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I purchased a home where the previous owner (now moved out of the country) remodeled the kitchen and put in all new Sears appliances. The Dishwasher leaked the first time I used it and the repair person said the tub is cracked - probably a factory defect. I don’t know how long the dishwasher set in the house unused before I purchased, but the house was empty for 18 months.

I work for Sears and our standard warranty is one full year from date of purchase unless otherwise stated in the owners manual. Now if you need your manual, get the model number from the dishwashers door frame. It should start with a 665 or 587 and be followed by 6 additional numbers. Once you have that, you can look up your manual on this site:

http://www.managemyhome.com

For arguments sake, lets say every day at the same time i ran the A/C, the dryer, the Dishwasher, the pool pump and the oven for a couple hours. Again, this is just an example. I’m assuming whether i run all appliances at the same time, or spread their use out so only one is running at a time, i am going to use the same amount of electricity, right?
I am not on a time of use plan, it is 10.19c per kWh straight up.

I would say the same, except for one minor caveat. That is if all the appliances were running on the same circuit in your home.

If you use ohms law and calculate for the resistance of the wire you will create a significant and measurable difference. As the current through a wire increases, so do the IR losses in the line.

The larger the current draw, the more energy is wasted as heat in the wiring.

If you have a 5Amp appliance on each of 3 seperate 14 gage wire runs from your electric meter, you will have less heat generated in total by the current passing thru the the wires than if you ran a single 15 Amp load on the same 14 gage wire run to all three appliances.

The heat or wasted energy is Amps squared X the wire’s resistance.

Assume a 14 gage wire has a resistance of .26 ohms per 100 ft and our line is 100 feet from the Meter to the Appliance or Appliances.

The I squared R loss for a single 5 amp appliance running would be 5×5x.26 or 6,5 watts of wasted energy. For each of 3 appliances running at different times or on different lines, this would be 3 x 6.5=19.5 watts.

If you ran all 3 at the same time, at the same end of the same 100 ft line you would have the following:

15 Amps x 15 Amps x .26ohms = 58.5 watts of wasted energy.

The difference is more than double in energy wasted as heat in the wiring.

Problem is the fact that it is a square law relationship and the wires resistance.

So in the case of all three appliances run on the same circuit, running one at a time is truly more economical than running one at a time. For three different lines, it does not matter.

Good Luck!

Having your kitchen remodeled is really no big deal, as long as you do it while your lying on the beach. Preferably a beach on a warm tropical island, with a pleasant trade wind keeping your margarita cool from the oh so scorching rays of the sun. More…Surely you must think I jest, I assure you however, I am serious. We had our kitchen totally remodeled a few years ago, while our three young children were all under the age of eight. Not a simple remodel, I’m talking serious stuff here. Old drywall (and walls) coming down, new drywall going up. New hardwood floors (the kind you sand with lots of dust), and old linoleum ripped up. New windows, new kitchen doors, new plumbing, new appliances, all new kitchen cabinets and kitchen counters to match. We even moved the sink and Dishwasher with it’s plumbing and electrical from the west wall to the north wall of the kitchen. In total, the elapsed time for the remodel, lasted about 4 weeks. So how do you continue to feed your young family and continue to live in a house whose most important room is in a shambles.

Kitchen Drywall Dust vs Beach Sand

Well, I’ll tell you it isn’t easy, but the only real solution, is to get the heck out of town. That’s right. Time for a winter vacation. We decided, since we’re dumping a ton of money on a entire new kitchen, we may as well dump a ton more money on a well earned vacation in Aruba. So, for the first two weeks of the remodel, we were hanging out on a beach, or by the pool, or swimming up to a swim up bar while the contractors were sanding drywall and hardwood (cough cough). We figured that during the two messiest weeks of the kitchen remodeling, the best place to be would be just about anywhere else.

Rasta Man in the Kitchen

Your probably thinking to yourself, if you’re on vacation, then whose watching the workers? The key to all of this is to get a bunch of contractors you can trust. Otherwise you’ll be worrying yourself sick instead of drinking yourself sick with rum punch. We were a little lucky, and a little smart about pick out the crew for the kitchen remodeling. We didn’t go with the cheapest guys in town. We were also lucky to get a contractor that oversaw the work who was top notch. He acted as if he was remodeling his own kitchen. And he made sure the guys he brought in acted the same way. The only real issue we had to deal with was one phone call from the flooring contractor. Apparently they had incorrectly measured the floor, and it was really gonna cost me another $800 over the original quote. Hey, sure why not! Problems like this seem like no big deal, when you’re on the phone from your Caribbean suite starring of into the sunset, wondering which beach side restaurant has the best margarita this side of the island. No problem mon.

Palm Tree Kitchen

By the time we got back, there was still some work to be done, but all the messy and nasty stuff was finished. Plus, things we’re pretty much on schedule. So, we converted the family room into a makeshift dining room for a week or so, and made due until the rest of the kitchen remodel was finished. A couple of palm trees in the family room would have been perfect, but hey mon don’t worry . . . every little ting gonna be all right.

Chris Campbell
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