Devblog

We’ve got a Bosch Exxcel WVD24520GB Washer Dryer and it’s been great – up until now! It has a supposedly “brilliant” feature called a child lock. It is a good idea because you can turn it on and then your children can’t turn the dials or push the buttons and screw up the wash cycle!

Problem is that unless you’ve got too much free time and actually sat there and read the manual from front to back – noone knows how to turn it on and so doesn’t use it. Until the child – in my case my two year old daughter – presses a few buttons and turns it on by accident!

You then got one hell of a task to turn it off. Turns out it’s this easy:

Hold down the clock/time button for five seconds

I just wish I’d been able to find that out without having to read the entire manual from front to nearly the back.