A Word to the Wives - 1955

[northwesty]

Well, I just watched the video and thoroughly enjoyed it. I suppose there are a few on this site who are looking at the machines and saying “wow, look now new that washier is” or the fridge – say, that is bigger than the 1927 GE I use.

Anyway this year marks the 60 year mark for my daily drivers, they are still going strong.

Just had to fix the water valve though, still, I can do it with the tools I have in the garage. Needed three coats of JB weld to keep it from leaking though.

 

[neptunebob]

3 betl Westy,

You have the right answer, but when I went the heating air conditioning school, Mr M insisted that in his class electric heating was 100% efficient because all of the electricity turned into heat.  I kind of brought up what you said and he insisted that was the answer in his class.  Now, if this were a general science or environmental science class me and you would be right.  Mr. M. was quite arrogant (so many teachers are) and we had to give his answer on the test. 

 

[swestoyz]

Watching this film has enlightened me as to the logic of some of the plumbing in my 1914 house.

At one time there was an oil burning gravity fed furnace in the house. I suspect at some point it also heated the water. I always thought it to be strange that there was an auxiliary hot water line running to a wash sink in the basement, then tempered at one time with cold water to run to the rest of the house. Of course sometime within the last 60 years or so it was modified to have separate cold and hot water circuits, but it is very clear that they were trying to emulate the affect of the super hot for wash vs. luke warm for the taps.

Thanks for posting!

Ben

 

[tolivac]

Looked up the gas supplier in my area Greenville Utilities Commission-they can supply electric(I use theirs)Gas,water,and sewer services.I use water from Eastern Pines Water Service.Don't have a sewer-use a septic tank-the gas rates from GUC-$1.36 Per CCF basic service,$1.44CCf for heating.$125 hookup fee,$45-$65 turn on fee depending on season-lower figure for spring summer,higher number for fall-winter.The hookup fee includes the meter,lines from the gasline to your house.for heating with electric-if you use a GOOD heat pump-remember we are not trying to generate heat-but MOVE it from another location(outside)into your house-this requires less energy than converting electric energy to heat energy-yes ,at the utility co they are trying to convert heat energy to electric.This process for them is getting more efficient-and properly operated and maintained electric dist systems are getting much better.After all the utility WANTS more of their electric energy they tried to create to get your house rather than heating powerlines and trnasformers-and going up in corona losses.don't know just how these rates compare to others.The Heat pumps are the most common sources of heat in my area.and again most water heaters in my area are electric.the heat rate for GUC gas is listed at 1000BTU per cubic foot.I know a gasline runs in front of my house.Same with Easten Pines water.Saw both lines when the area in the road was washed out from Floyd.Both gas and water was interrrupted.I was without water for a day-EPWC was excellent in restoring their service-don't know how quickly GUC restored the gas service.

 

[combo52]

COST OF NATURAL GAS ETC

Hi Rex thanks for all the information on your gas service, but you didn't list the cost of electricity so it still is not possible to figure the cost comparison. I agree that a Heat-pump is usually the most economical heat in your area of the country as you are only moving heat and you could get a heat-pump water heater also which may be very close to the overall operating cost of a gas model. But if you are staying with a conventional electric water heater you would be better off with natural gas, you could also save real money with a gas dryer and use it for back up heat if your heat-pump needs backup heat. The gas vs electric range is a toss-up as the gas range wastes most of the heat produced so I leave this choice to the user.