On Nov 12, 9:58 pm, tim wrote:
nobody wrote:
Hi All,

I had a plumbing service call in a 35 year old home. I opened the
access panel and observed the brand name cast into the valve -- it
was a first quality name. Since I was dealing with a first quality
brand, I decided to rebuild rather than replace.

I wrenched open the valve thru the valve stems. Surprisingly, the
seats were made of stainless steel. Running my fingernail over the
seat revealed no groves whatsoever. I installed some new dirt-cheap
rubber seals and the valve sealed like it was brand new.

My friends.....many of today's failures are failures by design. We
have the means to make better products but somehow the corporations
running the show think a continuous money stream is more important
than reliability.

Just a word to the wise.....is this what you want? Is this what you
support?

I was impressed by a tv show a few years back on Swedish home
construction. They used heavy walled stainless water lines. The floors
were made of numerous 2x4s glued together as one solid unit and other
things. It was a small house next to rail road tracks but it cost over a
million dollars, at that time. That was said to be something along the
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Yes things were better built then but most of us want cheaper so we
get less , I still like pressure balancing which most taps today are.