This is a replacement for a 13 year old Hotpoint FDM-50 that gave up the ghost just before Christmas 2022. It is early days with the new one so in a few months time I might rate this dishwasher higher. It does everything we want and the configuration inside is brilliant. It allows much more flexible placement of dishes, pans, bowls etc. You can put bigger cups in the top against the sides and still close the door. The tines at the back of the bottom rack fold down so you can get bigger items to sit flat. There is abig tray at the top that is a stroke of genius. It allows not only for large utensils but small plates. What we are struggling with is the amount of time it takes to run a wash and dry cycle. Our old machine had a short cycle that washed and dried in less than 30 minutes. We could put them straight into the cupboard. The 37 minute cycle on the new machine does not dry. Not that it doesn't dry well, it has no drying at all. What is the point of using the machine if you still have to dry every dish. The next shortest cycle that will dry is 1 hour 42 minutes and that one doesn't dry very well. That leaves us with a cycle of over 2 hours to get the dishes fully dry. What is interesting is in comparing the old and new, that 2+ hour cycle on the new uses less water and takes less energy than the 30 minute cycle on the old. So there is the eco-friendly aspect of it. And truth be told, I don't usually need the dishes in the dishwasher any sooner than the 2 hours so I guess I should rate this device a 5 (changed to a 5 after writing this review).

Poor quality Within nearly 2 weeks I needed to refill the salt tank 3 times! Yes 3! The 3rd time it asked me to I smelt like a burning rubber/plastic & electrical burning all at once Clearly a dodgy product & probably a rare occurrence, as I did not get the Hotpoint again I can't confirm this eather way

Love this dishwasher - so quiet compared to the one that it replaced you can actually have a conversation in the kitchen when its on without resorting to sign language. The auto door opening at the end of a cycle was new to me, and may have caused me another load of laundry when it did it for the first time.

We are very pleased with the dishwasher, it cleans better than our old machine. The loading of the dishwasher takes a bit of getting used to - but that would be the same with any new machine. The cutlery tray at the bottom is great as it can be moved to make best use of the space and the sliding utensil tray in the top is very useful. The 3D zone wash option ( which engages additional water jets on both levels) works well on dirtier items. The dishwasher is in an open plan kitchen /dining / living area, but we found the dishwasher to be quite enough that it doesn’t cause a problem. The only slight frustration is the spacing on the racks seems tight for some plates and dishes which makes it harder to load.

The dishwasher is great but AO need to ensure the fitters can deal with the electrics as well as the plumbing. It's pointless paying for connection when the fitters are not allowed to attach a plug!

Positives Very quiet dishwasher Reasonably priced Specially looked for dishwasher with quick (30 min) function and display of time remaining so that’s good Very different to our old dishwasher which had dials to select programme but this one is easy to use Negatives Very poor layout. We drink pints of squash at mealtimes and it doesn’t really fit pint glasses in (only a couple on the top and then they’re not very secure). The tray on the top is annoying as you’ve got to remove it every time you add something to the top. After a week, my husband put it away in a cupboard! The gap between the prongs is small in places to difficult to fit all our pots in for a single day in our three-person household. It says it’s for 14 settings (I think) but over a day we probably don’t quite get to that even if we’re at home all day and have every meal at home. However if you add a couple of small pans (e.g. for soup) and a serving bowl you cannot get all our pots in for the day. Two or three times in the 10 days we’ve had the dishwasher, we’ve had to leave pots out for putting in the next day or wash pots by hand. We’ve also put the plates in the individual adjacent slots yesterday (rather than every other slot) and three of the plates were not washed properly. Having said that, it has washed the pots pretty well the remaining days. So not very happy. Did consider taking it back but that would probably be a lot of hassle. That’s the problem with buying online as you cannot really know how it would work with the types of pots you use daily. Even buying after looking at it in a shop might not have revealed the problems.

I have had a hot point dishwasher before but this one beats it hands down. It is very quiet, honestly can almost not hear it through the entire cycle. The size inside is very spacious and logically spaced out, so no matter how you prefer to use it you will find a suitable set up. It looks stylish and very clean lines. I am highly impressed, surpassed my expectations.

Fantastic. Worth every penny