Why do Euro washers have heaters?

[foraloysius]

I suddenly remembered something else. At home at a friend of mine they had a very big gas tank water heater. The house was rather big and some taps were rather far away from the water heater. They had a circulation pump installed. The hot water pipes were installed like a ring system and the pipes were insulated. If you opened a tap far away from the water heater you still had hot water instantly.

 

[launderess]

Circulation Pumps

Are rather common today especially for uses where taps are far from the water heater.

Laundries, laundromats, apartment buildings/multi-family housing, very large homes,and so forth all have them installed. For one thing it actually saves water as persons do not have to run hot water taps for periods of time to purge the cooled water.

 

[arbilab]

And recirc systems are always insulated where non-recirc seldom are.

 

[mieleforever]

To answer your question Passatdoc, here in South Africa there is no gas/butane/lp gas lines running to any homes, you just dont get it here. Untill about 3/4 years ago a gas stove was considered rather low class and nothing really works with around here. We have however started with the instalation with gas stoves, but you buy a gas cannister, ranging from 3 kilograms up to I think 20 kgs. So it is rather a mission to get up, go out, say at night when your gas runs out and get a refill. Most stoves are electric and electricity is relatively cheap getting more expensive nowadays, and most homes use electric tank water heaters, (geysers), but you get in some houses gas water heaters, but gas is actually expensive here and like stated above just a hassle. Everybody is raving about gas stoves but I dont like them, I have a Halogen stovetop and my sister has an induction, they are actually 40% more fast than gas stoves.

So there just my five cents worth. cheers

 

[limey]

Kerosene Refrigerator

To mieleforever
I know it is a little bit off topic but about 40 years ago I saw a parrafin/kerosene refrigerator in South Africa it is the only one I have ever seen. Do you know if they are still available or anything else about them.

 

[passatdoc]

@mieleforever: sounds like those SA customers with gas appliances are using propane. It exists in USA in rural areas without pipe natural gas. Most natural gas appliances here can be adapted to (or are also sold as separate models that use) propane. In rural areas, many homes have huge propane tanks above ground. However, propane is quite expensive and must be trucked in. Natural gas is much less expensive, and where the pipes are available, it's widely used. The high-end professional steel ranges are generally always gas (at least the cooktop; sometimes the oven is electric in so-called "dual fuel" ranges).

I believe propane flames are hotter but I have no experience cooking with it, other than on a propane gas barbecue. Even my outdoor bbq grill is adapted to natural gas, both to save money and to avoid having to refill tanks. My house was built with an outdoor gas pipe protruding from the house for possible future grill use. My earlier grills were propane, but I adapted my second grill in the late 1990s to natural gas and my current (third) grill was sold with an optional natural gas adapter kit, which I purchased and used.

 

[maytagbear]

limey-

Kerosene refrigerators are available by special order at Lehman's Hardware. They also sell natural gas/propane refrigerators, which are usually in stock.

Link to the store's homepage. They also have parts for Maytag wringer washers!

Lawrence/Maytagbear

Lehman's - Products For Simple Living

Live simply with the Lehman's online store. We sell oil lamps, wood cook stoves & more. Non-electric tools & homesteading supplies since 1955.

lehmans.com

 

[mieleforever]

Yes to that Limey, we actually had a parrafin fridze and freezer many many moons ago, I grew up on a farm and there was no electricity for quite a few years. Eventualy my father saved enough money and we could also have electricity.

Cheers

 

[whirlpolf]

Jim (PassatDoc) your teacher was wrong.

I do agree that we have some very over-the-top old ladies taking it a bit too far with cleaning, but language-wise, your teacher is plainly wrong. I can only account this to her/him having a certain predjudice thus making the diffrence between "sauber machen" and "reinigen".

Here is my stance (plainly along the lines of language, not about soap consumption): "sauber machen" and "reinigen" are identical.
Of course, once you take it to a more supernatural or esoteric point, then "sauber machen" would not appeal (imagine a vampire movie about "cleansing" your soul, then "reinigen" would be the appropriate term, same thing in literature).
But in normal day-to-day life, both verbs are used in an identical way (hence your teacher is wrong).

Here are ALL the verbs:
"sauber machen" (to make clean = to clean (used in a generic way, no matter what the method is)
"reinigen" (=to clean, to clense, generic as well)
"läutern" (=to clean a soul, make it a better person) - a spiritual term
"desinfizieren" (= to disinfect)
"spülen" = to rinse, also (with china and silverware = to do some washing up / to do the dishes)
"putzen" = to wipe with a wet rag = to sweep floors, to polish things, to clean objects
"waschen" = to wash, to launder (usually meaning using major amouts of water / being different from "putzen" where you only use moderate amounts of water but add more elbow grease to the rubbing action)
"bohnern, blockern" = to polish floors, to wax them and after this, to make them shine ("blockern" is derived from the "Block/er", this heavy metal brush block broom to mechanically buff the floors)
"aufmotzen, aufbrezeln" = to pimp up (your appearance), to use cosmetics and all means of beauty business to get ready to go out (motzen meaning to be infamous, to be fresh or mean or loud-spoken while brezeln meaning to shape in a brezel way = making a gift wrapper out of yourself, think red ribbon around a surprise package here).
"schleifen" = to sand / to scour (using harsh abrasive power to take off material thus gaining a smooth surface)
"scheuern" = to scour (like with scouring powder) or to scrub (with a scotch pad scouring sponge)
"wienern" = to polish to a high shine (boots, chrome, stainless steel) - derived from ""Wiener Kalk" (chalk of Vienna, a very finely ground abrasive polishing powder, now in several polishing pastes such as Amway's chrome polish and similar products)
"wichsen" = to wax, to polish and shine (formerly common, now not really appreciated) = coming from "Schuhwichse" (shoe shine) = to rapidly move along a surface to make it shine - but today only associated with "to wank / j.o." (excuse this, I am only throwing some light on vocabulary).

Please forward this to your teacher. Thx.

 

[whirlpolf]

sorry, I forgot some:

"löschen" = to erase, to clear (coming from harbour business, "eine Ladung löschen" = to clear a load (from the ship to the store house) now used in computers = to erase. Also used in children's text books = to wipe and overwrite.
"polieren" = to polish
"wischen" = to wipe (also "auswischen" = to wipe out)
"einweichen" = to soak (literally: to weaken in / to soften, once you dip something in a liquid, the dirt is "weakened" while the suds are "in"vading the material)
"abziehen" = to pull off (like paint or varnish or any other covering material = to pull off, to strip)
"auflösen" = to dilute, to disintegrate, to dissolve (lösen = to loose, therefore to "loose up")
"Staub wischen, Staub reinigen, Staub putzen, abstauben" = to dust off = to clean from loose dust, to wipe or vac. (hello Swiffer!)
Note: "abstauben" can also mean "to pick up something" in a swift way, meaning: If you "dust off" something nice on a garage sale, you snapped something nice off the commonly boring mass of stuff = you found a goody.

 

[limey]

Parrafin/Kerosene fridges

To Maytagbear and mieleforever
Thank you. I was not aware they were available in North America and as I said the only one I have ever seen was in S. Africa.

 

[passatdoc]

Sind einweichen und aufmotzen trennbar oder nicht trennbar?

 

Ach, richtige deutsche Grammatik ist nicht von Amis zu erwarten....