courtesy of LOS ANGELES TMES AND ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK – New York is different. But starting this weekend it is just a little less so.
As of yesterday, residents of the nation’s largest city are allowed to own garbage disposals.
Disposals had been illegal in 70 percent of the city, including all of Manhattan, …
Continue reading N.Y. Garbage Disposal Ban Lifted
courtesy of The Seattle Times, 10/8/97
by FRANK GREVE / Knight-Ridder Newspapers
DELAWARE WATER GAP, Pa. – There’s a remarkable new building in a federal park in Pennsylvania: a two-hole outhouse, without running water, that cost the National Park Service at least $333,000.
It’s nestled amid evergreens, with a gabled slate roof, cottage-style porches, and …
Continue reading The Opulent OuthouseReproduced with permission from Fine Homebuilding magazine – Oct./Nov. 1997
Steve Culpepper
A head-to-head comparison for our readers with nothing to go on.
At first the toilets in our house were merely sluggish. Then they got slower and slower until they didn’t flush at all. But the toilets weren’t clogged. Something was in the sewer …
Continue reading Choosing a Toilet
courtesy of P&M Magazine, October 1997
by Joseph Ursitti (Senior Editor)
Today’s culture dictates a right now mentality. Customers continually seek customer-service-oriented businesses to fit their needs. The kind of service that was delivered years ago from local mom and pop shops.
The Internet is giving local contractors the chance to service to a more …
Continue reading Caught in the Web?courtesy of Reeves Journal magazine, July 1997
Top Plumbing Web Sites in 1997
The following sites and site links will keep you busy at night. It’s a wonderful resource to inform customers and to find information you may need to run your business successfully.
http://www.aqueous.com
The Aqueous Water Related Search Engine is one of the …
courtesy of Reeves Journal, July 1997
by Leland Edward Stone
If nothing else, traveling the information superhighway is interesting, inexpensive, and potentially useful.
The Net was started by a group of scholars who kept in touch with each other via their computers. Soon the government got involved, then private industry. The data explosion turned out …
Continue reading Tapping Into the Electronic Pipelinecourtesy of The Washington Post, May 15, 1997
By Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post Foreign Service
An American diplomat was at a dinner party in a Japanese home when he excused himself to go to the bathroom. He did his business, stood up and realized he didn’t have a clue about how to …
Continue reading But Do They Flush? Japan’s High-Tech Toilets Do Nearly Everything, Even Redden Faces
