and I appreciate all the help I really do. Essentially as soon as one of the above mentioned brand's go on sale I'm be picking one up. 1111GD, there is a smaller store (2 actually) near me that sell that kind of stuff that I will probably check out, just I find (or just assume) that the smaller places can't afford to put on the kind of sales that sometimes the larger box stores can do. I could be wrong but that is just what I have found with other items.

Is it a good thing or a bad thing that the output of the proposed furnace will be less than that of the current Trane furnace? I notice on the carrier website that the Infinity 80 (which I think is what the #58CVA070-12 is) is not Energy Star certified and does not have a media filter cabinet. Is this important? It seems like most people think it is better to change everything at once. If I do pay $2,000 more to change out the furnace for the Carrier, it is only $450 more to upgrade to the two stage Infinity 17 AC (#24ANB724) or $1,250 to upgrade to the Infinity 21 (#24ANB124). Are they basically the same, but one has a higher SEER? I would probably go with the Infinity 17 if that was the only difference.

I honestly didn't see any big difference in what we washed anyway. Yes everything came out clean as a whistle but so did everything washed on the normal cotton cycle that took 51 minutes. We just wanted to use it to make sure that everything worked on the machine. I guess if you were washing dirty cloth baby diapers or something then the extra hot (158 degrees) and super long wash might be worth it to you from a Disinfecting stand point, of course the bleach does than anyway but as far as regular washing of just dirty whites etc then just a normal wash in Hot wash cold rinse is more than adequate. In fact we washed most loads 4 out of 6 in warm/cold and everything was fantastically clean and fresh. So the standard wash is 51 minutes with one rinse which was fine, each added rinse was I believe 13 minutes or so extra. Each full load now only takes 90 minutes or less from going into washer to coming out of dryer. It used to take that long or MORE just for the dryer and 68 minute wash before so we are saving about 70 minutes per load from the old set. Actually even more than that really because we always had to wait at least 30 minutes or more for the dryer to finish before we could put in another load. So really saving about 100 minutes per load time wise. Unless there is some odd reason the metal hoses do not fit then I think the installer fed a line O BS about the hoses. We use the "Floodsafe" stainless braided lines, they have a automatic shutoff feature that in case a line blows or the washing machine malfunctions in anyway causing water to fly then the hose automatically shuts the water flow off. I am going to install these on all our water fixtures soon. Here is a link that might be useful: Floodsafe

The magnifier sconces and the garden maze pictures are from Leslie Elliott Interiors in Tulsa, OK. They are very similar to the Anthropology sconces but larger. The iron plate that attaches to the wall measures 30 inches by 2.5 inches. The diameter of the magnifier is almost 13 inches. There is a picture below. Hope this helps. The background of the garden maze pictures is a lighter color of Lenox Tan. I will post a picture of it next to Lenox Tan.