I've only been in my house a week, but I gotta say, central vac is the greatest invention of all time. My wife and I have two dogs, and have always used a Dyson...no matter how good the filtration mechanism (and I'm not sure Dyson's are all the great), the machine still needs to exhaust...and the finest dust is recirculated right back into the room...with the central vac, it's WAY more powerful than the Dyson, and it exhausts to the outside...NO smell, VERY quiet, powerful, and no bag or canister to unload every use... As for Surround Sound, I've got it; it's nice (and can be impressive), but I don't feel like I have a better or more functional house because of it... Whirlpool tubs are totally overrated and yucky in my opinion. Some people canÂt live without them (my brother and his wife for example), most have them but never use them. If you love to soak or have a medical condition that warrants one, go for it...but if you do, at least get an air tub that self-purges...I've seen black gunk come out of way too many whirlpool tubs over the years...

"I could also just get a pull-down faucet for the sink and aim it at the tub to fill it." You could - but you won't like it. The most one of those will fill is 2.2 gallons a minute - some less that that. Divide your tub's capacity by that and you're looking at 20 minutes to fill +/- Not good. beekeeper - I have one of these and have placed more than half a dozen in projects over the past few years. What you get for your money is a machined brass body that mounts in the ceiling or wall and a plated trim piece. The body is a substantial piece of hardware and chrome,brass, nickel plating costs $$$ too. Whether that's all worth 500 + bucks, is up to you. Like davidro says, it doesn't matter what the delivery system is, this is just an opening for hot water to come out of, albeit one with a bit of engineering. GD & Spanish - the splashing is very much dependent on the mounting height of the unit AND the tub selected AND the location of the water column inside the tub. Mine hardly splashes at all. The ones I have seen that splash only do so for a minute or so until their is enough of a pool in the tub to counteract it. Flat bottom tubs with tall ceilings are going to splash more than one from 7' into a sloped contact point in the tub. Besides , we're talking water in a bathroom, generally tiled so what's the big deal ??? It's not like the amount of splash is the same as taking a shower and leaving the door open. 2. While you are correct in that "the water cools off much more than it would from just a regular tub filler", it's not as if it cools off enough for anyone without a thermometer to tell a difference, and a very sensitive one at that! Sure the air cools the water more from a stream falling from 8 feet than one falling from two feet. But bath water that is 100 + degrees is not going to cool down to 90 deg. in the xtra 1-2 seconds it takes it to fall from the ceiling- get real. Additionally , that filler produces a very dense column of water (laminar) that has little to no air in it, so one might argue it will be hotter and less prone to heat loss than a "regular" filler that introduces room temp air into it's stream - thus cooling it off on it's way to the tub. So don't worry Spanish -your tub will still be plenty hot with that filler if you choose it. IT'S A NON -ISSUE people. I've already alluded to the real issue for lower tub temps - FILL TIME. That's directly related to the delivery system ( valve). If your valve and accompanying filler will only deliver 5 gallons a minute it's going to take a while to fill an 80 gallon tub, and there will be some heat loss. Select a valve that delivers 20 gallons a minute and you can be soaking quicker that most people can undress. Here is a link that might be useful: laminar valve body - see page 2

Well, it is done now. He said there was no glue in it so it shouldn't stick to the wood floor. I think I got all of it off the carpet and rug. The young helper carried a trowel full of concrete into the bedroom to another bathroom. Glad he didn't trip on anything. I guess we will find out when the mortar breaks, but I can bet the plumber will not come back at his expense. Tulsa, Oklahoma and Fort Smith, Arkansas are the two closest. The problem is if they leave Tulsa at 8:00 a.m, they will get here at 10:00 a.m. They will work 2 hours until lunch time, drive to lunch, and get back to work here at 1:00 p.m. Work until 3:00 p.m. and drive back to Tulsa by 5:00. Some would not work that long. They want to be back in Tulsa by 3:30. At least the ones we called did. They wanted a new trip charge every day which was from $450-$650 per day. If they could get it done in two days that would be good, but they said it could take from 6-12 days since they are only working a maximum of 4 hours per day. We had two people drive here, and say they would get back with us. They never did. Drove all this way for nothing. I guess they made up a story to their boss. I did not call them back since they did not want the work. The lack of inspection/permits allows for shoddy work, and they really don't care if it is done correctly.

In general it is very difficult to change structural type of stuff like moving a toilet in a condo. It is simply not the same as doing work in a single family residential home. Beyond it probably being difficult to alter the plumbing in the building for such a change, it is unlikely that you would get permission from the HOA. The roof of the parking structure below is most probably not just a slab the way it might be in a single family home. It would have pipes and electrical wiring since there are no doubt lights in the parking structure and there might be pipes and other structural stuff there. The condo board is not going to sign off on something like this without have something that assures them it can be done without compromising the building. And even if that was possible, obtaining that would be very expensive and I doubt would be worth it just so that you don't see a toilet in a bathroom. Bathrooms HAVE toilets - no surprise. A shower drain is different than a bath drain - even one in a tub/shower combo. I live in a condo (FWIW) and when I remodeled I converted the tub/shower to a walk in shower and the drain had to be changed. I needed to access it from my neighbor's bathroom - luckily he gave me permission. The condo HOA needed to approve the change as well but this modification is much less difficult than moving the location of a toilet - especially in a multi-family residence. There are 122 units in my building - all of them have been remodeled since the building was first constructed and not a singe toilet has ever been moved.