Life Liner for Shelving/Drawer...good? bad?
Capegirl05
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Comments (12)Hi I think the "ideal" plan for a pond is to locate it where it can be approached from all sides with no shelves since it's sooo easy to bring the pots up to the proper depth this allows you to place the plants anywhere and change at anytime. A flat bottom allows for the greatest volume of water, allows placing the pots anywhere as well as the inevitable vacuuming MUCH easier. Of all the "ponds " I've built over the years my favorite has been an 18 inch above ground that is also 20 inches below ground. Interestingly it was built to store rainwater not as a water garden lol It evolved into both a water garden and a fish pond ,since it is piped to collect rainwater from the roof it becomes an automatic purge system. Does about 80 percent of the maintenence eliminating water changes except when it doesn't rain. This pond has been running since 82 and made of stacked 4x4'with a fiberglass liner with no problems EXCEPT for strangler fig which finds the space between the liner and 4x4 and IDEAL place to grow . Anyway my point was that i wouldn't build a pond that required getting into it to do maintenece in the first place with no shelves . gary...See MoreShould I put liners in for my new kitchen cabinets?
Comments (30)I went out to Walmart yesterday and bought some clear (not cushy) non-adhesive Contact paper, unrolled 1 roll and put it (18" wide) in my drawer near the stove where I keep pot holders, trivets, removable handles for my pans. I'm going to see how it works (that cabinet back was broken by installer so stuff wiggles when I close the drawer - not softclose) and maybe put it in all my drawers. That drawer was getting a little worn after only 18 months with stuff in it. My deep drawer in island has a scratch through the paper maple-grain laminate on top of the plywood. Other top drawer near stove has a chip in the laminate (not melamine). These are Merillat's "Deluxe" drawers - not sure if you can get lacquered solid maple bottoms along with the plywood sides if you go with their "Masterpiece" line, but I know the two solid maple dovetailed drawers I ordered online have a much better finish on them than the doors and drawer fronts on my Merillat cabinets! I don't want those drawer bottoms to get scratched either, but at least I know if they do I can refinish them. I've got dish towels in them now. If the clear Contact paper (says it's safe for all finishes, unlike the cushy ones made by Duck I saw in Walmart and BB&B) doesn't work out I'll try the cork. Nothing should be put away wet (unless a recess where the handle attaches on my pots is holding water, but I put those in the dish drainer after taking them out of the DW so they can dry thoroughly), and I'm getting plastic silverware organizers for my cake spatulas, kids' pencils, markers, etc. b4 I put them in new drawers so just need them to keep things from shifting or scratching - esp. things like our collection of chargers that is currently sitting in a ziploc bag near the MW....See MoreTough Life being a Stickelback
Comments (46)I bought my first 3 Sticklebacks about three years ago from a local Aquatic Centre...now, like Alison, I have loads! The Aquatic Centre informed me this year that legislation now states they can only sell aquarium bred Sticklebacks. Think this is meant to protect 'wild' Sticklebacks but unfortunately also means they can't buy/sell any bred in garden ponds....even mine who are all the progeny of aquarium bred Sticklebacks. (They had some last year) This may be one of the reasons they are now so difficult to find. Sue...See MoreAre fridge/freezer flex drawers good? If you have one, do you like it?
Comments (24)I thought I'd post an update here for anybody who might be reading this in the future. After reading the comments here, I decided that I was probably going to be most like the people who liked the drawer. So I set my sights on LG LRMDC2306S, which is a counter-depth with flex drawer. Then I tried to find one to look at. I couldn't find that exact one (yet), but I found a similar model, the LRMVC2306S, which appears to be exactly the same except with "InstaView," their window-into-the-fridge feature. And I could not believe how small the fridge interior seemed. I brought my measuring tape to see if a 12-pack of soda would fit, since I'd seen people complaining in a few places that it wouldn't. I thought it was hyperbole, but no, soda boxes are 21" long and the shelves were 16-18" deep. If the shelves inside the right-side door were arranged just so, and only contained small things, I think it would be possible to fit a soda box in there front to back, but it would overhang the shelf and go into the closed-door shelf space. (It's not possible on the left side door since the icemaker is there.) The InstaView shelving did not allow this, but it looked like maybe it would be the case on the original model I wanted to see. And it was the case on several other counter-depth fridges I tested. Not a great solution, and maybe soda boxes aren't my only constraint, but I wasn't thrilled about this. So I just started opening counter-depth fridges at the store to see what felt bigger to me. I settled onto two others: The LG LRFXC2416S, which claims to only have one additional cubic foot but seems a lot larger. The KitchenAid KRFC704FBS which feels a LOT larger but is similarly sized as well. The KitchenAid seems to be about $1k more for an equivalent feature set, but I haven't fully researched it yet. Consumer Reports scored both of these highly. I'm not sure yet what we're going to do, but I'm coming to the realization that although a flex drawer is nice, I think it would only be viable for me on a standard-depth fridge. I just can't take the overhead hit to the volume. I'm still trying to find a LRMDC2306S that I can see in person somewhere, but I suspect I'll end up with one of the other models. The KitchenAid is quite fancy and has nifty wood-look accents inside, but the LG makes "craft ice" (2" diameter clear ice spheres) which simultaneously seem like a ridiculous gimmick and also something I really want in my life even though I almost never use ice....See Moreplllog
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