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Really nice job - not a fan of open kitchens myself, but that's the cabinetry I'd do for a renovation. Looks like they kept one bathroom. Sometimes you have to renovate - fixtures and pipe do fail - and we're assuming that the kitchen hadn't already been renovated with 70's-90's oak or Merrilat...

Since we're talking about European plugs And sockets, outlets and receptacles, why not go whole hog and talk about wiring and panel boards (bane of my existence right now - insurance industry is forcing replacement of fuses with circuit breakers in a lot of multi-family buildings - that and...

Some of those pictures scream that they are somewhere in North America, in the east in particular.

Good to know, interesting fact Interesting that it wouldn't have come with insulation, good to know. Definitely will add it when I get to that step of the project. BTW how do I disconnect it? I gather that one takes the front bottom cover panel off and there should be a connection somewhere...

One Armed Imperial (OK, that sounds like your next car) The Great New Chrysler - is here. No, I've had the dishwasher like twelve years now (and it's going with me when I move) and it dries like a champ! Once I quiet it down with insulation it'll be even better!

Thanks! That sounds like it would be a perfect fit. I'm going to do some electrical work at the box behind the dishwasher so when I pull it I'll see what clearances I have etc.

Soooo - sorry to bump my old thread.... So in looking at something else I discovered that my little workhorse has NO insulation whatsoever. Is this something I can add, either fiberglass or rockwool or something. And what, if anything, should I keep from being blocked? Some pictures from the...

Norway, while not, obviously, in the EU, banned oil central heating several years ago. And by banned, I made forced removal of oil fired boilers. Not many people had them anyway, it's primarily an all-electric country where it's cheaper to heat with electricity than wood (I've never seen or...

My late 20's apartment had grounded receptacles, even though they were two prong thanks to Chicago being a conduit town. Only place they weren't grounded was some handyman added receptacles from circa 1960. I replaced all the paint caked receptacle when I moved in with grounded except on those...

Frigidaire I have a no frills Fridigaire (10/11 years old) and it is fairly noisy - I can hear it down the hall at night.

Ytong Yes, Ytonghus was a 'catalogue' house producer (or in English, prefab). Ytong is lightweight concrete, sometimes called AEC for autoclaved aerated concrete - i.e. concrete with air bubbles in it. It's a Swedish invention. It's light, easy to cut and a decent insulator. That house has...

We had a second year Vega Kammback when I was a tot, which other than the rust was a good car. One of my uncles bought one based on our liking it and their engine melted down... When my grandfather died my grandmother wanted us to take his car, which was a Mark II Cortina (he only had a Ford...

PLAST! Love the love of plastics in '67. Yeah, solid burners were the standard in Nordic kitchens. That double fridge-freezer is the suburban (and even often apartment) standard there.

My mom was a single working girl in Chicago in the 50's (and into the 60's and then a married working girl in Chicago) just a bit after yours. She had two 50's Fords - don't remember which. I need to ask her which years... She would've been in College in '48 I think.

Don't the oven doors lift off somehow? I have a newer OKM but I've never attempted to take the doors off so I don't know how to do it. All that said, I think that there are springs available for them - hopefully somebody else will chime in with the correct place to get them.

Safeway absolutely ruined Dominick's here in Chicago - ran it into the ground. Kroger has now purchased it's replacement (more or less replacement anyway) Mariano's and it has gone massively downhill since that. Luckily we have a fair number of local or regional chains, such as Caputo's...

As a tidbit for non-Swedes, curtains are generally just decorative panels and are changed out seasonally in many Swedish homes (hence the changing curtains in "trivsel med textil" video. I love the "washing the car is mens work" bit... My mom had a Bissel carpet shampooer in the 70's (not...

Those sinks with the cutout seem to be a uniquely Norwegian conceit. I've never seen them elsewhere. They also had weird appliance brands, like ITT refrigerators.

There's a local chain in the Chicago area, Caputo's, that has their very own music, usually rat pack standards with special lyrics, such as.... "Caputo's is, my kind of store, Caputo's is...." Yes, seriously... (it's also a good grocer - great for Italian items and good produce, bulk...

So revisiting this thread for another of my air conditioners So the fan on one of my other vintage AC units seems to have failed. It hums when turned out and I pulled the AC and lubricated the fan, which spins more easily now, but still not action. The compressor kicks in just fine. Cleaned it...