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Houses have furnaces now?
Technology Connections told me about the filter in the bottom of the dishwasher, how cleaning that out can do wonders for the performance. And he said if you hadn’t ever cleaned that he felt sorry for me when I would open it up and find out what’s inside. I was afraid to, so I sold the dishwasher and got a new one. Checked the filter, clean as a whistle, disaster avoided.
Oh yeah, they can get gross, but the easy solution is to just stick it in the dishwasher, and boom, clean as new!
I wish he would do more videos on things I actually own or want to own when mentioning things you should do to improve them. I don’t have a dish washer.
But I do have several things which make use of the refrigerant cycle. Fridge, freezer, dehumidifier, heat pump. Maybe some day I will get an aquarium chiller too rather than using 2L bottles of ice.
What fish are you keeping that you need the water that cold? First that comes to mind for me is trout.
Not a fish, axolotl.
I love comments like these.
Afraid to check your dishwasher filter, so you bought an entirely new dishwasher?? Do you also throw your clothes away when they get dirty, and keep buying new clothes? Lazy irresponsible financial decisions like this remind me of the infuriating saga of Albert Clarke .
If you have clothes that haven’t been washed in years, definitely throw them away.
But if you go down the infuriating rabbit hole of Albert Clarke , you’ll see he had so little regard for money that he & his 4 children would wear clothes only TWO OR THREE TIMES, buy new clothes, and throw the old ones away. Albert Clarke has never worked a day in his life, just has money constantly showering down upon him. AFAIK he’s still alive, currently 83 years old and his unearned undeserved book royalties will continue showering down upon him until he’s 99. And he’s never done laundry.
No it was a joke, the dishwasher was over 20 years old and I had maintained it properly. I had repaired it many times, replacing or repairing components, improvising fixes where needed. I am remodeling the downstairs, so I removed the kitchen. I made sure almost all of the cabinets got a second life in a garage somewhere (helped move and install them). The dishwasher was still functional, even though it was old, so I gave it away for free and somebody was happy to have it.
In the end all that actually went to recycling was one cabinet which was totally rotted, it fell apart as I removed it. Some wood trim that was made to fit exactly this kitchen and the hood which was broken beyond repair (needed a new motor, which is almost the entire thing and I couldn’t source it).
I plan to re-use the fridge and the hobb. The oven has been nothing but trouble since I moved in, with a post-it on the electrical panel for how to reset it when it goes into failure mode that looked like it had been there for decades. That might need to go to recycling. I re-used part of the kitchen counter as a workbench, but part of that has gone to recycling as well.
I’m all about reduce, re-use and recycle and wouldn’t just buy something new when I don’t need to. I’m still waying my options for the new kitchen, if I’m going to go sustainable or recycled materials I’m going to have to build it myself. Which is in my capabilities, but perhaps not in my time constraints. So not sure on that yet. For now I’ve uncovered a world of hurt with very questionable and dangerous electrical and plumbing. How this house hasn’t burnt down yet is a wonder, and I have uncovered evidence of multiple fires in the past. So that’s a big job that takes priority for now.
Glad you are a responsible human renovating your house & you are adulting well. It’s my own problem that something in your comment sent me down a rabbit hole of the infuriating saga of Albert Clarke . It was over an hour ago and I’ve just emerged for fresh air.
Pardon me, hobb?
Probably the stovetop
Stovetop, (although hob is spelt with one b. Probably a typo)
Mr. Clarke wears a gray button-down shirt so fresh from its plastic packaging that it still bears a symmetrical grid of creases. “I spend a lot of money on clothes for me and May and Aly,” he says. “We wear them two or three times. When they get all wrinkly and funky, we throw them out.”
Holy wow, hard to believe!
Ngl i think id rather have normally wrinkled clothes than the fold lines from when it was packaged
I had no idea that the author of Goodnight Moon is exactly the sort of person I’d love to hang out with
Margaret Wise Brown? Yeah she was apparently a fabulous fun super chill lady.
Found and removed the filter screen in my moms dishwasher when it broke, scale buildup from the water had grown down into the pump, ruining it :(
SSSSLIIIIMEEEEEE
Why do you all have dryers tho? Seems a huge hassle to keep track of to avoid not burning down your shit. Doesn’t it also reduce the lifetime of clothing?
