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Goodbye Non-KISS Appliances
(willbush.dev)
A place to share practical, durable and quality made products that are made to last, with an emphasis on upcycled and sustainable products!
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I get asked about what appliances to get all the time because I'm a handyman. I wrote up this short guide to copy and paste:
Tips for buying a fridge or any major appliance:
Ice cube trays still work when the ice maker says to change the $40 filter. Any smart appliances (IoT device) is a network liability and the next thing you know your dishwasher is part of a botnet hoggin up your bandwidth and there will never be a firmware update to fix it.
I was going to call BS, but I set my VPN to Dublin, Ireland and started shopping there using google maps.
Some places I looked:
https://powercity.ie
https://www.appliancesdelivered.ie/
https://www.miele.ie/e/refrigeration-appliances-1022129-c
Lot of interesting brands I ran across:
Really surprising to my that a Bosch / Miele can be had for less than $1000. In the US, it's hard to find anything less than $3k in those brands. I have seen some places around here sell Beko, but only in white.
Avoid Beko, I had a bad experience with them. I have very good experiences with Bosch (series 6) and Miele.
I dodged that bullet then. I do have a Bosch dishwasher. It's fairly new and I like it so far.