could do it again" things was her kitchen. 15 years ago we had someone come in and fit a new kitchen. Only the sad thing is it was never really what she wanted, even though it cost 7 grand. See, the budget kitchens she had to choose from were all sorts of fake veneer. To go with plain white was another 2 grand. Which she could not afford. As such she picked Maple. Which was much nicer than the oak or dark oak.
The shells of the cabinets are fine. The doors were swelling and splitting etc. Mostly from where she could not reach the old extractor and thus had steamed them lol. She isn't very tall, and her shoulders are crumbling (osteoporosis) and thus she can't reach up.
So here is what I got up to in 3 weeks. A lot. If you look closely you will see how much.
Sadly the kick panels (down near the floor) arrived the day I had to leave. So I am going back next week to finish up. She is beyond stoked, and the whole thing cost me (I paid for it) less than 400 quid, extractor, handles etc and all.
AlienALX
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Thanks dude. I've not seen mum that excited in many years. Its one of those things you don't get to do many times in a lifetime if you can't do it yourself so yeah, it was a huge thing for her.
