Dishwashers and washing machines

Hello,
This is my first post so i was not sure what section to post in so i just went for this one.

Im not living here long and my german is saor schlecht. Now you might think its not that bad when i can spell schlect properly, but to be hoest i just typed bad in to the altavista babblefish translater yoke-a-me-bob and thats what it threw back at me.

Anyways, im gone off in a tangent already. The reason im posting is that I want to know how to work my washing machine and dishwasher. Now even if the instructions were in english I still wouldn't know how to use them, cos mammy used to do all my washing when i lived at home in Ireland

I'll get back to ye with the make and model as soon as possible, and in the meantime if there are any volunteers, It would be fierce handy if ye could come round to my gaff and we'll all get stuck in and do a big clean up.

Cheers Lads

Fortycoats

Get that aul fecker of a dog, Judge or whatever his name was, to do it ?

Class! A trip down memory lane. Welcome to Toytown.

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FortyCoats,

Don't pull that line me mammy used to do it for me!

Turn it on and press some buttons make sure you don't put it in at over 40 degrees!

Don't blame your mammy for being incompetent.

Greetings from the Emerald Isle.

I actually saw The Indians live, so I'm at least old enough to operate a washing maschine.

Anyway Fortycoats, Brigid is right, you can wash everything at 40 degrees as you probably won't be worrying about silky secret things.

I tried pressing all the buttons, but sure its no use. T'wont budge.

And Im robbed trying to keep the flying shop refueled with trips back to Ireland, just to get the washing done!!

The mammy won't like it, getting strangers in to do the washing.

No, no, no...you've got to push buttons AND turn knobs (and giving it a good kick on the side might help, too).

forty coats,

then pay someone to teach you! I would if I was in Munich!

I can before Christmas!!!
Brigid

... Oh and you need to hit and kick it a few times before swearing loudly and shouting at it that you should never have bought to bloody thing in the first place...

It is plugged in I presume?

I can here the music that used to play when the magic shop was flying. Ah nostalgia !

Did you plug it in ?

By the way, and I won't tell anybody else, Judge was a serious doper wasn't he ? And to think that's how I learned to cross the road !

1 look for a safe place,
2 dont hurry stop and wait,
3 look all around and listen before you cross the road,
Remember
4 let all the traffic pass you,
5 and walking straight across you
6 keep watching thats the safe cross code..thats the safe cross code know the safe cross code...know the code

Now, what about Bosco...

And the song was:

1 look for a safe place
2 don't worry stop and wait
3 look all around and listen before you cross the road
remember 4 let all the traffic pass you
5 then walking straight across

Keep watching that's the safe cross code

keydeck bet me to it

It seems to work though, I haven't been knocked down yet.

Bosco, now his drug of choice was obviously coke, he was always making those funny hand movements near his nose.

Check this out.


[img]http://student.dcu.ie/~flynnr4/bosco/gifs/hitlerbosco.gif[/img]

I regularly think of the Safe Cross Code song, especially when walking diagonally across a street. Badger doesn't like to do it (always walks straight across) and the song keeps popping into my head.

Now, what was that about a dishwasher

Ah Keydeck, me auld segocia, that is what I call brillant !

Never trusted the little guy, he always looked like somebody with something up his arse.

I wont have a bad word said against Judge. A grand sort of a dog he was.

Yeah, its plugged in surely. Im not even givin it the time of day at all anymore.
I hatched a plan to invite the neighbours round one evening, and i would cleverly get the conversation round to washing machines and laundry and that type of thing.

but sure the whole thing blew up in me face. not a word of english out of them. the auld one ended up chasing me out of the building with a broom. God knows what i was saying to them.

I'm trying to remember the Irish language one that used to be on before Bosco. Something along the lines of "Dillean O Dheas". That's not the correct spelling and Google is not helping.

Actually 'twas Dilín ó Damhsa or something very similar but can't remember what the show was about, just the song.

Dillin o daus o daus dillin o daus o di ...

Mad memories are coming back to me now!

What about transa na donsa, dull shir dull shir..slan leis an uigneas is slan leis an geil..gla i mo croi agus gla e an grean gla i mo hille go hEireann..

spelling is all wrong can only remember it phonetically..

LSD will come back to haunt you Brigid you know.

Spent 4 summers in the Gaeltacht so I do have PTSD, Peig Traumatic Stress Disorder.

It's Trans na Donta, a lovely tune, by the way as in:

Trasna na dtonnta, dul siar, dul siar.
Slán leis an uaigneas is slán leis an gcéan
Geal é mo chroí agus geal í an ghrian,
Geal bheith ag filleadh go hEirinn.

Chonaic mo dhóthair de thíortha í gcéin
Ór agus airgead, saibhreas an tsaoil.
Éiríonn an chroí 'nam le breacadh gach lae.
's mé ag druidim le duiche mo mhuintire.

Curfá
Muintir am Iarthair 's iad cáirde mo chroí
Fáilte is feile beidh romham ar gach taobh.
Ar fhágail an tsaoil 's é ghuím ar an Rí,
Gur leo sin a chínfear I gcill mé.

Fortycoats if you need translation services for the machines send us the text on the buttons and I'll check them for you. And remember smelly men are easier to find in discos !

I got it going lads and lassies. Im very happy about that, my socks would nearly talk to ya at this stage.

Dishwasher question--though my dishwasher instructions include an English version, they're still quite confusing (washing machine instructions auf Deutsch were much clearer to me), or maybe the half dozen or more dishwashers I've used in the States just work much differently, or maybe I'm just not picking up on the British English here or am otherwise an idiot. Anyway, when the instructions have as one of the first steps "turn tap on" and as one of the last "turn tap off", are they talking about the tap to the sink, i.e., the faucet? (which is incidentally adjacent to the dishwasher). Or are they just using "tap" in this context to refer to one of the buttons that starts the water? Seems dangerous to me to have the water running the whole time dishwasher is going (i.e., what if sink gets clogged and it starts flooding), but is that where this model is getting the water from? (And if not, why can't it just shut off automatically?) Brand/model is a Bauknecht GSI 4633.

Have had little success experimenting with this thing, didn't see anything of use in this or a similar thread here and didn't find anything useful on the Internet. And the illustrations in the instructions are quite limited and not helpful with respect to the question above, though there are about three or four pages that tell you how to place dishes in the dishwasher, which is great. Would appreciate any thoughts on this.

Can anyone help with my dishwasher question (last post on this thread) -- does it really work such that I need to leave the "tap on" with the water running into the sink? Anyone familiar with a dishwasher that works that way?

Hi Dsoul

I guess "the tap" refered is the tap that starts the water running into the dishwasher. No water should be run into the sink , should it ?!! When it is done, turn tap off. Water automatically will then stop running into the machine. Make sense ? Just like a washing machine ...

Look under the sink, and you'll probably find a cold water tap that controls the flow of water to the dishwasher. Make sure that tap is open before starting the dishwasher. Older dishwashers didn't have a proper water stop, so you'd always be advised to turn that dishwasher water tap off afterwards as a safety precaution. Nowadays it isn't really all that important with newer models, but the guides often include the instruction anyway.