Trying to be Green

We’ve been wondering for a while whether our washing machine is the cause of our rather high electricity bills. Definitely when the machine is on you can watch the meter spinning rather rapidly.

Well we’re now being forced to put that to the test as I’ve just had to order a new machine. An enthusiastic repair man turned up last night to check out the washing machine which seems to be working normally: except the clothes just don’t seem very clean - and that, surely, is the point. And yes the nice man stroked his beard and said that actually we’ve been washing our clothes in cold water for months and that its ready for the scrapyard.

I would like to point out that we are surprisingly clean looking and unsmelly (honestly). And I think it might be about Christmas when it stopped working properly!! Goes to show that you don’t need a hot wash to get your clothes clean - and I’ll find it hard to justify washing above 30′c.

So a new machine has been ordered - a Zanussi 1600 if you’re interested - it is A rated. Hopefully our electricity will go down this week (no washing) and we’ll see if we have an overall improvement. I am secretly hoping that this was our electricity beast and we’ll be ultra-efficient with our new one. We shall see…