Owain:
If there were no other factors involved, that might be true.
obtained. Buying things later is going to cost about a fifth more once VAT and loss of discount are taken into account. I think you might be missing the point here.
NT
Slow starting adds little to conventional bulb life, but it can double halogen bulb life.
But should be avoided since they use several times the water and electricity, and money to run. They are basically obsolete technology. NT
Thought of another one for new builds generally: enough height in the loft to allow conversion later. The extra cost is minimal, just another
2' of bricks.NT
This is one way to add some character to a new build...
Don't say that to a Merkin, unless you want to listen to a twenty minute rant about how marvellous Maytag "washers" are.
Have you ever seen a stacked top loader and tumble drier? Hysterical.
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If you do that you also need a properly structured roof instead of the matchstick maze new builds usually get these days.
ISTR reading somewhere (maybe in the original fitting instructions?) that you can't do that simply with these LV transformers for some reason, you need specialised kit or something?
Well I'm after a 10-fold increase, but even x2 would be nice!: I'll check what I've got.
David
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That's straightforward enough though, even if you want to go the trussed rafter route you can specify attic trusses, and you could prepare it with joists, floorboards, electricity etc ready for the conversion, it wont add a lot to the new build cost. I know of two bungalows that were built with that all done ready for a conversion
You need to have dimmable transformers (either electronic or the heavy metal type) and a dimmer which is specified to work with them.
I used MK4500 series dimmers which also have soft start, and would confirm John's comment that halogen bulb life is longer - about 2:1 roughly.
Yes, I've been accosted in an appliance store by a Maytag rep. showing their products. The stacking arrangement of sloping panels to be able to reach the lower one was certainly interesting.
They had the back panels off to be able to see inside. Basically they are very simple engineering, and seemed built like a battleship, but little or nothing in terms of control sophistication.
It seems that the assumption is of huge washloads of the same stuff.
I guess that the same people work out portion sizes in restaurants.
Like dishwashers, the detergents are different as well, also seeming to be old technology.
It is possible to get a decent top loader that is basically like conventional automatic with a drum mounted on a horizontal axis, but with a trap door in the side of the drum. Hence you open the lid, rotate the drum round so the trap is at the top and open it. They have the advantage of only being approx 400mm wide, and also the drum can be supported on bearings on both ends of the axel. The downside is that you can't have worktop over them.
Philips and Whirlpool did some... not sure who still makes them though.
So my mother, who lives in the US tells me. She says American washing machines are only marginally better than banging stuff on a rock.
That is why it is best to have two low to mid priced washing machines running different coloured loads, and no down time if one needs attention.
Very true Mr ., very true. It is knowing what is available.
With each one fed by its own combi boiler, no doubt?
David
Arguably though, the European method of having clothes tumbling and falling on top of each other in the drum with small amounts of water is more like the rock thing than swirling them in lots of water, a l'Americain.
Perhaps you could get them each with a built in combi and miniature North Sea gas field to run them self sufficiently.
Good thinking.
I like this sort of thinking...encouraging.
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