Please, I need the real 'poop' on this toilet controversy!
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Comments (12)Yeah I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that, when this supposed tomato book deal mentioned remove all the leaves to improver "circulation.." I don't know bout you folks out there but I have always ended up crowding my tomato's a bit just merely for lack of space ~ Have not yet had a problem with fungus/mold in the past or anything like that?? (Now watch as soon as I say no problems so far as sure as you can guess it I will be this year +sigh+!!) I think my problem with the zucchini has been firmly, hit the nail on the head, with the mention from a previous post of "lack of pollinator's." You know I never paid much attention to that... Granted I work very long ~ trying hours at work, and never paid much attention to it. After all me thinking a lot of tomato's and other crops are self pollinating so why not zucchini??!! DUH. The one thing I have noticed lacking in my yard (although this year I don't anticipate it, was the lack of bee's and bumblebee's in my yard previous years...!) Thank you everyone, I think you have just solved the mystery for me...! I know it's not a chemical thing because I don't use chemicals on my yard/garden at all. Although who knows what the heck they used before me? Although I felt pretty safe when I first started renting here, just because of all the various weeds on the property. Then the owner said to me plant whatever you want... It had been vacant for almost a year to boot. I kept eyeballing the place while driving on my way home to my crummy apartment, and got brave enough to call on it thinking we'll never afford this place!! Thank God I was wrong! I have never been happier, than to get out of those dang apartments!! I have been raised organic gardening from a very young age. Besides chem's/pesticides are way to expensive anyways! The only thing I venture out and buy is some fertilizer about once every 10 years or so. So for me it is mostly compost and natural stuff here for everything.. I figure saving all that money entitles me to buy a plant every once in a blue moon, when there is something I just can't seem to live without! Even then I go home and brew on it a couple of days just to think about it before I buy it. My evil budget has a lot to do with that +sigh+!! So o.k. go ahead and laugh at me when you hear my method... I scrounge bottles and cans from various places to all ready add to my collection of ahem.. beer can's... When I just can't resist the temptations of a plant calling my name, or when I am absolutely desperate for gas $$. I take all those lovely bottles and can's into my local recyclers and cash them all in!! Although I have to admit that this winter sowing gig has put a serious dent in the ol' pop bottle recycling! However, I would rather have the flowers!! I have never been so excited in my life as too see those winter sown seedlings pop up as to say why have you been so stupid for all those dumb years?? Why did you really waste your time starting us indoors only to watch us die off from dampening off?!!! So this year thank you so much to everyone and all. Oh yeah my friends at work look at me like I'm a little nutso' when I say...Yessss!!! I have the weekend off and I am going to spend all of it playing in my garden!! I am going to plant out my tomato seedlings and other wonderful flowers that are growing beyond the bonds of their zip lock baggie homes. I think I am making the one true gardener at work absolutely nuts when I describe my seedlings. I know that for a fact because today she was asking me to tell her all of how/what I do to get those seeds going!! ( I happily did - I think she's a goner!!) Another soul to winter sowing! I am looking forward to an absolutely fabulous garden of flowers that I would never have dreamed of affording. If I had to go out and buy plants for! Winter sowing has shown me the way, beyond my wildest dreams!! Although the one plant that has bitten me lately is this salvia plant called black & blue... I think that it is gorgeous. So if I can muster up the extra $$ sooner or later... I am going to the local nursery and purchasing that one. As I have heard that the seed is apparently sterile?? O.K. you were nice enough to read this far can anyone suggest how deep, or do you leave them at the same soil level as to plant Castor Beans?? They are simply booming along with my blue flax, and Malva, as well as others. I don't want to mess these up! I guess, I can only guess at this point.. However I only have four of the Castor Beans, and they are all up and going. I would like to keep them that way and not mess up on this one... I don't want to plant the seedling's too deep or not deep enough... Do you leave them ate same soil level or??? Call me greedy but I would like to see all of them, grow as I have lots of space to fill... they are supposed to be quite a large plant. It is just getting them to they're full potential in the meantime... Any suggestions would be happily welcomed?!! Barb...See MoreHelp with toilet decision please - Toto?
