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Tue, Sep 16, 2008

Plumber

Posted at 9:33 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

I'm psyched. My new kitchen appliances (range,fridge and dish washer) have been ordered and the house is now plumbed for a gas stove and gas clothes dryer.

James the Plumber even brought the job in way under his original bid: he said it went better than he expected, and he was able to reuse some material that was already in my basement. There were some pipes from when the house had a propane furnace instead of natural gas that were still in good condition and not being used for anything.

He fixed my dryer vent, too, which had been misbehaving and sending lint and hot air out into the basement instead of outdoors.

The cost for the appliances also turned out to be less than the original bid. This is partly because the original bid had two different stove options accidentally included into the total, of which I only need one, and partly because I chose a smaller refrigerator -- 30 inches wide instead of 36. One person should not need a huge refrigerator (especially since I have a chest freezer in the basement), and I don't really have room for the larger fridge in my kitchen.

The range and dishwasher are supposed to be delivered next Wednesday or Thursday. The refrigerator is backordered for four or five weeks, but that's OK. Changing all of the appliances in my small kitchen at the same time would be ... logistically interesting.

And the laundry room is ready, so that I can buy a gas dryer if and when the existing appliances die. I'm hoping they will hang in there for at least another few months, but really can't complain if they die at any time: I bought them soon after I bought the house in 1985.

The current washer and dryer are Kenmore, but I don't think I will buy Kenmore again. My old dishwasher was a Kenmore that cleaned beautifully for years until it developed a leak through the motor, but the Kenmore I replaced it with doesn't clean well at all. After years of buying appliances from Sears (my first apartment was largely furnished out of Sears), they have lost my trust.

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