My New 'Old Home' Adventures

Back in May I wrote about replacing the electronic console on my dual fuel Thermador stove. Recently as I was preparing a meal for a friend of mine, the element in the oven started burning a bright white flame - almost like a welders arc - finally went out and now the oven didn't work. I managed to finish the dinner using my gas grill. Did a little research and decided that replacing the element didn't seem like a big task, so I ordered a replacement from Bosch. THERMADOR RDSS30RS Once the element arrived I compared it to the existing one and it looked right. Was worried since my stove is about 20 years old. Turned off the breaker (stove has 220 volt so you don't want to mess around), pulled out the unit and unplugged it. Had to remove a trim piece at the top and the back panel to get to the electrical wiring. Immediately could see where the old element came through the back and clipped into the wiring. At first I thought the element was soldered but then realized i

My home came with a very nice duel fuel Thermador slide-in stove. I prefer cooking with gas and baking with electric so this worked very well for me. It has nice heavy duty grates and I've loved everything about it except that the display was very dim making it hard to set the oven temp. The light seemed to be getting dimmer and I resorted to counting up or down from 350 degrees which was the initial set temp when you turned on the oven.  One day I came home from work to find that the display was completely gone and now you couldn't use the oven at all. Immediately I went onto the internet to see what I could find and came to realize that despite the great appliance that I had, one inherit issue was the display. Also came to realize that the display board was no longer available. I did however find out that you could possibly remove the display board and send it to one of several board repair companies. I then researched new appliances and realized that to replace my curren

Haven't posted in awhile. Been living life and everything running pretty smoothly. Last weekend we had beautiful spring weather in Virginia so I decided to get my trimmer out and clean up around the place. As I was working my way around the shed it dawned on me that after seven years, I still hadn't gotten around to hanging up my ladders and they were still laying alongside the shed where I left them after I moved in. Grass & weeds grows up between the ladders and I can't get the mower in close enough to trim. One time I even go too close while mowing and I got the extension ladder rope completely tangled around the blades of my riding mower. Took me over an hour to get untangled and now one of the ladders has a very short rope. You think this would have prompted me to do something. So I decided today was the day to see if I could figure out a way to hang them. The obvious thing would be to run to the hardware store and pickup a few sets of the ladder hangers. I howev