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Comments (4)I was lucky to have a genuine storyteller in my dad - I got to hear the one about the time he got grounded and spent the afternoon in the bathroom, playing with the fish my grandmother had in the bath tub (gefilte fish used to be something you made at home, not bought in a jar) and about dad stealing his dad's old Packard, and breaking several speed records trying to get back from Atlantic City before his old man got home. I have some of the lenses he used to grind and polish on his lunch hour while he was working at the frankford arsenal during the korean war, and the shotgun he bought during the race riots - to protect his black friends from the police. he always knew this would happen, and tried to fill us kids up with the family history - we're both adopted, and at least one branch of the family has always referred to us as foundlings, not grandkids, which upset my father no end (it upsets them now that I come to visit them more often than their kids do - but then, if I were their kids, I don't know that I would visit them, either) my goal for the year is to set the stories down on paper... and hunt down as many of the supprting characters as possible, to get 'other sides' of them....See MoreWhat do wish you'd known?
Comments (34)Coming from the industry I really find this thread very informative. From the posts the biggest surprise to me was no one mentioned "I wish I had installed automation on my pool". Maybe it is explained everyone did get automation when they installed the pool. Automation for a pool is like a remote for a TV. The least surprising thing I read was the concern of all the power used by a pool and driving up electric bills. In defense of the PB; the IntelliFlo and Intelliflo 4 speed are very recent product introductions to our industry. These products change the way a PB has thought about pumps in the past. Unfortunately the prevailing PB's thinking was: the bigger the pump the better. A 2 HP power had to be better than a 1.5 HP pump. Actually if you only have 2" suction pipe they are both about the same except the 2HP will be louder because the 2" pipe cannot draw the water required to operate the pump effectively. This thinking has been really around since the beginning of time. Now a company comes out with a completely different pump that requires completely different thinking. The thinking now has to be: Take a pump and set the RPM's of the pump to operate the pool at it most optimum, efficient performance. No more bigger is better thinking. It will be only a matter of time before all the choices of HP are no longer available - just one pump and you set the RPM speed. Presently the minimum energy savings of a IntelliFlo pump verses a standard pump is 30%. That is due to the rare earth magnets that are used in the motor. A long story short a standard pool pump needs to create a magnetic field through the motor windings to turn the shaft of the motor. The IntelliFl pump is a magnetic and this alone saves 30%. Now set the RPM's for the actual GPM your pool requires and the savings begin to move from 30% up 90%. The savings will average 60% on most pools. That means if your bill is $100.00; it will now be $40.00. Lastly two more points: PGE and other utilities offer a minimum of $250.00 rebate for just buying this pump and this pump can do more than one application. In other words and in many cases you can replace a pump therefore having one pump do two applications - that equals super savings. Each day more and more PB's are beginning to understand the concept and see the benefits of these pumps. A month ago at a industry show in Las Vegas there was a IntelliFlo/ Variable Speed seminar and the room had well over 200 people in it. A year ago this seminar was not even offered....See MoreWhat Roses Do You Wish You'd Never Bought?
Comments (79)Oh yes, the lovely frustration of Clothilde Soupert. I find her less frustrating if I simply think of her as a novelty rose with round blooms, sort of like a white balloon flower. Almost nothing else balls in my zone (not the very double Austins, not Belinda's Dream, not Eden), but CS is dependable to ball in her first flush or two. Even in my semi-arid zone in baking hot sun between the sidewalk and street, here's what she looks like most Junes: Fortunately, later in the year she condescends to open up and bloom more conventionally, though even at the best of time her young blooms have a very round quality. As for Austins, I'm fortunate that they do quite well for me no-spray, since they are among the hardier roses I grow beyond the once-bloomers and Canadians. That's one of the benefits of being in a dryer zone, as I need to remind myself next August when I'm hauling the hoses around the yard in baking 100 degree heat. LavenderLace, thanks for the recommendation of Twice in a Blue Moon. That's another lavender that is just surviving in the warmest spot in the yard by the skin of its teeth (what you think roses don't have teeth?? Ahem, they're called thorns). I do get a couple of blooms a year but it's hard to call them lavender. Still, I don't consider this a washed out pink and this one earns its 6 square inches of garden space. Now you want lavender/purple, Veilchenblau blows them all out of the water in its spring flush. Here is was last year and it has almost doubled in size this year. I'm expecting very nice things from it... Cynthia...See More"must have" functions and things you wish you'd thought of/included
Comments (46)There's no such thing as leaving the fan on too long. My wife took a shower before bed last night leaving the bath and bedroom sticky with the extra humidity (she doesn't like the fan on for some reason). I turned the fan on and left it running all night. What would be the problem with that? It's a waste of electricity, and it puts more wear/tear on the fan. Deep medicine cabinet if your situation allows for that (pic attached). Love that. Cavernous vanity storage under sink (pic attached). I don't love that deep, dark storage where it'll be easy to lose things. Shower at least 16 square feet. If grab bars are a concern (for aging in place), be careful of how you structure that square footage. If you go beyond 4' wide, you may not be able to reach the grab bars on the two sides at once. Plenty of shower storage. We have two horizontal shelves and a small window ledge. Still we needed a hanging shower caddy. I used Command hooks to hang the caddy and a squeegee in the shower. Love it! If you are going to use a tub and it is any kind of oversized unit, it should be insulated and have a high flow faucet. If not insulated and with a low flow faucet it can take 30 minutes or more to get a usable amount of water. By then the water is cooling off. You should be able to fill a tub in way less than 30 minutes. Related thought: Be sure your water heater is big enough for a tub. Don't see a reason to have a light dimmer in the bathroom. Mood lighting?? What mood are you trying to get into when you're in the bathroom? I have LED night lights all over the house. I can think of two reasons for low light in the bathroom. Night light is one of them. I also don't see a reason to have two sinks in a bathroom. In my 40 years of marriage there have been zero times when another sink would have helped. Agree. It's just more money and more square footage. San Antoin' - lots of great ideas but I don't understand the need for 36" around toilet, is that to give plumber more access space? 36" is for your comfort. You, especially when you reach your arms for the toilet paper, are wider than the toilet itself....See Morelily316
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