Golden Care Sdn. Bhd. (Golden Care) runs a nursing home providing residential care for the old and sick people. Golden Care needs new machines for washing the twenty-five residents' bed linen and clothes after their old ones broke down. Pn. Mariam, the director in charge of the nursing home, calls WashDoc Bhd ("WashDoc"), a retailer of electrical appliances specializing in washing and laundering equipment.

She informed the salesman for WashDoc that the home needed new machines to do their laundry work and asks recommendations about the type of machines to be used. After hearing the explanations, Pn. Mariam however decided to order 4 "Kleen" brand model GX 530 machines to be delivered to "Golden Care Sdn Bhd.  She has selected the GX 530 model because she herself owns one at her house and is happy with its performance and durability. The salesman did not comment anything about her choice.

After a couple of months use, the washing machines start to break down regularly. Golden Care complains to WashDoc. Their reply was that the washing machines are ordinary domestic machines and are not intended to be run almost continuously, with an average of five loads daily, as Golden Care is doing.

Pn. Mariam had no idea that washing machines come in different grades and neither do the eight members of her staff. They all think that the big machines they have seen in commercial laundries and nursing homes differ from smaller machines only in the size of the load they can wash

Discuss whether WashDoc is in breach of any implied term under the Sale of Goods Act due to the faulty machines. 

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