loud pops creaks in new addition..
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Comments (26)We added a new member tour family this year. he is a long haired daschund, about 5 months old right now His name is Coal. He is a black and tan boy AKC registered and has been micro-chipped all ready.he likes to play rough with our hands while he is teething but hasn't done much damage to the skin yet. He gets scared of big trucks going by the house when we have him out on the leash so he can do his business out side.A fire truck went by today while I was outside walking him and he turned to run back in the house, I picked him up, he was shaking so bad....See MoreNew additions: Have you got any of these?
Comments (44)Paula, your OS is sinfully huge, and just new last year!!! it is absolutely beautiful - it has a "purity" quality about it, as it also does in its yellow stage. I so LOVE this plant. When Paula/Ilovetogrow posted her pic on the Top Gun thread, I immediately fell for it. There were so many beautiful contenders I really had a hard time deciding, then I went with my first reaction. It just happened to be the first pic too, I think. It was a POW moment. Since then I've also acquired a few others from that thread. I'm grateful you added last year's pic. I think You must have been dancing all the way home with that one when you got it :-) Love the yard, I laughed right out loud when I read your comment...still chortling! Thanks! ;-) Eleven, you have the ultimate canopy for hosta gardens. Just look at that beacon in the centre of the bed! All other plants seem to "attend" to her. Very, very lovely. Is that Devon Green down a bit from FD? Near what looks like Inniswood? Don't have either but guessing from memory? MadPlanter, you're so on point! I do have many other hostas that are compensating for the loss, extraordinarily doing so well. Each day I notice something new, or see leaves widen, corrugation appear, etc. I am in my element! The biggest difference this year is that there are no slug holes!!! I haven't seen a slug for at least a week now. I can enjoy the beauty of leaf and shape of a hosta without being distracted by slug bites. I'm convinced the population decreased due to the harsh winter. The small ones I found helped themselves to the bait I scattered around and they are gone! As for your MMA, I'm sorry you had to be disappointed. After I read your comment I checked on it in my Grenfell/Shadrack Encyclopedia and the centre does go through colour changes, but it doesn't go all green at all. It likes morning sun to maintain its lighter centre. You deserve the real thing!...See MoreWolf dual fuel oven popped and sparked during self clean
Comments (25)" Posted by aprilh I was a little skeptical but he sounded like the knew what he was talking about. Said the metal walls can pop or crack while heating and it needs to do this because of how thick they pack the insulation in the walls. He said the little pieces of porcelain may be from the metal seams in the cavity. There aren't many pieces, thank goodness, and I still haven't found the source so wherever it is, it is minor. _____ I would love to hear an explanation of why the walls of the oven need to pop and crack because of the insulation. These pops are the flexing of the metal with heating and cooling and might not be unexpected but are not needed. Have you ever seen a cookie sheet do this in the oven? The problem is that the metal walls are covered with enamel which is glass and in the case of many Wolf ovens, the flexing makes fine hairline cracks. Everytime the metal is flexed with heating and cooling, these cracks rub and chip against each other sending tiny fine shards of glass out. If you use the fan and possibly just with air currents, these shards of glass, especially the very tiny ones can fly around in your oven. I don't want to take a chance on it getting in my food or even breathing it. "We talked about the issue of porcelain cracking that I read about and he said it is a known issue with one type of Wolf wall oven (can't recall which one) but not with the range. _____ :-O My range is not aware of that! It has chipped all the way to bare metal! At 4.5 years, with light use as I mainly use a wall oven, I cleaned the oven and to my horror it was chipped to the bare metal. There was another range owner on this forum with the same issue in their DF range and in my smaller market there have been others. It has not been reported in the Wolf all gas range. When I first complained I was told it is normal. When I balked at that then they wanted pictures. After much haggling over this known issue, they would supply the part, and a few hundred dollars toward labor but would not give me an estimate only that the labor would start at $800 and go up from there. The new part would only be guaranteed for one year and they didn't say if labor would be covered with it. We decided not to throw money down a rat hole if that was all the confidence they had in their product. My Electrolux had the same issue and total cost to repair was $425 and I could have gotten it for less had I gotten bids. It was paid for by the extended warranty. Electrolux seems to have fixed their problem. I was told when I bought my Wolf DF range that I would not need an extended warranty because Wolf would stand behind it. They actually did at one time as there was a person with 4.5 year old double ovens that they replaced for the blue chipping issue for $500 which was the cost of some upgrades on the new ovens. They just don't provide that level of service anymore. If you read on this forum, Wolf sales and repair seem to say all kinds of things to minimize the extent of the problem. I would try to get them to buy it back too. The scary thing is they that it sparked and then they said there is nothing wrong or gave no explanation for what might have happened. I would feel a little better if they had found something to fix. They also did not tell you the truth about the ranges. It may be that that particular tech did not know. If you keep it, I would go over it periodically with a white damp paper towel and look very closely for sparkly blue glass and some thin shards will even be clear. It might take awhile before the source becomes evident. You might see better with a good flashlight. Document everything very carefully....See MoreLoud music in public places and ear plugs
Comments (13)Ear plugs may work well for those within the normal range of hearing but they pretty much useless for the deafened with recruitment. We would have to wear expensive (not the cheap bargain ones) noise canceling headphones. Plus we would need additional technology (bluetooth connectivity) to our hearing aid(s) to carry on a conversation with anyone requiring them to wear a mic (more $$) that can be linked to whatever system we are using. Ear plugs change the sound often making it worse than ever. With good hearing aids costing around 3000.00 each and additional tech adding several hundred or even a thousand more this is out of many people's financial ability. Considering many are seniors or disabled who live on limited incomes who often depend on cheap devices we need to advocate for the hearing impaired as well as for the prevention of hearing loss for the younger generation. What the general hearing public does not understand is that most deafness, even profound deafness is not quiet. It is the brain trying to make sense of sound, not the complete inability to hear. Hence a TV or music being played low in the background indoors can often be worse than loud music played outdoors....See MoreUser
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