What's the average cost of an additional bathroom in a house? I leave in the DC-MD-VA area if regions are a factor.
-- Tamika Terrell Smith, January 22, 1999
Whewhooo! What's with the hot naked babe in the shower? I do not think that I am going to be able to visit this site at my office anymore!
-- chris harvan, April 21, 1999
Being almost the first page I pulled up after logging in, I can tell you I was also quite surprised at the pictures on the page. Although I don't mind, and I should have expected them, knowing you're a photographer, I was surprised. Very informative though about bathrooms. I've always wondered why the fans in bathrooms are so loud though and find it interesting that you can actually find a fan that is quiet.
-- Eric Davis, May 15, 1999
OH MY GOODNESS!! As I was researching on wealth....I thought I would look really intelligent looking under Bill Gates III, getting curious of the many wonders that Gates might possess I began to look under "bathroom" expecting it to contain similar qualities as "bedroom"...being a 19 year-old, female, student at the University of Texas at San Antonio, I was in the lab, just as I began to scroll through the "bathroom" page..by walks an older, female, lab assistant not to mention onlooking viewers in the background. I don't believe I've ever been so humiliated!!! So now instead of looking intelligent I ended up looking like a "lesbian pervert." My conclusion, "Well at least I now know what Gates possess in his bathrooms." --Claudia Salinas, June 27,1999
-- Claudia Salinas, June 27, 1999
A couple of years later and it happened to me. This is not cool in my Finnish workplace. Could you make these shots "peek-a-boo" or position them so we can read without viewing? I'd like to have read on, but can't as it is...
-- Kim Vogel, August 15, 2001
Part of the job of a bathroom fan is to generate noise to mask the other noises generated inside a bathroom. A moderately noisy fan gives the person in the bathroom some privacy and gives others in the vicinity a less objectionable soundtrack. Obviously the ideal fan is quieter than an F14 taking off but that doesn't mean the quietest fan on the market is the best fan (unless your house is already well-soundproofed or you like to listen to your guests pee or something).When I added a bathroom in my old house a few years ago I couldn't understand why there were so many high-priced fans marketed for how quiet they were. I thought, "sure, a few customers who never thought it all through may want a silent fan, but shouldn't the people who make and sell bathroom fans for a living have figured it out by now?"
Now I see: A perfectly good bathroom fan goes for $25, but there are rich people who'd pay 10 times as much for a "top of the line" fan. The top of the line fan doesn't have to actually *be* better, it just has to *seem* better, hopefully in a way that denotes style and/or quality. There aren't too many ways to jazz up a bathroom fan so they had to seize on quietness -- it's stylish, indicates quality construction, and it's plausible! (Moderately quiet is better than loud, so super-quiet must be best of all, right? Right.) "Enjoy your purchase! By the way, if you ever decide you want some masking noise we'll sell you a white noise generator for $400 that comes on when you turn on the light..." (no, I haven't actually seen such a thing yet).
-- Bill Hees, January 17, 2003
Look at the pics its Phil showering haha. Fooling around with you Phil.
-- Paul Batalla, January 9, 2004
Panasonic makes the best and quietest bathroom fans. They're overbuilt and designed to handle bathroom moisture without rusting or corroding. They are engineered for 100,000 hours of continuous use, are EnergyStar rated, and have a defect rate of less than 0.0006%! I recently purchased and installed one for each of our four bathrooms (90 - 140 CFM's). Home Depot's NuTone fans are miserable by comparison. The Panasonics only cost a few buck more and are well worth it. Oh, and by the way, the noise a fan makes only masks sounds for the person inside the bathroom. People outside will still hear your "personal" noises. If you want others to not hear your bathroom business, turn up the home stereo outside the bathroom.I agree with your Hansgrohe assessment. I also remodeled a walk-in shower with an elaborate Hansgrohe setup. The best of the best!
-- B Santa, June 11, 2004
I bought a Hansgroh yuppie shower fixture with hand-held showerhead when I built a new bathroom eight years ago, and I thought it was pretty good. Then, a few months ago, I picked up a $3 solid brass mini showerhead at Home Depot as an emergency replacement for my girlfriend's house. I liked it so much, I added a two-way valve and one of these $3 heads to my shower.
-- Michael Edelman, May 2, 2007
I don't know if there's any relationship between Grohe and Hansgrohe, but I got a Hansgrohe shower head a year or too back and it's a joy... massage settings... the whole kaboodle.I also share the general surprise at the pics that cropped up, but I wholeheartedly approve!
-- Jon McAllister, July 9, 2009
From my personal experience I can also recommend Hansgrohe as the one of the best companies for buying shower fixtures for quick and efficient remodeling
-- Plumbing Directory, September 16, 2009