I just throw my laundry vaguely on a drying rack and be done with it. Works just fine
The drying rack is way better for your clothes, but I live in western Washington so the dryer is pretty necessary for about half the year.
Seems like more work than shoving my clothes in a dryer and spending 2 seconds taking lint off a grate. I have adhd and there’s a lot of household tasks I have trouble keeping track of, that’s not one of them.
There are six people living in my house. I would need to build out another room just to make hanging space for everyone’s wet clothes on laundry day. And in winter I would need an HVAC system to manage the moisture in the air and avoid growing mold on the walls.
HVAC is still less of a fire risk than a dryer though.
Both are a massive risk if not maintained regularly. One literally uses a live flame vs a heat element, and you want to say the latter is a higher risk?
lol my dryer uses flame
Not sure why the downvote—it’s a natural gas clothes dryer…
Modern HVAC systems also use hearing elements or heat pumps. But a live flame is not that dangerous if it has no chance of falling over and it’s kept in a dust free environment. At least in my country most does are caused by 1) open hearth fires 2) malfunctioning electrical appliances, with dryers being the most common appliance to cause a fire
No they don’t, to heat a whole house with electricity is incredibly inefficient. And a heat pump in -30 isn’t gonna work that well.
Not if you use an air-source heat pump, but there’s also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_source_heat_pump and electricity from renewable sources like wind turbines are used more and more in many parts of the world. Over here new houses don’t use gas anymore, just electricity. Though temperatures usually don’t reach -30 here.
Scale and location. Those don’t work everywhere.
Gas will always be needed, only way to heat at night, and what about during winter when there only 6 hours of sunlight?
Your link also talks about why geothermal isn’t good for single homes, it’s incredibly inefficient to drill thousands of holes for one community. There’s a host of other issues too.
Heat pump or dehumidifier and a lot of hanging space, spacing out laundry loads. Works fine. Yes it takes space.
Clothes go from loud rolling box A to loud rolling box B and are done before loud rolling box A is finished with the next load.
I compromise and rack-dry my nicer t-shirts, but machine-dry everything else.
That works depending on the climate where you live and the amount of laundry your household produces. Usually it’s beter to dry laundry outside, but in climates where it can rain a lot that may not be an option in every season.
Agreed. There are also climates where it snows a large portion the year. Winter would get awfully stinky if I couldn’t handle all my laundry indoors.
I have one because I live in the Pacific northwest rainforest and we get a lot of rain here. Plus, I really hate how humid the house gets if you line dry indoors. I guess it’s much more heavily used in the us.
I’m also wondering “my what” upon hearing about furnace filters. As far as I can tell, my furnace has none. The “filter” is the size of the hole I chuck logs through. If log too big, it no go in.
I’m wondering what “furnace” entails too. I realize I’m showing my ass here but do they mean like the water boiler, or the heater? Do gas burners have filters?
In the US we refer to the large heater for central air conditioning to be the furnace whether it is gas or electric. The filter is on the blower that pushes the hot air around the house.
Interesting. We tend to heat with water in my part of the EU so that specific chore doesnt really exist here.
The HVAC system.
Depends where in the world you are I think. In the UK most people have combination water/heating natural gas boilers. Some places are on heating oil if you’re out in the sticks (or in Northern Ireland which has a different system) and some modern houses are all-electric heat pump setups. We mostly have no air con which is becoming less tenable with climate change, and water-based radiators so nothing like a furnace in American systems.
Newer machines will stop drying if the sense the filter is too full. Helpful for if you forget when doing a bunch of laundry, but if the sensor goes faulty, it’ll be throwing errors regardless of how clean the duct or filter is.
My sister in law refuses to clean the dryer filter, and also wants to be the one in charge of the laundry for her and her husband. Whenever I do a load of my clothes, I clean the filter and it’s at least 10 layers of fire hazard
My SO and I argue over who gets to clean the lint trap. We love it.
Hey, theyre clearly made for eachother. Good for them tbh.
What is her reasoning?
Seasoning
I for one am amazed that you could create an entire clothing item from all that lint, if it was connected.
You could probably felt it into something.
I could use it to start my fireplace for like a year imo, in tiny pieces
I checked mine after a year, there was barely anything there, mostly just water. Did i do it wrong or is that normal?
