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    Two water taps - one is too hot and one is too cold.


    #2
    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Two water taps - one is too hot and one is too cold.

    I have monobloc mixer taps in all eight of my bathrooms and toilets.

    HTH

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      #3
      Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
      I have monobloc mixer taps in all eight of my bathrooms and toilets.

      HTH
      But you do get raped in the showers by the other inmates, so it's swings and roundabouts.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
        But you do get raped in the showers by the other inmates, so it's swings and roundabouts.

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          #5
          One of the good things about owning your own home is that you get to choose the taps.

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            #6
            Originally posted by AtW View Post
            Two water taps - one is too hot and one is too cold.

            Ah - luckily we invented a sink, to mix the water!
            Speaking gibberish on internet talkboards since last Michaelmas. Plus here on Twitter

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              #7
              Originally posted by AtW View Post
              Two water taps - one is too hot and one is too cold.

              Fooking ungrateful Russkie.
              Comes from the Soviet Union where there was one sink between 10 families and a single cold water tap that worked for one hour per day with a thin dribble if you were lucky.
              And still he moans.
              Hard Brexit now!
              #prayfornodeal

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                #8
                Originally posted by sasguru View Post
                Fooking ungrateful Russkie.
                Comes from the Soviet Union where there was one sink between 10 families and a single cold water tap that worked for one hour per day with a thin dribble if you were lucky.
                And still he moans.
                I expect there were communal hot water systems, each day providing 75% more hot water than production quotas, due to the Stakhanovite efforts of the proletarian heating engineers.

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                  #9
                  Hot water in Soviet union did not work on summers (maintenance apparently), but other part of the year it had to work because otherwise there will be no central heating (meaning CENTRAL, not boiling water inside your own house).

                  HTH

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                    #10
                    For a small fee you can upgrade your taps.

                    2 bedroom apartment for sale in Harborne Central, Harborne, Birmingham, B17, B17

                    If you can't afford that, well, suffer two taps you pauper!

                    PS a bit of negotiating would get that down to £150K I'm sure. Better than renting. Property only ever goes up etc etc.

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