Should the toilet seat be left up or down?
This controversial topic will be discussed over the next few weeks
It’s a question that constantly arises when men and women share the same toilet. For some reason, this seemingly trivial question creates passion normally unseen from all sorts of people. It has been a topic of great debate throughout this country for many years, in fact since the toilet seat was invented.
It’s pretty clear that this old debate and your “position” is divided by gender.
Women complain that it should be the man’s responsibility to lower the toilet seat after use.
Whilst men seem to question why women should be heard all the time. Or in fact why it’s an issue at all
Now my wife, living in a houshold with 4 boys is incredibly patient about this subject. In fact her biggest complaint is about our aim, So, to get the ball rolling on this, I have to share this great image sent to me by Marc Dussault.
Let me know what happens in your house, how the boys and girls deal with this topic of ups and downs!
4.30 am: Situation: accidently drop Tiffany diamond ring in bath and it rolls down the drain; start looking elsewhere in the bathroom; After an hour? conclusion: yes its down the bath plug drain
6.30 am: Doubly Drastic: start talking to friends who know plumbers; the suggestions seem too risky; with the chance I could lose my ring forever
8.30 am: The Lone Drainer and Pronto: I call The Lone Drainer on: 9664 4990 and leave a somewhat frantic message about the situation:
8.40 am: Return Call from: The Lone Drainer: he has assessed the situation from my message; and has called me back within 10 mins
He has quoted me the price if the Drainoscopy; is needed. He doesn’t need Pronto; but arrives ‘pronto” and it’s a Saturday – one week before Xmas
10.30 am: Enter: The Lone Drainer; he has assessed the situation: and gets to work in a most professional and effective manner
11.00 am: From images on the Drainoscopy he has been able to locate my ring & hook the ring out of the drain. There was a very good chance I would never see my ring again; I was overjoyed with the successful outcome
The Lone Drainer has saved the day & the situation.
I thank him profusely and he thanks me for not turning on any taps or flushing the toilet (better retrieval )
Thank You Lone Drainer you saved my Christmas:
Please have A Very Merry Christmas to All at The Lone Drainer & Pronto
& A Happy, Healthy & Prosperous New Year in 2012 to All.
Best Regards Claire Randwick 17/12/11
Thanks Claire
If you do drop your valuables rings or earrings down the drain, DO NOT try to flush them out.
DONT run any water.
That sounds like a job for The Lone Drainer And Pronto
If you are looking for a Christmas gift for the person that really has everything
Kohler recently revealed its new toilet called Numi and it is simply going to blow your mind. There is no doubt that this toilet is a mind blowing product, but the $6,400 price tag is something that may come as a big surprise.
It will be interesting to see how the target-market responds to Kohler Numi because for this amount one might expect to buy a home theatre or even an used car.
What can this costly toilet can do for you? Well, it has integrated deodorizer, air dryer and a bidet. Then you have a lid that is automatically opened or closed , a music system so you listen to something nice while you are doing your stuff, a foot warmer, and a touch screen remote.
What makes Numi stand out from the rest is that it brings everything that you have or haven’t imagined. It looks like a fancy waste bin, which includes a self-enabled lid that can open or close on its own. It means you don’t have to touch the lid whenever you need to use the toilet. Cleaning is also done automatically because of the self cleaning bidet that includes the power of adjustable controls to maintain appropriate pressure and temperature of water. You have a foot warmer with heating elements to keep your tush and toes toasty. It just provides amazing comfort.
If you use the loo at night, there is an illuminated panel to provide a perfect ambience for that night time visit. Kohler Numi also loads an integrated speaker that is connected to a remote docking station to make sure no one else except you know what you are doing.
This big ticket item is truly a luxurious toilet experience, Numi has deodorizing elements and a charcoal filter to release fresh fragrance into the air and suck the dirty air from the bowl.
Kohler Numi is no less than a high-end gizmo and it would not be complete without a touchscreen. The toilet comes with a remote that includes a touchscreen panel so that you can easily set your specifications like water temperature and pressure, your preferred seat height or even your music and radio station settings.
Kohler Numi is perfect for those users who want to have a toilet like you might find in a sophisticated hotel suite.
What a great Christmas gift..and what a way to improve your bottom line!
I wonder if it replenishes the toilet rolls or dispenses with the empties…..
The Plumbing industry has been very good to me and my family.
Every year around January we have anywhere between 5 and 20 boys (or their mothers) contact us looking for a plumbing apprenticeship. We have trained 9 apprentices in 20 years (plumbers apprenticeship is 4 years). Read the rest of this entry »
Julius Caesar had a weekend native-bashing excursion to Britain in 55 BC. But I guess he didn’t enjoy the damp boarding houses with their fierce landladies, for he quickly went back to Rome, naturally claiming a great victory. Almost a hundred years later the emperor Claudius sent a powerful invading army, and the Romans then occupied Britain for the next 350 years. What did those Romans ever do for us? Read the rest of this entry »
I had to share this.
