well - clearly people have a lot to say about bike lanes - but no one commented one the double parking issue.

Anyone without an axe to grind care to comment?????

Posted by: doodle at June 23, 2008 11:35 PM in response to new bike lanes on berkeley and lincoln

joe from all boiler is the go-to guy. i had 2 plumbers fail to fix my boiler and then joe came to the rescue. don't know what the cost for a replacement would be but joe was on-time, reasonably-priced and good.

718-788-1860

Posted by: doodle at June 21, 2008 11:57 AM in response to Boiler Contractor Recommendations?

i have the same issue with my neighbor - not day or night but teenage band practice, amplifiers and all, several times a week. my whole house vibrates.

i keep hoping that the owners will have an epiphany and realize that they could do something proactive - maybe the neoprene mats or something or some other kind of insulation (they play in the sub-basement). my libertarianism and our previous history prevents me from bringing it up with them.

in attached houses you would think people would realize that they are connected to their neighbors and be a little considerate. sadly, i think my optimism is misplaced.

Posted by: doodle at June 21, 2008 11:54 AM in response to Noisy Neighbor Behind Brick Wall

i despise my 3-yr old jennair cooktop for many, many reasons. the burners are totally unreliable. of the five burners only 2 are reliable.
the design of the grates is awful and if a pan is not placed perfectly, it slides off very easily. and, every time i open the drawer underneath the cooktop, the flames go off and it needs to restart.

i can't speak to your alternative, but do not buy a jennair

Posted by: doodle at June 21, 2008 9:46 AM in response to Kitchen range, GE cafe vs Jenn-Air pro style

I'm not happy with our Jenn Air range/oven either. Same thing, pots slide around too easily on the grates and if you have one eye on, it heats up the connecting grates too much, and if the oven is on it WAY heats up the back grates on the range. I've never had that ever, for the oven to let heat escape up onto the range. Huge design flaw.

In general about designs of all ranges, I'm so annoyed with that continuous-grate design on seemingly every range on the market in every brand, and I want to buy a vintage gas stove just so I don't have to have that!

Posted by: guest at June 21, 2008 11:32 AM in response to Kitchen range, GE cafe vs Jenn-Air pro style

The piece that's missing here is that you can't communicate with them. Who knows, if they knew they were bothering you they might listen with headphones or something. Try placing a notice in the next building, on their door, that you are a neighbor and there's a noise problem. Also, I agree with the comment above to contact the landlord or coop, that might help.

Posted by: Smokychimp at June 21, 2008 12:00 PM in response to Noisy Neighbor Behind Brick Wall

Hello Op here,

Denton did you mean $3-6K? I have never heard anyone talk about this costing so high on the previous posts regarding boilers.

Thanks

Posted by: feelyng at June 21, 2008 3:23 PM in response to Boiler Contractor Recommendations?

Huh, I opted for my Bosch range precisely FOR the continuous grates, and I love it. Anyway, I was told that in general GE appliances have gone downhill and are very unreliable.

Posted by: guest at June 21, 2008 7:55 PM in response to Kitchen range, GE cafe vs Jenn-Air pro style

if you want to research consumer opinions of appliances, please go to www.gardenweb.com.

You will get the real story from the appliance forum section.

Posted by: Ysabelle at June 21, 2008 10:12 PM in response to Kitchen range, GE cafe vs Jenn-Air pro style

Normally I like GE, but they have put their consumer appliance division on the market, so future spport could be iffy

Posted by: denton at June 22, 2008 6:04 PM in response to Kitchen range, GE cafe vs Jenn-Air pro style

return the favor and blast music against their wall tonight at 4:00am. repeat every night for a week, hopefully they will get the picture. they may not realize how loud they are or how the sound is traveling.

Posted by: guest at June 23, 2008 9:57 AM in response to Noisy Neighbor Behind Brick Wall

As a former source of this kind of noise, I can tell you this guy probably has no idea how much of a disturbance he is causing. As several other posters have also pointed out, if you can figure out a way to talk to him, you should be able to solve the problem. once I found out what a problem my amp was for my neighbors, I was happy to use headphones to practice late at night. Maybe you want to not only track this guy down, but give him some nice headphones as a housewarming gift. :-)

Posted by: guest at June 23, 2008 3:13 PM in response to Noisy Neighbor Behind Brick Wall

3:13 is right, people should be using headphones to practice guitar. People just have no sense at all.

Call 311 and the DOB, tell them the noise is well above ambient level and it plays late at night. (Both illegal -- we DO have a noise code in NYC). They will send somebody to measure it and tell the dude to shut up.

Posted by: guest at June 25, 2008 6:47 PM in response to Noisy Neighbor Behind Brick Wall

Hose off the blood? What a waste. Very soon you're going to need that blood to pay for the gas to stick in the tank of your fat-assed, rolling road block.

Posted by: Steve at June 27, 2008 8:53 PM in response to new bike lanes on berkeley and lincoln