Text 10785, 77 rader
Skriven 2014-03-11 17:10:11 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 10716 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
Ärende: Re: Houses
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 09 Mar 14  15:52:00 <=-

 NB>  DD> In related news - someone cleaning out an old warehouse
 NB>  DD> found a trove of Maytag engine parts for the OLD gasoline
 NB>  DD> powered Maytag washers. Struck a deal with the owners and is
 NB>  DD> currently grinning like a possum eating persimmons.
 NB> I take it he has a use for them...?  Or knows where to pass them
 NB> along for a major profit...? 

 DD> His major use for them will be to pay for his son's college education.

Ah... so both... ;)

 NB>  NB>> The place we go used to be all Maytags, now they are gradually
 NB>  NB>> replacing the older machines with Wascomats... dunno who makes
 NB>  NB>> them...
 NB>  DD> www.wascomat.net "The world's leading manufacturer of washers,
 NB>  DD> dryers  and flatwork ironers - commercial laundry equipment for
 NB>  DD> self-service  coin, in-house and institutional laundries. "
 NB>  DD> (their blurb)
 NB> Ah... Have they been around as long as Maytag...?  

 DD> Probably not ... but, then Maytag (now) hasn't been around as long as 
 DD> Maytag (then).

Our experience (at the laundromat) has been that the Wascomats are
pretty decent, but that the old Maytags are better... also, as it
happens, they are less expensive to use... probably only because the
powers that be decided to make them seem a bit more appealing... ;)
 
 NB>  NB>> Moving does seem to have some distinct advantages there...  :)
 NB>  DD> When I go the dual Hotpoint wall ovens go with. This current
 NB>  DD> place, if I don't fix it up, is destined as grain storage,
 NB>  DD> chicken coop, or landfill bait. Hopefully, if I do move I can
 NB>  DD> give it to someone and avoid paying the thousand dollar tipping
 NB>  DD> fee that the landfill gets for mobile homes. It's all gonna be
 NB>  DD> about the numbers and trading effort and time for convenience,
 NB>  DD> I think. Of course, if I hit the lottery ....... 
 NB> One can always dream...  :)   Hopefully you can find a good place to
 NB> move, and a good place to unload your current tin can...  :)  With
 NB> or without the lottery...  ;)

 DD> I've been looking at a place up for tax sale (by the country tax-man) 
 DD> which did have asbestos siding on it. That rather put me off of it as 
 DD> the EPA can be as much a bugger about asbestos as they are about
 DD> leaded gasoline, etc. But, the siding has disappeared - leaving the
 DD> tar-paper wrap with some holes showing the old wooden weatherboard
 DD> siding underneath. Even for $600 I'm not sure I want to take it. It's
 DD> pretty deep in the 'hood. I did a cruise through the area last week
 DD> and there was a young dude on every other corner who appeared to be an
 DD> independent pharmaceutical salesman. I am not sure it's the
 DD> neighbourhood for a old white guy who drives a Mercedes to be moving
 DD> into. I'm on the 32nd anniversary of my Jack Benny after all.

As long as you aren't causing trouble, or bringing your own trouble with
you, might not be as bad as you think... if you are considered part of
the 'hood, they watch out for your back too... rather than going after
you... we've lived in some supposedly (I suppose for good cause, though
we never ran into it) rough neighborhoods over the years... :)

 DD> OTOH, it looks like one of my neighbours is either gone or preparing
 DD> to get gone - and the LIHEAP people did some major revisions on their 
 DD> windows, bottom insulation and put a new furnace in for them last 
 DD> summer. And I could move all my plunder with a two wheeled hand truck.

That sounds like a decent prospect... handy, too...  :)

 DD> Fortunately, none of those decisions need be made quickly.

Probably a good thing... ;)  Time to watch developments and see how
things work out... :)

ttyl       neb

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