We've just replaced our washer and dryer - and we went for a top loader for the washer. There isn't a post/bar swirly thing in the middle of the drum any more. It just agitates the clothes from side to side. Also, because we have a walk out basement timber framed style house, the vibrations from a front loader with its centrifugal forces being horizontal not vertical, could/would have vibrated the whole house. It is certainly as good if not better than the Bosch we left behind in London - and the capacity is enormous!

Kin hell you people stop whining can you imagine if you were living 200 years ago
Dont like your washer and dryer then nip down to the river and wash them
Hang them out to dry on a washing line especially in February
Dont like your toaster then put bread on a fork over a fire

Indeed! I've recently finished reading about some if the pioneers in this area and it us quite humbling reading about their day to day lives.

Nope but living here is often like 50yrs ago.....

I disagree. I require my clothes to be clean, as do most people, and my washing machine gives excellent results.

I have a Westinghouse fridge/freezer that came with the house and is at least 25 years old and works perfectly.

Perhaps you chose the wrong model of cooker/stove for your needs?A bit of research probably would have alleviated most of the problems you list. If that was the one you chose then you surely should have realised that it wasn't suitable for you - or was it 'in situ' when you bought the house?

My sister has the most amazing stove/cooker with fan assisted oven which she bought from Sears and bakes and roasts like a dream.

I've found top loaders here to work ok. However, I find the opposite with the bending issue though - with the top loaders you have to reach down and lift items up and out. With the front loaders the clothes can just be pulled out the side and dropped into a basket.

In general I find the NA appliances rather crudely put together although this may partly be down to our choice of appliances in the UK. The dishwasher in the UK still in the house we rent out is an AEG and made hardly any noise you would hardly know it was on. The Fridgidaire dishwasher here is unbelievably noisy. Same with the extractor fan over the cooker - sounds like you're at the end of the runway. The fridge is very noisy I suspect it isn't very efficient. When I had a look around the house in the UK a couple of years ago and had a look at the freezer I'd had to buy for the tenant I was suprised how much insulation there was, although at the cost of interior space.

Of course i researched, i read the reviews. It doesn't do the job as well as a cheaper model would have done, it roasts fine but baking is uneven. I said earlier that the top loader that came with this house works better than the new Duet we had. Perhaps the old ones were built to a higher standard but new stuff tens to be flimsy rubbish. I have three Keurig machines sitting waiting to be disposed of, all broken and replaced by the manufacturer within 6 months. We have a Bosch now. Stick blenders, we are on the 4th in 7 years. My Tesco five pound one lasted longer. Vacuum cleaners, not good enough, NA ones replaced with a Miele. TV works ok, that's a Sony. The fridge was cheap so i didnt expect much from it.

We have an LG washer and drier. Sometimes, it runs while I am making wine. I had had 30 empty wine bottles on the top of it while it was spinning (from starting to spin to full speed whizzing). Each time this has happened, the bottles have remained in place with no issues at all.

I accept that some appliances on sale in Canada are crap; I accept that some on sale in the UK are crap too.

"Making wine" - please elaborate.............

I meant more these comments.

Is it a high efficiency top loader ?

That will be a $35 extractor fan. If you spend $200 you can get one that is virtually silent on regular speeds. They are quite easy to replace.

I make wine. What's to elaborate?

If you would like to try some, let me know.

I'm so happy for this thread. My bf has been looking at me like I'm a laundry nazi for the last few weeks! The top loader here is simply not getting my clothes clean, and I really dislike the fact that they have no "clean laundry" smell. When I first started off here, I could sense some sort of musky water smell from my (& his) clothes... But now it's faded away. I've gotten so used to it that I don't even know it's there anymore! It makes me cringe to think that other people can probably still smell it on my clothes!

There's a Brit Import store near me, I'm going in search of some Lenor Infusions!

Glad I'm alone here, as I'm sniffing my clothes and it looks a bit odd....

Yes, we had that smell and put it down to using the dryer - and probably overloading that as well as overloading the washer. That smell you get when things have dried too slowly.

Fortunately we have a washing line here and I hang as much out as I can - that helps. Going into winter I will have to use the dryer so back to smelly washing maybe. I do use Bounce but find it just kind of masks the other smell so it still isn't right.

Maybe we all smell like this and will just get used to it.

In the UK, well, if I had quite a bit of money I would have bought a Bosch. If I had a zillion pounds, a Miele. Same as here.

But had to settle for Indesits. First one was great and lasted years. Second one conked out repeatedly - engineer said "luck of the draw" with cheaper makes; recommended Bosch or Miele and said the extra money paid on other models was just for whistles and bells so if you had to buy cheap might as well buy the cheapest and take your chance.