I notice that you "nerds" rarely ever discuss price of these "new and innovative" products! Adding all these items - beginning with a passive house envelope to every other product you showcase - to my traditionally constructed home which I'm in the middle of building would easily add $100k to my budget! Hmmm...that's a hard pass. "Nerdy" gadgetry usually means more $$ rather than less. It's super easy to build an expensive state of the art home when you have sponsors giving you stuff. I'll have to find a youtuber builder more oriented to those of us trying to build economically.
My $2,000 toto toilet flushes great, BUT the built into the wall tank as it is shutting off after a flush water hammers/ratchets shut. No help from toto, the water valve assembly hangs off to one side and is sloppy in it's mount. I tie wrapped it after drilling holes ( up high) in the tank body to mount it solid. Problem almost gone. Love redesigning expensive products that lack technical assistance
I have that ventless washer dryer. It needs the surrounding area to be warm in order to dry clothes. I have it in an outdoor room (with a heater to keep the pipes from freezing). When the room is near 40f the clothes will never dry. I needed to warm the room to above 50f in order to get the clothes warm and dry. Luckily that is only 2 months a year where I am. Other than that it has been wonderful, especially with ADHD, and forgetting to transfer loads for a few days with the old setup. Even if the clothes are not fully dry after a run (I need to add a 45 minute timed dry in the winter), they don't start molding like with the old unit.
@@jsnx9067 no, the external room is a stepping stone. We want to put it inside eventually, but that could not have worked with the dryer venting air outside. With this unit we can run it inside, and inside air conditions are ideal for running this unit. With our old dryer(220v 30 amp, dryer used 5.5kw) it would take 2.5 hours(3 one hour timed dry) to completely dry towels. With this unit (1000 watts) I can wash and mostly dry towels in 2.5 hours, then finish drying them in a 30 minute timed dry. It may be that the default dryness is poorly calibrated. I should try calling the company about that. It could be based on external air humidity which around here is usually about 80%, and I often am washing clothes while it is raining.
It's Toto. I have a Toto Drake II conventional 2-piece toilet that is 1.28 GPF, and it is the best flushing toilet I have ever seen. They call it Tornado flush, and it works without any electrical power. Highly recommended. Not the cheapest toilet, but not outrageous price either. I paid about 450 four years ago, but I think prices are a little bit higher now.
Toto makes some excellent regular two-piece toilets also. Not the cheapest ones you can find, but I highly recommend the Toto Drake II, with Tornado Flush.
Bosch dishwashers have also gotten very quiet and they're not quite as expensive, just sayin. Miele has very good layout of the racks, though, I agree.
GE sold its appliance division to Chinese company Haier. GE sold its lighting division to Savant. There is no relation between Haier and Savant (and no relation of these two with GE or the recently spun off GE Healthcare (x-ray, Cat-Scan, MRI machines, etc).
Need round toilets that are 19 and 21 inches tall. All they got is elongated ones. Need them for remodels / upgrades that don’t have room for elongated type models
Did I really hear you say you organize your cutlery “like Little Soldiers going to the bath together”?!?!? lol odd comment but awesome dishwasher. I’ll check it out more for my next remodel
Leviton can do this. As can any smart breaker. The problem is inverter's aren't quite there yet. A 240v, 200A panel is 48,000W. The EP4 18k all in one inverter still takes 3. Once those start hitting 50k in a single inverter it will greatly simplify grid connected solar so you don't have multiple inverter's in addition to the main panel.
I recently bought a Kitchen-Aid (Whirlpool Corp) stainless steel dishwasher that is only 39 db (extremely quiet). A lot less expensive than Miele. Has 3 racks like the Miele.
@@MadLadsAnonymous I don't know how either of those two respond to a falling jam-jar. Also, keep in mind that the name "quartz" is sometimes misleadingly stickered onto a material called "quartz composite" (which is not quartz - it is quartz dust bonded together with a resin. The best use of Dekton is for hot pans and cleanability (as long you don't have an OH cabinet ;)
Small toilets in Chicago at 5' x 7'? Here in Hong Kong they are more like 4' x 5'8". I don't know about this GE washer/dryer but I've got one in HK by Whirlpool and the clothes are never completely dry when they come out. During the Span part, CJ reminded me of a tamed down Chris Farley.
