It was a bit up in the air about today's plans. If it was raining, the plan was to continue working on the rough wiring. Someone offered up the advice to put a lot of receptacles in. We certainly are. We currently live in an old house and we do not have enough recepatacles in any of the rooms. Tim has added receptacles through the years, but we are making very sure that he never has to worry about that in the new house.
Anyways, this morning, the weather forecast was not calling for rain until 6PM. Outdoor work it is. Tim got all the foam insulation we need for the outside of the house. We got three of the four sides done, but the wind began to pick up and it made dealing with 4 x 8 sheets of styrofoam a bit more difficult...a sudden wind gust threatened to send me flying off like Roo on the blustery day.
So close! But we reluctantly put our things away and headed home.
We will not be able to work on the house tomorrow because the plumbers are supposed to be here to fix that broken pipe at one of the rentals. I say 'supposed to be' because I have a feeling that they will be no shows. They called Tim today, but he was on a ladder outside and had left his phone inside to avoid dropping it. They left no voicemail. By the time that he saw the message, the place was closed for the day. I believe that will be their excuse as to why they don't show up, even though they told Tim they would be there on Friday.
We will keep our fingers crossed.
I found a good thing on the internet last night. A local woman had on of those waterfall faucets for a bathroom sink.
It was new in the box. For whatever reason she had changed her mind, and was selling it for 1/2 the price of a new one. We snapped that deal up.
So this weekend, we'll finish up the rough wiring. Next week, I think the plan is to begin working on the bathroom plumbing. Speaking of bathrooms, I saw an advertisement on television for a Kohler smart toilet. I never heard of such a thing so off I went down a google rabbit hole. According to Cara, the best toilets she ever saw were in Korea. Heated seats, controllable water temps, drying feature, lights, self cleaning. They were also designed to play forest sounds to mask any unfortunate noises.
But turns out the Kohler Smart toilet costs nearly $10,000.
Alrighty then. I'm sticking with the dumb toilet.
So that was today.
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Those 'do everything' toilets are amazing but far too expensive. Perhaps they will come down in price eventually . . .
ReplyDeleteI laughed at the thought of you as Roo!
Ah, I'll probably be too old to be bothered by then. I'll go with what I know.
DeleteAgain ,the differences in language between USA and UK had me beat! Receptacles was the word......here it would be something to put stuff in, and apparently for you it is a wall plug for electricity...who knew?
ReplyDeleteWhat would they call it there?
DeleteA socket.
DeleteBut...a socket is what you screw a light bulb into...what do you call those?
DeleteA plug socket for the thing on the wall, a light socket for the light..
DeleteHuh. Thanks for the explanation.
DeleteI was the same as Frances!
ReplyDeleteThe dumb toilet sounds like a more sensible option than the smart one. I wonder how many they sell at that price? On that subject - whilst browsing the shops in Tokyo airport's departure lounge we came across one selling "smart" toilet seats with all the high tech attachments. Who buys one of those to take with them on a 'plane???
I honestly, honestly, would not even want something like that! It just seems as if technology always comes with some sort of snafu built right in. I'll stick to what I know.
DeleteYou call taps faucets. In England they have airing cupboards in Ireland it's an hot press.
ReplyDeleteI guess I will have to begin translating, like YP. I must say though, the whole airing cupboard was quite a discovery. I thought it was very clever. We don't have such things over here. I'm not sure why. Our boiler is in the basement and that is where the hot water tank will be as well.
DeleteSorry you didn't get to finish the insulation installation! (Just had to play with words too, since I understood all your terms, being just another American - it's cool to think how people speak English (in one form or another) all around the world!) Anyway, good luck on plumbers!
ReplyDeleteThe plumbers did not show this morning. Evidently, they do not work on Fridays so that if anything goes wrong, they aren't working during the weekend. Seems as if they might have mentioned that. She also said they've had a customer waiting since September and they can't work when the ground is frozen. The ground is frozen six inches down. Excavators can dig through that. I am looking out my side window and seeing on right this very minute. We used this company because it was begun and run by a friend of Tim's. He's retired now and handed it over to his son. His son doesn't work there any more. Things have changed. We need to find someone else, I'm thinking.
DeleteReceptacles are power points? Never let a straight man design power points in a kitchen. In fact never let a straight man design a kitchen.
ReplyDelete"And in news from New England, a woman was carried off by strong winds as she clung to a sheet of Styrofoam. She landed safely, only a little bruised."
I hope your bargain tap has a good flow rate, but that is not as important for a bathroom basin as it is for a kitchen sink. The tap looks very nice and while I've seen them on tv, I've never seen one in situ.
A simple flexible hose with a water jet will do the job of a bidet. Mind, I did rather like Japanese toilets with heating and automatic sprays.
I designed that kitchen, and demanded a walk in pantry. My only non-negotiables. There will be 'power points' everywhere. I scattered those suckers like pixie dust.
DeleteI had a good chuckle over that smart toilet, I wouldn't buy one for 1/10th the price! Who needs all those doodads just to go to the bathroom?!
ReplyDeleteIt actually shocked me. I was talking to Cara at the time, and mentioned my amazement. She told me about the ones in Korea. That really blows my mind. I'll continue to go with what I know. No pun intended.
DeleteAssuming you are building things to code, I have no doubt there will be plenty of receptacles. I think the last time I checked, code calls for one for outlet on any wall longer than 2 feet and then one every 12 feet... or something like that. These days though, I don't worry about outlets so much as I do USB ports. Many of my outlets, especially in bedrooms, have those ports built right into them though they are obsolete and need to be USB-C ports. By the time I have everything current and in the right number, I will be dead.
