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Henrik: US laundry areas in homes vary by design. Some have laundry rooms with enough width to accommodate a wider dryer. Some have closet installations which may or may not be wide enough. My laundry area is in my garage, attached to the house by a door in the kitchen. It doesn't get too cold...

I have an All-Clad stainless steel omelet pan with non-stick ceramic coating. Performance is superb. I hand wash it, to protect the ceramic coating. Most of my cookware is Cuisinart Stainless Multiclad-Pro and all of it goes in the dishwasher. Multicolor hard water spots, which develop in time...

Some family friends had the same unit built in to their midcentury home in the early 1960s. The home was fairly new and likely had not yet had a kitchen remodel, so I"m guessing it was offered by the builder as an option (or possibly as a standard feature). I only remember seeing them use the...

My mom had a pair of 1958 GE's. Our fridge was GE as well. DW (installed 1962) was KitchenAid, as was the garbage disposal. Our somewhat more prosperous neighbors owned a Maytag pair. My aunt on the East Coast bought her home (in which she still lives) in 1956. The original washer (don't know...

2016.5 Mazda CX-5, with electronic parking brake. Seems to work fine, minus a battery failure or switch wearing out.[this post was last edited: 10/14/2017-10:29]

2001 Bosch 300 series---16 years old this month. No repairs My 2001 Bosch 300 series has never had a repair or service issue since it was installed in October 2001. The only problem was that the lower rack began to rust out about two years ago, and I replaced it with a new one from...

One aspect of grammar for which I am ridiculed: Konjunktiv I: "Panthera sagte, daß die Speise im neuen Restaurant sehr gut seien (Meinungsfrage)" versus "Panthera sagte, das der neue Restaurant Montags geschlossen ist" (Tatsache) They just laugh and insist that NO ONE uses Konjunktiv I in...

ps when I recite these preposition lists to German speakers, they have no idea that such lists, not to mention their required memorization, even exist.

Maybe 12,000,000 Germans emigrated to USA 1870-1920 in order to flee German grammar ;) (meine Ururgrosseltern waren in 1878 aus Ostpreußen angekommen----sparsam, fleißig, pünktlich, und sehr, sehr DICKKÖPFIG)

One thing is certain: aus, ausser, bei, mit, nach, seit, von, und zu brauchen IMMER DATIV. ;)

PhotoShop, 1950s style.

As far as I know, US-specification washers run on 110V and use cold and hot water fill. The heater is designed to boost ambient hot water line temp up to a higher temp---it isn't designed to heat cold line water to say 60 C---and if it could perform this feat, it would take forever. On my modern...

The house in which I grew up was built in 1935. No standpipe drain in the wall, since automatic machines did not yet exist. Huge porcelain laundry sink to the right of where our machines sat, and the washer exhaust hose was clamped to the side of the sink. My guess is that the sink facilitated...

Bosch 300 series installed new in October 2001 No service calls, ever. Upon delivery, the front panel had a dent, but Bosch sent a technician to swap it for a new front panel. Next month it will be sixteen years old. This model has a bar handle and controls in the door edge, and thus cost...

Typically, a gas dryer in the US costs $40-80 more than the corresponding electric model. Most consumers choose gas, if there is a choice (some don't have a gas line in their home). I don't know about the comparative operating costs today, but when I moved into my home (1988), a brochure from...

Just as fracking has caused earthquakes in the Great Plains states of USA. California would have earthquakes with or without energy extraction. ;) (but then, most new buildings are constructed to survive 7.0+)

Yes, in small towns and rural areas. You could see merchandise samples, place an order, then Sears delivered to your house. They also had mail order catalogs, with which you could place orders by phone or mail. I remember once needing a winter coat for a trip to NY (while living in CA) and the...

question for Louis re: gas reserves in north of Holland Louis, do huge gas reserves in the North (Groningen, etc.) still exist, or is the field becoming depleted. When I lived there in the 70s, seems like gas was used to cook and to heat water (gas point of use heaters), and possibly for other...

Not sure how many posters live in Florida. Be safe and good luck.

I have a previous generation Elux pair (60 series) and so far three years of stellar service. Elux rates highly on CR for washing ability, but ranks lower on gentleness and noise. My machines are on a concrete floor in the garage, so noise is not an issue, not that I notice excess noise or...