Pros and Cons of Your Dish Washer and Would You Purchase Again
Lucie
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Comments (49)I know I'm a latecomer to this thread, but it's a good topic. The house I bought 6 years ago came with a Miele Novotronic DW. At first I was put off by the cutlery rack at the top, and still don't like having to "arrange" all the flatware, but the unit has been very good at washing, and it's pretty quiet. It has a fan that evacuates the steamy air through the door at the end of the cycle, so dishes are fairly dry. I don't think any new model offers this. But the experience I have had with Miele technical service on the phone deserves a special mention. They are quick to pick up, knowledgeable, patient and very polite. They will walk you through your problem and offer the appropriate solutions, most of which you can carry out yourself. Once you've made your first call, you're in their system. Best customer service I've ever encountered! Further, Miele excels in easy-to-fix design. Most owner-serviceable items (and there are several) can be easily removed and replaced - many without any tools. Some require a Philips screwdriver or a pair of pliers. I'm about to remodel my kitchen but the old dishwasher is going to stay. If it ain't broke, don't ditch it!...See MoreThinking of Purchasing home in a brand new community... Pros/Cons
Comments (6)Here are my thoughts... The people that get in power on the board for your HOA are usually real idiots who will mismanage the funds and make everyone's life a living hell. It doesn't matter what the price range of the community is. You have to live with this. The maintenance fees can and will go up especially if you have a lot of ammenities and not a lot of homes to offset the cost. New construction homes typically come with no improvements so you have to put up some cash in the beginning for blinds, and appliances and whatever. If you have a reputable builder who gives a warranty... or not... you will be fixing minor (hopefully it's minor) stuff for the first year or so. If you're one of the first homes in the hood, you will be blessed with construcion noise for however long it takes to finish. Now for some plusses, you get to live in what sounds like will be a well maintained community consisting of well to do residents and your property will probably be very desirable years down the road long after the community is closed out. You get a new house for less than a custom build on a city lot. (usually) You get ammenities that you will probably never use but even if you do, it's a lot cheaper than building your own tennis court. And last but not least, having neighbors is kind of nice sometimes if they are nice neighbors. If you have kids, there will be other kids to play with and other social events. Things to look out for... The placement of your lot... make sure it's not at the beginning of the community or you will have a lot of traffic passing by you. On the other hand if you are way in the back you will have to drive slowly through the neighborhood anytime you want to get somewhere. Make sure you're not on a thoroughfare where people will speed and not on a corner lot where people run stop signs and drive on your lawn. Sizes can be decieving. Make sure the driveways are sizeable and there is adequate space between each lot for comfort. Look at all the other floor plans and make sure you've got one of the smallest ones. Never buy the biggest or most expensive home in a community! And make sure you don't have a lot of townhouse type things that might be potentially rented out if provided for in the rules. Last but not least, talk to existing residents either in this neighborhood or others the builder has done and ask them what their experience was like and if there have been any major problems to look out for. Ask them if the temporary management company is tending to community maintenance and responsive to phone calls....See MoreSingle-bowl sinks... drain centered? Offset? Pros/cons?
Comments (28)> New Question: if you go for the side drain, do you want the drain towards your dominant hand? Meaning, if you're right handed, do you want a sink with a right handed drain? And should a drain be on the side of the dishwasher? Or do these things not matter? I'm right-handed and prefer the drain in the left rear. That way, I can use my right hand to sweep food waste into the drain in a natural motion. The side the dishwasher is on is mostly irrelevant. Most of the undersink plumbing is from the disposer (which is directly under the drain), the hot and cold water valves and intake hoses, the drain, the retracted flex hose for hand sprays, and soap and instant-hot dispensers if you have them. The only dishwasher plumbing in the sink cabinet is a flexible hose leading from the dishwasher to the drain (via an air gap if you have one), which doesn't take up much space and can be fastened to the back wall of the cabinet, out of the way, and probably a thin copper tube leading from the hot water valve....See MorePros and cons of stoneware baking and cooking?
Comments (21)It's true that there is some insulation effect, but there also is, if not as much, with glass and pyroceram. Corningware is supposedly made of the stuff they created to cover space ship nose cones and protect them from the heat of friction with the atmosphere, or something like that. Steel is a conductor, but a relatively poor one. There shouldn't be more than a 10 minute, at the outside, difference in cook times for a lasagna in any of them, and likely less to none. Checking the oven is a great idea. Though...since stoneware works fine for bread and smaller things, it's potentially a preheating problem. Pink, how long do you preheat your oven for? It's well known that when the air at the sensor is at the correct temperature for the pre-heat signal to go off, the entirety of the oven, the walls, etc., often isn't completely hot. This is true with convection ovens as well, though not as dramatically since the convection speeds the heating time. I can see how with the mass of a big lasagna and the insulating effect that Ci_lantro pointed out, the stoneware might take relatively longer in an oven that had just barely come to heat. If you wanted to give it one last try, heat the oven for at least an hour, and set the stoneware dish by a sunny window in the morning, or put it somewhere else warm to come up to at least room temperature before building the lasagna, it might make a difference....See More
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