October 6, 2016 | Appliance Safety Advice & Recalls | Laundry Appliance Repair, Help & Advice | 2 comments
It sits there, in your kitchen or laundry room, white and square and harmless looking. But behind the casing of your tumble dryer could be an accident waiting to happen! If you have a Hotpoint, Indesit or Creda appliance it could be at risk of bursting into flames. Find out whether your machine is a fire risk and what to do if it is.
August 3, 2016 | Laundry Appliance Repair, Help & Advice | No comments
Roll up roll up, ladies and gentlemen! Your grandparents and great grandparents marveled at the newfangled machinery invented to replace the dreaded laundry washboard for good. Now it’s your turn!
April 25, 2016 | Appliance Safety Advice & Recalls | Laundry Appliance Repair, Help & Advice | No comments
You may have heard reports in the news recently about washing machine doors exploding and spewing broken glass across the kitchen. Scary stuff! These stories stem from a recent Which? article but hold your horses, there’s no need to panic. Here’s why.
March 1, 2016 | Laundry Appliance Repair, Help & Advice | 14 comments
You get to the end of the washing cycle but your clothes are still sodden wet. They may not even have been properly cleaned. Sound horribly familiar? Then it’s a pretty safe bet your washing machine isn’t spinning as it should.
January 25, 2016 | Cleaning Tips | Laundry Appliance Repair, Help & Advice | No comments
There’s no getting away from it, germs are everywhere – from your kitchen surfaces and floors to your computer’s keyboard at work. Your laundry and washing machine are no different, in fact, it has been suggested the average washing machine load can contain as much as 100 million E.Coli bacteria at any given time. [source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2050239/How-washing-machines-familys-health-risk-Low-temperatures-mixed-loads-spreading-dangerous-bugs.html]Read more
January 25, 2016 | Cleaning Tips | Laundry Appliance Repair, Help & Advice | No comments
There’s no getting away from it, germs are everywhere – from your kitchen surfaces and floors, to your computer’s keyboard at work. Your laundry and washing machine are no different, in fact it has been suggested the average washing machine load can contain as much as 100 million E.Coli bacteria at any given time. [source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2050239/How-washing-machines-familys-health-risk-Low-temperatures-mixed-loads-spreading-dangerous-bugs.html]
Thankfully there are steps which you can take to reduce the impact such bacteria has on your clothing and to reduce the amount of bacteria being harboured in your laundry.
January 11, 2016 | Laundry Appliance Repair, Help & Advice | No comments
Got a smelly washing machine? Musty, mouldy or just generally bad smells coming from your machine are common. The good news is they’re also curable!
January 11, 2016 | Laundry Appliance Repair, Help & Advice | No comments
A smelly washing machine is a common issue faced by many homeowners throughout the UK. And such an issue is becoming more frequent due to many of us opting to wash at lower temperatures which results in the bacteria not being killed off.
Cleaning your washing machine to remove the dirt and the odours isn’t a difficult task – and below, we explain why your washing machine smells and share our top tips on how to clean a smelly washing machine.
January 6, 2016 | Laundry Appliance Repair, Help & Advice | 1 comment
Getting your laundry dry during the summer can often be hard enough, as we can never be certain of prolonged dry / hot periods, during the winter months it can be even more difficult as the windows for hanging it out are even less.
Hanging the washing on your radiators to dry having a detrimental effect on your home and increases the likelihood of mould forming, many of us are turning to tumble dryers – with it being estimated 12.5 million household own such an appliance.
But what do you do when your tumble dryer stops spinning? We see no reason why you cannot fix it, by following our advice outlined in this post.
October 21, 2015 | Laundry Appliance Repair, Help & Advice | 2 comments
At eSpares we are inundated with customer questions through our social media accounts, as well as our blog and we love to answer these questions as we know our answers help our customers fix their appliances for less.
To celebrate Fix It Week, we’ve randomly picked three customer questions we’ve been asked since the start of the year – along with the answers we’ve provided, in the hope that these questions will help you fix your appliance.
