My new laundry room sink. It has hot & cold foot pedals! Take a look.
8 years ago
They were throwing this out, in a Dr's office remodel. It's now installed in my laundry room as a slop sink for hand washables. I thought it was unusual.....unless you work in a Dr's office, this would not be everyday decor. lol
The Dr's scale was also saved from the dumpster. They have 1 @ the gym...so I put it in the workout room.
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Comments (149)Dee, you've passed the packaging test with flying colors!! Your box arrived and everything will make it just fine! I'm so happy with what you've sent: A very nice card and note Creeping Sedum - new for me Heliopsis 'Lorraine Sunshine' - Love the foliage on this!! Columbine songbird 'Cardinal' - LOVE this columbine!! Scabiosa pale yellow - I've been wanting this also :) Dianthus 'Telstar' - There is even a flower blooming! Viola - pretty colors that I don't have! Sweet William 'Heart Attack'- I love the color of this! Daylily 'David Kirschoff' Daylily Siloam 'Fairy Tale' Daylily 'Bela Lugosi' Daylily 'Nefertiti' I've googled these daylilies, and will absolutely love them blooming in my gardens!! Thank You soooo much Dee, for all of these wonderful flowers!!! I will get them planted and watered immediately! It's a nice cool day today. Last night we were in a frost advisory, and I've not been feeling well, picked up some kind of nasty cold virus, so I decided my plants were on their own. Didn't have the energy to go out and take care of them. Everything looked fine this morning. Tracy, hope your water situation was taken care of! Sassy, your granddaughter just keeps on getting cuter and cuter!! Have a good day everyone! Karen (still smiling from ear to ear)...See MoreI think my cold room is *too* cold...
Comments (18)I also have been working on my "keeping room"--an 8x11 room on the northernmost corner of our 120 year old wood-frame home in Indiana (It has a window and about 1/3 of the floorspace is the stairwell to the basement. While the stairwell is "old" I am not convinced it is original to the house--it may have been added when a bedroom upstairs was converted to a bath as the plumbing runs through this room behind a false wall and the waste pipe is boxed in (and nicely stained to match the woodwork). This basement configuration is not the best because this is the cold part of our basement (and we haven't done a good job weatherproofing our basement yet) and there's no way to shut off the basement from the laundry room. Since there's plumbing in the basement and this room (it's a laundry room/pantry now, I need to keep my room above freezing even though it doesn't have a heat run (and I wouldn't want to heat it since it's really part of the basement), I need to keep it above freezing. The room had an ancient (1960?) in-wall space heater (from the time when it was a bathroom) which was broken, and since it's a laundry room and there is a lot of fabric in the room, I don't really want a space heater in there. The first thing I did was look at the window--it was 8' tall, missing its storm, rattled and the glazing needed some attention (about 40 years ago!). I realize that's not your problem--is the gas still good in your window? You could also try a thermal curtain on the window if that's not enough. The second thing I did was caulk the trim and patch every crack in the room. Then I painted. The paint wasn't necessary for R-value reasons, but it seems to me the room was "tighter" after I painted...it felt like all the little cracks in the plaster were "sealed" after I sealed, primed, and painted the plaster. Tomorrow we have a windy zero day coming...that's my test to see how much better the room is... my basement has offset rooms also, and they do not match the floorplan of the house above--and 2 of the front rooms are over crawlspace. I think that your next task should be to figure out what's underneath your keeping room since it could be wind blowing... if the floor in there is wood and has "gaps" maybe you can feel a draft (with wet hands)...or you could take a bright work light and point it at the floor, then go down in the basement (at night if it's not too creepy, lol)with the lights out in the surrounding rooms...so that the work light on the floor will be a "beacon" calling you to the room. A more invasive way to do this would be to drill a hole in the floor (in a place you don't want to look at every day, lol! maybe in the joint between two boards or in a knothole where you can patch it later. If that doesn't work, you may want to try to measure from some landmark like your kitchen water pipes...or if you're not afraid to pull up a floorboard (I am!)...that'd be cutting to the chase... The other thing I was wondering is...my keeping room's ceiling is a kneewall attic...it got much warmer in the room when we insulated the floor of that attic. All the rest of my house is 2 stories with a huge attic, but this room (and part of my kitchen) is 2 rooms below and 1 above with triangle attics on top of the 2 rooms below, so they are cold. What's the ceiling of your room?...See MoreAnyone install a foot pedal for their kitchen sink?
Comments (10)Yes, I was thinking something more like the Delta Pilar. The touch-activated faucets are a bit pricey, but if you add up the cost of a top quality faucet, plus adding something like a Tapmaster, plus installation, you have a comparable product without the hassle and IMO a better look. If you're thinking of aging in place, remember that foot controls can be a problem later in life too. There have been quite a few Tapmaster discussions here on GW. Click here [Tapmaster on gardenweb.com] if you think they will help with your decision making process. But, there are no right or wrong answers. Just what works best for you. Good luck on your choice. p.s. At our office we discovered the the problem with our motion detector faucets was the grime an scale buildup on the sensor. Our building's cleaning staff now keeps up on them and they work much better....See MoreWhy does my hot water turn cold every couple of minutes
Comments (13)Sorry to be away so long. Ramona- I have a Rheem 40 gal. tank water heater that was installed Aug. 2018. I don't think it has a tempering valve, maybe you can tell from the pictures. I don't know if this is relevant but right after we moved in the faucets stopped up with rusty metal chunks. First well guy replaced the water pump and installed an under the house water filtration. Common sense told me this was not the problem (boy did I get screwed). I had another well company dig me a new well and moved the new pump over. We tried draining the water heater last weekend in case the metal chunks had got inside causing problems. My son was under the house the other day looking around, wondering if we should try replacing the pressure switch and noticed that the gauge on the pressure tank was as far as it would go. Don't know if it's broken or what. The tank was also replaced in 2018. The water pressure inside seems pretty good but when I try to use my expandable hose outside it comes and goes. Could this be caused by a pressure problem? I have tried to find info on cold and hot water mixing too. I also noticed the other day that when I was running water in the bathtub, every time it would do it's two minute interval of cold blast of water I could hear what sounded like a rush of water under the house, It only happened when the water turned cold, every time. No sign of it running out under the house, maybe just a rush through the pipes, maybe the pump cutting on and off? Thank you for any help you can offer, I can't afford to call a plumber right now....See More
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agonickel.....My DH does commercial remodels. Usually it's old junk they throw out...but I thought it was a COOL sink! The least they could do is donate it.. but just throw it away.......
I also got a bench.....from the same remodel....
63" bench. Mahogany & iron, It weighs 140lbs!
- 8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago
- 8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago
- 8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago
They had piles of these outdoor antique looking lights too. DH said they were aluminum & HE hopes someone scrapped them....otherwise....they hit the dumpster. It's interesting what people throw away.....such a blatant waste.
- 8 years ago
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