On 6th August 2020, Dualit ran a Twitter Poll asking, What is your top consideration when you're looking to buy a new kettle?
Given options of Speed, Quiet, Capacity and Repairability, Quiet came top with 50% of the vote!
When announcing the results of the poll, Dualit said:
Really interesting to see these results! If a quiet #kettle is top of the agenda, our Classic model has been awarded the Quiet Mark so you can be assured it's one of the quietest you can buy!
The Dualit Classic Kettle is Quiet Mark Certified and can be found HERE.
Dualit's How to Buy the Right Kettle Buyer Guide can be found on their website HERE.
Quiet was another important factor in the recent BBC Good Food Dishwasher Buyers Guide. This year, they rallied the BBC Good Food community with a survey distributed across their website, newsletter and social media channels to establish peoples favourite dishwasher brands, usage and purchase drivers.
They received 1,264 responses, 16% of whom said that Quiet Mark certification was a key purchase decision making factor.
More about that guide can be seen HERE.
Poppy Szkiler. founder and managing director of Quiet Mark, the international approval award programme associated with the UK Noise Abatement Society, explores the impact of noise in the built environment. It's fair to say, noise is a constant challenge for the building products industry to solve to create more comfortable acoustic environments. It's not so much the noise generated by the building process, rather the long-term acoustic design and effort to improve the aural experience of the buildings we spend our lives in, because sound profoundly affects all our physical rhythms as human beings.
Din busters! Families opt for quieter gadgets in a fight against noisy technology from juicers that are louder than planes to washing machines that make more racket than busy traffic. Consumers are trading in noisy kitchen gadgets for their quieter alternatives.
BBC Good Food surveyed over 1,000 households to find out what dishwashers people currently own, why they chose them, what features they find most useful and whether they would buy them again. 16% said they looked for the Quiet Mark, making it one of the Top 10 buying decision factors.
WFH may have become part of the #NewNormal, but how productive can we be, when not employed in our usual offices and work spaces, and with friends, family and neighbours all working alongside us in lockdown?
According to Water UK, 85% of the public are worried about the impact of plastic pollution. In the UK 7.7 billion plastic water bottles and 2.5 billion single-use cups are used each year. Many are discarded and end up polluting our rivers and seas. Staggeringly if just 1 in 10 Brits refilled just once a week, we’d save around 340 million plastic bottles a year.
