Sometimes you need a puller to get the bearing off. I found as long as I can transport the machine, to take it to a repairer was more cost-effective, if however they need to visit me, then it costs a bit more.
So the start point has to be the value of the machine. Google and I see £1734, and £57.56 that is a massive difference in price. Further looking, and the cheap one was a toy, but £209 will get a machine. So how much is the machine worth? And for my own interest, what can a £1734 machine do, that a £209 one will not?
I buy what my wife tells me to buy, but the washer can take more clothes to the tumble drier, so really it's too big, and the paddle can catch any draw cords in clothes, so would not say good design, however it is reasonably fast, with pumps that squirt water inside the drum, but since faster than the tumble drier, what's the point?
The speed of the washing is controlled by the slowest, smallest machine, which is the tumble drier, we could do enough washing, to feed two tumble driers.
I do have two, only because one was my late mothers, it will not get replaced. Mothers was a washer/drier, and yes handy to come home from work, and put overalls in the old washer/drier. But what I should do is wash them at work.
I look at the washing, and I have two windows. Midnight until 5 am, and Midday until 3 pm, which is best depends on amount of sunlight, do I use off-peak, or do I use solar? So yes, I want a washing machine and tumble drier with delayed start. But this is hardly worth £1500 extra.
So return to once repaired, will it run long enough, to be worth it? I think it is unlikely.