People will be disappointed with the GE washer dryer combo. It simply doesn't work as good as a regular standard alone washer and dryer. The heat pump doesn't get hot enough and clothes don't dry 100%. This concept could be perfected if they used 220v
As part of Germany’s deindustrialization, I believe Miele just announced that manufacturing will cease in country. I wonder about the quality of domestically built Miele.
All these heat pump appliances need to get the heat from somewhere. Your heat pump hot water heater just steals heat from the room it's in to put into the water. You still have to supply and pay to heat that room.. more than you would if it did NOT have a heat pump water heater. I'm facing this in a current build. My solution is to treat my mechanical room like an HRV. I vent some heated air from the living space into the separate mechanical room. The vent (Which is cold air) from the Rheem water heater will be sent to a vent to the outdoors. It's kinda a controlled leak.. Instead of using the heat from the vented air to heat incoming air, I'm using it to supply heat for the water heater.. Now to figure out the make-up air issue. Oh.. That Skyex plug is $50!.. to save your electrician from labor and pass the plug cost on to you..
That countertop material being described as “not that expensive” is disingenuous. Even if the material is less than others you have to cut it so slow that any fabricator will charge a premium for clogging their CNC’s and water jets. Not to mention up until the point it’s installed it’s fragile and can shatter makes that a factor in pricing as well because any fab I know adds extra slabs to a project to account for breakage. It’s definitely a robust product but please don’t call it inexpensive.
Everything electric, everything fails. Not for me. Give me two sources of power and heat. Ice/Snow storm, lose power, lose heat, lose life. No thank you. A lot of great technology with electronification but, the smarter it gets, the more it cost to repair, the shorter life span and MTBF.
Hmm, lots of nice products I can picture in a Nascar champion's mansion. No accounting for taste I suppose. Am looking forward to Brent's segment at least. A modicum of sincerity dropped in this ocean of crass self interest.
27:33, A quite note about the cheap (inexperienced) electrician. It can be more expense because they're more prone to f*****g up. Nearly 10 years ago, my sister bought a ceiling fan. The ends of the wires that came out of the fan unit weren't stripped. So, I tell my brother-in-law to give me a minute to get some wire strippers. I go up stairs, into my room, open the odd cubby, spend 20 seconds digging for my wire strippers, and walk back down the the stairs. I was gone for less than 2 minutes, and the dumb-ass managed to cut all the way through both wires (twice). He was so sure that he could strip the wires with nothing but a knife, that he managed to cut off the ends off of each wire (twice). Because of this, we spent 15 minutes trying to connect those wires into the base, because we barely had enough room to get our fingers into the gap between the fan and the base. All of this, because we no longer had enough length to create a reusable gap between the two pieces without pulling a wire out. The inexperienced electrician cost us 15 minutes because he was too full of himself to wait for 2 minutes for the proper tool.
Even the cheapest dishwasher has built in softener here in DK :P. But if you use pods with softener in, you dont have to add any salt. Cause that would leave traces of salt on your stuff. And if you want a high end toilet, take a look at Geberit Aquaclean :P
You all talking about "reducing the load on the grid" with the latest appliances that are energy efficient while standing right next to a power hungry vehicle that not only negates these newly obtained efficiencies but adds additional load on the grid. Not all things need to be electric.
It’s still a standard box behind it, so to replace or change the fixture with another type is no harder than normal. Better than the new puck lights where there’s no longer a can behind them in case you wanted that.
The system can't generate enough energy to run nothing but electric homes and autos. For a "Truck Stop" EV station to work they would have to have their own generation plant. Great gains but "green" energy will not be able to sustain the power required. He talked about Texas and Texas has more wind generation than anyone. The cold and lack of wind knocked it out also.
Will not, only currently. Any state in the Southern United States could go mostly solar. In the summer, solar electric generation will be generated at the maximum electrical use.
Your lighting truck only has so many charge cycles. People using their truck in this way are going to be really sad in a few years. They are going to lose their range. Much wiser to buy a few more batteries to meet your needs.
