I recently refurnished my house and let me tell you, it was messy. Specifically the plumbing. I do not care what anyone says - it is supposed to be easy work & simple, but it simply is not half as easy as it's supposed to be. When we installed it with American standard faucets & American-standard toilets, we were bothered by all sorts of problems. The American-standard faucets did not seem to fit the piping we had at first, and we were constantly beset by leaks that threatened to ruin the floor. The American-standard toilets would not set on the floor correctly, & so we needed to use the bathroom sitting sideways for an entire week, and hold fast to the shower curtains for support. I'll tell you, attempting to install our American-standard faucets & American standard toilets gave us an American standard mess.

It was not really about the American standard taps & American-standard toilets, but more about the layout of the pipes. They were aged pipes, and we even suspected there may be lead solder in them, which is a scary thought. The new pipes were of a different size which was more properly callibrated to the American-standard taps and American-standard toilets, but they wouldn't correctly fit in the holes drilled for the old pipes. So we had the problem of the American standard taps, toilet, tub, & other equipment not fitting correctly with the plumbing which, no matter how hard we tried to jury rig it, caused leaks. Our fabric shower curtains were sitting in water on the floor.

Of course, even without the difficulties with the American-standard taps, we would have really had lots of difficulty. American standard faucet or not, you really can't do anything about the hard water if you live in a country community like ours with-out installing pricey and difficult to operate, water softening system. Before we did that, our shower curtains were crunchy and stiff as if we'd starched them. And American standard taps, & American-standard toilets and tubs do nothing for you if your water-pressure is abyssmal, which believe me, ours is. So what should have taken nothing more than a week or perhaps two ended up taking us months and months & while we struggled to install our American-standard taps, the bills kept piling up. Installing our American standard plumbing was a night-mare, and ended up costing us far more than it would have to just hire someone to do it. Next time, if God forbid there's a next time, we are hiring some-one to fix our American-standard faucets & plumbing.

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