My brother-in-law is building a new place. They went to Lowes or Home Depot, I
forget which, for appliances and were told some sob story, can't get appliances
until January. They'd like to move in by November...
Then they tried a local appliance place, they had everything in stock,
delivered 2 days later, saved something like $2500 over the big box store price.
-Curt
On Friday, October 16, 2020, 9:33:41 PM EDT, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
For what it’s worth, I was wondering about the chatter about new appliances
being unobtanium due to everyone staying home with the pandemic. Our new house
had no appliances even though they were on the description, so we negotiated
$3k off the price. The builder said they can’t get stuff fast enough and they
were having to credit people back at closings because they couldn’t get the
appliances for the homes fast enough.
I was at Lowe’s the other day and it was pretty slow, so I walked through the
appliance department and spoke to one of the sales people.
Long story short, they can get appliances. It’s hit or miss, and if there’s a
particular model you want and they don’t have it, it’s a roll of the dice when
or if it will ever show up. They had a pretty decent selection of stuff across
all price ranges and said that if they’ve got it in the store or warehouse you
can have it in a day or two.
So I guess as long as you’re not stuck on a particular model and can be
flexible, there are appliances to be had. I specifically asked about Bosch
dishwashers, and she said they had plenty of them but not all models.
-D
> On Oct 16, 2020, at 5:23 PM, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> Well the new LG washer ate its drain pump. Lasted a couple years max. Of
> course it probably did 5 million loads of Laundry during that time. I
> wonder if it has a load counter on it.
>
> LG has only one warehouse and its in AL. So we are without a washer until
> next week. Kind of unbelievable given they sell the machines at Home Depot.
> I should have just bought a pump on amazon prime.
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2020, 8:51 AM Curt Raymond via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
>> I've got an old coffee can, pot, jug, whatever you call a plastic thing
>> that once held a couple pounds of coffee. In that I separated the acid into
>> plastic sandwich bags so that if the humidity got to one it would only ruin
>> that bag. The whole thing is in the basement which is the worst humidity
>> room in the house ;)
>> Frankly I expected it to, as you say, fuse into a solid block but after 7
>> or 8 years (closer to 8 I think) its still fine.
>> -Curt
>>
>> On Thursday, May 28, 2020, 10:46:28 AM EDT, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <
>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>
>> Exactly. It’s cheap and does the job, and I don’t have to mess with
>> storing a big tub of it. Around here there’s a good chance it would
>> solidify into a giant block if not tightly sealed due to the humidity.
>>
>> -D
>>
>>> On May 28, 2020, at 10:41 AM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I bought 5# of citric acid on Amazon for like $20, 7 or 8 years ago for
>> cleaning lantern founts. A teaspoon full in a gallon of water makes a good
>> de-rusting agent. Ought to clean your washer too as the active ingredient
>> in your lemonade is citric acid.
>>>
>>> -Curt
>>>
>>> On Thursday, May 28, 2020, 9:36:34 AM EDT, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <
>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Karl,
>>>
>>> I get the boxes of 10 “sticks” of sugar free lemonade mix at WalMart and
>> use 5 of them in the washing machine. I’ve got a top loader that has a “tub
>> clean” mode, so I dump them in the tub, shut the lid and turn it to that. A
>> couple hours later it’s done and the insides are now lemony fresh!
>>>
>>> I do the same in the Bosch dishwasher, too.
>>>
>>> -D
>>>
>>>> On May 26, 2020, at 12:00 PM, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes <
>> mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> How many scoops per load? And how much goes in the radiator?
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 25, 2020, 9:52 AM Dan Penoff via Mercedes <
>> mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I buy generic “Kool-Aid” lemonade and use it to run cleaning cycles
>> on the
>>>>> dishwasher and washing machine.
>>>>>
>>>>> -D
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
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