My Ventahood drives me insane.
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Comments (11)the stems are so weak they can't support the weight of the bloom. *** This was my major criticism of A.D. The stem and foliage were almost never in an attractive proportion to the blooms. I don't at all mind nodding blooms, but these! It was as though the skinny stems and small leaves came from one plant, and the enormous blooms from another. If I tried putting the blooms in a vase, the weight of the blooms tipped the vase over. A.D. was the first rose we ever lost to gophers. And I didn't replace it. I did find though that Austin's 'Emanuel' -- which is in the same color range, had just as much fragrance in a smaller bloom. The blooms were carried in neat sprays on sturdy stems, cut from a smaller, graceful, arching plant. Jeri...See MoreHood Liner Insert w/ Extra Depth
Comments (9)lamermaid: Great points, and a great ongoing conversation. I have been perhaps overly repetitive in my opinions about VAH hoods. Like others (keitel comes to mind, especially as his (her?) "My Ventahood drives me insane" thread has recently been resurrected), what makes me crazy are the large number of posters who automatically suggest VAH as the "best" option whenever a ventilation request is posted. In particular, I am struck by how many folks who tout VAH's do so based on one of two things: 1) "the salesman at my appliance store says VAH is the best and that the [fill in the blank] hood is inferior because of..... (failing to mention that it's the only brand of hoods he sells) or 2) "I have one and I think it's great" (posted by someone who has never had a hood other than a VAH to compare to). In contrast, you are someone with personal experience with more than one brand and style of hood. Thus, your opinion counts, in my mind, much more. And I do believe that much of the advantage that I perceive in my hood is not so much from the fact that it's an MA, but rather than we have a remote blower and silencer, which I think is a wonderful setup. The reason I've been such an MA fan is the amazing customer support. I also love dealing with a small, American company that still actually manufactures here in the States (when I called to check on the status of my hood, the woman who answered literally ran back into the shop, found my hood under construction, spoke with guy building it, and came back with a hard estimate on completion--try that with VAH or Broan!). If I can buy a handcrafted, custom hood, which uses proven baffle technology, and which allows the use if desired of a remotely located blower, infinitely variable speed control, remote switching for lights and fan speed, etc, for the same price as a VAH--which if I'm not mistaken, requires the use of four separate squirrel cage blowers, each of which needs to be washed by hand, to achieve 1200 cfm, then I'm hard pressed to understand why the VAH would be a better choice. But.....as you've already pointed out, mine is an overly-obsessed opinion that everyone should take with multiple grains of salt. Having said that, we still love our Dacor PGM36 cooktop. It was my first experience with a modern, high performance cooktop and I still have lots of fun cooking on it. It's a great looking piece, still love the blue LED indicators on the knobs, and the 15K burner is more than adequate for my frequent searing etc. For that "space" (36'' five burner drop-in cooktop) I still can't see anything that would outdo it. The Lacanche is however at another level entirely. It's just a piece of art, classic, yet performs fabulously, with two 18K burners, two ovens, french top, etc etc. I do think it's a tougher question if you're limited to roughly 30'', and to only the one oven in the range, and I'd think hard about that choice--we also liked the Wolf and I'd be very happy, though not quite so passionate, if that was what we had gotten. Post questions to the longstanding LC thread....See MoreSearching for PH Balanced/ Neutral soap Driving me Insane....
Comments (13)So I checked and I've been using Kiss my Face hand soaps. Kiss my Face Lavender & Chamomile Foaming Hand Soap Kiss my Face Anjou Pear Moisture Hand Soap I also put a glass dish under the soap dispenser to try to minimize drips and residue under the dispenser. I'm also wondering if the olive oil in the 2nd moisturizing soap I listed could have been what caused the dark spot on my marble. I'm considering switching back to the first (though the last time I was at Whole Foods they didn't have it). The dispenser wasn't great on the 1st foaming soap, which was why I switched to the other one. Anyone know if you can get an aftermarket dispenser for foaming soaps? I also found this hand soap online that says "pH balanced" and have considered ordering it. But the price is so high, and they don't seem to sell refills (assuming the price is high because of the glass vessel). Pure & Good Hand Soap @ Anthropologie...See Moreneighbor's fountain is driving me insane!
Comments (55)Red, that dang dog is driving me nuts!!!NUTS!!! I think he's a wonderful dog, really, and I didn't mind that he broke the fence down between our side of the house and yours, and that he now lounges on our deck, really that's ok, the baby loves him. BUT the 6 am barking when you go to work....that is frankly peeving me off!!! He wakes the baby every single morning and my baby isn't well. The only solid sleep he gets is between 6 am and 10 am, or that was the only solid sleep he got since you started letting the dog out... If I weren't moving next week I'd be on your porch in curlers tomorrow morning... (Ok maybe you don't live next door but sheesh that did make me feel better...if we weren't moving next week I'd have been on their doorstep by now. It's really peeving me off!)...See Moretyguy
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