What did you check exactly? The exhaust hose, or the trap on your drier that pulls out?
If there is water in your hose you are not removing the air fast enough to avoid condensation. If there is no lint it might be due to pressure drop (friction loss) because of duct length or other blockage.
I’m assuming if your clothes are getting dry it’s probably not a blockage or total failure of the fan but that the fan isn’t running long enough to extract the last bit of humid air all the way back (either straight up or not long enough to overcome friction losses in the hose).
… Water?
Are you sure you checled the lint trap? That should be purely dry lint, not any water.
Not checling/cleaning it (every load) is a pretty severe fire hazard.
I think I see what’s going on here.
If you have a combo washer/dryer (common at least where I am in Europe), the lint trap is wet and it uses water to rinse it towards a collection point. I use a paper towel to pull it out each load.
Stærk contrast to separate washer/dryer which will have a dry lint trap in the dryer.
Stærk
ash guy?
How reliable are those combo ones?
In general, I guess I don’t know, but ours is fine. The drying is weak shit in comparison and I miss our giant American dryer
Yea I was talking about my washing machine
If those have a lint trap I am in some serious trouble.
Not a lint trap per se, but:
Boy, don’t see anything like that on mine. Ill have to look at the manual.
Are you talking about the lint trap in your washer? Those don’t really fill up with lint but can catch like coins and stuff (and one time a sock)
The ones in the dryer fill up enough to impede airflow after like 2-3 loads of laundry
I am that person who gets after my friends if they don’t clean out the lint from their dryer every load of laundry.
I may be a pain in the ass, but my friends aren’t gonna burn alive if I can help it!
You’re a good friend, people are surprisingly clueless about shit like this and the risk is substantial. Most people don’t care about their friends that much. You should be proud of who you are, you’re a good one.
That’s really sweet of you to say, thank you :3
I’m the kind of person who would give a fire extinguisher as a housewarming gift.
I used to live for the satisfaction of pulling thicc lint sheets out of the filter every time I used the shared dryer in my student house
There’s gotta be a modern fairy tale about a witch who uses that to make a magic shirt or homunculi or something.
I’ve always just trusted my friends know to do that. Maybe not always warranted, but these days it certainly is
It’s like a gerbil with a raped vagina. I don’t like it.
My Girlfriends aunt complained about her dishwasher not Wirkung properly the other day, GF asked Ehen was the last time you cleaned the filter? Aunt was linke the WHAT? She has owned dishwashers for 30+ years and never heard oft that.
certainly a unique language you got there
You want to write in English but your phone wants to write in German
yeah I realized too late I forgot to switch. Also for some reason I can never edit comments.
Some keyboards let’s you set two input languages, also seems to do a great job at catching on to which language a given input is intended to be in.
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Now do the sacrificial anode in your water heater.
I feel like the sediment would bury the element well before the anode becomes an issue. I’m just imagining this person doesn’t flush it either.
You uh… Have you checked your water filters?
How long are they supposed to last? I have an extra because the guy who sold me the heater convinced me to upgrade from the factory model. He said the stock ones failed too early. It wasn’t a huge cost and was didn’t know enough about it to doubt him so I just did it.
It really depends on the properties of the water where you live. I have lived places that needed replacing every 2 years and I have lived places where it was still fine after 20 years. You’ll know when it’s time to swap it, it will look like shit.
Haha good to know. Thanks.
If your hot water starts to smell like sulphur, that can also be a sign. Especially if it’s worse when you don’t run it for a day or two.
How dare it not be blocked by an article about Patrick Stewart passing?
Why do people loudly and proudly complain that they don’t understand the nature of how things work?
Attention/
This, but unironically. “All/Top 6 hours” is currently 50% Patrick Stewart as I write this and it isn’t enough.
And where are those located on the heat pump? Asking for a friend.
Just before the inside air handler. The big box, usually in the basement, the one that makes noise when the blower kicks in.
Sweet thank you so much!
Or alternatively on big intake vents throughout the house
“Why does it take 3 hours to dry my clothes when it used to take 40 minutes?” Or “why aren’t my clothes drying at all?”
Thise seems like it’s one or two loads away from house fire territory.
