Check out my drawers

[jasonl]

In the cabinets, you pervs LOL

 

[jasonl]

And another

 

[jasonl]

Round is beautiful, and accurate too.

 

[jasonl]

And of course

My happy place with the pantry installed

 

[petek]

Now it's looking like a cuisine. Is that the garburator installed already. Me thinks when I get home I'll get my mom one of those Hwell roundies. Right now she only has a cheap rectangular T-stat with a temp lever on the side which cannot be set with any precision and I remember once when I was back home she said she didn't like it and preferred the old round one. I'd thought of getting her a fancier setback/digital but she's in her 80's, home all the time, and the latest and greatest in techno doesn't work for her.

 

[skip]

Well Jason it looks like everything is coming along just fine I bet Helen and You can't wait to move in

Skip...

 

[cleanteamofny]

Those are so dainty drawers you got there Jasonl!
)

 

[jasonl]

Petek, even the analog roundie is better than most other analog t-stats and even better than some cheap digital ones. The Digital Roundie is top notch when it comes to simple setting and comfort.

Clean, they're just natural colored drawers, a little brown but they work just fine.

 

[toggleswitch]

Just remember to wash and rinse your new drawers before their first use.

Sawdust and contaminants are itchy.

 

[jasonl]

Sawdust would be irritating if they were in my drawers. My utensils would not be happy in such conditions.

 

[sudsmaster]

Honey is sweet, but the General controls....

One of these General Controls analog thermostats was installed in this 1940 era home when I moved it. It worked fine, but I wanted a set-back type, which saves energy.

There was also a spare unit packaged in original box, with product tag and full instructions.

PS-the cabinets look great.

 

[scott55405]

I remember those, Suds! I don't think I've ever seen a round digital Honeywell, but that's very cool. I had one called a "Magic Stat" once, a digital setback type that was really good, to replace one of those useless rectangular ones. I have a rectangular one here, but all it does is regulate the wallheater once in a while, and for that it's fine. It's also very old, and probably made well.

Jason, your kitchen and house is shaping up great. I see a "Badger" has already taken up residence under your sink though. LOL! What kind of kitchen appliances are you going to get? Glad to see you have two washer hose hookups. Has the washer/dryer been chosen?

 

[sudsmaster]

Back in the 80's I bought an analog set-back thermostat. It had an analog clock (well, quartz) that ran on batteries. This clock had little tabs you could move for on/off settings throughout the day, kind of like a plug in electric timer. It worked for about five years, and then the clock stopped having enough oomph to flip the on/off switches. I tried another digital set back thermostat but it wasn't very good, either. Finally I got a Lux 1500 about 10 years ago, and it's been great ever since.

 

[sudsmaster]

Lux 1500

Check out the temp - that's from around middday, with no heating, no A/C, no fans, windows open all the time. I love this Bay Area climate!

 

[toggleswitch]

Do you find tht the room temp is actually 2*F lower than the shown temp?

In my LUX, I think the heat of the electronics throws off the setting.

I like the ease-of-use. In my old place the thermostat controlled a relay that sent power to an outlet for an in-the-wall A/C. (making it respond to room temp, not coil temp).

In my new place it contrls the oil-fired steam heating and the separate electric central A/C.

 

[gadgetgary]

Honeywell

My home has a 'heat-pump'. Several years ago, the electric company offered a free digital thermostat when you allowed them to do an energy audit. They told you what needed to be fixed for greater energy efficiency, as well as offering a 'free' upgrade to a digital thermostat. I took them up on the offer, only to find out a year later that the replacement thermostat 'bit the dust' and ended up replacing with the exact same at a cost of $150. Has worked flawlessly since.
Summertime keep the air in 74 degrees...winter I heat at 67 degrees. I am able to vary the temps by time of day and days of the week with this Honeywell.

 

[toggleswitch]

So many exhibitionists on this site.LOL

Live and learn.

I thought my geographic area was the northern-most place to use a heat pump, otherwise the efficiency suffers.

But I suppose when you are near the center of the state, (near Hartford, CT) and electric rates are 25% less for you than for me, this is do-able.

Thanks for sharing and posting a pic!

 

[gadgetgary]

So many exhibitionists on this site.LOL

And who knows what we will show next????????

Suggestions........

 

[sudsmaster]

Toggle,

No, I don't find a big difference between the display temp and the temp as displayed by separate thermometers. What seems to make the biggest difference in perceived warmpth in the winter is my level of physical activity and general health.

