What did you do with your old (working) appliances??
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Comments (27)I'm pretty sure that these people from the Huntington weren't making up science to fit their observations, Al. The person making stuff up is you withyour imaginary potting medium composition to fit your assumptions. I have found small pieces of perlite in pots after having sifted and washed the perlite. How do you explain that without breakdown or ad hominems? Many years is too long? I'm sure the folks at Disneyland might disagree. You might want to qualify that with a specific mix. Too long for pumice? Probably, but then why is that if not because of being broken down? Besides, the original issue dealt with adding medium to garden soil and an aversion to that because perlite doesn't breakdown. Something so friable as to be easily be crushed with finger pressure or mixer agitation will certainly breakdown in a cultivated garden bed or especially due to freeze/thaw cycles which can breakdown concrete. Or course we are talking mechanical breakdown not decomposition. But if someone wants to present some 'real science' proving that perlite doesn't breakdown, I would love to see it. For some reason, I think that claim probably falls in line right next to the 'sand doesn't hold water' myth....See MoreDo you let your cleaning person near your new kitchen appliances?
Comments (53)Agree with eleena. In my bathroom, I can't get the cleaner for the tile on the mirror, or the faucet cleaner on the floor, or the floor cleaner on the faucet. You can't clean the whole thing without a damn spreadsheet. Teasing aside, having a simple cleaning service is not an upper class thing, at least not for two-job households. However, the reality is, having an intelligent, reliable cleaning person is an upper-class luxury, unless you happen to be lucky. I would love to have a touchup every week or two. However, I remember what the cleaning people did at my mom's place when she got sick and couldn't do it all herself. Each week, something new was broken, scratched, stained or missing. She couldn't afford to supplement the housekeeper's income by running out and buying new carpets or collectibles or lamps on a weekly basis--which is precisely what you are doing if you allow someone to break something in your house without paying for it. She lucked out for a while with an old Italian lady who cleaned like she did, but for the most part they were more trouble and money than they were worth. Now, if you can afford real staff, then you can get into human resources techniques. But if you can't, then you're not the employer, just a customer, and you take what you get....See Moreold appliances... what did you do with them??
Comments (15)Per my daughter's advice I posted them on Craig's List. Gas stove, 25.4 cu. ft. s x s fridge, DW, and OVR micro were mid price range, white, and 5 yrs. old. They were in excellent condition-never had any problems with any of them. Hope I don't regret this decision to get rid of them! I got tons of offers and happily sold them all to one buyer-a young couple who had just bought their first house and didn't have much money left over to buy all new appliances. The woman, who came with her dad to see them before buying, was so excited. I'm a fool for keeping my stuff very clean so those appliances looked almost brand new. DH and I felt good being able to help this nice couple out plus what I got for them paid for half of my new stove. My new stainless ones were delivered yesterday and I'm already wiping them down with my micro fiber cloths-think I'm going to miss the easy to keep clean white ones!!...See MoreAppliance garage - what's yours like, where did you get it?
Comments (10)Hi andrea and no.s & uncle -- thanks. As an appliance garage, I agree with all you say. I don't have one in my kitchen and was never tempted. I don't actually have a problem seeing appliances sitting on countertops (obviously; if you've seen pictures of how I live you will notice a certain high bar an tolerance for clutter). But you're right, andrea, it's the tambour door I'm after, not the appliance-housing capacity. I wondered about that reliability issue. If you install them yourself is it any better do you think? I'm pretty much anticipating the door being open much of the time. It's intended for waist height in a floor-ceiling narrow-ish stack used for linens and things. It's located on a hallway and I think having a drawer at chest-and-above height will not be so good. But I'm worried about cabinet doors opening smack-dab at chest height into the walk-way. So I was thinking at that mid-height to nix the doors altogether with a "roll-away" one. I saw those swing up doors but worry about their stick-out-edness the same as swinging cabinet doors. An open shelf could work but I'm afraid it would look a little cavernous. So andrea - what's a "garage door" style door if not a tambour door? Maybe, having wider slats? I don't know the lingo. I've seen those open and slide back type doors on cabinets intended for TVs ... I could look into finding the hardware; it must exist. That's a good idea. I hadn't followed up on that. But you'd need to keep the side areas of the space clear. I can imagine when housing a massive TV that's easy enough, just position it on top of a shelf, which they do. When the space is intended for kchatkes, I'm guessing it might become a nightmare and unusable very quickly. Good point about the cabinet above needing to stay closed for the up-and-out hinges. Actually, best would be a tambour that slid horizontally all the way around - not up but sideways. I bet that would be better-functioning. You wouldn't be fighting gravity... I haven't settled on the making of these cabinets. But we had our kitchen done by, basically, a maquiladora. That's a whole nother set of options when on the border. For some reason I feel a little queasy about this, though I'm no fan of nationalism --- anyway, that's what we settled on before. It worked well-enough in the end, but it was something of a fight that I've been reluctant to return to the fray of. Still, it is likely where we'll wind up. And yet, none of it is settled. They certainly could do inset but it might look a little funny? Though the tambour is essentially inset, so there you have it.... Thanks for thinking about this, all....See Moreplllog
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