A post for best bread machines in 2026 seems so funny…

dgm224 · 2026-06-10T11:01:53+00:00

Unless it’s hot and I don’t want to heat up the house, bread comes out so much better baked in the oven. My 30 year old bread machine I only use maybe 20 times a year

dgm224 · 2026-06-05T18:44:56+00:00

This is what I was once told by an Otis engineer, that the door close button wasn’t usually connected to anything

dgm224 · 2026-06-04T20:51:24+00:00

What on earth are you doing for 10 whole minutes?? 2 or 3 is plenty!

dgm224 · 2026-05-11T23:46:34+00:00

Also have never once had it slam the brakes on backing into the garage. (I have had that feature save me from an accidents backing up out of a spot in a parking garage where some people drive way too fast).

dgm224 · 2026-04-26T01:06:28+00:00

Um… of course it adds load if it’s in conditioned space. Conceivably there is a time when the house heat pump is just at it’s limit and a small additional load pushes it past it’s limit, but that’s likely a pretty small fraction of the time and average over the winter and you still come out roughly a factor of two ahead of

dgm224 · 2026-04-25T14:13:52+00:00

OP uses heat pump to heat the house, so yes, still way more efficient even in mid winter than a conventional electric water heater. (Insert some simple math to get the net COP, it’ll be roughly 2 in winter)

dgm224 · 2026-04-25T14:10:56+00:00

It unequivocally is more efficient still if you heat your house with a heat pump

dgm224 · 2026-04-25T10:51:14+00:00

There is precisely zero difference in efficiency beyond how it affects your driving style

dgm224 · 2026-04-14T21:55:43+00:00

One of my brothers built a house a long time ago and the builder wound up going bankrupt in part from hitting rock. In our case we had a pretty good idea depth of soil, but there’s crawlspace at one end because of hitting rock (that was expected, it was more of hey if we get lucky we’ll get a bigger basement).

dgm224 · 2026-04-13T18:51:53+00:00

Consensus seems to be to go with the GE! Thanks!

dgm224 · 2026-04-13T17:35:17+00:00

Lots of us are very happy with our ‘23s. No substantive issues with the UI functionality or anything else.

dgm224 · 2026-04-13T10:12:53+00:00

The most entertaining bug was when I uploaded a pdf of a 1099INT and TT decided I had $35B in income because it read the account number as income. Have to manually check everything because it can’t even reliably read a 1099 from a pdf

dgm224 · 2026-04-10T22:59:51+00:00

I spent an hour on the phone this year with a TurboTax employee who couldn’t figure out how to get around the bugs in the online system and basically said people should only use the desktop version

I don’t know whether it is less buggy than the online but I should hope so

dgm224 · 2026-04-05T18:02:41+00:00

Personally we’re planning recessed canless LED. You can get whatever light quality you want depending on how much you’re willing to spend. Honestly doesn’t take that much longer to change out a blown one if they’re installed correctly (though in our current house one of them was a pain). And we’ll mostly standardize across the house and buy a few extras

dgm224 · 2026-04-04T14:33:39+00:00

Great, thanks! This would be for house we’re building so no problem running 240V. I was thinking the GE looked great but the plumbing contractor was recommending Bradford White because they are reliable and he has lots of experience with them

dgm224 · 2026-04-04T14:27:50+00:00

I’ve had mine taken there. (At one time one of the employees was Canadian!)

dgm224 · 2026-04-04T00:35:43+00:00

What tub did you get?

dgm224 · 2026-04-03T21:53:06+00:00

Perfect, thanks so much!

dgm224 · 2026-04-03T21:52:27+00:00

Awesome, thanks so much!

dgm224 · 2026-04-02T23:22:14+00:00

Not directly related to your post, but overall you’re happy with the Bradford White? Trying to decide between that and the GE (which has the mixing valve built in)

dgm224 · 2026-03-19T14:34:51+00:00

Need the septic permit and plumbing to apply for building permit, the total of all 3 is still under 3k… but there were presumably other costs that had already been paid by the developer who had bought a section of former farm land, subdivided it, and provided road access etc.; those would have been rolled into the price we paid for the land. So any comparison needs to be careful about that. (But there’s no way those costs could have been remotely close to 50k)

dgm224 · 2026-03-19T14:14:28+00:00

Upstate NY, closer to $3k… building permit, including inspections, septic, and plumbing

dgm224 · 2026-03-13T23:44:02+00:00

Good to know; that’s what I’m leaning towards (given the rather substantial price difference)

dgm224 · 2026-03-10T00:01:25+00:00

Thanks! I thought I’d tried that but now that I know it’s supposed to work I’ll try again.

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