1976 Ford Pinto, didn't blow up on me, but I was never rear-ended 1976 Honda CVCC--my friends called this a beer can. Because it looked like one to them. Could reach over and roll down the window on the passenger side while driving, without leaning over. Small! 1988 Pontiac LeMans-the car they brought back from the 60s only uglier and less durable. The first car I ever ever bought. 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse-At this time, Mitsubishi, Dodge, and Eagle (remember them?!) were in collusion, I mean had agreements, in place and Eagle made the Talon. Daddy liked my Eclipse so much he bought a Talon. 1990 Mazda Miata--you know how I feel about that one!!!! 2011-1990=21 years old. Still running strong. After bankruptcy, foreclosure, and divorce... AND it got flooded, there is no A/C (I don't care), no heater (I don't care), the driver's window doesn't crank up or down, I can pull it instead, and the radio just went out. I might fix that. I did just get a brand new convertible top and it'll likely work another three or so years. My parents owned, during my lifetime, and I rode in: '67 Jaguar XKE (CHECK THIS CAR OUT!!!!) Late 70s Grand Torino Ford, Pinto (the same one) A really huge and old Oldsmobile that I learned to drive on. Ugh. Cars my boyfriends/husbands have owned, and I drove/owned: 196? VW Bug (two of them) 198? Honda CRX (two of them) 1986 1/2 yes, a half year??? Toyota Celica, Supra (two of them) Oldsmobile Cutlass Nissan pickup Mazda 626 Mazda Protege Isuzu Rodeo The weird thing is, the two bugs, two Hondas, and the two Supras are the same two guys. Both guys onwed all those cars in succession. Where they deviate? After I broke up with boyfriend of eight years, he bought a Nissan Pathfinder. The one I married and stayed married to for 11 years, owned an ordinary Nissan pickup. Weird!!!!!

Ok, finally. Here is the dBs for Abbaka 1400 remote blower with silencer. Vent pipe is 10”. Vents out to ceiling about 30’ from stove top. I used the Decibel X app as recommended. On high: Under stove top, 64.1 10 feet away, 53.7 30’ away, under silencer in ceiling 51.7 On Low: Under stovetop 54.2 10’ 41.6 30’ 39.8 We really like it. Probably the most important feature we put in our kitchen! Can’t stand kitchen smells of garlic and onions and dislike a lot of noise. Thank you all for your input. Sorry it’s taken me so long to get back to you with numbers. I blame the 7 slabs of granite that cracked, broke or were not advertised size. Thanks again for all of the input. Debbie

I don't think he was scamming us, he really wanted to do us a favor. There were some extras (I had started to type a post but deleted it when he came b/c I was also writing that he hadn't shown up today as promised. There was about $180 for leveling the joists (he said he could tell before he ripped the old vinyl off but I thought it was just the vinyl), and after he pointed out that there *was* such a thing as inside corner and the builder used J channel instead, I checked out the back corner of the garage under the downspout, found the builder used his only piece there, so bought material and CIL spent a couple of hours pulling vinyl off the house and installing that, reinstalling vinyl, when he had only planned on pulling top couple feet of the garage to put the beam in. $20 here and there adds up, but there seemed to be a lot of "wasted" time too on his cell phone, getting ready each day, cleaning up (would have gone quicker if he had just worked 6-8 hr days instead of 3-5 hrs) and we did have a couple of cases of "measure once, cut twice" where at least the first cut was something he could recover from. Also a lot of "adjusting" after he got sections up, even after leveling the joists the carrying beam was sagging in the middle of the porch (he said due to sonotubes sinking) so to avoid the bowed appearance he had to lower the ends and not go strictly off measurements from the wooden beam. That was necessary, I wouldn't want to accentuate the problem, he's really trying to do a good job but he doesn't always think things out ahead of time, measure *everything* and draw it out like John does. John will even make prototypes or cardboard templates, etc (on the clock of course). But even with all the unforseen things (he was telling me the other day why remodels start at $180/sf compared to $125 for new construction) I we really are running short on $ and patience, I just want to finish this up. I only mentioned the project overruns in the first post b/c while the "nominal" $100 damage "retainer" might seem like a big thing to them, he's also making more than twice what he expected off this project so maybe it wouldn't have been such a big deal? I was torn b/t wanting to make him take the consequences of his actions (esp. since I specially told him not to do what he did, to stop) and wanting to cut him a break b/c things are tough for them right now. Not to mention we have haying to do ;-) Moot point now, since there is a lot more going on with that branch of the family than I knew, this is piddly stuff.

A guy in my daughter's HOA tried to "ban" my vehicle from parking anywhere in the community other than inside DD's garage because it was an "eyesore." It was an inexpensive Ford, about 10 years old, but no dings, dents, or dirt anywhere. He was over ruled and forced to apologize to me, wherein he mentioned a couple of times how angry his wife was at him, haha! The last HOA community I lived in made us fix two shingles that appeared (to them) to be "out of alignment." Oh, did I mention it was the roof of our DOG HOUSE? Never again. Never. Again. Onto the topic at hand. I currently have a vented hood of indeterminate brand. I'm pretty sure it's the original hood in my 37 yr old home, and I'm positive it's never been cleaned (until I moved in). If you recall, I bought this house from hoarders who never, ever cleaned their house. Even after I paid people to clean the whole range (electric coil stovetop), including the hood, it is the most vile, disgusting thing I've ever seen. It's also frighteningly loud. I'm certain it doesn't pull up anything; not grease, not odors, nothing. When I remodel the kitchen, I'll most likely stay with a vented hood since there's already the hole in the roof. I would reconsider if there wasn't a way to use the same hole. I know this topic has been passionately argued over for years on this forum. And I mean passionate! But I've had the recirculating vents before and, at least in my case, have found them adequate (please don't execute me at dawn for saying that!). There are a couple of secrets to keep them working well, and I assume this would also apply to OTR recirculating micros. First, many of them recirculate the air through a charcoal filter. You have to replace that filter once in a while! :-) Just like furnace or A/C filters, if you never replace them, they get dirty and cease to clean the air; in fact, they make it worse after a while. Second, while you're at it, go ahead and clean the other parts too. If you rent, make the management replace the filter when it's due. For now, my "vent" is the two windows in my kitchen. I happen to think my cooking smells good, so the windows are basically to keep a very sensitive smoke alarm from going off. Russ, where can I order one of those pot roast pillows?