I'm going to break these upgrades into two categories. First set we did for our convience, the other in my opinion should have already been incorporated into the design.
We added a coffee pot under the cabinet above the sink. In order to accomplish this had to place an outlet in the side of the upper cabinet.
The second thing was to add a 44" ceiling fan in the living room ( we found one that matched the fixture above the couch. It looks good and does a great job).
Third was to take the 32" jensen tv and mount, install them in the garage tv cabinet. then put a 42" samsung in the living room. Both tv's push back to the cabinet frame, neither recess into the the frame to be flush. The only time ours were all the way in was when we were traveling anyways.
The one in garage usaully sits on about a 45 degree angle. And the living room is mounted on a flat hanger.
Here starts the other list.
One a/c vent in the living room.....not near enough and the location next to a wall (not in the center of the living area) made it even that much less efficient. Our solution to this was cut into the duct at the other end of the room near the front door and add a diffuser. Now with two vents in this area blowing and a ceiling fan added no problem with maintaining a comfortable temp in the heat of the day here just east of Houston, Tx.
Satelite cable
There are accomidations for 4 tv's but only a single cable for satelite only to two of those locations. My solution was a bit of over kill but only wanted to do it once. I rant the double coax to every location and installed a 8 bank switch to accomidate all the lines. In this day and age all tv provisions should accomidate satelite and at the very least a double line in the living room for a dvr.
The price of elecricity here is 16 cents a kwh, After i received a $296.00 electric bill I decided to check how balanced my panel was. The results were a bit on the rough side. My normal running tv's a/c etc showed that "A" phase was pulling 30amps and "B" phase was drawing 5 amps for my continous loads. So I removed the garage circuit off the phase that holds my main a/c and reworked the general purpose kitchen circuit, added another circuit next to the couch for the computers. This helped the load balance and got the cords out of the walkway. Basically at the end of the day under normal continous load I'm now drawing about 18amps on one leg and about the same on the other. This was based on the feed at the panel inside. During my checks I found that the converter isn't fed from the panel I will check at the transfer swith and see if there is more to be done with the loads.
The flimsy louver for the range exhaust fan that thing didn't last any time at all. will be adding a hinge and a rod to operate it from inside rather than letting it flop around.
When my 3914 was being built I requested the the pin box be set at the highest set of holes. I was told the dealer does that. Well the dealer wasn't at all intersted in raising it up. Now i see why, I did get it done but the modification on that plastic cover was a rough project.
Next was to look into the suspension, I don't have grease fittings under there, no way to grease any of the bolts. Guess my next big project is to add a suspension that won't wear out right away. I'm happy with the ride of the suspension under it and if it wasn't for the fact that there isn't a reaonable way to maintain the bushings I would have been satisfied. In my opinion if it is made to move it should be lubricated.
I've had shake-down probs like everyone else bad door locks, comode seal not holding water, gauges sticking etc. out of all of them the one that bothers me is the couch. At the time of purchase it was noted that the center cushion for the couch that makes it into a bed was short it won't stay in. 3 months now still not resolved. Dealer says its the couch manufacturer(been so long I've forgot their name) messing me over at this time. And still haven't received a lock for the door. I hope these are isolated insidents in regards to cash the check and leave you hang with the problems. I have 9 more months under warranty to be ignored I guess.
We added a coffee pot under the cabinet above the sink. In order to accomplish this had to place an outlet in the side of the upper cabinet.
The second thing was to add a 44" ceiling fan in the living room ( we found one that matched the fixture above the couch. It looks good and does a great job).
Third was to take the 32" jensen tv and mount, install them in the garage tv cabinet. then put a 42" samsung in the living room. Both tv's push back to the cabinet frame, neither recess into the the frame to be flush. The only time ours were all the way in was when we were traveling anyways.
The one in garage usaully sits on about a 45 degree angle. And the living room is mounted on a flat hanger.
Here starts the other list.
One a/c vent in the living room.....not near enough and the location next to a wall (not in the center of the living area) made it even that much less efficient. Our solution to this was cut into the duct at the other end of the room near the front door and add a diffuser. Now with two vents in this area blowing and a ceiling fan added no problem with maintaining a comfortable temp in the heat of the day here just east of Houston, Tx.
Satelite cable
There are accomidations for 4 tv's but only a single cable for satelite only to two of those locations. My solution was a bit of over kill but only wanted to do it once. I rant the double coax to every location and installed a 8 bank switch to accomidate all the lines. In this day and age all tv provisions should accomidate satelite and at the very least a double line in the living room for a dvr.
The price of elecricity here is 16 cents a kwh, After i received a $296.00 electric bill I decided to check how balanced my panel was. The results were a bit on the rough side. My normal running tv's a/c etc showed that "A" phase was pulling 30amps and "B" phase was drawing 5 amps for my continous loads. So I removed the garage circuit off the phase that holds my main a/c and reworked the general purpose kitchen circuit, added another circuit next to the couch for the computers. This helped the load balance and got the cords out of the walkway. Basically at the end of the day under normal continous load I'm now drawing about 18amps on one leg and about the same on the other. This was based on the feed at the panel inside. During my checks I found that the converter isn't fed from the panel I will check at the transfer swith and see if there is more to be done with the loads.
The flimsy louver for the range exhaust fan that thing didn't last any time at all. will be adding a hinge and a rod to operate it from inside rather than letting it flop around.
When my 3914 was being built I requested the the pin box be set at the highest set of holes. I was told the dealer does that. Well the dealer wasn't at all intersted in raising it up. Now i see why, I did get it done but the modification on that plastic cover was a rough project.
Next was to look into the suspension, I don't have grease fittings under there, no way to grease any of the bolts. Guess my next big project is to add a suspension that won't wear out right away. I'm happy with the ride of the suspension under it and if it wasn't for the fact that there isn't a reaonable way to maintain the bushings I would have been satisfied. In my opinion if it is made to move it should be lubricated.
I've had shake-down probs like everyone else bad door locks, comode seal not holding water, gauges sticking etc. out of all of them the one that bothers me is the couch. At the time of purchase it was noted that the center cushion for the couch that makes it into a bed was short it won't stay in. 3 months now still not resolved. Dealer says its the couch manufacturer(been so long I've forgot their name) messing me over at this time. And still haven't received a lock for the door. I hope these are isolated insidents in regards to cash the check and leave you hang with the problems. I have 9 more months under warranty to be ignored I guess.
