Oh, god. I SO agree with you. Removal was the happiest day in my life too. If you have pets or small children carpet just doesn’t work.
I think you have made an erroneous assumption. The baseboard heaters in my case are electric. There’s no water. Therefore, your experience seems to be unlike mine.
The heaters in this place are utterly inadequate to heat the apartment. Once it was back on, the room still never got above 60 degrees. I have always been told by landlords that you can’t put furniture up against baseboard heaters because it will block heat and cause a fire hazard.
The maintenance man told me that bumping them cause them to quit. Since this is a very old rental building, owners aren’t paying for the sturdy things you have.
Laurie, is that you?
Ah. Yep, ok then. I agree with you. Baseboard electric heat sucks.
Baseboard heat in my area was used a bit when other fuel costs skyrocketed many years ago. Electric heat hasn’t been competitive in my area for a very long time though, and the one house I knew of that had it got rid of it and switched to propane heat instead.
Electric heat is rare enough now that when anyone around here says baseboard heat it’s usually assumed that they are talking about baseboard water heat. That may not be true in your area, so sorry for the confusion.
Can I step outside? YARDS. Great expanses of monoculture kept so by poisons and unnecessary manual labor. They’re probably a big part of why bees are dying off, along with a lot of other nifty critters, yet suburbanites spend out the wazoo to keep the ecological disasters.
Another one that prefers the very even heating of hot water baseboard heating to forced hot air. I have never had any issue with it being blocked by furniture, room is at the proper temperature, nor windows in the way, actually that helps balance out the temperature of the room. It just works great. Forced hot air has always been a balancing act trying to get the temperatures right. And block a floor vent, that room goes ice pretty quickly. Floor radiant heat is great, baseboard seems to be it’s cheaper cousin, forced hot air is just ghetto compared to those
Apology unnecessary, but accepted. For some reason, gas heat has not caught on in this locality. Out in the country, most people seem to have propane, but in the city rentals AFAIK use electric.
Why swamp coolers?? I ADORE my swamp cooler, cool air AND all the windows and doors open. And a lower elec. bill.
Hell even in El Paso we replaced our swamp cooler because it does diddly during monsoon season. Which is when it’s hot.
From my experience, constant breakdowns, pads getting choked by cottonwood fluff every summer, spiders collapsing, water dripping and even spraying from the unit into the house, one spot getting cold while the rest of the house stays hot, and it is useless when the monsoon (rainy, humid season) starts.
And since I have asthma and allergies, the lack of filtration of outside air is another drawback.
Yep - electric baseboard heat serves no purpose other than to maximize expenditure in exchange for minimal comfort. My condolences,
Garbage disposals, which are the primary cause of plugged drains and stench. Made for people too damned lazy to scrape their plates. Why yes, of course I have one.
Well, yeah, the dew point rules the good operation of the swamper, but man, we used ours last year well into July.
Yes to this, pulled the damn things out of all my rentals
I agree with this. It’s really a big waste of time and money. We have 5 acres - approximately 4 wooded and 1 yard. We do absolutely nothing with that great expanse of grass except mow it! Once in a while we’ll play a game of bocce or badminton but that’s about it. Someday I’d like to plant a bunch of trees and/or wildflowers in the back yard and just let it go. I’d only keep the front yard mowed.
Interesting. I would have thought it would be the other way.
In general, people will put things down a kitchens’ drain. Especially if they are not financially responsible for a clog.
The disposal just makes the bigger things into smaller things and reduces clog likelihood.
Where I grew up, one reason for the big yards is that there’s no city water or sewage service, so everyone has well water and a septic tank. And they need to be a certain distance apart. That leads to each house being on an acre or more of land. (And I think the septic tank can’t be in a wooded area either, so some lawn is needed.)
Plus the low-density zoning keeps up house prices, which people want. There’s almost certainly an element of racism in there somewhere.
By “scraping plates” do you mean into the kitchen waste can? Wouldn’t that cause a stench, especially in places were garbage pickup is once a week?
One might think, but I had too many calls for the stoopid. Corn husks, like from a dozen ears. Most of a fish after they fileted it. And I can clear a clog fairly inexpensively (we have tools) but people think the disposal handles stuff it won’t.
If only houses had some other facility for disposing of stinky waste…