Industry
News and insight from the UK appliance repair industry: manufacturers, repair services, the right to repair and what it is like working as an engineer.
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Samsung Home Appliances
Samsung is one of the UK's most popular home appliance brands. Discover the history, product range, and technologies behind Samsung's washing machines, fridges, and more.
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Bosch Home Appliances
Bosch is the UK's most popular home appliance brand. Learn about the history, product range, and UK presence of one of Europe's largest appliance manufacturers.
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Pacifica Group Ltd
Pacifica is one of a small number of companies operating appliance repair at genuine national scale, and it reaches consumers through several different routes: direct bookings, franchise partners trading as Pacifica Local, insurance-backed repairs,…
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Service Box
Service Box presents an unusual case among appliance cover providers. Read the feature list and it is comfortably the strongest offer covered in this section. Read the legal structure behind it and it is…
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Home Emergency Assist
HEA occupies an interesting corner of the appliance cover market. Its prices are among the lowest available, and unlike some budget competitors it is genuinely inside the regulatory perimeter with published documents and a…
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Glotech Repairs
Glotech is one of the oldest names in the British appliance trade, and its pricing structure is refreshingly simple: one labour charge covers the repair regardless of how long the engineer is in the…
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Domestic Appliance Guard
Domestic Appliance Guard advertises heavily through paid search, and its headline price of £3.50 a month is among the lowest in the appliance cover market. Low headline pricing in this sector is usually funded…
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Big Warranties
BIG Warranties sits in an unusual position among appliance cover providers. Most insurers in this market arrange repairs through third party contractors. BIG Warranties owns the repair operation outright, trading it as Go Assist,…
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Go Assist
Go Assist takes a different approach from most national appliance repairers. It is a multi-trade home services business rather than a white goods specialist, it advertises no fix, no fee terms that its larger…
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The Right to Repair - White Goods
UK Right to Repair law requires spare parts for 10 years, but the EU goes much further. See what UK law actually covers and why it falls short.
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