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White Knight kitchen appliances
Spouthouse
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Does anyone have any experience of White Knight products? Never heard of them until yesterday and their reviews on Amazon are amazing. Looking to buy a New tumble dryer.
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I only changed it cos I needed a bigger one:)
They make a lot of dryers for other makes. Many Zanussi, Bosch, Tricity etc dryers are made by White Knight. They also make the bug Hostess trollies that keep food warm.
Buying a White Knight dryer next week had one before and would definitely recommend these dryers.
That should be big Hostess trolleys..... Stupid autocorrect....
It's actually our 2nd one, the first one was broken straight out the box....it rattled badly when switched on. They replaced it straight away with the one we have now, and it's been going perfect for many years now (must be nearly 10 years). This is a condenser dryer, the steam is turned back into water and collects in an internal water container which u just empty when the light comes on.
I think the one before that was another white knight and lasted years as well.
Excellent value for money, and the only failure was on one where something got trapped in the door, jammed the drum and snapped the belt so not the dryer's fault. One cheap belt later and it's fine. They're very simple machines inside so not much to go wrong. (The vented ones anyway - the condensers will be a bit more complex)
But not for long.
It just disappeared one day along with one of our horses.
Was that a clothes horse!
It stopped working last year so we went straight for another White Knight and hope for another 18 years
However, my mum has decided (after all its faithfull hard working years) to chuck it out and replace it with one of those "dri buddies" by JML, after reading an argos catalogue and watching one video on youtube about it about the hassles of clothes horses csusing clutter etc(which was an infomercial from JML btw).
This is it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3w3_nZdjTw
She is chucking it out for a dri budfy even though it is still working absolutely fine....
What a fool.
Reliable dryers.
My parents had one, badged "Electra" (an own-brand used by various Electricty Boards) that was dumped in 2012 after 40 years service. Replaced immediately with another White Knight.
If I had a gas supply in my utility room, I'd definitely buy one of the gas models.
It has been a part of the household since as long as I've been alive and still working perfectly fine yet apparently it "has to go" as it has "ruined the clothes". By that I mean it probably shrunk a pair of jeans once and that was it.. And because of that now after all those years it has been confined to the outdoors.
Couldn't believe it....
She even called me round to help her put it outside and to set up this dri buddy thing. When I was trying to help her set it up, apparently I leaned on it and "broke it" and she told me to go home while she tries to set it up herself. Needless to say when I left her she was in a bit of a huff.
One reviewer said water went on floor. Takes 3 hours to dry a pair of jeans and a day for a whole rack of clothes....
That's a lot of electricity!