Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsSuperb product with German engineering.
Reviewed in India on 4 October 2019
This is a fantastic washing machine grabbed from Amazon at a fantastic festival deal.
Pros:
1. It's big. Suitable for joint families / households with 6-10 members with a penchant for cleanliness, you know what I mean. One full load in this machine can take care of ALL our daily laundry, extra dirty school uniforms, including a bedsheet or two. If you want to take up a weekend mega washing mission with all curtains, cushion covers, bedcovers, bedsheets and pillow-covers, it just obeys without a whimper.
2. The wash quality: simply put - unbelievably superb. *THIS IS A BMW AMONG WASHING MACHINES*. Perfect robust engineering. Hassle free long lasting utility, giving you desired ROI for your money spent. We are using IFB Fluffy liquid detergent supplied by the IFB authorized service personnel. Clothes are clean, soft and fragrant after wash.
3. Water consumption is significantly less than any other washing machine.
4. Noise level is nearly zero. It's surprisingly silent. We are loading it and leaving it to work during the night (wash programs are long, say 1.5 to 2.5 hours) and nobody is woken up by any noise :). First thing in the Morning, washed and 80% dry clothes are ready to iron.
5. 1400RPM is great speed - ensures you get nearly dry clothes, takes hardly 10 minutes to dry to100% after taking out from the machine. You can use any ordinary iron directly on the clothes after taking out from the machine, to get very good crease in the formal shirts and trousers.
6. Easy Presets for all practical purposes, and then you also have full flexibility to create your custom programs (an ultra quick hot wash for your jeans, if you will)
Cons:
1. If you live in a Hard-water area with TDS level more than 500 in your tap water then CAREFUL!!! You must fit a water softener filter between the water supply tap and the washing machine.
2. A 15 amp electricity plug point has to be present at the installation location before the IFB service engineer visits your house. Else the installation procedure will get delayed.
3. Periodic Maintenance: The washing machine has heating element inside to heat up the water at various temperature as required by the wash programs. Hard water causes scaling in heating element and drum. If the scaling builds up to high levels, overall performance will degrade. Ask your IFB engineer to supply the descalant powder - which has to be used diligently, as directed.