The Lux 1500 has an adjustment that you can use to have the on/off temps kick in above or below the set temp. Mine was pretty close but I tweaked it anyway.

 

[sudsmaster]

Toggle,

The efficiency of the heat pump will vary with the type of exchange. Air heat pumps are less efficient than ground/water exchangers. But the ground/water exchangers are a lot more expensive to install.

 

[chad_hauris]

I wonder if I'm the only one here who doesn't have central heating/AC? My house originally used unvented gas heaters in the rooms but now I use the much safer electric radiators when heat is needed. AC is from window units. There was never any kind of central furnace installed.

To me it would be such luxury to have any type of whole house heating/cooling system!

 

[skip]

HI Chad, My old house is cooled by Window units as the reason there is no central air and heat is because the roof is very low structure and it would cost an arm and a leg to install, but in a couple of years I'm going to buy something new and it will have central air and heat

 

[toggleswitch]

Tweak them to feel good.

I was amazed that parts of California have a very mediterranean-like climate and don't need cental climate control either.

Thank you for the *tweak* info. Must try that.
Does anyone know what the gas/electric slide switch in this brand of thermostat does?

In a gas furnace, an internal (to the furnace)thermostat starts and stops the main fan to prevent circulatiing cold air, and to distribute the heat at the end of the burner cycle, just after the burner comes off. What does an electric furnace do, and why is this setting needed?

BTW=> A heat-pump (cenral-air condtiner running backwards that extracts heat from outdoor air, concentrates it and sends it indoors), when heating, produces air that is cooler than body temp, so it can feel cool/cold, even though heat is being added. A fossil-fuel (gas or oil) furnace produces much warmer temps and does produce a warm-feeling airstream.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Wow Jason the Kitchen looks great! What only space reserved for one dishwasher? You'll have need to have a Roto-rack in there for sure! Plus some fun vintage portables to roll up to the sink.

 

[appnut]

Gary, I have the exact T-stat, installed March 21, 2002. With my new Trane.

 

[toggleswitch]

Rich,

Understood. Thank you.

In this case by efficiency I meant that atmospheric temperatures remain above (it used to be) 40*F so that the unit will run most of the time, and expensive supplemental heat (often straight resistance electric (read: very costly almost everywhere)) does not have to run.

[Where straight resistance electric is basically a coil like in a toaster].

 

[mrtide]

Nice kitchen decor, Jason

It hints at the 50's with the yellow, blue and the cabinetry, although thoroughly modern. I think your countertop is pretty; is it laminate? Do you have wallpaper in the kitchen? And are you going to use pulls on the drawers and cabinets? Either way would be just fine as where the drawers pull and the cabinets open tend to soil.

 

[peteski50]

Kitchen

This is going to be a nice big spacious kitchen
Best Of Luck
Peter

 

[peteski50]

Kitchen

This is going to be a nice big spacious kitchen
Best Of Luck
Peter

 

[DADoES]

Toggles, I had a Lennox 2-speed heat pump in my previous house. Interestingly, the heat output on *low* blower speed DID feel very warm, likely due to the slower airflow rate through the condensor (inside, evaporator in cool mode). When the blower kicked to high speed, the air felt cooler (than on low blower), although accompanied by high-speed compressor the heat output was of course greater. I've not climbed up to check the register output directly during heat at my new house (one-speed heat pump), but I've never noticed a wind-chill effect.

My favorite thermostat thus far was a White-Rodger setback I got at Home Depot when I moved into the first house. It allowed programming continuous or auto blower on each period. The next favorite was the Lennox, which had an outdoor temp sensor that recorded the high/low each 24-hr period (auto-cleared at 12 AM), and also had a diagnostic mode that reported accumulated run-time for high-speed, low-speed, auxiliary and other such details (but I seldom checked). I'm sure I have a picture but haven't found it.

Oh and by the way, on both heat pumps, I had/have the auxiliary locked-out until the outdoor gets to 25°F or whatever is the lowest allowed setting. I'm not sure how low the ambient must get until it starts running almost continuously, but it has to be pretty low. 40°F, 36°F, even 32°F, it still cycles regularly. Bob, did you notice what was the cycling pattern when you stayed that weekend, with the "cold" snap happening? I was running the temp at 72°F both nights, IIRC. Or were you paying more attention to the dryer reversing, LOL!