Hotpoint FDW60

I have had this dishwasher now for about 6 months. Delivery was very swift and the Hotpoint man arrived when he said he would (always a major bonus). He was friendly and helpful and plumbed the machine in for me and took all the rubbish away with him! The machine works really well and is nice and quiet too. Actually it is so quiet that when we first had it my partner and I were not sure if it was actually on and we both stood (comedty fashion) bent over with our ears near the machine! The machine has lots of different settings including normal, pre-wash (very useful for very dirty dishes) and intensive. It also (very importantly) has an ECO wash which uses less ...  Read the complete review

You know the old joke of I dont need a dishwasher I have got the Wife. I havent had one very long, a dishwasher I mean, and I must admit I used to think that by the time I messed around filling it up and sorting it out I could have done all the washing up by hand. But I was very happy when my husband said about getting one even though by then two of my three children had left home - having said that though they are boomarangs and keep moving back! Now though I wonder how on earth I managed without one. We chose this one because it had all the settings and features that we thought that we would need. I cant say how it was fitted ...  Read the complete review

Do not buy this machine. The cutlery basket is feeble and holes will very quickly appear in the bottom, allowing your cutlery to fall through and stop the bottom tray sliding in/out. It needs copious amounts of salt and rinse aid even when 3-in-1 tablets are used. Drying is below average and usually incomplete. It is too easy to bump up against the buttons and accidentally change what the machine is doing. Sometimes it gets confused and refuses to enter any programme - you have to give it a couple of minutes to compose itself so that it will then accept a programme! The drain pump on our machine failed after just 3 and a half years. We chose Hotpoint because our ...  Read the complete review

I've had the dishwasher since 2005 when I first moved into my new home. The main reason I chose it was colour and the price. It cost me £226 from Tesco with free delivery and because I ordered my washing machine at the same time and spent £500 I got 10,000 extra clubcard points. I suppose that I am lucky to have a kitchen large enough to take a dishwasher of this size - we certainly wouldn't have gotten one of these in our old kitchen as there wasn't even room for the washing machine there either! The builders had left a standard size gap either side of the kitchen sink so that the washing machine and dishwasher could slot straight in. My kitchen ...  Read the complete review

This is a great dishwasher if you like frequent visits from the service man! I have owned mine for approximately 4 years. I choose it because my mother in law had a Hotpoint dishwasher which was circ 15 years old & still going strong. I also liked the streamline appearance, fairly plain front with not too much space given over to operating buttons & controls. As a dishwasher it functions very well on the long hot programme, but not so well if you are after economic or shorter washing cycles, tending to leave some items not cleaned. It breaks down with dependable regularity, our kitchen floor has been flooded several times and we have had a new thermostat, ...  Read the complete review