Recent content by jamiel

If it's got the passive filter in back then yes, it's good. If not, then it's builder-grade.

Is that how it works. I've never had a home with a sump pump, but in Pleasant Ridge we're on a ridge (they're digging a new house up at the end of the street--looks like Sleeping Bear Dunes the sand they're digging up). They always seemed like a pain in the arse and the cause for much drama.

I think that is a good surmise. By '98-99 they had mastered (so to speak) the conversion from Filter-Flo to the new plastic design both at Appliance Park and up in Canada, so didn't really have the capability to do a small run of higher-end stainless machines. I don't think there was a strike...

Believe there were ammonia wars in the mid 60s (White Tornado Ajax and Top Job general purpose cleaners)---they were probably piggybacking on that promotional activity.

That's exactly what I was curious about. It seemed clearly like past about 1955 or so they only survived on American Gas Association subsidies/research grants and the last "modern" cabinet style/double door/sheer look was about the last gasp. Doubt that they sold them to anyone except at the...

Recently was going through old Consumer Reports from the late 40s when they reviewed gas refrigerators alongside electric refrigerators, and with his video could definitely see the criticisms of the Servels that CU had (limited reserve capacity/barely capable refrigeration in a hot environment)...

There was also a GE 20" apartment sized stove until the early 90s which was notably better than the (rather janky) other ones that Sunray and Peerless/Premier made in that time period (and which were supplied to lots of other brands by those two).

Not to be pedantic, but that is probably not the TL for that year---it's missing Sensi-Temp and appears missing a cooktop light. Nonetheless, I'd make room for it in a minute.

Was out shopping for dryers with my friend. Helped her 2 years ago replacing her 20 year old Maytag Performa set with a washer (she ended up with a WP toploader). We fixed the Performa dryer last year (with a new idler pulley which had come apart) but one of the dryer fins broke off and she...

I just see all those repetitive motion injuries from the guy wiring the fill valves....

They may well want to slot in the newest item (Persil Subtle Fresh or some-such) and Persil is giving them an allowance to blow Intense out)

I did a study out this summer out at U-M in Ann Arbor (they have an autonomous test lab out away from campus) on bodily stress in autonomous vehicles. Essentially they took me for two different autonomous rides (each about 10-12 mins) at varying speeds (one was slow and gentle, one was faster...

there is a need for small commercial undercounter dishwashers with fast cycle times. There is research, though, that if fast cycle times aren't crucial, domestic dishwashers (with thermal hold for sani-cycles) are perfectly fine and NSF certified for small commercial installations (say, a B&B...

We stay yearly at a small (6 room) B&B in southern Vermont (Frog Meadow Farm----recommend it HIGHLY). They realized that their big bottleneck was laundry, so before expanding from 4 to 6 rooms went from 1 pair to 2 pair of big-ass LG frontloaders.

The one-piece toilets sometimes cost additional for installation. We have been going for several years to a men's resort in Key West (Island House---excellent place) that has a cooperation agreement with one of the bidet manufacturers (I don't recall the brand but the UI is great--two...