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I wish I had a Roomba like device that would water our house plants. Anyone here can help?
Can’t you just use those bulb things?
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Aqua-Globes-AG011706-Watering-2-Pack/...
I've found them to be extremely annoying. Great for plants such as succulents that need only a little bit of water, so you can set and forget.
But for plants that need more water, I've found them to be less efficient due to the time to fill than hand watering.
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As you say, this is already a thing for public toilets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette For a whole bathroom, it would be quite expensive; you'd need a fully watertight room (most bathrooms, even wetrooms, are not) and you'd risk contamination. Would also be difficult to retrofit unless you had a wetroom already. Also the failure modes are quite bad; what happens when the drains clog? You'd need the whole thi…
In my bathrooms, there's already a drain in the shower (the shower is recessed an inch) and in the centre of the main area. They don't clog. I don't know about you, but I don't tend to wash baked-on lasagne from myself in the shower as happens in a dishwasher. I think it would largely be dust and the like if it wasn't left to build up. I'm thinking these things would be designed for new-builds rather than retrofitted…
I'm guessing no one in your household has long hair. my hair will clog any shower without a decent drain grate in a week or two.
> She designed her first model in the shed behind her house in Shelbyville, Ill. Her lack of formal engineering education, however, became an obstacle, so she sought out someone who could help. Mechanic George Butters agreed to assist her in building the prototype. So the engineer did all the actual hard work here in coming up with a working prototype, but the wealthy funder takes almost all of the credit, and puts t…
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I don't think that's what people mean by a "Mediterranean diet", vacations and resorts aren't really representative of a traditional diet, which is what I think people are referring to.
The most common turkish[1] food around here is the "kebab shop" which is the equivalent of a Californian burrito joint and is definitely meat centric. (Compare "kofta") As for greek, gyros and moussaka are two counterexamples. [1] I've heard a story that Döner Kebap as served here was actually invented in Berlin, but that hasn't kept people with mediterranean complexions from asking me if I knew of any turkish food a…
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> I wish they invented the dual side-by-side dishwasher. Have you considered buying two dish washers? I don't think this needs an invention.
Those would need to be two identical dishwashers, with easily removable racks, so that you could just swap the whole racks. Otherwise, it isn't buying all that much.
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Yes if you eat microwaved crap. Try cooking sometimes.
Or if you eat fresh foods.
I wish they invented the dual side-by-side dishwasher. I want separate dirty and clean units. I’m tired of using the sink or shelves as a buffer. Just pull from the clean unit and push into the dirty unit and rotate which is which. Voilà, dramatically less handling.
> I wish they invented the dual side-by-side dishwasher. Have you considered buying two dish washers? I don't think this needs an invention.
Semi-related: anyone here, like me, not find automated dishwashers very useful? To me it seems to take nearly the same amount of soap exposure, and time at the sink, to wash dishes by hand. Maybe if I needed gloves, I'd get frustrated with the smell your hands take on from dishgloves, but honestly washing dishes (particularly dishes that aren't precious) is pretty easy.
> anyone here, like me, not find automated dishwashers very useful? No, when we got our fist dishwasher after our second child was born the dishwasher was like a miracle. We got so much time back each evening. It was life changing. > same amount of soap exposure, and time at the sink, to wash dishes by hand. What are you doing with your dishwasher that requires any soap exposure? With ours there is none. Scrape the d…
Even living mostly by myself, I find it extremely useful and would strongly dislike not having one.
I find that recent models of dishwashers don’t work nearly as well as older models. They don’t heat up enough to dry water off of plastic, and the enzyme based detergents don’t seem to clean as well as the old phosphate detergents. Also, the dishwasher in our current apartment (a cheap Whirlpool) often leaves a wet dog smell on the glasses, and we can’t figure out where it comes from or how to get rid of it. Apparent…
We do experience it in relation to our dishwasher sometimes, but I don't think the dishwasher is an essential component: it happens with handwashed dishes too. The essential factor, as far as we've been able to determine, is wet dishes which get in contact with outdoor air. However it only happens on some days and more often in some months/seasons!
My theory so far has been that it's a reaction between some molecule in air (something which varies in concentration over a period of days, perhaps a pollutant) and water. But it may as well be that it is interacting with detergent residue.
The interesting thing is that we don't actually manually measure detergent for our dishwasher but use detergent tablets, so the quantity never varies.
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As you say, this is already a thing for public toilets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette For a whole bathroom, it would be quite expensive; you'd need a fully watertight room (most bathrooms, even wetrooms, are not) and you'd risk contamination. Would also be difficult to retrofit unless you had a wetroom already. Also the failure modes are quite bad; what happens when the drains clog? You'd need the whole thi…
In my bathrooms, there's already a drain in the shower (the shower is recessed an inch) and in the centre of the main area. They don't clog. I don't know about you, but I don't tend to wash baked-on lasagne from myself in the shower as happens in a dishwasher. I think it would largely be dust and the like if it wasn't left to build up. I'm thinking these things would be designed for new-builds rather than retrofitted…