Hoover HED6612 Reviews: Freestanding, 60cm wide, White Dishwasher

+ Cheap!

- Noisy. Flimsy feel to wash racks. Top rack doesn't clear stains off cups

+ fast wash is the best

- none

+ quick cycle times

- loading rack not designed to take a baking sheet

+ very good at cleaning heavily soiled dishes on programme 4.

- design of both top and bottom loading trays is bad, at certain points plates cannot sit into trays because of the bottom tray rods. The top tray is not good for supporting wine glasses and cups etc. Two breakages have
already occurred.

+ none

- Doesn't wash/rinse properly. Leaves brown deposits on cutlery and it has never washed/rinsed a glass. All glasses are smeared. Very unhappy with product. This is my fourth dishwasher and definitely the worse.

+ Cleans okay, once salt added

- None as yet, only had a couple of weeks, but seems ok

+ Very quiet and easy to operate

- bottom tray doesnt run very smoothly

+ The dishwasher is very quiet, and the dishes always come out spotless once you get used to the different cycles.

- can be a bit awkward to load, but with a bit of patience we usually get all the dishes and pans in.

+ Quiet

- We bought the machine based on the energy efficiency but find that we can load far less in the machine that our previous machine, top tray holds half the capacity. Poor layout in bottom tray, plates do not fit, angle all wrong. Cleaning is far less efficient as plates are stacked too closely together and frequently need handwashing. Cutlery does not come out clean. Most disappointing.

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- It is very hard to load with the lay out of the trays and baskets - not happy.
Meant to be quiet but it is noisier than the 12 year old one we got rid off!

+ 1. Excellent choice of cycles, including Rapid wash (which i use day to day) and Pre-rinse 2. Easy to read/understand instructions for setup and maintenance 3. LED display lights on the front of the washer so you can work out the cycle's progress (pre-rinse : wash : rinse : dry)

- 1. Although full size plates will fit into the machine, regular size chopping boards do not, and if not loaded in a very precise way they can stop the spraying arm inside from rotating (obviously this also applies to baking trays etc) 2. From being switched on for the first time, the main LED Power display light on the front of the machine has not worked (not a huge problem because the 4 LED cycle progress display lights let you know the progress of the cycle - but it is still a fault which i can't be bothered to try and get fixed because it will quite possibly involve money, time and having to organise a 'convenient' time window for an engineer to come and visit 3. Whilst the washing cycles (even the Rapid wash cycle which i use all the time) seem to be very good at cleaning, drying seems to be very poor and most of what i unload from the dishwasher has to be wiped over with a tea towel to remove excess water droplets

+ very quiet and if I dont put my dinner plates in it washes well and in good time

- doesnt seem to dry thoroughly.
Cant put my dinner plates in. If I do they stop the rotor going round and nothing gets washed properly

+ It works quite well and it is good value for money. It also looks nice and has a good choice of wash cycles.

- I think the overall capacity is smaller than our last one. You also can't put large plates in upright as there isn't room between the basket and the washer. Because of that we lay them flatter and they don't wash so well. The lights for salt and rinseaid are constantly on although we have loaded both these things so I'm not sure if this is right or not.

+ wash cycle on rapid is done in aprox 30mins

- intense cycle takes 2 1/2 hrs and takes crome from handles

+ ok price

- very poor quality & performance