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That's it. We just bought one from Lowes. A Delta brand with a big fixed shower head a smaller one on a stainless steel hose, and a lever to select top only, hose only, or both. It is a fantastic shower head and five minutes to install in place of the old one. $99 at Lowes. Switch to the...

Just curious. Why do you not want to use it? Presumably you have hard water, or it never would have been installed in the first place. Where I live, the water is death to water heaters, accumulates calcium deposits in hot water pipes, and is harmful long term for dishwasher. I lived without...

Agreed...you could add a little Miracle Grow and be all set. Many flowering plants prefer lower pH than our 8 pH tap water. I don't know what the pH coming out of the pipe is, but it certainly starts out as pure water, which would be 7 pH. So a mix of tap and condensate would probably be good...

I wouldn't drink it. In fact the article I linked talked about for swimming pool or domestic water that it should be biocide treated, which also in the article is reference to UV, ozone and chlorine treatment. In the case of my pool, my system has all three of those, so I'm comfortable with...

OK, that's what I thought. Since we're talking about condensate from the evaporator coil, caused by condensing humidity from the airflow, what happens in the furnace combustion flame doesn't impact this, right?

OK. I'm not a plumbing, A/C, or heating expert. I see that air gets sucked into a return, goes through a 4" pleated filter, continues on through the furnace fan, furnace heat exchanger, and A/C evaporator coil, then on out via registers. In the case of our downstairs unit, there is also a...

I can see waste water with pollution from toilets, showers, etc. being undesirable and hazardous. A/C condensate--straight from the evaporator--should be pretty clean (assuming filters are maintained), and pure water has a pH of 7.0. That's more acidic than city water but not a problem for...

OK BlueSky. I get your point even without you adding a [sarc] to it. However, A/C condensate is likely less significant in Northern Virginia than down here in the Gulf South. We use A/C 12 months, and we never "close" our swimming pools. In fact, on the matter of removing humidity, I'm...

Back when I was researching standby generators, I read a fair amount on an electrician forum, looking to see what generators were most reliable, easiest to service, and so on. An unexpected bit of information I got pertained to ethics, billing practices, and borderline scams. I read enough to...

Also just a homeowner, but EVERY water heater failure I've had (since my first house in 1973) failed with a leaking tank. Further, every house I've ever owned, plus one rented, has had at least one water heater fail. And now I have two in the attic. I feel like I'm living with time bombs.

I thought I remembered this from 6th grade science, but I looked it up to check my memory (I'm 72). Like virtually all materials, water expands when heated and contracts when cooled. However there is an anomaly with water as temperature drops toward freezing. Water volume contracts as it...

Over the last 20 years we've had more leaks than I care to remember, so we're hyper-sensitive to moisture in the house--and there is plenty of it here in Houston, where a really dry day is relative humidity in the 80% range! Whether the moisture is pooling on the ceiling, running off the...

Sorry you're so far away. I'd like to come by and take a few shots with my Colt .45 1911 model automatic :). Glad to hear they stood behind their product. You just demonstrated that it's not a good policy to judge a company by one employee maybe having a bad day or maybe not yet found out by...

Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, I looked at a couple of those filters and will research further to determine the best type for our Houston water. Problem with those that I have seen is that the little faucets that come with them will not match--not even close--our existing main faucet...

Hi. Reviving a thread. I'm about to replace a sink and faucets. We're tired of the look of the clunky Pur filter on the end of the faucet and want to go undersink. Problem I see is that if all the cold water goes through the filter, we'll be replacing the filter cartridges two or three times...