ReplyDeleteWhen we redid our master bath, we put one of those waterfall faucets in there. We never liked it. Our water quality was such that it had to be cleaned almost daily or got hard water mineral stains on the flat parts. Unlike conventional ones where the staining was on the aerator part facing down and thus not visible. I also thought that without an aerator on it, it actually splashed more water everywhere too, even though it is "low flow". We ended up replacing it with a normal one and selling the waterfall one at a garage sale.
Of course we are building to code. The wiring and plumbing will be inspected before we slap up the insulation a m d the drywall. It is just one of those things that Tim knows. I have never asked.
DeleteMy sister and son both have the waterfall taps in their bathrooms. We both like them. Now we have one of our own.
I have to agree with Ed on the faucet. I put two in my master bath and one in the powder room. They look fantastic but the water flow is very low. They are always wet, even if you dry them off each time you use them, more water trickles out so get water stains that I can only get off with a pumice stone. Hopefully you won't have the same issues.
DeleteIt will be interesting. My sister lives just down the road. She has them and there is no problem. We actually like the low-flow part. We'll see, but I don't expect problems.
DeleteForest sounds? Ha! For some reason that made me laugh. For the first 12 years of my life, we had an outside toilet. I'm just thankful to have two bathrooms in our trailer house.
ReplyDeleteYou know what made me giggle about those forest sounds? They would have to get pretty loud to mask some of the more obnoxious sounds...so just how much less obnoxious is
Delete, say, a bugling elk blasting from the bathroom than the fart it is attempting to mask?
I remember watching a show in the 80's called "Beyond 2000" (side note: it had previously been called "Towards 2000" but it got modernised - I digress) that featured very nifty inventions generally there were about 3 each weekly show and the best one got some trophy and then at the end of the season there were awards where they got prestige and a bit of seed money. One such invention was a strip around waist height attached around the walls of a room that could allow anything to be plugged in, negating the need for powerpoints. I often wonder what happened there... Love the Swifty snip - Paris is A BIG FAN.
ReplyDeleteI think every girl in the world is a swifty. There are worse things, I suppose. When we were kids, there was a show called 'The 21st Century'. Walter Cronkite! I watched some clips from it a couple years back. It was very...um...imaginative. What struck me is that they were so enthusiastic about the dawning of a new century. The reality was a lot of folks terrified the life as they knew it was going to end because they were not sure if their Pcs would change from 1999 to 2000!
DeleteThat would be a toilet for the privileged few.
ReplyDeleteAnd I read that one of the biggest drawbacks is getting it fixed if there are problems. The local plumber is not going to be equipped to handle that. IT guys are just going to tell you to turn it off and turn it back on.
DeleteYeah, I don't really need a toilet that plays "forest sounds." Especially not at that price!
ReplyDeleteA $10,000 toilet! I could not even imagine. Cheaper just to shut the door and turn on the exhaust fan, don't you think?
DeleteI would suppose your guests might wonder about the rain and the apes calling each other in your bathroom if you had one of those!
DeleteForest sounds? Oh my. I have considered getting toilets like the ones in prison or at state-owned highway rest stops. Just the toilet part coming through the wall so that I'd be saved all of that curvy porcelain to clean. Who came up with that design? No doubt a man who'd never cleaned a bathroom in his life.
ReplyDeleteY'all are coming along!
I think the design is clever. It slows down the water flow so that the tank water fills up the toilet, and then the weight of the water pushes through the curves and creates the vacuum that provides the 'flush' that we know and love. But Thomas Crapper designed the toilet and I'm sure that he did not clean his own bathroom.
DeleteYou are well organized on this project . You've done your research.
ReplyDeleteWe have had a long time to plan. Good planning makes all the difference.
DeleteI can't wait to see the house finished. You two are amazing.
ReplyDeleteAs for men and Taylor Swift, I imagine there are lot of men intimidated by a beautiful young woman who doesn't need a man, who is wealthy in her own right. Good on Travis Kelce for not being one of those men.
I will never understand all this outrage on it. The world has real problems...but yeah, let's get our knickers in a knot over this?
DeleteI guess the smart toilet connects to the internet and automatically orders supplies of cleaner etc. when they are running low, and medicines when it detects something is wrong.
ReplyDeletePretty soon people won't need to think at all. Oh. Wait....
Delete$10K for a smart toilet? Nah! I see you've run across that muppet Nick Adams, dude's a piece of work.......
ReplyDeleteI was reading some of his stuff. Total jackass.
DeleteThat he is.
DeleteGood to be able to choose jobs according to the weather.
ReplyDeleteHope those plumbers turn up..
It will be interesting. I don't dare to say much, but the property owners are being pretty unreasonable.
DeleteWasn't there a scandal about the Pentagon spending an exorbitant amount on toilet seats?
ReplyDeleteSure was! And this before the time of smart toilets!
DeleteSo exciting to read about your new house! And I love your new faucet!
ReplyDeleteBest wishes going forward! Rigmor🤗
Dumb toilet! I like that! Made me laugh out loud!
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts on the toilet (and all those bells and whistles things) is that is just something else to go wrong that you won't be able to find parts for in a few years. My rule is keep it simple and you might be able to repair it! And I totally agree on "receptacles". When we added on to the house, remodeled the kitchen and updated the wiring in the bedroom - the more outlets, the better! For the bedroom, I thought this was smart , we put a 4 prong outlet on either side of the bed , replacing the former one outlet behind the bed. This way I can plug a phone and lamp on either side of the bed and have two more plug things in case I want to plug something else (like a little lighted tree at Christmas). I also put outlets on separate breakers in my kitchen so I could plug in roasters, etc and don't have to worry about tripping anything.
ReplyDeleteWe're doing bathroom renovations soon (for mom) and plan to get Toto toilets with the bidet seats. I just want to make sure we don't get the one that turns on automatically whenever you walk past. Drives me nuts.
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