The one household appliance that we all take for granted is washing machines – finding the right model is not always as easy as you might think. This is mainly because when they very first came to market more than 50 years ago they were actually two separate pieces of kit: a washer and a spin dryer. Soon these became merged into one unit but still you had to manually move the wet clothes from the washer drum and into the spin dryer compartment next to it. Today, of course, the modern design means there is just one big drum…