Feel free to start a topic on the Washerhelp forums if you want to continue discussing and I’ll post a link to it from here if any one does.

That these might not be of specific use or cost savings to many people is beside the point, dual input appliances are in the majority in Europe ( I worked in Belgium for 4 years where such machines are freely available).

The arguments over wasted heat, wasted water, limited costs savings etc. would equally apply in mainland Europe, however at least there consumers have the option to make their own choices, rather than being limited by cartel-like decision of suppliers in the UK market.

Meanwhile in mainland Europe the logic of the arguments magically falls tot the other side of the argument and dual feed machines are in the majority.

Here in the UK, some of us use wood burning stoves or solar thermal water heating ( or both), some of us have spring water supplies, some water modern system designs exist that ensure that water is hot at the taps immediately, superior insulation allows water to stay hotter longer in more normal supply systems, while “wasted” heat contributes to the overall heating of the house.

These of course are not a single mass market solution or requirement, but constitute the situation for a currently frustrated element of society who want to change their energy usage and general approach to services and usage within their own lives. We do not want to be told that WasherHelp knows best and have the error of our choices ‘explained’ to us, we simply want the option to choose.

While the market makes such decisions difficult or punitively expensive by not supplying such items as dual feed washing machines in the UK without very high expense and only at top of the range products, such individuals are not able to make their own informed choices.

It is not too much to ask that the option of hot supply is also available on a washing machine in the UK, since such machines are freely available 22 miles from Dover – within our free-trade single-market European Union.

And yes, machines supplies to the rest of the EU do run at 220 volts AC, single phase is the majority, and all conforming to the same EU electrical safety directives that machines supplies to the UK market have to observe, they are supplied by the same companies who supply the UK market, and many likely built in the same Asian factories.