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Smeg sells the same dishwasher in three installation formats: under-counter, semi-integrated and freestanding. The three EU product fiches match on twenty-two entries out...
Two 9 kg heat pump tumble dryers, two brands, 57.22 euros apart. We opened both EU product fiches line by line: out of twenty-four comparable entries only one is differen...
Same brand, same 14 place settings, same 60 centimetres of width. One costs 683.57 euros and sits in class B, the other 968.57 and sits in class A. We opened the two EU f...
The official BSH spare parts list is public and holds 875 part numbers with a price next to each one. The components that fail first are under 20 euros, while the control...
From 1 January 2027 the energy label on tumble dryers carries one more letter, and it is not about consumption but about how easy the machine is to repair. We read the fo...
A dishwasher uses exactly the same number of kWh and litres on every cycle, full or half empty: all that changes is how many plates come out. Filling it halfway exactly d...
An 8 kg washer-dryer does not dry 8 kg: it dries 5, and the same label carries two energy classes calculated on different scales. We read seven EU product fiches for Bosc...
How often you should clean the filter, the condenser and the tank of a tumble dryer is not a tip: it is information Regulation (EU) 2023/2533 obliges the manufacturer to ...
The Bosch WQB245B0IT is a top-tier 9 kg heat pump tumble dryer: 1.10 kWh per cycle, 74.53 euros of energy a year and a condenser that needs no manual cleaning. Its EU inf...
Since 1 October 2026 a kilowatt-hour costs 43.43 cents including taxes, against 31.63 in the previous quarter. Five appliances in an ordinary household go from 233.84 to ...
Three Bosch Serie 8 ovens that look identical cost 783.58, 810.98 and 922.75 euros, and the EU information sheet tells them apart by weight alone. The real differences ar...
Of the 231 built-in ovens on sale, 170 have no pyrolysis. Yet of 15 Bosch technical data sheets that declare a cleaning system, 14 declare hydrolysis: the function you ne...
The Bosch WIW24342EU costs 832.89 euros and declares class C. That is not a contradiction: it is a washing machine designed to disappear behind a cabinet door and to make...
The three built-in washing machines from the BSH group on sale all declare exactly the same efficiency index, 68.6, which means class C, and all three stop at 8 kg. The s...
A 71-litre built-in oven declares 0.69 kWh per cycle in fan-forced mode and up to 0.98 kWh in conventional mode: between 22 and 31 cents per bake. Small figures, and that...
Two Bosch Series 6 built-in dishwashers with visible front panel, same width and same steel, separated by 18.10 euros. The information sheets filed by the manufacturer ma...
The refrigerator compartment never needs manual defrosting: out of 31 refrigeration appliances actually on sale, all 28 with a fresh food compartment declare automatic de...
Two Bosch built-in fully integrated dishwashers, same niche, 14 place settings, third basket and Wi-Fi on both. Between the SMV4HVX03E from Series 4 and the SMH6YCX02E fr...
The Bosch KGN36NLEA declares 305 liters, 239 kWh per year, class E and 42 dB(A). Class E on a scale that goes up to A seems like a failure, and it isn't: in the six Bosch...
Twenty-five kWh per hundred washes, compared to 49 from a Series 6 with the same Class A and the same capacity. The Bosch WGB24402IT at 9 kg is the most efficient washing...
