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My neighborhood is almost always quiet and uneventful. Its a typical suburban cul-de-sac type of neighborhood. Most of my neighbors are retirees or working professionals that seem to never be home. Speaking of screaming foxes, an aunt of mine lives fairly secluded in the woods. Not Appalachian...

I have a locking mailbox with a slot to drop mail and small padded envelopes. Even all my banking and financial stuff is done online, but invariably something comes in the mail with some type of identifying information on it. I rarely mail something out, so if I do, I take it to the post office...

I think that GE's impeller machines might be a different design than the Hydrowave. The Hydrowave lets you choose water levels, temperatures and used an agitator. They filled up to the top and did not do spray rinses, they actually filled for rinses too. Most had electromechanical controls. I...

I heard somewhere that the Hydrowave washers were better in terms of reliability than the post-Filter Flo washers that used transmissions. How bad are the Hydrowave machines? I've never owned one, but a cousin of mine has one and never had any issues aside from a scraping sound during the wash...

What made manufacturers stop the use of fuses in Canadian-market ranges? I've never heard of such a thing. And what's with the stacked controls on most Canadian ranges, where the surface element control knobs are stacked two high on each side, rather than across like US ranges?

Is that washer's lid side-opening like the Kenmores were from the 1960s to 2004-ish? What is it rebranded as? I could be wrong, but the graphics and the beigish color of the control panel doesn't look like a GE-branded model, but rather something GE built for another company.

I'm kind of torn on this... I gotta have stainless, and I like the plain, simplistic look of my hidden-control Whirlpool. While the wash performance is mostly good, I'm just thinking that the fish-tank pump will be short lived. The pump rotor is encased in plastic, shrouded by the stator. Very...

So I was called out to a nursing home for a no-cool call for a reach in. This reach in is not just any reach in, but a FOUR SECTION (in a split-door configuration, so eight separate doors). And it wasn't just any four section, as rare as those are, but it was an older McCall. They had a...

As a kid, I thought the whirlybird turbine vents were cool. Growing up northwest rural MO we had a lot of high winds and some tornadoes, so I imagine quite a few of those had to have been ripped off from its base due to strong prevailing winds. Nevertheless they were quite popular. I also...

I take that back, Victory Refrigeration is still around. Funny because I could have sworn their website was offline a few years ago, and I'd just assumed they were out of business. Their site us up and running. Maybe they closed up shop and reopened a few years later. These days, the commercial...

Very cool find. GE/Hotpoint had quite the lineup of food service equipment back in the day. They even offered dishwashers, including a conveyor model or two. About the only thing they didn't manufacture (at least to my knowledge) were commercial fridges or freezers. They probably did at some...

I'm too young to have been around the belt drive machines to experience them in depth, but I do know that the direct drive machines are bulletproof. I had a Kenmore 90 Series from around 2000ish that came with the house when my wife and I purchased it in 2014. The seller loved the washer but...

I don't like how the controls are integrated into the door in the white model featured in the post. I wonder if the whole door would have to be replaced as a unit should the control interface ever goes bad. These days, subassemblies are far and few between. Otherwise, it looks decent. I'd take...

That's very nice. An aunt of mine had an old freezer by Firestone (as in the tire people). It was about the size of this Penncrest and it ran and ran. It was probably older than her but I wouldn't know for sure without the serial number, but it's long gone. Cheap razors by now. It would still...

As fist time home buyers, my wife and I feel lucky to have bought right before real estate prices shot through the roof and interest rates went up a bit. We bought the house we are in as a "house", not so much as in investment to sell in a few years to "flip". While a few people have done very...

wow... I believe that this model (or something VERY close to it) are still being made. I've seen the square-door Maytags recently at all of the major retailers. Kind of like seeing a newer car in a junkyard, it's amazing how short the lifespan of what is considered a "durable good" is these...

Too bad you don't have carpets, lol. Hands down, I would have recommended the Sanitaire SC886 with an F&G conversion bag to replace the shake out bag these come with for better filtration. Every time I hear someone speak about vacuums, I have to sing its praises because it cleans really well and...

I use the "Intense Fresh". I almost want to make this my only detergent but I have heard that using just liquid detergents are not as good for the spider assembly or for avoiding buildup on the outer drum of a front loader as it doesn't rinse as easily as a powder, so we use commercial grade...

I've always thought about incorporating a conventional dryer system into a front load washer platform. That is, having a submersible heating element around the back of the outer drum, in a similar manner of how GE and Frigidaire constructs their dryers (albeit, the elements are exposed nichrome...

Ga-ross! I wash the sheets, blanket, comforter, pillows and mattress pad once a week. We have four sets on rotation: as one set is in the wash, the other is rotated out of the linen closet and onto the bed. My wife and I both agree that we like to use Persil to launder our bedding (except for...