Whilst enjoying the 15th annual Sculptures by the Sea on the world famous Bondi to Bronte walk last weekend, I was thinking about taps and changing tap washers.
Like most things, changing a tap washer is pretty easy, if you know how.
I’ve never thought of taps as a big problem if, like most of our household plumbing they are maintained.
Then I walked around Mackenzies Point and saw this………
Ahhhhh plumbers paradise.
It confirmed what I already know.
That taps are to be treasured and treated with respect, loved and caressed. Because if we don’t, they won’t do as they are designed to, deliver us water when we need it!
Our next post will get you started on how to change your tap washers, and some insight into our upcoming taps tutorial at The Lone Drainer and Pronto World Headquarters.
We will feature WSDs, What? you ask. Yep Water Saving Devices.
Plumbing is very cool isn’t it!
This sculpture by Simon McGrath is The Sydney Water Environmental Sculpture Prize winner for 2011
As Christmas approaches, the days grow longer and we get together with our family and friends, keep an eye out for some of those vital symptoms that indicate you have a slow or blocked drain.
Make it a holiday break to remember for the right reasons, rather than needing to call an emergency plumber to rescue you and your family from a sewer blockage.
Keep an eye out for;
The excessive rise or fall of the water level in your toilet. We call it syphoning, and it comes with a Glug Glug Glug
Slow draining water or ankle deep water in the shower or bath.
Swarms of small flies or sewer flies around smelly drains
Your kitchen sink, waste disposal unit or dishwasher are slow to drain.
Toilet paper or dirty water around your sewer surcharge gully in the garden or yard.
Dirty water leaking from a retaining wall or garden bed that conceals sewer pipes.
These are signs of a blockage, and your pipes have been trying to tell you, that all isn’t well.
When the extra guests arrive you will know.
So have a look around you home for the symptoms and please do not ignore them.
In this internet age when we want it, we want it NOW!
If you have a plumbing emergency and you need it fixed fast, we need great suppliers to support us deliver to our clients.
This image sent to me by Marc Dussault shows the great lengths that our industry brothers in Thailand are going to so they can deliver to their clients in an emergency.
Prior to European settlement, the land between Bondi Beach and Rose Bay was a series of freshwater lagoons and sand dunes of varying heights. Some geologists believe that this long, low passage at some time allowed for sea access to Port Jackson at Rose Bay from Bondi – making South Head and the land around it an island.
Bondi’s freshwater lagoons were mainly seasonal, appearing and disappearing quickly depending on the rainfall. However, there were also large permanent lagoons whose banks were lined with Coastal Tea Trees (Leptospermum laevigatum) and Swamp She-oaks (Casuarina glauca).
The first written reference to these Bondi lagoons is on a map dated 1868, however, they would have been well known to the local Indigenous inhabitants as a good supply of fresh water and food much earlier than this.
The trees on the lagoons’ banks, with huge root systems reaching deep down into the sandy soil, turned the water rust brown and provided nutrients and shelter for fish and insects. Larger animals such as goannas, possums and wallabies would have drunk from this fresh water source.
A 1889 Water Board map shows specific locations for the lagoons:
- Near the corner of the present day Lamrock and Jaques Avenue
- Between Simpson Street and Hall Street across Wellington Street
- Between Warners Avenue, Blair Street and Beach Road
- Near Old South Head Road and Warners Avenue
- Between Hastings Parade and Wairoa Avenue
Artist Julian Ashton lived in the Waverley area and in his memoir, Now Came Still Evening On, he recalls the Bondi lagoons:
“Bondi when I came to live here was a great mass of sand hills with deep little pockets between filled with black water in which grew monster tea trees.
“They towered above, making a sort of shadow land, a delightful resting place from which one could look out upon the sun-scorched sand. I have often seen wild duck in these pools. One could walk across the hills and valleys or along the beaches for hours and not meet a soul.”
The lagoons are now long gone, the wild ducks have flown away and the 15 metre tea trees cut down. Sewer labourers began draining two large lagoons in North Bondi in the early 1880s when a trench was built through to Rose Bay. Later other ponds were drained to allow for roads to be built, land to be subdivided and for house construction.
Local historian John Ruffels suggests all is not lost though: “These days, in the area up from the old lagoon around Forest Knoll Avenue, on a still summer day the dappled shade from the Banksia trees and Swamp Oak trees continues to remind us of what it must have been like in the bush by the Bondi lagoon all those many years ago.”
