I was suprised as well, since there are very serious laws about work safety with this stuff. Insurers don’t like it either. But it was due to the narrow staircase, they couldn’t use the barrow so they decied to powerlift it in record time.

AEG LR7fl841ex (dschörman), old one was a Bauknecht from ~2005.

It has some nice features, is very eco friendly and super quiet for the price range. It’s a middle-class machine with only 42l/cycle, the lowest I could find in store. Plus 10 year warranty on the motor.

I think at least in Germany you can’t go wrong with any of the white goods sold by the 4 or 5 big firms, they all produce in the same factories (at least Bosch and Siemsn do). And a washer is a washer, it was already over-engineered 10 years ago. The most important part for me was the energy efficiency and water consumption.