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Comments (3)Thanks Rudin, so it somewhat similar to the long 55°C prewash in the Zanussi machines intensive WRD cycle. Another question : does the turbidity sensor work only on Automatic/Sensor and Automatic Glass cycles ? My sister always uses Automatic only, so havent any clue about other cycles ... anyway it's shocking. Her machine uses for a full cycle the same amount our mid-seventies miele used for a single fill, washes far better pots and pans and is pratically silent...See MoreKenmore Oasis Elite Top Loader Owners - Q's
Comments (2)OP, does the Oasis washer have a Soak cycle? My 1 1/2 year-old Maytag Bravos, which is similar to the Oasis (both are HE toploaders made by Whirlpool) has a Soak cycle, and I use it in a very similar way as you said you used your former washer, with slight variations. As you already know, you cannot change water temp once you've started a wash cycle. Is the Oasis hot water truly hot? On most current HE washers which do not have internal water heaters, 'hot' water is actually warm, especially during cold weather. Because the Oasis is a TL, you can stop the washer, open the lid, and use an aquarium thermometer to check the wash water temp. True hot water is 140 degrees or higher. True warm water is between 120-130 degrees. If your Oasis hot water is actually warm, you could use the Hot temp. If you prefer, you could use the Warm temp, and you might get an actual Cool water temp. Load the washer with the laundry you want to soak, add the detergent and Oxi, let the washer fill with water and let it agitate for a few minutes. Then, IF your washer has a Pause botton, you could Pause the washer and let the laundry soak 'til morning. Before I got my Bravos HE TL, I soaked laundry as you said. Now that I have this washer, I load the washer with the laundry I want to soak, add detergent (Oxi can also be used), let the washer fill with water and let it agitate for a few minutes. If I want to soak laundry overnight, I then pause the washer. The next morning, I press Start to let the Soak cycle finish. Then I use a regular cycle (I do not add more detergent, as there is no rinse on the Soak cycle) to wash the laundry. My washer's Soak cycle allows me to add laundry throughout the entire cycle -- I do have to press Pause to unlock the lid before adding more laundry. If your washer does not have a Soak cycle, you could use a regular cycle, let the laundry agitate for a few minutes, and be sure the "Add A Garment" light is still on when you hit Pause if you want to add more laundry after you've soaked those items. I hope this helps. Do you have the manual for that washer?...See MoreQ s because it is decision time about buying a house/lead paint
Comments (11)I feel your pain. I posted about this on another board and will include a link to the answers. The short version is lots of people are raising young kids in old houses without bad things happening. I have a 4 1/2 year old boy and twin 4 1/2 month old girls. We are closing on a ~70 year old house tomorrow. (I think it may actually be older, we'll see) I bounce between thinking "It's going to be OK" and "Oh my god what the heck is wrong with me, putting my own selfish desires to live in an old house above my children's health?" But we're closing TOMORROW and my husband would seriously kick my butt if I said I wanted to walk out now. (OK not seriously but there would be strong words...) My biggest worry is actually asbestos and come hell or high water - that's getting treated. I have gotten a lot of different opinions on it but I want it out. It's a small amount so hopefully having it done by the experts won't be too much. (It's one or two pipes, 2 feet long or so... mostly in good repair but one of the metal clamps has come off and there's fuzzy stuff under it). As for the lead - like lindac said, any house older than 30 years probably has lead paint. If the paint is in good repair you're in pretty good shape. I can't say much about the outside stuff... luckily our house is brick with a bitty bit of alluminum siding up high so that's not a huge issue for us - but nevertheless I intend to have the soil tested. We want to have a garden and I want to make sure I'm not giving my babies lead in their veggies. (You remember a couple years ago there was the spinach/e coli thing? Some 2 year old died because his mom fed him spinach smoothies. I want to make sure my kids aren't better off eating no veggies than veggies we grow!) So that's one thing I intend to do. Then we will act accordingly. As worried as I am over lead paint - the last place we were living was built in the 50s so probably had some lead paint. We never did any major major renovations but I did have to do a bit of dry wall or plaster repair from my son ramming his trucks into this one corner near the kitchen or the one time he flung a doorknob through our bedroom wall. Probably kicked up a little dust but no one was any worse for the wear (and our landlord never knew about the damage so go me!) My husband and I also took it upon ourselves to replace a window when our neighbor's kid threw a golf ball through it. Old, old single pane aluminum frame windows. Halfway through chipping out all that old putty, I said, "Hmmm, I wonder if there's lead in here?" and DH took over the job as we were trying to get pregnant at the time (I pointed out to him that him having lead poisoning wouldn't help, either, but oh well) Was there lead? Maybe, maybe not... but it was messy as anything, I did not know about proper lead clean up precautions afterwards, and again no one is any worse for the wear. I did get pregnant soon after that and as far as we can tell the babies are fine. My son has never been tested but he shows no signs that he should be. So... I'm hoping it will all be OK. I am going to ask our pediatrician if she'd be OK with periodic lead testing, especially if/when we plan to do any major work. (supposedly it's just a finger stick now) The biggest thing we have in mind is removing a chimney so I plan to keep the kids out of the house while that is done. Also hope to keep the mess as contained as possible and clean up well before we all move back in. I'm hoping it will be OK. I'm a little scared but then I think live in Pittsburgh which is a great place to live if you like old old houses - and so many of my friends growing up lived in really old houses - and I never personally knew anyone who had problems with lead. So while it's scary... I think you also have to take the fear with a grain of salt. It will *probably* be just fine. There are all kinds or precautions you can take from handwashing after you play in the dirt to using the right stripping techniques if you do work on painted areas - these things should help a lot. That's what I am hoping anyway!...See MoreCooktop Q?s: Miele/Dacor/Wolf
Comments (1)I have the Wolf CT30G/S (30" natural gas cooktop vs the 36" you're considering). I think it's simmer is fantastic - it is the same simmer as on the CT36G. Truly. I love the stacked burner concept as it lets you effect a low-energy flame over the same distribution as the main flame (loosely) without reducing the size of the flame too. I use this all the time and much to my surprise I find I use it a lot. I thought I'd only really need this to "melt chocolate on a paper plate" and as I never cook on paper plates and have never yet expanded my culinary expertise to requiring me to melt chocolate, I didn't think I'd need it. But I find I use it even to make rice when I'm making a 1-2 person amount. & its been very nice to have when making custard/ whitesauce sort of stuff as I have literally just left them be on the simmer without paying any further attention to it - never have been able to do that before without burning 'em. Why would you think it would be tough to clean around the controls? The control panel beneath the knob is a plane of glass - very easy to wipe. If anything is tough to clean, I would say it would be the knob itself because the top of the cylinder of the knob to which the lever is attached is concave and therefore you need to dig a little to wipe. However, that is reaching deep to find a cleaning difficulty. Probably the greater effort is in lifting the heavy grates :-) I wouldn't use scotchbrite pads on the Wolf either or any stainless surface for that matter as it will scratch the stainless. I use a damp sponge or a miracle cloth. I was planning on the Miele and would have gone for that one (it was a LOT cheaper than the wolf since there was some local promo/deal thing a few months ago) but it wouldn't fit in the counter cutout of the cooktop I was replacing. One of the nicest things about the Miele is that it is a very thin profile stove. Whereas the Wolf and a good many others are ~4" deep under the countertop rim, the Miele is just 2" or 2.5" or thereabouts. Nice if want to put a drawer under it. The only thing to check re: the Miele would be its' simmer output. I'm really enamored of the simmer on the Wolf - didn't realize I'd find quite this much use for it....See MoreRelated Professionals
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