Comments (20)dahoov2: "So seeing as they are building me a new bathroom and it'll be an addition and not something adapted, I guess I can get a skirted toilet. I like the idea of dual flush too. I never even heard about "sanigloss" till today as well. "Anything else to look for?" If you are building a bathroom from scratch, definitely -- I cannot emphasize this strongly enough -- make sure that it has a grounded electrical outlet within a foot or two of the toilet at baseboard level. WHEN (it is not a matter of "if") you find that you can no longer live without an advanced toilet seat (also known as a bidet seat or Washlet -- but Washlet is a trademark of Toto so other makers cannot use that word to designate their product), your cost of installation will be significantly reduced if the electrical outlet is readily available. In the meantime, you can have one of the electrical outlets with built-in sensor night-lights installed, which will enhance nighttime visits to the loo. The inevitability that you will be getting an advanced toilet seat also may influence your choice of toilet itself. Almost all Japanese advanced toilet seats will fit right on almost all Japanese toilets (savvy standardization of dimensions), but you'll have a hard time fitting an advanced toilet seat on a square-front Duravit, for instance. https://www.houzz.com/products/duravit-vero-1-piece-toilet-alpine-white-2103010005-prvw-vr~15698952-Vero-1-Piece-Toilet-Alpine-White-2103010005-contemporary-toilets Everyone who has been exposed to the use of advanced toilet seats for more than a few days (many for much shorter periods of time) completely falls in love with the concept. Once you have yours, you will find yourself disquieted when you travel and visit most American hotels and have to do without the amenity. But you can always travel to Japan, where approximately 100 percent of hotel rooms and better than 70 percent of private residences (nearly 100 percent of newly constructed private residences) have advanced toilet seats on every toilet. There are probably more advanced toilet seats in use in Japan now than TV remote controls, and the remarkable thing is that the product category is only about three decades old. We have a Toto Vespin II with an Inax Clessence advanced toilet seat; we chose those two units after much research, and because we travel at least twice a year to Japan (many relatives), and could ask real people real questions about their real opinions. We have recommended the same combination to several friends in America, who have followed our recommendation, and have been delighted with the outcome. Here is a link that might be useful: Inax Clessence...See Moremice poop found in the oven... Help please!
Comments (6)You just bought a home, so you better start getting handy or it will nickel and dime you to death. Hooking up a gas range is an easy easy thing to do. You don't need a $80 trip from a plumber or appliance repair person to do this. Look on YouTube if you need some hints on the how-to. Hook it up and light it off. It may take a minute or two to purge the air from the flexible supply line. If none of the burners will light off after a good while waiting for the air to be forced out, then you may have electrical problems caused by the mice. If the top burners will light, try the oven. That's where the real smell will come if it's been contaminated too badly. If it's just a little bit of poop in the insulation, it will stop smelling after an hour or so and it will be dried out and cooked into more or less safe situation for you to use the oven. What's usually the case though is that the urine in the insulation is the problem and it will smell every time you use it. I'd personally light it off, and if it smelled like more than the usual smell of a stored gas range lighting off (a little bit burnt smelly, but not horrible) then I'd buy a new one. And, put on some coveralls and crawl under the house to see if you can find any openings where the mice are getting in. Grab your caulk gun and go around the foundation on the exterior and look at the window and door trim while you are doing the inspection. (If you have a brick home, don't mistake it's weep holes for damaged mortar.) Caulk not only weather tights the home and helps with your utility bills, it pest proofs it too. Mice can get into an opening as big as a standard #2 pencil or larger. If you come upon any obviously chewed areas or created holes, put your mouse bait there. You will need something other than caulk to close those holes up, but it will depend on what the holes are in for what material you will want. And, your home inspector should have given you a report with many photographs illustrating his points. His "small amount" of poop should be right there in a colored 3"x5" shot as "small" is a term of judgement. His "small" might be your "large", especially if he's inspected heavily vermin infested homes. Typically though, the contract that you sign with the inspector will only refund you the cost of the inspection if you find out that you have more issues than he documented. You would not have any financial recourse beyond his fee alone. Yes, it would be worth it to document your issues to take it up with him in order to recoup the fee, but don't expect anything beyond that will happen....See MoreModern Architecture & Controversy
Comments (55)There is little love lost between architects and interior designers. We are left to sort out their biggest mistakes so people can actually use them. Look at many of the posts in here, and you will see what I mean. I also think there is little love lost between much of the smug Harvard educated subset and the rest of the country. My father was happy when I got rejected by Harvard for grad school, he was afraid that I would go there.(They were actually #14 of my applications, I thought 13 might be unlucky) When we did tours of local firms to see the different kind of design offices a number of them said they would much rather hire students from our type of program (which I considered 13th grade, in a way) because we had a practical education. One illustrated with this story: "We had two interns, an architect from one of the Ivy's and one from an art-tech school, and we gave them the same project, to get together some lighting for a place we were doing. "In a couple of hours the art tech student came back with two piles from our resource room and said--this pile is basic lighting that I know will light the space functionally just by laying it out properly. This pile has more interesting lighting but I would need to figure out the room cavity and stuff like that, and I am a little slow at that. "The architecture student had several doodles on paper showing rectangles with lightbulbs drawn inside, because he was conceptualizing. As for Harvard, I took Organic Chem at a State school with a Harvard student, and no one wanted to be her lab partner because she broke a lot of equipment, blew up one experiment, and threw awat the desired product and kept the waste product in at least one other. She also had one of the lowest test averages in the class. But my illustrations may make your point as well, Marcolo, because the "different" infill buildings I show are all between 40 and 50 years old and I think there was still some common sense at that time....See Morenycbluedevil
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