Posted on 12/06/2012 7:20:37 PM PST by ExxonPatrolUs
You should say such terrible things on a public forum!
You might give them ideas!!!!
We just remodeled our baths in San Diego. The low flow toilets we installed work fine..first time, but they now have larger flush valves. Same amount..faster flush.
We also installed a on demand hot water circulating pump..we push a button and it circulates the hot water to get hot before you turn it on. These things have cut our water bill by 30%. The pump cost $200 and I installed it myself under the sink.
The actual cost of the water may be underpriced, but all the other freaking charges they put on my bill that have nothing to do with my actual, personal water use, are overpriced.
about 20-25 % of my water bill is actual water use cost. The rest are service charges, storm water charges, sewer charges - stuff I have no ability to reduce by using less water. My local water people have no current plans as to how to reduce those charges for me.
I don't know where you are getting your data, because as a service plumber and plumbing contractor, I was around when the 3.5 gallon flushers were introduced, and I'm calling that about 1980.
It took until the late 1960s to make the complete switch over from 7 gallons to 5.5 gallons in manufacturing.
“can begin as little more than a bucket filled with a layer of a carbon-rich material such as dry leaves, sawdust or newspaper.”
Somehow, I just can’t picture my late father heading for his throne with the Sunday papers under one arm and a bucket full of leaves in the other.
I mean seriously, wouldn’t it be even simpler to just go behind a tree in the back yard?
Venting solutions have changed since then so I was going to retrofit when the tank went out a few years ago. No plumber would install one because we're at 7,600 feet and no manufacturer will stand by an on-demand at this altitude. That was disappointing.
Yep, even though you have to stand there with a plunger and the phone number of the plumber on speed dial.
Our benighted municipality charges for water and then doubles it by charging for waste water sewage. I run a tropical fish store and have complained that I do not discharge nearly as much water as I consume. The response: Doesn’t matter. The sewer charge is merely a way to double the cost of water use. At least they are honest about their deception.
Composting will not necessarily destroy STD’s, prions, cancers, or other human ills.
This woman is suggesting that we put ourselves at risk for various epidemics, for the sake of Mother Gaia.
Sorry Mother, I can’t do that.
I’m on well and septic, so there is no reason for me to conserve water simply to use less.
Married with children was one of the all-time satirical shows. I don’t think it will ever be beaten.
I would tell my customer the simple fact, they need a new toilet.
You got one of those low flow toilets during the period that they were 3.5 gallons, and many of them were lousy, they went through the same process as with the 1.6 gallon flushers (from junk to OK).
At first the manufacturers just used less water with the old designs and bowls, they did that with the early 3.5 gallon water savers and then these 1.6 gallon water savers, but the problems have been worked out now, do some research and you can find great toilets to replace that faulty one of yours.
Personally, I use old 1.6 gallon toilets that I have removed from customer's house because they were weak models (but attractive, one Kohler, one American Standard), and they work fine for me but I do keep a plunger close if they need a bump. If they were an issue, I would go buy a new Toto, or whichever brand is a good one currently.
Any reason those couldn't be retrofitted to handle larger flushes to get rid of their problems?
Ah, I had to look that one up.
http://www.wikihow.com/Read-Architect%27s-Drawings
From this I understand that this was the only modification to your home's original plans. Am I correct?
It is best just to buy a decent toilet.
Look at post 82, he likes his new toilets.
Yes, that was the only thing the county building department didn’t approve of in my blueprints. I used to build houses and I’ve never seen a professional architect’s plans that didn’t have loads of red penned corrections on them. I also had my plans approved in exactly 7 days. I felt pretty good about my first set of drawings. No computers with CAD software either.
Nice job on your house!
Thank you! Thank you very much. I built it for my mother and she has told me often that she loves it. (only I know its flaws lol) I still feel pretty good about it. It was a high point in my life in several ways.
“I am a wealth of useless information.”
I found it interesting:)
Bravo!!!
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