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Any luck finding noise ratings for OTR microwaves?
Comments (3)All OTR microwaves are super noisy. There is no point comparing noise ratings for them, which is why you are not finding any comparisons. I am sorry to say that they will all sound like jet engines in your kitchen. They just are not designed to be quiet. They are designed to be microwaves that have an extra feature of an exhaust. The exhaust area is very narrow, which increases noise. You would do best to choose your OTR MW for other features, and capacity, appearance and price. Almost all MW's are made by Panasonic and Sharp, with many brands just being rebadges of those two. So don't buy e.g. a Viking or Dacor OTR MW thinking you'll have a better machine--they'll cost double what the Sharp would cost which is the same machine. Most OTR MW's have 300 cfms. The Panasonics are more attractive, if that matters. However, I learned on this forum that Samsung has a new line of OTR MW's that have 400 cfms. I don't anything about them, but it may be worth checking out as there are no other OTR MW's I know of that have 400 cfms. However, I'd expect the 400 cfms to be even noisier than the standard 300 cfms....See Moredog makes weird noises asleep
Comments (8)Purchased a 7 month old female chow chow and put the crate in our bedroom for 2 nights only. Her snoring was like a 90 yr old man with bad adenoids. Now the crate is in another bedroom and I can hear her snoring from the other end of the house.Quite comical. Besides she is gorgeous....See MoreWhirlpool admits microwave self-starts can occur - Scary!
Comments (1)I knew it I knew it I knew it! Thank you, Blondelle. The repair guy thought I was insane. Renee...See MoreRefrigerator keeps making noise- I need help to know what to do
Comments (15)I agree that 17 years is a good long life for a fridge, and that your electric bills will drop like a ROCK if you got a new Energy Star fridge. It's also likely to be a lot quieter, and your frozen food will keep its quality better if the temperature is not constantly cycling. We had to buy a new fridge when we moved into this house in '04 because there were mice nests IN the coils and compressor area and the stench inside the fridge was unreal - I don't know how the OPs could stand keeping food in there! I bought a really nice Kenmore (made by Frigidaire) fridge, basic as basic can get except for the "upgrade" to glass shelves, for only $499 at Sears. I don't like icemakers and suchlike, IMO it's one more d@mned thing to break and cost me pots of money in repairman bills not to mention leaking water all over Creation (can you tell I've had such gadgetry go kaput before?), not to mention it takes up a good chunk of freezer space and I always need every cubic inch of that. It's a great fridge, very quiet, keeps its temperature, doesn't slurp electricity in vast amounts. I don't personally like having the freezer on the bottom, we use a good bit of frozen stuff (esp. in winter when we eat the largesse of people's gardens that I froze for later) and so I prefer having it up on eye level so I can see what's on hand before it gets freezerburnt, and getting down there to rummage around just doesn't do it for my creaky bones. So, your mileage may vary depending on how you use you fridge. (If there was one bell-and-whistle that I could have "a la carte" it would be pullout shelves, those are awfully nice.) I wouldn't go stainless just on the basis of a trash can, no way nohow... SS can be kind of a pain in the patoot to take care of (fingerprint city, and matching across and sometimes even within brands can be a nightmare, for instance, there are complaints on Epinions that Frigidaire's "Easy Care" stainless does NOT match other Frigidaire SS appliances well so you're kind of locked into buying only the "Easy Care" line), you have to really want it bad. You can accessorize with SS quite easily and choose appliances that take less fuss to keep looking nice. Do you have a good stove or is that on its way out too along with the dishwasher? If your stove is good enough that you expect to get a decade or so out of it, and you're cool with the color then by all means get the almond although it may not be easy to match it exactly. But if you'd rather have white get white even if it doesn't match the other things right now; we put up with a white fridge and almond-and-black stove and black-and-white dishwasher for 3 years because we knew we wanted to replace the stove (which I just got for Solstice, yay!) with white. DH just said in a couple of months we'll get a new white range hood to match, double yay. :-) I'm crossing my fingers for the 14yo dishwasher to hold out another year, at which time it'll be replaced with all-white and finally everything will match. :-) It's a process but eventually we'll have all things we're really happy with. Another thought, if you want to go white with the appliances, I haven't done it myself but people have repainted stoves with high heat enamel spray paint, which is available in many colors in auto parts stores catering to the hot-rod crowd - the range of colors is much bigger than you get in hardware stores and it'll stand up to the heat of car engines. Prep would be the most time-consuming part: clean all surfaces with a greasecutting cleaner and rinse well, then sand all surfaces thoroughly to remove the gloss, wipe thoroughly with microfiber "tack cloth" (regular ones leave a residue), then prime and paint per the directions from the paint company. If you didn't want to DIY, auto-body shops repaint appliances too, although you'd have to pull them out and schlep them over. There are also housecall appliance refinishers, but IIRC they don't do stoves on-site, although it's worth asking - look for "appliance refinishing" in the yellow pages. That would be much cheaper than replacing even with the cheapest appliances, and buy you time to research the dishwasher and stove while waiting for them to kick the bucket. ;-) I hope your cramps get better soon. Got a heating pad? If you don't, fill an old sock (no holes) with rice and microwave it for a minute or two until it's hot, and cuddle up with that, a good book and a cup of tea....See Morealisande
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