teachmkt1 Contrary to the unsubstantiated claims that it didn't recover well from from temperature drops, it does great: took about 5-6 minutes to gain 50F at 300 up to 500F with 2 or 3 stops along the way on a preheat. ____ Unsubstantiated claims? I like to differentiate between --information provided by the manufacturer --unsubstantiated claims which may be a person's stated experience but unaccompanied by independent supporting data --personal opinion Each may be helpful but has to be taken for what it is. Here are some examples. This information is from Capital in the User Guide and may be found HERE It is not my "claim" but Capital's own words. "IMPORTANT: If the oven door is left open for a period of time while cooking or the temperature setting is increased by 150° or more, the oven will go into a rapid recovery mode. This is the same heating as PRE HEAT and uses intense heat from the BROIL, BAKE, and CONVECTION Elements as well as the Convection Fan to heat the oven quickly. This may cause foods to burn." "Open the oven door only when required! Opening the door allows heat to escape and requires the oven to recover which can affect cooking. Check food by using the oven light and viewing through the door glass whenever possible" PERSONAL OPINION HERE>>>Not a "claim" but I wrote on a previous thread that this statement would give me pause because there are times I open the door frequently when using my oven. Trevor Lawson posted a response from Capital on this thread. HERE This is it. Again not my "claim", words from the manufacturer. "Trevor Lawson (Eurostoves Inc) This is the answer I received from the factory due to the last thread. There are two sides to this question and the complaints for each is shown below: COMPLAINT: My oven doesn’t recover quickly when I reset the temperature to a higher setting (+150° F) or leave the door open for overly extended periods of time and takes too long to regain the set temperature. a. SETTING: No quick recovery. Oven will cycle normally despite large temperature drops due to the door being left open, or the oven set temperature being reset to a much higher temperature. The recovery time can be very long for large differentials between oven temp and set temp. COMPLAINT: My oven goes into a quick recovery mode when I reset the temperature (+150° F) or <b>leave the door open for excessive periods of time</b>, and burns my food. a. SETTING: Quick recovery is set. Oven will go into PRE-HEAT mode if the difference between the oven temp and set temp is 150° or more. This reduces recovery time if the door is left open or if the set temp is increased." There is a very prolonged discussion HERE that includes comments by the engineer and many opinions. If you want to have some idea of how long it takes to move the temperature up if you need to raise it, without the preheat, again the user guide linked above answers in the delay bake section. A quote from the user manual (not a personal claim). "IMPORTANT When using the DELAY COOK, the PRE-HEAT cycle is eliminated to prevent food from burning. The oven will take an additional 20-40 minutes to heat to the set temperature. Please take note of the additional time it will take to heat the oven when using DELAY COOK." >>>>>using very basic math and the numbers supplied from the user guide. <<<< Assuming the oven is at 72F to start and you used mid range 30 min as the time required to get to a mid range temperature of 350F, add to the normal preheat again given by Capital as 10 minutes, it takes about 40 minutes to come up 278F. This is 7-8 minutes to come up 50F. Here is an unsubstantiated claim. No test data supplied. >>>My Electrolux oven takes about 60 seconds to raise the temperature 50F. I used an oven a couple of weeks ago that had a digital read out of the temperature and it was surprising how much the temp dropped every time the oven was opened even briefly but the oven kicked on and the temperature was restored in seconds. teachmkt1--"it does great: took about 5-6 minutes to gain 50F at 300 up to 500F with 2 or 3 stops along the way on a preheat" I am not sure what this means. Was this in the preheat mode or do you mean you preheated the oven to 300F and then the preheat went off and you turned it up 50F? Either way we have differing opinions on what is great. MY OPINION VVVV This would not be the oven for me because sometimes I open the oven for many batches of cookies or appetizers, stirring, adding something, taking something out or leave the oven open slightly for some types of baking. Open it three quick times and I can be down 100F and then you are looking at 12-15 minutes(using the variation of teachmkt1's, however the number was obtained vs user's guide numbers) for it to come back up if you don't open again.

Ahhh, the question to end all questions. I am househunting as well, and have asked myself the same question many times, so I don't know that I have the best answer for you. Plus you factor in the differences in opinion between the family members and that makes it even more complicated. It is different for every person out there that is house hunting based on their needs. Here is one thing that helped me a bit when my mom pointed it out based on something that I said about one particular house....think of how you live and your day to day activities. Now think of doing all that in that house. How does it work? Are you struggling to find a place to put your coat and shoes without a coat closet? Is that important to you? Are your kids bikes in the way of backing out your car when want to navigate that tight driveway? When you wake up in the morning, do you want to have a quiet place away to drink your coffee and check your email like that loft? Or will that just be wasted space that you feel that you have to furnish and wont ever use? If you want to have children, what happens with the 3 bedroom thing? What if your teen kids don't want to share? Just sit back and imagine yourself living there. Reality is, some things will drive some people crazy, when it is embraced by somebody else. The house hunt is obviously filled with give and take, but what matters the most is what works for you.

those wood slats won't help that much w/ the AC noise. Something more solid, and a teeny bit taller, might. I actually would like it taller, for a privacy reason. It's not that I would want to block ALL views in; mostly that want to block a lot of the view OUT. If you're honestly going to sell, then a simple paint job on the existing fence might be enough. Or, to hide the AC (but not muffle it), you could perhaps weave vinyl strips through it. (they sell "plastic fence weave" or "fence slats" for chain-link fences, but our block-long garden has flexible vinyl strips woven going across, through a fence much like yours) I'd only do the "tricycle run" tactic if you are planning to stay. I'm in a situation in which an outside AC condenser unit much like your neighbor's has already turned buyers away from my home because of the noise (not bcs it's visible). I don't have a code violation that I can use. But if I were you, I think I'd be worried that the NOISE would create problems if you try to sell, and I'd be wondering whether I should turn the neighbors in for the code violation (or ask them to move it)

I live in the Bay Area of California, and I have a very small "farm", consisting of a special light installation in our garage, and a hard plastic greenhouse and a small outside space with excellent sun. I grow tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, passion fruits, strawberries, and hanging geraniums all from propagation (suckers, slices, stems.) In addition, basil is easy to grow from seeds, plus we have a couple of orange trees and a lemon tree. I grow everything in containers. I have started to propagate all the veggies and fruits from above right now in September and October, not necessarily for winter consumption but to assure an early start in the next year.. From a package of Sugar Bomb tomatoes bought at Whole Foods in May, I took 8 tomatoes, sliced them, put them in fertile soil, watered them, and lo and behold they came up and provided me with 20 extremely well producing plants right now, in October. The same with a red pepper from Whole Foods. I used the same procedure, got about 12 plants that are now producing about 75 peppers. I learned that the only difference in color is growing time, so I let them grow until they are all red (and very firm.) I started their growing quite late in early July. I just did the same thing again with resulting tomatoes and peppers from above, and am already propagating them. They have already come up, and I plant to put them in bigger containers in the greenhouse over the winter. In addition, I have cut a number of strong suckers from other tomato plants, including hybrids, and they are all growing roots. Again, I will put them in bigger pots in the greenhouse during the winter. My goal is to plant them in their final and larger containers during early April and start picking the results in early June. Just read and try. It is so much fun, and it has kept me sane during this pandemic.