The Joy of Porcelain

Have you spent much time thinking about your bathroom fixtures? .....Didn't think so....Neither did we until we had our new ones installed, now we go into the bathrooms just to look at them....crazy stuff.....

The house has 3.5 bathrooms....that's 4 toilets, 5 sinks, 1 tub plus 2 other showers....

Fixtures are EXPENSIVE but thanks to some online places we were able to save a lot of cash...

We are using Geberit's `Starck 3' wall hung toiles and Duravit sinks.

The tile guy has to come back to do some things before the plumbers can finish mounting all the sinks and fixtures....

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Out of the gutter and into the cold..

Although the stucco guys completed their job a couple of weeks ago, some minor cracks developed in 3 areas and they have come back to patch them up..... Having the scaffold up for the stucco guys allowed our gutter guy to hang the final piece.... On Wednesday of this week the guys from Airsmiths installed the air conditioning condenser...If you're wondering if that is the American Standard Allegiance 14 Super Efficiency Condenser, you would be right! It is made in Texas in the same factory that Trane air conditioners are made at. http://www.americanstandardair.com/Products.asp?Section=homeOwners&ProductID=7&CategoryID=16&SuperCategoryID=1

Controlling the weather

We installed a Weathermatic irrigation system controller. It is connected to an on-site weather station that monitors temperature, rainfall, windspeed, and humidity. As the seasons change, it automatically adjusts the station timing, very handy! UPDATE: We had nothing but trouble with this controller and in 2016 we replaced it with a dramatically better one from Rachio. See it here: https://www.rachio.com/ Better yet, the City of Sacramento has a rebate program to replace old controllers with `smart' controllers like the Rachio, check it out here: https://www.cityofsacramento.org/Utilities/Conservation/Rebates/River-Friendly-Landscape-Rebate

Main patio just before it was completed

Our installer was Lee Reveles Landscape, HIGHLY recommended, they did excellent work...

Mike and Jeff's New House

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