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My invention idea adds an additional faucet to the bathroom whose water supply is sourced from the plumbing that supplies water to the kitchen rather than the plumbing that supplies water to the bathroom.
This solves a common problem where a spouse will ask another spouse to fetch a drink for them
in the middle of the night but admonishes that the drink mustn't be "bathroom water" despite the fact that the water is from the exact same source.
Are You a Drinking Water Purist?
http://bibleoutlines.com/blog/?p=516
An explanation of the problem this idea seeks to solve. [gen1000, Oct 17 2009]
[link]
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I have also known 'bathrooms' without a sink or a tap. |
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I was about to welcome gen1000 to the HB, but I see
you've been here for.....eight years! Welcome
nevertheless. |
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I have to say, I'm not bowled over by this idea. [WcW]:
often (at least in older houses in many countries), much of
the house is fed from a header-tank in the loft, which is
not necessarily clean; often only the kitchen tap is fed
direct from the mains. |
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However, most modern houses now take all cold water
direct from the mains, and hence it's drinkable. There's no
need for an "extra" tap in the bathroom - the existing cold
tap is just fed from the main instead of from the header
tank. |
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[EDIT: Ah, I see from your link that this is a psychology
thing. Aha. Yes. Well, in that case, I think the answer is
tell your spouse to stop being stupid or get their own
damned glass of water.] |
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I like it, though I wouldn't be fooled, not now at
least. |
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Or that you'll get it from the little well in the room next to the bathroom... the one that is constantly replenished with fresh potable water. |
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issa letsall, but I like the idea of a water-fountain, not only in the bathroom, but in the kitchen as well. |
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Why not just put a Brita filter on the bathroom faucet? Hell, go
all-out and put a mineral-enhancing filter on it if she's that
damned picky. Or install a Japanese-style bathroom sink. They
use 2 faucets, one for hot and one for cold, on opposite sides of
the sink. Just tell her the cold one's a filtered tap running off the
main lines. If she thinks bathroom tapwater is less drinkable
than kitchen tapwater, it shouldn't be hard to convince her of
this. After all, Arabs wipe their butts with one hand and eat with
the other. Should be easy to convince her that the mystical
Japanese wash with one faucet and drink with the other. It's a
Yin and Yang kind of thing. |
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I'm fishboning the idea. No hard water between us, right? |
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//much of the house is fed from a header-tank in the loft, which is not necessarily clean// |
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Yeah, I remember the time pigeon claws fell into my mug. Despite that, up until now I've never been able to understand the 'two sources of cold water' thing. |
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"Why not just put a Brita filter on the bathroom faucet?" |
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Were this the "practicalbakery" I'd agree. |
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so what is different about your bathroom tap? if you brought a pipe from the kitchen why not simply make that the cold water supply, why retain the "bad water" supply? |
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This seems like something that would be more fit for Chindogu than the HB, no offense intended. It reminds me of the Chindogu that consists of a pair of chopsticks with a fan attached to one of them to cool one's noodles, except that one actually had a purpose, it was just idiotically conceived. It's reminiscent of Two Cups of Coffee, and I despise that post. There's a difference, in my opinion, between Halfbaked and completely pointless. This falls into the latter category. I'm not trying to be mean here, and please don't take this personally, but I don't think this is a good idea. |
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//where a spouse will ask another spouse to fetch a drink// |
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Just curious... how many spouses like in this house? |
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Oh no, not more Dr. Seuss .... |
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Why not have a small water tap in the bedroom, then ? It could be run through very small bore plastic pipe, which is no more difficult to install than electric cable, since a high flow rate will not be needed. |
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