Gyn_Paul Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 The generally accepted opinion (by the guru's on this forum) apparently is that modern, A-rated machines fill with so little hot water that by the time the cold in the pipes has been run off, and the following warm then hot water has been cooled by the mass of the machine, it's reached its fill limit. So it might just as well be filling with cold anyway. Plus the wide-scale use - in France anyway - of cheap-rate electric overnight heated water, and the use of delay starting means that the heating of the water is a small part of the cost per wash.25 years ago, my top-loading Hotpoint filled with - what seemed like - half a bath-full of hot water per wash, and thus I was grateful the water was being heated cheaply by an efficient gas boiler rather than expensive electricity. How things have changed!We've almost got to the point now where our loved and greatly-valued (bottle) gas tumble dryer is costing as much to run as its electric equivalent ! Not quite, but the price differential is being steadily erroded.paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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