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Posted by Keith in Washington on Friday, April 25, 2008 at 11:02:11 :
In Reply to: Re: Home repair. OT but. posted by David Sherman on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 21:12:16 :
I was going to replace my kitchen faucet a while back. I have a ceramix unit that was leaking and the little pistol sprayer has never worked. I went to quite a few places (not the box stores) and all I could find were the cheap plastic units. We are not talking cheap in price but in quality. It was the same stuff you find in campers and trailers. I ended up rebuilding my current unit and that was not cheap to do. I still was not able to get the valve out for the sprayer so it still does not work. But the spigot weights about 3 lbs and is solid metal with a nice chrome job on it. Not plastic chrome either.
I just put in a new hand rail for one of my stair cases. I hate hand rails that wiggle. 90% of them seem to. I bought some brass brackets that are great and made in the USA. They are a one piece casting. The part that mounts to the wall is 3" in dia with a single hole in the center. They have a arm on them the size of you little finger and have a mounting pad that you countersink into the rail. The pad has 2 countersunk holes for a #12 wood screw. I have never seen such good ones before. I put a 5/16 stud into each stud and bolted a bracket to it. The ends of the rail turn back into the wall. For those I mounted a doubled 2X8 in the wall behind the plaster. I then countersunk 3 1/2" #14 screws through the rails into to these. It does not move at all. It was nice that the garage was on the other side of the wall so I could cut in and mount the 2X8s.