mikeymo

So, the advice for how to design a small bathroom is to make it bigger...?

OSHA, schmOSHA, soon this will be required on all building sites, including basement rehabs.

Wow. I wonder if the system shouldn't be designed so this connection would be impossible to make, the way you can't fit a diesel gas pump nozzle into an unleaded gas tank... Murphy's law, if there's a wrong way to do it, it's only a matter of time.

I can't tell what I'm looking at in the picture- can someone please explain?

I may go for it, just based on the larger waterspot. I have a Sterling dual flush upstairs now, and it does an amazing job, clearing 95% of #2s while using just the #1 flush, which is .8 gallons. But it has a tiny waterspot, which allows for a certain earthy smell that not everybody is so crazy about, especially if you're trying to get through War and Peace while in the seated position. If it pays for itself in 5 years, all the better.

The mortgage contract says that if you stop making payments, the bank can seize the property. So that's what people are doing, walking away from the house. It's not like they are stealing the house from the bank by not making payments and keeping the house. If you calculate your house isn't going to attain the value you're paying for it until 2070, you'd probably rather start over in a new house that you can pay off in 2040, right? The bank tried to make money on lending you money to buy an overpriced house- that was the risk they took, and you (theoretically) covered their risk by paying off more principle than interest at the start. Calculating that risk was their business, and they blew it. If they knew the risk to be higher, the interest rates should have been higher.