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<p>[QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 4288339, member: 6444"]Lol. I guess you need to have a talk with the caretakers of the 59 room Crane mansion in Ipswich I mentioned earlier. Sounds like they should rip out all those outdated crappy plumbing fixtures and "upgrade" to some of those $8000 faucets you put in. Right now they seem to be stuck with their crummy fixtures: <a href="https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2015/08/an-ipswich-idyll" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2015/08/an-ipswich-idyll" rel="nofollow">https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2015/08/an-ipswich-idyll</a> "Most impressive, however, are the bathrooms—befitting a plumbing millionaire. Each of the seven bedrooms has its own, many outfitted with then-cutting edge Art Deco fixtures and one decorated almost entirely in Delft tiles. Richard Crane’s features a large tub with gleaming silver-plated piping and faucets, a shower with 12 nozzles, a white marble floor, and heated towel rack. His wife’s is pale green with delicate glass shelving and loads of gray-veined marble providing an archway over the sink, the tub-surround, and flooring accents."</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess you must live in a new house. People who live in antique houses consider themselves caretakers, just the same as owners of antique furniture. Trying to keep originality is just what good owners do - the same as good owners of antique furniture. If you haven't run into that, then you must not do work in any worthwhile older houses. The idea that owners of old houses should rip out all their old fixtures, regardless of originality and quality, is as alien to me as the idea that we should be stripping original paint off of antique furniture and covering it with polyurethane. To each his own, though, LOL.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 4288339, member: 6444"]Lol. I guess you need to have a talk with the caretakers of the 59 room Crane mansion in Ipswich I mentioned earlier. Sounds like they should rip out all those outdated crappy plumbing fixtures and "upgrade" to some of those $8000 faucets you put in. Right now they seem to be stuck with their crummy fixtures: [URL]https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2015/08/an-ipswich-idyll[/URL] "Most impressive, however, are the bathrooms—befitting a plumbing millionaire. Each of the seven bedrooms has its own, many outfitted with then-cutting edge Art Deco fixtures and one decorated almost entirely in Delft tiles. Richard Crane’s features a large tub with gleaming silver-plated piping and faucets, a shower with 12 nozzles, a white marble floor, and heated towel rack. His wife’s is pale green with delicate glass shelving and loads of gray-veined marble providing an archway over the sink, the tub-surround, and flooring accents." I guess you must live in a new house. People who live in antique houses consider themselves caretakers, just the same as owners of antique furniture. Trying to keep originality is just what good owners do - the same as good owners of antique furniture. If you haven't run into that, then you must not do work in any worthwhile older houses. The idea that owners of old houses should rip out all their old fixtures, regardless of originality and quality, is as alien to me as the idea that we should be stripping original paint off of antique furniture and covering it with polyurethane. To each his own, though, LOL.[/QUOTE]
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