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Comments (43)John, Yes those are pods from the seeds you sent me last year. They are all very hot, but 3 of the 5 plants have different looking pods. One plants (above) as a "genuine" look of a true Bhut. Two of the plants (same seed pack you sent) do not look the same as there is no real bumpy/blistering. They do taste the same and have the same heat level just not all the same physical characteristics. I don't really understand why the difference in physical looks, the heat and smell are the same IMO. Again, thank you for the seeds. Out of all the varieties you sent me, they have all produced pods already except the Dougluh's. I could not get any of the seedlings to stay stable enough to grow much more than a few inches then they died. That is my quest for next year. Thank you, Bill...See MoreElectric bill out of control AFTER replacing appliances
Comments (27)Update: Thanks for all the responses, folks. I thought maybe the freezer was the only issue, but apparently there is still something afoot here. In Oct (a mild month here in FL), we averaged 62 kw per day. I found an Oct bill from 2007, and our average usage was 40 kw per day. I don't think I used the HVAC more than two days in Oct of this year, no other reason why it should be so high. Nov and Dec bills were even worse- back up to $375. So we finally tried shutting everything off- turning off and unplugging everything in the house, turning off every breaker. Got the meter to stop spinning, then turned on one breaker at a time to see what would happen. A number of them caused the meter to spin very, very slowly, but one made it spin pretty quickly. It was for the lighting in our living room, master bath, and back porch, and everything was definitely unplugged and turned off. I had an electrician come out and so far he hasn't found anything that could be causing a problem, but he is sending out a couple of guys next week to do a more thorough inspection, including walking around the attic and checking things up there. My husband already checked the attic for HVAC issues, but couldn't find any loose duct work or anything like that. If anyone has any ideas of what else we could look for, I would be very grateful! I can not fathom why the lighting on that breaker would be using electricity with everything off and unplugged! Many thanks!...See Morefired floor guy-no contract-what do i owe him?
Comments (7)Oh..I understand and am not being argumentative in anyway. I am just saying that if he goes in to court explaining how many sq ft, etc etc he has accomplished with an industry standard of what the labor should be he will have a good fighting chance. Of course, you would be trying to argue it away...but if he has laid 350 ft of wood and the industry stzndard is 3 bucks a foot lets say, plus extras that he has done ..he would be able to put a formula to that and come up with a believable figure..minus the deposit of course. Now if the deposit covers in reality what he has done..then he is paid and a judge, magistrate, or arbitrator should be able to see that. The right way on your behalf perhaps is to have two estimates done...One stating the labor if everything that was done is removed by you and started over and one if you had the balance of the project completed...the difference could be argued is what is owed. Now if he did some removal or prep work that the new estimate will benefit from, than he would be owed that also. Just some thoughts..and remember the laws just seem to favor the villains sometimes....See MoreEnergy bills and decorating?
Comments (24)As for the surge protector issue, the biggest issue would be with lightening storms (of which we have a good amount of here), so it's a serious concern for us. I'm definitely not an electrician, but try and research as much as I can, and this is what we've determined. If there's someone who knows more about it, please share!! If lightening were to strike (which it has several times in our neighborhood in the last few years), and you leave a surge protector plugged in (on or off), it may not protect your computer or tv. Unfortunately, we have neighbors who lost 2 tvs during a storm last summer. They were using good surge protectors and thought they'd be fine. Note that a power strip and a surge protector strip are NOT the same thing. The first week we lived in our brand new home, there was a power surge, which messed up the screen on our microwave (which was plugged into a gfi outlet no less!). It still worked, but a few weeks later, I came down one morning, to discover we'd had an interruption in power again, and guess what--the screen returned to normal on the microwave that day!! We did have an electrician check the wiring and all passed, but power is a funny thing and not something that we have full control over, even yet. My understanding is that anything that is plugged in can be a conductor of electricity, whether or not the item is on or off. A surge protector's main purpose is to protect from spikes and surges (changes in the flow of the electricity), but if lightening were to strike, the surge of electricity flowing through the wires is much much higher and more than what most surge protectors can handle. So unless you have security features of the pentagon, unplugging is probably the best way to go! Re: curtains. I added blackout/thermal lining to my daughter's curtains, as she has the hottest/coldest bedroom in the house at the wrong times of the year. The liners have worked perfectly! They have adjusted the temp in her room the few degrees that we needed it to do....See Moremiraje
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