Do you have Fisher & Paykel dish drawers? I have a question!
Do you love them?
How long have you had them?
I've heard good and bad about these, and the good seems to be from people who haven't had them for long, and the bad seems to be from people who've had them for 5+ years and they start to cark it....has anyone here had them long enough to experience any potential deterioration? (I hope no-one here does, by the way!)
Just trying to educate myself!
I have had them now for 2-2.5 years now and love them! I fit soo much in and also love the fact that I can do smaller loads and the dishes arent sitting there for a while getting caked over. They remove almost everything too and I dont bother to rinse a lot of things prior to putting them in the drawers as I think that is double handling. I will tho rinse things obvioulsy that have a lot of food left/cooked on them.
A girlfriend of mine has had hers around 3.5 years and no complaints there either.
F&P when working works well, when not costs a lot of money. FIL works on whitegoods for a living and avoids the brand. If you are going to get one check out an extended warranty.
The thing that put me off the dish drawers Nelle (and I, like you, had heard really good, and really bad about them), was that the interior is plastic. To me, when you're exposing plastic to really high temp water, over and over, it will eventually deteriorate. Once I knew that, there was no way I was getting them (and instead got a Bosch, which I love, stainless steel all the way baby LOL).
It is a hard decision, because those who have have newly acquired them love them, but those that have had them for a little while decide they're crap. Personally, I think a dishwasher should last at least 10 years (and I can't afford them more often that that!), so I decided to go for one that will (hopefully ) have a bit more longevity.
I had to get mine fixed as the heater coil fried and that in turn blew the control panel They don't always go hand in hand but for me it did unfortunately. It cost me over $300 to fix! It is over 5 years old and had a LOT of lovin' I think I do use the top drawer a lot more than the bottom one which may have had some bearing in it, but it could have been one of those things. The repair man said he does a lot of these, but the parts are reasonably priced compared to other brands. Something to consider I suppose.
Having said that I really do love it heaps and the best bit was that because the two drawers are separate I still could use the other drawer until it had to be taken away to be fixed. I put off calling to get it fixed for a few weeks till I could afford it.
I LOVE how I can put delicates on one cycle and at the same time put dirty greasy stuff on a heavy cycle in the other drawer. The cycles are a tad longer than other dishwasher too I think but you get used to that. Like going from a top loader washing machine to a front loader IYKWIM.
Last edited by ~Raven~; September 4th, 2009 at 10:30 AM.
We have one. We've been in this house for almost 5 years, and it was here when we bought it, so it's more than 5 years old. I absolutely love it! Never had a problem with it.
You girls seriously have me torn. I know what I want, but I don't want it if I have to keep paying for it. Your input is really helpful though, the more I know, the better!
It's a hard one Nelle!!! They sure are popular! It does sound as though you're really keen........ Maybe you should just go for it!
Sam, sounds like you got really unlucky, what a bummer. How handy that you could still use the other drawer though! As for long cycles, my new dishwasher takes longer too, so maybe it's just the way alot of them are now, like top loaders?
I'll see how I go hey. We're going and having a look around today. We're going from me doing (or not, as the case may be) the dishes to having a dishwasher so I suspect I'll be happy with anything really.
And price will pay a factor obviously, I've seen some cheap prices here and there so I guess I'll just have to hunt.
And if I do get the dishdrawers and they play up, I can always come in here and whinge that you guys misled me.
We have dish drawers that we love and have had them for about 2 years. We bought ours in the paper for $50 because the person that owned them first thought they had stopped working and had bought themselves a new dishwasher. We have had very few issues with them (it has been blocked a couple of times, but nothing DH hasn't been able to fix himself which was the problem with it when we bought it).
As for the insides being plastic (I assume that it is the washing arm), the reason that is is plastic is to stop things that touch it by accident during the wash cycle from melting. Our last dishwasher melted a couple of knife handles and plastic cups because the metal would heat up so much, the plastic is there to stop the melting.
I guess we got a nearly new $1500 dish drawer for $50 so it is a bit hard to complain about the 2 years we have got out of it so far. We thought if it lasted us 6 months we would have got more than our money's worth out of it ... but it is still going strong.
TG, the F&P dishdrawers that I saw in showrooms were actually ALL plastic inside, not just the arm. The racks and everything. But maybe they're not all like that???
Well. How do you guys go about fitting things in your F&P drawers? Because the girl pointed out that I'd probably struggle to fit some of my baking trays or muffin pans in there? Stockpots?
I sort of fell a bit in love with a Bosch with its own cutlery drawer at the very top...like the Mieles do, apparently.
And Sez, it might give you a giggle to know we had a chuckle when I was saying 'yeah but Sez says' .
Hahaha Nelle, yes I am chuckling away! You know, I actually thought I was really keen on getting a Miele, but when I checked them out, not so keen. Obviously they're made extremely well, but Bosch (and Asko for that matter) have better features I think. Good luck making a decision, it's hard!
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I will tho rinse things obvioulsy that have a lot of food left/cooked on them.
), was that the interior is plastic. To me, when you're exposing plastic to really high temp water, over and over, it will eventually deteriorate. Once I knew that, there was no way I was getting them (and instead got a Bosch, which I love, stainless steel all the way baby LOL). 
They don't always go hand in hand but for me it did unfortunately. It cost me over $300 to fix! It is over 5 years old and had a LOT of lovin' I think I do use the top drawer a lot more than the bottom one which may have had some bearing in it, but it could have been one of those things. The repair man said he does a lot of these, but the parts are reasonably priced compared to other brands. Something to consider I suppose. 
I know what I want, but I don't want it if I have to keep paying for it. Your input is really helpful though, the more I know, the better!
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