<p>That will work on a gas stove?!? It would certainly be an improvement on how DH cleans our grill – brings the racks into the kitchen and scratches the sink to pieces.</p>
<p>Thanks dmd, you reminds me this eureca steamer just like yours came with the floor steamer from Costco few years ago. I never used it, because the first time use was not impressive. To my suprise, I was using it in a wrong way, now I found out how versatile it is. The trick of using the seamer is:</p>
<p>You need to wait to get it steaming! I did not, and the steam came out of it reall did not do any good. But I now know I have to WAIT until it steamed up and then the steam came out real strong and it became useful.</p>
<p>I found it will clean my grout between the kitchen tiles real good, in addition to the baked on greese on the stove racks.</p>
<p>Yes, you have to wait and wait and wait for the steamer to be fully heated. It takes mine at least 15 minutes. </p>
<p>Once I have hot steam, I use ONLY the little tiny head that concentrates the steam into a powerful jet of steam. I hold the steamer in one hand and a soapy cloth in the other. I jet the steam, I wipe the result; repeat as necessary. It gets grease out of every corner.</p>
<p>if so, why is your town hiring this many cops? Will you leave the door unlocked when you go on vacation for three days? or go away for three hours? Are you or your neighbors installing ADT security? </p>
<p>We recently found out that among our limited number of friends (maybe 15 families) about 50% of them had burglaries before and they do live in precieved low crime area such as Foster City, Millbrae, Hillsbrough, Burlingame and Palo Alto.</p>
<p>why the old alarm was there in the first place? do you mean the old owner had too much money in the pocket to burn and spend the money to install it just for the look?</p>
<p>We have an alarm system in our house because the discount on the insurance was more than the cost to install the alarm system and pay for monitoring. I do like having central-station monitoring of the smoke detector/fire alarm system.</p>
<p>Ditto what dmd said- cosmetic issue, and why not use one if it is there, whatever the crime rate??</p>
<p>If and when there is a burglary, the insurance coverage will work only if the alarm was turned on, which is recorded at the central station of the burglar alarm co.</p>
<p>A hidden cost of the alarm system: in our area, each time the police respond to an alarm because it has gone off without a call to the alarm co to say all is ok, they charge a fee!
Too many false alarms… and this is the result!</p>
<p>There is virtually no crime where we are and we have a security system. The monitoring is worth it, particularly the fire monitoring when we’re out of town. Same with our home in Hilton Head, where there is zero crime in a gated community. The discount on homeowners insurance is substantial.</p>
<p>Everyone said about the alarm effects the dicount on insurance. I failed to inform my insurance agent that we have turned on our alarm in June. Few days ago, thanks to your tips, I officially informed the agent, but she turned around and told me there is not much discount, maybe $10-20/year? What gives? Is it because of California? I don’t understand. Our home insurance bill is around $1,000/yr.</p>
<p>artloversplus: don’t know what company you’re with, but we get 20% off our homeowner’s insurance because we have central station fire monitoring. (That reminds me, it’s about time to do a complete check on our insurance situation–the last time I did that, we changed a lot of our coverage and saved a few hundred dollars a year.)</p>
<p>was on the phone with the insurance agent, she told me that since my homeowner’s insurance is low already, so the company does NOT give large discounts!</p>