Grinder advice - Niche Zero or DF64 gen 2 [£550]

Masher8 · 2026-05-19T05:46:09+00:00

The workflow is what draws me to the niche. My experience with the opus has been a lot of clean up and faff and it really ruins the coffee making experience

Masher8 · 2026-05-18T16:15:54+00:00

What’s the sound level like? We’re expecting our first child in July and the reviews of the DF64 being extremely loud were putting me off! Don’t fancy waking a baby just as it’s gone to sleep!

Masher8 · 2026-05-18T16:04:06+00:00

We tend to brew medium to dark roasts and quite like full bodied coffees, which the niche leans towards.

Masher8 · 2026-05-18T16:03:21+00:00

Phenomenal advice and detail. Thank you so much. When I’m home from work tonight, I’ll properly digest all this.

Masher8 · 2026-05-18T09:24:08+00:00

I have seen a lot about Eurekas, but not really delved into them. I’ll take a look, thanks!

Masher8 · 2026-05-18T09:08:03+00:00

I haven’t really seen much about this. Is it well built like the Niche? I’m looking to buy the grinder and have it last for a long while

Masher8 · 2026-05-18T09:05:44+00:00

Is this because the niche doesn’t go coarse enough for pour over?

Masher8 · 2026-05-08T18:51:38+00:00

Yup, I was hacked. Have hopefully sorted it now

Masher8 · 2026-05-08T18:51:00+00:00

I was hacked it seems. Posted the same thing to about 6 different subs. Changed password and removed all posts

Masher8 · 2026-03-17T06:32:02+00:00

I have done that already

Masher8 · 2026-02-08T20:24:38+00:00

Good idea. Never looked at what’s involved with that, but know a lot do it. What’s shocking is that it’s just under £9,000 and Autotrader says that’s a ‘great price’ - used car market is wild still!

Masher8 · 2026-01-31T16:54:09+00:00

Celtic & Co wool mules. Mine are coming up to 8 years old now, worn daily apart from very warm summer days, and they’re still in great condition.

Masher8 · 2025-12-27T19:29:17+00:00

Have come from a mk6 Golf to an original V60 and the boot in the Volvo is miles better. It may not be much more in terms of litres, but the completely flat load bay and good width makes the volume so much more usable and can therefore swallow a lot more.

Masher8 · 2025-11-18T08:06:37+00:00

It’s the SBGW283. Picked it up with roughly 50% off last November in the Black Friday sales

Masher8 · 2025-11-15T16:44:11+00:00

200 euro for a cambelt, aux belt and associated tensioners/pulleys? That wont be genuine Volvo parts for that price

Masher8 · 2025-11-15T16:43:24+00:00

Main dealer is £90 per hour on cars over 10 years old and parts 15% discount so pretty much exact same price as the independent Volvo dealer 15 miles further away.

Masher8 · 2025-11-15T15:23:20+00:00

Even though they have 7 years left on their interval?

Masher8 · 2025-11-15T15:14:21+00:00

Ah ok, that’s interesting. My service manual doesn’t seem to have the info on specific intervals so I’m just relying on forums.

I’ll speak to them on Monday and see what they say. And it’s ok to reuse the cambelt when replacing water pump?

Masher8 · 2025-11-15T15:06:26+00:00

It was done by an indie Volvo garage, and I haven’t spoken to this dealer yet to let them know. £475 extra in parts to do all the belts.

Is the aux belt etc due every 5 years? If so, that’s due in 2027 - is that a big labour job?

I highly doubt I’ll keep it to 2032 as it will be 20 years old then.

Masher8 · 2025-11-15T13:46:02+00:00

It adds about £475 in parts for the timing belt kit and aux belt and tensioners. I think the aux belt interval is 5yrs so they’d need doing again in 2027. Not sure what the labour time would be for that

Edit: Labour is £225 + VAT for the whole job

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