Dear Mr Bianchi

I am writing in relation to a terrible experience I have had with Baumatic today, On Sunday my washer dryer broke down. I called first thing Monday morning and was given an appointment for Wednesday 29t June. Today I took the day off work and whilst waiting for him I missed a call from a mobile number, i called it back within 5 minutes to find it was the engineer who had failed to locate my property and as a result had gone off to another job and would not be coming back. i called customer services who said the first available appointment was 12th July. I called back explaining that waiting 2 weeks for an appointment when I have a small child and full time job was unacceptable and suddenly an appointment appeared on 8th July. Still this was not good enough being 10 days away. I asked for the name of the relevant person to contact to complain about the service and tried to locate a number to call her on. Not being able to find one i called back and spoke to a third advisor who said that they would try and find me an earlier date and suddenly 5th July was found. I still think that waiting another week for an engineer visit is completely unacceptable - I paid extra for the guarantee on this product and would expect that it could be fixed a lot quicker than that. If I were to call and pay for myself an engineer I could get it sorted in a couple of days but I do not want to pay myself and I am not sure why you cannot in these situations foot the bill for an outside repair man to come in place of your clearly overworked engineer.

At the end of my third call i asked to be put through to Jenny Charlton and I was told that it was not possible and a management call back would be requested. I imagine they wont bother to call until after my engineer has finally arrived.

I also find it unbelievable that in the space of 15 minutes 3 different advisors were able to find 3 different appointments all a few days apart - and all of them claiming that these appointments were the soonest available. If I believed the first advisro I spoke to I would be witing 2 weeks for an appointment. So am i to believe that if I continue to call all day i might be able to get myself an appointment tomorrow?
If your one engineer is so busy that there are no appointments for 2 weeks I would seriously consider employing another engineer to help him as clearly he is overworked.

I have had endless problems with my Baumatic appliances, - oven, hob, dishwasher, extractor fan and washing machine, not one of the has worked perfectly since I bought them and after this experience I will never buy Baumatic again.

I would really appreciate it if you could look into this as i feel a response time of this length is completely unacceptable. I think if you are unable to get your own engineer out to visit you should either pay him overtime and make him come back or alternatively send another company over to do the job or just send me a new washer dryer - i am probably owed one given the amount `i spend on extended guarantees and the amount this machine has broken down.

I look forward to hearing back from you.

Bought a baumatic electric fan oven and every 14 months the heater element packs in. It need a service engineer to fit the new part. Sounds simple until you have to wait 2 months for the engineer to call. I rang services to check that the engineer was on his way only to receive a call from him at 3.45pm to say that he was not feeling well and that he has to go home and he would not be calling to fit the part that he had in his hands. I couldnt believe it so I rang services and they said that I would have to wait 2 weeks for a service engineer to call as he was not in my area!! I cannot believe it!! The part has still not been fitted!! Every time the engineer comes out I have to keep paying him for the work and parts needed. I have therefore learned that I shall NEVER PURCHASE A BAUMATIC APPLIANCE AGAIN!!!

Breaks down regularly. Filter doesn't work and lets all the crap clog up your pipes. Will need replacing within 18 months. Don't bother buying one this BDW10 dishwasher. Spend a little more money, avoid Baumatic and get one which will work.