Whilst the machine is quiet, it broke down within 6 months of buying it. Sharp warranty customer service are below expectations on the way they deal with a client and the engineer who was meant to come and fix it is completely unreliable - no notification of lateness and when I called him after the agreed 4 h time-frame for the repair appointment has passed, he gave me no indication of what time he will arrive next and acted quite upset that I dared to call and ask when he will make it to the appointment. Unprofessional through and through.... I am left with a broken washing machine, 6 months into having it and no prospects of having it fixed in sight. Not a happy customer!

The play button doesn't work and waited one week to finally get through the Sharp support. And waited another week for the engineer to come over and said the pay button is very poor design but it's WAI which it isn't!!! Please don't buy it because it doesn't work, buy a reliable brand with good customer service is the key lesson I learned from this purchase...

Was faulty first try. Hopefully it won't be to much trouble to sort it out.

I can’t believe there are so many good reviews! The loud knocking when cycle is finished is So loud. There is a 15 min quick wash but then all the other programmes are more than an hour. Even when the door is closed the machine is really noisy.

Good product so far just wish quick wash had higher spin so I didn't have to respin afterwards

The machine is quite quiet while both washing and spinning, and has a useful feature of child lock for us. But the build quality is not very good (e.g. the top metal panel is visibly wavy and pulling the plastic of the control panel with it as well). Choosing a programme could be tricky as the selected options aren't always displayed but just flash for a moment. Not sure whether it's an issue with our particular machine, but often the selected programme+options doesn't want to start, and we have to switch the machine off and start with selecting the options over again.

The digital display beeps every time you press something which is a bit annoying. It much louder than my last one

As expected.