POLL: Do you have renovation regrets?
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Comments (9)I don't know what to tell you, mrs. andrews. I just bought one with the 1000cfm remote inline blower and called Dacor because I had three less-than-90 degree turns and a 15-foot run. They said that was the limit before effectiveness dropped. The remote blower is making noise now under my crawlspace, vented through the foundation under my covered porch. It is amazingly quiet in my kitchen now. I hear it humming, but it's far away. I find I'm using it a lot more due to its lack of jet-engine noise, so it's already more effective than my previous hood. We hardly fry anything anymore, just occasional sauteing, so I felt I'd be OK with 1000cfms. Dacor was very helpful, 'tho. Why don't you try calling them with your question? Don't call Customer Service...call Service/Support....See MoreDo any of you regret having a pool?
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Comments (34)About 2 years ago, DH got his first "big boy" job and was moving about an hour away. We were newly engaged, but I overestimated my influence in choosing furniture at that stage. While shopping with his parents at an antique store, I found a gorgeous, solid cherry wide plank farm table for only $100! DH is cheap and wasn't mentally prepared to make a purchase that day. I was a student with no money. I wanted it so bad, but didn't want to seem like a spoiled brat in front of his parents. So I let it go. Three days later, he went to an estate sale with his parents. He came back with a old round oak table plus 2 leaves with a stained and yellowed top and 6 matching chairs... for $500!! His dad said it would last forever... blah, blah, practical man talk. But I didn't want THAT to last forever. I cried and cried. Seems so silly now to have gotten so upset, but there is definitely still a twinge of regret there for that beautiful farm table. I will say that DH definitely learned an early lesson about marriage and having a wife :)...See Moreif you didn't get a potfiller--do you regret it?
Comments (34)No regrets. After being in our kitchen for 3 1/2 years I think our best decisions were based on getting items that we knew would be helpful for the way we function (i.e. everytime we had traffic jams at the sink in our old kitchen---usually several times a day---I daydreamed about the way our new kitchen would function with a separate prep sink on the opposite side of the kitchen) and cutting the items that we thought "could" be useful or we thought we might regret not getting down the road. I appreciate not having any more appliance, plumbing, or electrical worry than we already have. There were a bunch of items,including a potfiller, I wanted when I saw them in magazines or read about them on this forum. Dh and teen dd steered me toward simplicity and I'm thankful they did. Stick with the items you feel sure about (and for some, a potfiller will be on this list)---those are the items you'll most appreciate. As far as fridge water supply with no drain vs. potfiller with no drain: we had never had a fridge hooked up to a water supply before. I was willing to risk damage to our 100-yr-old wood floors because I was pretty sure the easy access to ice would increase the amount of water my family would drink---and it did, by a lot. I'm pretty sure the risk vs. reward ratio would be a lot less favorable for a potfiller--for my family (and the opposite may hold true for other kichens.)...See MoreRelated Professionals
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