Outlets in floor versus battery operated lights
Teri Ziegler
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Comments (8)We have the electric (corded) towel warmer that tobler is referring to. It is, BTW, much cheaper to purchase it from Bed Bath & Beyond with one of their 20% off coupons - their coupons don't ever expire, despite BB&B printing an expiration date on them. It works VERY well. DH turns it on when he starts the water up. Takes a 20-min shower, and the towel is nicely warm. There are actually two sizes of this appliance, and we have the largest. It DOES NOT hold two bath sheets. Two standard towels, maybe. Or two thin non-plush bath sheets, the el cheapo kind. But not the full-size 6' long luxury bath sheets we use - only one will fit in at a time. This appliance works much, much better than the standard thin-pipe towel warmers. We have one of those we bought years ago, and all we use it for is as a standing towel rack. They are useless for anything but drying a damp towel. The only places that get warm are where the towel lies right against the warming rods/pipes. The majority of the towel doesn't warm up at all. Here is a link that might be useful: Towel warmer...See MoreIs Battery Operated Undercab Lighting Stupid?
Comments (5)I tried and it wasn't worth it for the light I had. I have only 40" of uppers for UCL so I thought what the heck, let's try a battery LED UCL: 12 LEDs on four lights, each could be aimed individually. Unfortunately they just weren't bright enough to start with and then as the batteries faded, the lights gradually got dimmer (ha self dimming) until I realized there wasn't any difference that I could tell with them on or off. as Pal mentioned, the light is now going to our extremely dark rv closet, which ANYkind of light will help. Now for my UCL, I put in plug-in LED which has three 12-light bars. Duh on me, three times the bulbs and three times the light. I actually prefer to prep there after dark now. HTH...See MoreInstalling a recessed floor outlet--floor about to be refinished
Comments (17)Yeah, ferrets are pretty good, but it's so hard to keep those little hard hats on! Thanks for the tip, kudzu6. I had been looking at a suspiciously cheap battery floor lamp and after reading the reviews that said the light was poor, I checked further. There's one for about $100 with much better light output, takes 4 D batteries. If I get that one I'll start with regular batteries and if quality or light and battery life are okay, I'll look into rechargeable batteries. What tips the scales to battery lamp over the recessed floor outlet, is the fact that I do not use this a great deal. Maybe 15 minutes a day, tops. Cost/benefit leans towards battery. Also, I was embarrassed to admit this, but I had not factored in rug placement. I've moved out the area rug I was using anticipating the floor refinishing which was when I started thinking of a floor outlet. That rug is not likely to be used there again, but chances are that there will be some kind of replacement. A portable floor lamp would be much more practical. Also, the room is fairly small....See MoreHardwood flooring versus engineered wood floors in kitchen
Comments (23)I've dealt with 30 year old engineered floors with the original finish, and a couple of screening and topcoating over it. If you take care of floors and don't let kids play roller hockey indoors, you too will never need to do a sand and refinish. The idea of "refinishing" as a criteria for choosing your floors is not really a valid concern. Choose a quality major brand, and you won't have any worries. No LL or box store crapola. $5-6 a square foot and up is where the good stuff starts. Under that, you can get some OK buys, but you're generally gonna have to do a lot more homework to make sure. So, what does "taking care of your floors" entail? Vacuuming a couple of times a week. Not allowing food and drink outside of the kitchen. Using rugs at all entries to capture the dirt from outside. Being a no shoes indoor household helps a lot too, but I'm not going to get into that classic arguement. Don't mop your floors. You can damp clean them, but people get all hung up over sloshing water on top of wood, and that's just a comple no no. Use something like a Bona cleaner a couple of times a month, max. Every other type of cleaning should be spot cleaning. But with food and drink confined to the appropriate spot, spills are minimized. Abrasion from debris is minimized by rugs that you frequently clean. And in 8-12 years, you do a refresher of a screening and recoating. You don't need to sand down to bare wood at all. Unless you don't do the above and wear through to bare wood....See Morequeenvictorian
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