indoor kitchen / cooking odors.....

[tommym]

You can also try using grape seed oil instead of vegetable oil or olive oil when cooking. It have a very high flashpoint and I can cook steaks and not have a fogbank in the house. I haven't tried mixing spices with it, and brushing it on a roast, but that would work too.

Not for that reason, but my wife picked up some grape seed oil last week as she had never seen it before and wanted to try it. Thanks for the additional insights.



Tommy

 

[tommym]

Welp this all may be for nothing. Just met with the electrical inspector (again, this morning) and was told (again) that we cannot upgrade our electrical panel to accommodate more circuits, which is what we need to move forward. According to the inspector, since the electrical panel box is located in our powder room (1/2 bath), we can not legally up-grade the panel, nor run a subpanel to and from this room. Electrical codes have changed since these townhouses were built, and they are not allowing for any wiggle room for these grandfathered installations.

I'm going to have to have a heart-to-heart with my wife tonight about this townhouse.

Tommy

 

[spoox]

Not for that reason, but my wife picked up some grape seed oil last week as she had never seen it before and wanted to try it. Thanks for the additional insights.



Tommy

I have used grape seed oil for years when I do stir fried dinners in an iron wok. It works great for blackening chilis for Szechuan dishes--but then again
the corrosive chili smoke is troubling for some. My wife would start to come into the kitchen and then leave yelling that she couldn't breathe--my Manx
Fenoderee would sit by my feet the whole time as it evidently didn't affect him anymore than it did me. It was partial revenge for the times Vicki would
use chlorine bleach weekly to clean the kitchen--I firmly believe she could have been in WWI trenches without a gas mask during mustard gas attacks...

 

[dreadnut]

Typically you can have 10 things on each circuit - a whole house fan does not draw much current, and many of your circuits are largely outlets that are not always being used. So my thought is you don't need to upgrade the panel to install a whole house fan.

 

[fronobulax]

Typically you can have 10 things on each circuit - a whole house fan does not draw much current, and many of your circuits are largely outlets that are not always being used. So my thought is you don't need to upgrade the panel to install a whole house fan.

The ten things rule of thumb is not quite that simple if any of the ten are a microwave, hair dryer, space heater, clothes dryer, toaster or any of a few other things. Nine lamps and a fan should behave but the new circuit requirement may be the electrical code for a townhouse and not just what load can be borne.

But this is why I strive to live in a single family dwelling that is not subject to a HOA or historical district covenant.

 

[tommym]

Where I live, townhouses (of four or more units) have to go through a commercial review process in lieu of a residential review process. That substantially increases the cost of everything.

Tommy