Why Would Someone Steal Your Faucet?

      Apparently, lavatory faucets are pretty hot on the black market these days.  Last Friday, faucets were stolen out of a bathroom of a Quiznos Subs in Lakewood, Colorado.  Val Watson, co-owner said "When I saw it, I was shocked, and then everyone who came in afterward, they were shocked, too."  Nothing like this has ever happened to the Watson's Sub shop in the past five years they have owned it.  
      
     Steve Davis, a spokesman of the Lakewood Police Department, said "In the last few years, it seems like anything made out of copper, bronze and sometimes aluminum has become something that is stolen.  No matter what form it's in."   With the economy the way it is, many precious metals have been highlighted as a valuable material and can be worth quite a chunk of change at the recycling centers.  Maybe we should start lo-jacking any fixture with an abundant amount of metal associated with it.

Dale City, CA has new water conservation rules

      Mayor Carol Klatt said last week "We have to look to the future for our water.  Landscaping is on area where measures can be taken to save water."  after the city council passed an ordinance which requires owners of new construction or landscaping projects to reduce their outdoor water usage by 25 percent.

   Dale City has really been promoting their water conservation effort lately.  Last month, the council passed an ordinance for indoor water usage.  Requiring that all new construction to feature water-efficient fixtures such as new aerating kitchen faucets.  Many cities in the surrounding areas are creating similar ordinance in their regions in response to recent legislative pressure to address the water supply problem.

Fix a Leak Week!

Last week in the Chesapeake bay area was "Fix a Leak Week." Sponsered by EPA's WaterSense® program, the event helps consumers in the mid-Atlantic and across the country save water by indentifing and repair dripping kitchen and bathroom faucets, running toilets, leaky shower heads.\
    
      EPA regional administrator Shawn M. Garvin said "Leaks can add up to more than 10,000 gallons of water wasted at home every year--that's enough to fill a backyard swimming pool.  The EPA created Fix a Leak Week to save water for future generations and to help homeowners save more than 10 percent on their water bills."

Have Your Kitchen Looking Fabulous

         Kitchens are a place where family comes together even during a busy day of hussle and bussle of our busy lives.  Every time someone has a party at their house, everyone seems to gather around the kitchen to talk.  Sure we stand around the dining room and other rooms of the house to mingle, but it never fails that everyone seems to flock at some point to the kitchen.  So when it comes to showing off your home to your family and friends, you better have a snazzy kitchen faucet to show off.


        While, we know that the kitchen is probably the most occupied room in the house, it also is the most hygienic area.  Adding a brass finish kitchen faucet to your home will keep it that way for years to come.

Peoria Promotes Water Conservation

Peoria, Arizona where the land is vast, but the price of property ownership is very high has a website to help promote water conservation.  At Peoria's Water Conservation Website, you can use their Interactive Watering Guide, which uses nice visual aids in their plant watering guide and lawn watering guide to make it fun and exciting to conserve water around the home.  They also have a list of Plumbing Products, including aerators for kitchen faucets, they promote that provide different and exciting ways we can save water as well as energy.
      In addition to these great features of their water conservation website, Peoria also has a rebate program designed to award citizens who have installed certain water saving technologies, to receive a credit on utility bills for those accounts with the City of Peoria.

What Could Be Even Cooler Than A Touch-less Kitchen Faucet

There is a new type of electric faucet in town and they are calling it the hybrid faucet.  If you haven't heard, the new thing in bathroom and kitchen faucets for home use is the ability to be able to tap your faucet with the back of your hand or forearm in order to turn it on or off.  This comes in very handy when you have been handling food and would rather not get actual faucet all dirty by getting your food covered hands all over it.  These new faucets have electric parts meaning they use electricity.
      The conventional way of handling this is by having a couple of C or D batteries under the sink.  Having a touch-less faucet is great, but I'm not sure it is worth the added hassle of having something else in your home that requires changing out batteries all the time.  Well now their is a new system that uses the hydro flow of the water through the pipe to generate electricity and recharge those batteries.  The hybrid-energy system faucet has been tested by the manufacturer to help the batteries last up to 30 years.
     The new product is currently only available for commercial use, but when it hits the market we will have to put up a couple of these bad boys for sale.  For now check out our line of discount bathroom faucets and discount kitchen faucets we have today.