__________ is/are overrated.

[Scott5114]

There's the usual filter, and then there's a second one that catches finer lint that's supposed to be cleaned every five loads.  I can definitely notice a difference between the load before it's cleaned and the load after, and if I'm doing loads with more lint than usual, I'll clean it early.

Where is this second filter? I clean the one that's in the usual place just inside the door, but if there's a second one I haven't seen it.

[vdeane]

Nevada building codes apparently don't require vent hoods to actually ventilate to anywhere! Both of the buildings I've lived in here just have the vent hood vent to...above the microwave. Not really all that useful.

My apartment has a second vent above the one from the microwave that goes nowhere that I presume goes outside (or at least elsewhere).  No idea how effective that is, but then, my stove is electric, so I only use it for steam and on the rare occasion that something burns and I don't want to risk the fire alarm going off.

There's the usual filter, and then there's a second one that catches finer lint that's supposed to be cleaned every five loads.  I can definitely notice a difference between the load before it's cleaned and the load after, and if I'm doing loads with more lint than usual, I'll clean it early.

Where is this second filter? I clean the one that's in the usual place just inside the door, but if there's a second one I haven't seen it.

It's on the bottom right for me, behind a piece of plastic that opens if I push on it.

[kkt]

California also does not require bathrooms to have a vent if they have an openable window.

[1995hoo]

But you do have to use the fan whenever it's on, because gas needs to be ventilated.

lol what fan

Nevada building codes apparently don't require vent hoods to actually ventilate to anywhere! Both of the buildings I've lived in here just have the vent hood vent to...above the microwave. Not really all that useful.

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We live in a townhouse and the range, over-the-range microwave, and vent are all on a party wall, so as you describe, the vent exhausts out the top of the microwave. We do have an electric stove, so the issue vdeane raises is a non-issue as to natural gas (we have gas heat and a gas water heater, but we have an electric dryer and electric oven/stove). For us the main problem is that I replaced the smoke detectors a year or two ago and the new ones are a lot more sensitive than the old ones are. They go off far too easily from ordinary cooking smoke (and I changed the one closest to the kitchen a second time to use a less-sensitive photoelectric detector instead of an ionizing one). Thankfully, we're almost to the time of year when it's warm enough outside to open a window and set a fan on a chair blowing out through the screen. That's a surprisingly effective solution that's less expensive, and more practical, than having someone tear apart a party wall to construct a duct (if that could even be done after-the-fact).

[kphoger]

Our house doesn't have a vent hood above the stove at all.  :shrug:

(It's electric.)

[JayhawkCO]

Our house doesn't have a vent hood above the stove at all.  :shrug:

(It's electric.)

Boogie woogie woogie.

[kphoger]

We just started shopping for a used washing machine.  So far, the best options appear to be 30-year-old Whirlpool machines with knobs instead of buttons.  Newer fancier machines, from what I've read and heard, simply won't last as long.

I've replaced two washers in my lifetime. Never a dryer, and it's probably early 90's.

In 2009, my mother-in-law gave us a washer and dryer that she had in storage.  My wife remembers using them when she was a kid, and she was born in 1982.  The dryer was toast, so we got a new dryer then.  But we've been using the same washer.  The agitator stopped working a year or two ago, and the bolt is so rusted inside that it would need to be drilled out—and doing so risks drilling too far down and ruining the whole thing.  So we've just been doing without the agitator.  But now a seal has started leaking, and water drips down into the barrel when we're not using the machine, so we've had to keep the cold water supply knob turned off in between loads.  It's time.  But yeah, that sucker is old.

I did a serial number decode, and our current washing machine was manufactured in 2005.  That really surprised my wife, because she was 23 years old then yet remembers using the washing machine when she was growing up at home.  So I guess her mom must have bought a near-identical replacement at some point before her leaving home and our receiving it from her mom.

Anyway, we just bought a new washer, still waiting for our "friend with a pickup" to help us remove the old one and bring home the new one.  It's a Kenmore, made by Whirlpool in 2002.  Direct drive, no belt, no buttons, no motherboard.  Just dials.