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Got a Russell Hobbs glass kettle. Looks lovely when clean but after a weeks use the limescale starts to build up and it needs cleaning. However we live in a fairly hard water area.
I always used mine carefully especially after finding out that this was a weak point due to a basic design flaw.
The later design with a cylindrical body which I have now, has just passed the 10 month milestone and still has it's lid!!
If considering the Aldi one, I would advise care with the opening and closing oft the lid, and to be sure to keep your receipt based solely on the strong resemblance to the RH early model!
That said, it's an attractive kettle and a brilliant price!
Heat!
This was my Russell Hobbs one, see how similar they are?
Not if you leave it in the box it won't
I use a couple of squirts of toilet cleaner to clean it.
WTF? You put bleach and chemical based toilet cleaners into a kettle? Are you mad??
Not all toilet cleaners are bleach based. Acid based ones do remove limescale extremely well, although nothing wrong with using lemon juice in a kettle
I wouldn't use anything that toxic to clean something that will contain drinking water. White vinegar either neat or 50/50 with water will clean it perfectly with no risk of contaminating the water with something nasty. White vinegar is also very cheap, I think 19p out of Audi for a bottle.
Yes, got this a glass kettle from Aldi when it was on sale in the autumn of 2014. It is still going strong, no leakages or complaints. Much better than the Russell Hobbs glass kettle. I am going to buy this as a back up, for when then current one breaks.
I'm still alive.
Great bit of info thanks. I too have the Russel Hobs and the lid has broken! What does your current model look like then if this issue has been fixed?
I bought the original from Amazon and they were as always brilliant about refunding and more essentially FOC return!
Russell Hobbs on the other hand didn't want to know regarding "customer service", just passed the buck to Amazon.
The second one I bought from Argos (I had a £5 voucher about to expire!) Just checking how long it's been in service, and it was first plugged in 2nd Jan 2017, so around the same age as when the first one lost its lid!
This image courtesy of the current item on Amazon UK.
If I was buying at the moment and had not had the RH version, I would defo buy the Aldi one as their refund and guarantee policy is also reliable.
Ok cool, so this new one you think has a more solid design to it?
Certainly gives more confidence, still the hinge is relatively "puny" as there is not really much room to beef it up.
I'm pleased with mine on the understanding that I expect it to "outlast" the 3 year extended RH warranty!
As I said before,if I were buying a glass kettle from scratch, I would certainly buy the Aldi one rather than the RH current one.
I cannot imagine that Aldi would have been unaware of the endemic problem with the original RH design (which this seems to be) without having attended to this design fault, at worst, you'll be getting an unquestioned refund next August and at best you'll have a smart Kettle for half the price of the RH one!!
I'm half inclined to salt one away myself, but who needs two kettles?
Don't waste your time, i purchased 2 of them, one lasted 3 months and the other just over 6. Looks really nice and worked well but both all went faulty with the plastic lids breaking apart. Store was good though and gave me my money back each time.
That's the argument that smokers use to continue smoking...
No leaks but you have to be extra careful in case you drop it.
Strange thing, the lights stopped working about 3months ago.
Two days ago, I went to make a cup of coffee and now the lights are working again.
It's due for another clean. I had a water filter but the refills are expensive, like lazer toner or printer ink.