Sarah Mitchell

Background

I'm Sarah, the person responsible for what gets published on My House My Home. I've been writing about consumer electronics and connected home appliances since 2019. Before that, I spent six years installing smart-home systems for residential clients, which is where I learned that the answer to "does this WiFi feature actually work?" is almost never the one printed on the box.

The site covers six narrow product categories: smart TVs, WiFi washing machines, smart fridges, connected dishwashers, smart ovens, and robot vacuums. I don't cover heating, cooling, or building systems. Different products, different buying criteria, different readers.

How I work

Let's be plain about it: this is a research site, not a test lab. I don't own the appliances written about here, none of them get unboxed for an article, and no article pretends otherwise. What I do instead is read everything that has been published about a product, work out which of it holds up, and put the result in one place so you don't have to do that reading yourself.

Sources come in three tiers and the article says which tier a claim came from. First, the manufacturer's own documents: the spec sheet, the user manual, the energy label, the firmware release notes and the companion app's store listing. Second, outlets that publish their measurement method and their numbers, such as Which?, RTINGS, Consumer Reports, HDTVTest and Vacuum Wars. Third, owner reports on retailer listings, Reddit and the manufacturer's own forums. That third tier only counts as evidence of a pattern (the same fault reported by many owners across months), never as a fact on its own.

Every number that could change a buying decision is checked against at least two of those sources before it goes in: suction in Pa, peak brightness in nits, energy per cycle in kWh, drum capacity, noise in dB. When a manufacturer's figure and an independent measurement disagree, I print both, say where each came from, and say which one I'd trust and why. I don't average them and I don't quietly pick the flattering one. When only the manufacturer's number exists, the article says that too, because "nobody has measured this yet" is useful to know.

Prices and versions rot faster than anything else, so each one is dated. A price names the retailer and the day it was checked. A firmware or app version names the release it refers to. When a later release or a price change alters what the sources say, the article is updated and the update is dated as well.

The verdict at the end of an article judges the information, not the appliance. It tells you what is documented, where sources contradict each other, what nobody has measured publicly, and what to check in the shop before you pay. Affiliate links appear in some articles and they don't influence which sources get quoted or what I tell you to look for.

What I've covered

The archive goes back to 2019 and covers WiFi-connected products across the six categories above. Recent coverage includes the LG OLED C6, Dreame X50 Ultra, Samsung Bespoke AI 4-Door Flex, Hisense U8N MiniLED, Eufy X10 Pro Omni, the OZ60 Pro built-in oven, and the Samsung Bespoke AI Laundry Combo. The full archive is on the blog index.

Editorial standards

• No testing of our own is claimed, because none is done. Articles are desk research and say so.
• Every factual claim links to a named source. A number without one doesn't go in.
• Figures that matter are cross-checked against at least two sources; disagreements are printed, not averaged.
• Prices name the retailer and the date checked. Firmware and app versions name the release.
• Articles are updated when a firmware release or a price change materially alters what the sources say.
• Affiliate links don't influence which sources are quoted or what the article recommends you check.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or partnership enquiries: hello@my-house-my-home.com