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Thanks for all the detailed info. As a novice I just think about ascetics and utilization costs as electricity costs are high there so the shorter the run cycle and the longer between cycles seems in my mind to be optimal. I had thought since the air is so dry in the mountains that the fan...

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This is for a cabin in Colorado at 8600 ft elevation where we shut the cabin down November - April and have no heat or water. We have gutted our basement bathroom that is 5X7 in size. It had one 4' long baseboard heater with a wall thermostat. As part of the remodeling we have enlarged the...

We are gutting our basement bathroom in our Colorado cabin and as part of that removing the set-in fiberglass shower. We want to better utilize the space and put a 2'6" x 5' shower in with custom shower pan so we can tile the shower floor. I am looking at shower drains and see all different...

Thanks, we ended up buying the HAMNVIKEN sink today. But I won't use the p-trap and plumbing Ikea provided. I've heard they are cheap and not decent quality as compared to PVC you can buy at the local box store. Now that we have the sink we can start building the vanity. I am using "Shanty 2...

We are looking at using the Ikea Talleviken sink for the top of a custom built vanity. I am not planning on using the Ikea faucet as I have purchased a DELTA Linden Single Hole Single-Handle Bathroom Faucet in Venetian Bronze. Since I have no cabinet constraints such as drawers to work around...

Thanks I did call Delta - they were helpful in the fact that I could remove the hose, but not very helpful in the fact they recommended removing the valve for winterization. That seems extreme as we don't have to do it now using an 1980s Delta shower faucet. We are going to gut the bathroom and...

Dana -- Thank you so much! I will review your suggestions and see what will work best for the situation! We plan on keeping the place about another year maybe year and a half. Just enough time to get the last kid off and on his own! It's not worth the hassles of renting if we only have one...

And would opening the shower and blowing air through the lines solve the water down to the shower valve?

Terry - that means I would put a tub spout down low to the shower floor so I could drain the water from the pipe to the valve -- correct?

Thanks Dana! This is a college house that is about 1 block from campus in Stillwater, OK (Oklahoma State Univ.) where our son goes to school. It does get cold there on a regular basis so a heat pump doesn't suffice. We actually have a mini-split for the AC in that room that has a heat pump...

Thanks! I totally didn't think of just unscrewing the hose and leaving it dangling down to the drain. Sometimes it is the simplest things -- and I'm an over-thinker!

We want to remodel the bathroom in our cabin at 8600 ft elevation in Colorado. In the winter we winterize the plumbing and shut off the heat. We shutoff the water, shut off electricity at the breakers, drain the hot water heater, put RV antifreeze in the traps of the shower, toilet tank/bowl...

We have a house that my son lives in while attending college, built in 1949, that has a 25000 btu natural gas wall furnace for heating the room above the garage (it's about 400-600 sq ft total). I'm not sure if the heater is original to the age of the house or not. We are not sure the room...

One more question that has came up: Do we need to leave an upstairs hot water knob 'on' until the tank is full for sure. The concern is that air pressure may build in the tank, preventing it from filling completely with water (just a theory). What do you guys think?

We have a caretaker currently.

Thank you all. I appreciate the information and look forward to the utility cost savings.

Definitely -- we try to wait a significantly long time prior to turning anything on. My goal here is to reduce our electricity bill while the cabin is not being used. Winter shutdown we turn off and drain the hot water heater. But for those times where it might be a month or two weeks between...

I have a cabin in southern Colorado at about 8600ft. We use the cabin sporadically during the summer and fall. We are looking to reduce our utility costs. We have a 2012 GE Electric 50 gallon hot water heater. When we shut the cabin down in the winter we will shut off the water at the main...

Thanks Terry. This is a SMALL rural college town and there are two plumbing supply companies that service the area. I took your suggestion and called them. One doesn't do Toto and the other was MUCH MUCH higher than what I can find online. So far I have ordered 5 toilets online (3 separate...