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There is something called a water pressure tank that does just this. We used to keep a 250 gallon plastic tank filled with water that we brought in from offsite. This was connected to a pressure tank. There's a small pump that pumps the water into a little steel tank that has a rubber bladder...

Hey, this is a familiar problem! We had the same issue especially after the water softener went in. Replaced the anodes as suggested which helped some, but the water was coming out with spurting when first turned on. Suspicious, we caught a balloon full of water and "air" and took it outside and...

Look at Jetta tubs. They used to make a model called WaterDance "Soothing Falls" which seems to be discontinued. I tried one out in California on a visit to Tubz, and it was the most comfortable tub I ever sat in. Dimensions were 60" x 30" wide x 25 3/4" deep. The bath well itself is 24". 53...

I've been struggling with contaminated well water for a while. Problem is, we live in karst topology, so there are many sinkholes and caves. In fact, my well had to be cased through a couple of cave spaces during drilling. People dump garbage, dead animals, and all kinds of stuff down sinkholes...

I've always wanted one of the washlet type seats from Toto. The heated seat . . . the warm water . . . the air dry . . . seems so wonderful. Especially since I hope to age in place, and put off the day when anyone has to assist me with cleanup operations. But our water is very hard, over 100...

I saw this quite a bit on my trips to Japan, and it makes sense to me. Yes, the face masks don't provide hospital-quality protection. But they do provide SOME protection, especially if you are the one who is sick. Then if you sneeze or cough, the germs stay mostly inside your mask and you don't...

Good one, Redwood! Oh, you made me laugh. Yes, many people think Norton is as bad as the average virus! That was succinct and funny. Unlike my long ramble below: Since the dawn of IP time, anti-virus software has worked like this: you pay for it, which gives you the "engine" and the regular...

Beautiful! Your site is beautiful. I am very impressed! The only comment I would offer is that the gallery page is very slow to load, due to the large number of graphic files. It displays the scroll bar, and then there is a gap of nearly a minute before anything else comes up. I'm on fast DSL...

Backing up Well, I don't have a Mustang, but can offer some backup advice. Unless you just enjoy doing it, don't try to do RAID at home. RAID is great for business data centers and network file servers, where you can't tolerate any downtime. The advantage of a RAID array is that the system can...

Can we have a do-over? This forum is too valuable a resource to lose to hurt feelings. I bet that for every one who posts a question, there are at least ten, if not a hundred, people who come and get the answers they need. As a result, people are doing things with their own hands, making their...

Shrinkage! Ah, good point. I am good to go with shrinkage for the floors and showers, but backsplashes I haven't figured out yet. For those who aren't familiar with log construction, most of the settling in a log house takes place in the first few days/weeks of construction, when the weight...

Good idea The whole thread kind of got off track. My fault, I should have left it at the well-disinfecting and moved the UV question to the other forum. I'll go ahead and move over there. I don't know if one of the bowdlerizers can cut the thread in two and delete all the comments that don't...

Long story! Thanks for all the good advice...the last post cracked me up! Yes, it's a good shower base, but it's just temporary. We're building a log house - well, the crew erected the logs, and the roofer put on the roof, but we're doing everything else. So far, two of us washed the walls (you...

Hey, thanks That's great info. As a "lay person" it's hard to know what things are do-able and needs help. I found out I can do tile floors just fine - as well any I have seen. But I wouldn't try to set my own arm if it was broken; I'd go to a doctor. Everyone out here has propane because we...

Keeping it in the family Don't want to cause any ruckus ... Terry says it's OK for people to market their work here if it doesn't compete with his, I believe. It would be rather rude to take business from the person who is providing this excellent forum. So if it's non-competing, I'd just as...

Thought I'd give everyone a good laugh. Except I'm serious: we currently heat the house with a good-sized Hearthstone wood stove, but it cools down overnight and takes a long time to warm the house if we've been out. So we want to install a furnace in the basement (propane, forced air). There...

Well, sell me one I wish we'd got the softener from you instead of the fly-by-night outfit that we used. Reckon we can take this off line, but we do need one. Right now we're filtering water we bring from out of town through a countertop drip filter. Water is very hard, 80+ grains, and it...

slow drain When you say the drain connects to two downspouts, what do you mean? Are two downspouts from the roof gutters tied into the garage drain system? Or are you saying the drain ties in to other pipes in the flooring and runs to the daylight? We had a similar problem ... tried out...

I put in my first tile floor this year and it went great. I put down cement board, mortar bed, tiles, laid it all out square and bedded everything level like the book said. It went totally well. The tiles are perfectly flat and level, no edges sticking up anywhere, grout joints are great. So I'm...

Just an update in case anyone else runs into the same issue. We have a 400 ft + well and it's drilled into karst topology - that means caves. There are lots of caves where we live, and lots of underground hydrology (water) running in underground channels. After a serious slog of research, I...