 Tips,
Tricks and General Information, by Shane
Choose from the categories below:
Refrigeration I Heating
I Electrical I Plumbing
I Appliances I Miscellaneous
Referigeration
- Buy a condenser brush and keep that condenser clean on your
refrigerator, it needs to breathe to run efficiently.
- Did you know that ideal refrigerator temperatures are -5 to
0 degrees in the freezer and 38 to 42 degrees in the refrigerator
compartment?
- Ice-cream is "rock hard" at 0 degrees.
- If your refrigerator is warm and the freezer is cold, you probably
have a defrost problem.
- Most defrost problems are with the defrost timer.
- If you are changing the defrost heater, you should always change
the defrost terminator also, and use one that is the next temperature
higher.
- All Domestic defrost timers are externally "wired" the
same so the numbers don't have to match each other.
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Plumbing
- While stainless steel fill hoses for your washer may cost more,
they are going to prevent flooding in your home, as regular hoses
may burst.
- Use pipe sealant on pipe fittings only - Teflon tape and sealant
can cause a leak when used with flair or compression fittings
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Heating
- Change your furnace filter twice a year!
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Appliances
- If you own a GE/Hotpoint dishwasher, it's a good idea to run
the dishwasher every 2 days , even though there are no dirty dishes,
to keep the motor running well.
- Allow hot water to flow in your sink before you turn on your
dishwasher, it makes sure you have hot water in your dishwasher.
- Put your range hood filter in your dishwasher once in a while,
it cleans the grease off the screen quite well.
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Electrical
- Oil motors (bathroom, vent hood, furnace, etc) frequently also
give your dryer rollers and older pulleys a shot once in a while.
- If you don't have the right size capacitor, use the next size
higher but don't go over 10% of the micro load reading, you can
also use the next voltage higher also.
- To help read a wire sceamantic - try to remember that electricity
is like water, it flows thru the path of least resistance.
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Miscellaneous
- Stuck screws? Try tightening the screw first before you unscrew
it, it might break the lock on the threads.
- If your head is waxed, don't stand in the sun.
- Never reuse snap springs - Always use new ones - old snap springs
loose their spring tension and will fail.
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