That's a shame, it would have meant that this historic industrial building would have been demolished and replaced by yet more identikit flats instead of converted into a house; since it is on a slab of concrete higher than the surrounding land and the only place for a ramp would have prevented the space to turn a car round that the council insisted on as part of planning permission for the original conversion in around 1980.
"John Rumm" wrote | It is possible to get a decent top loader ... The downside is that you | can't have worktop over them.
Oh yes you can.
You have a lift-up section of worktop with flushed trapdoor/counter hinges on one side and an angled cut on the other.
Owain
Yep. It isn't only Part P that's a load of b*****ks
These are very common in Italy. Probably standard output from all the Italian factories, just not imported here -- 'no demand for it' I suppose. The capacity is small ut useful for a one person household. They also seem to take a very long time to wash a load.
But their tumble dryers are infinitely superior in performance to any we've experienced in Europe. I'm convinced that it's the bigger diameter drum and the higher hot air temperature that makes most clothes come out in a state which do not need further crease removal. The new Maytag dryer/warm air drying cabinet is an object of desire in this household, but I can't face the problems of fitting it into the kitchen (or excavating a basement!).
Regards Capitol
........and replaced with proper modern house that was designed and built for people not cows.
I used Unibond bathroom and shower sealant from the local shed. Expensive at 8 quid a go but it's so bloody waterproof it's v.difficult to smooth it after application 'cos it sticks to
*everything*. Flexible too, the only thing that broke it in our case was for some reason the shower tray managed to drop a few mm (don't ask why, I dunno yet!) and the stuff stretched and broke the grout on the surrounding tiles resulting in much leakage.....The moral to this tale is if yer tray doesn't drop this stuff is good! IMO obviously.
cheers
witchy/binarydinosaurs
My point was that rain doesn't come in.
We have had wheelchair users in the house, over the threshold. They've been pushed, wheeled by the user and electric powered. Their problem, as you indicate, has been the step. We made a ramp and the threshold was no problem.
Actually the ramp was already made so that Spouse could get his motorbike into the hall ... it needed doubling up that's all.
I didn't know that. Doesn't surprise me though.
Mary
Aren't they all still top-loaders ? Sure I saw a Usenet group discussing this and all the European people there thinking they were on another planet.
Only for the size. Looks are awful. Why can't they produce an American 'fridge' with European styling. Siemens gave it a try but I really don't want the rounded unpainted aluminium look.
Maytag do one with an angled drum which is something more akin to a European design. It's still a monster though.
I have a Maytag one with stainless steel finish giving it more of a European than American look.
The internal design and performance are very good.
Yes, I can agree within limits about this. However, when you try to live with these, assuming you are talking about large fridge freezers, you find that they are very deep back to front which gives positioning problems. Also, the freezer sections are always very much smaller than the huge! fridge section, which doesn't suit the older families, where the children have left home, but keep returning with their families, to see "what's in the freezer" that we can eat! Very few have pull out drawers in the freezer section, which makes stacking/finding, things in them a nightmare. My experience is that US fridges encourage storing too much left over fast food for a few days before it is consigned to the waste disposer! I've been looking for some years now for a fridge freezer with the fridge smaller than the freezer and appropriate depth to fit into a British kitchen. Even in US kitchens, you will normally find that the front of the fridge projects beyond the front of the work surface.
Regards Capitol
Does it have squared off edges and no curvy bits ?
I used Unibond bathroom and shower sealant from the local shed. Expensive at 8 quid a go but it's so bloody waterproof it's v.difficult to smooth it after application 'cos it sticks to
*everything*. Flexible too, the only thing that broke it in our case was for some reason the shower tray managed to drop a few mm (don't ask why, I dunno yet!) and the stuff stretched and broke the grout on the surrounding tiles resulting in much leakage.....The moral to this tale is if yer tray doesn't drop this stuff is good! IMO obviously.
cheers
witchy/binarydinosaurs
Certainly the freezer section in ours is smaller than the fridge, but we only use it for short term storage anyway. We have a separate freezer for longer term things.
The fridge is much more useful than a typical European one, and even though the kids aren't around much any more, it gets good use. Having individual temperature controls for the chiller drawers means that things can be kept optimally for rather longer. We quite often prepare something for dinner, then keep some of it back and modify it for lunch the following day and perhaps freeze the rest. So having a good amount of refrigerator space works well for us.
I'd noticed that and we got one with pull out baskets both inside and in the door which can be moved around, as well as being of different sizes for different purposes.
I have a simple solution for that. Don't buy fast food.
Ours is certainly a bit deeper, but we were able to incorporate it into the kitchen design to accomodate that.
The couple I saw take the same (or in fact slightly more) load as a "normal" machine, no difference in the wash cycle either IIRC.
In fact, this is the sort of thing I had in mind:
I wonder why we dont see more of the spray idea. These washers have a much moer open drum, more like gauze, and no water pool to dip the clothes in. Instead the runoff is pumped back on top of the clothes, so the only water in the sytem is that held in the clothes. Result, less water and leccy use.
They were invented a while ago, but I dont see them around. Maybe when the pat expires they'll become standard kit.
NT
So long as you don't mind moving the toaster, liquidiser, pasta jars and gawd-knows-what every time you want to do washing.
I just use it for stuff that should be put away like washing-up and shopping, so I'm encouraged to tidy up as well as do the washing :-)
It was originally designed for machines. 1930s automatic switching equipment - very rudimentary machine intelligence.
You'd have been right at home.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:09:27 GMT, "Clive Summerfield" strung together this:
There is that, but he's been told so it's not Googles fault now.
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