Inventing the square wheel
Why do they mess around with things?
Kitchen sinks and bathroom basins used to be simple. I’m talking about the plug-end of things. There was a plug that went into the plug-hole which was attached by a chain to the top near the taps. Naturally that chain was always broken or missing but that’s beside the point. When you were finished whatever you were doing you just removed the plug and everything drained away.
For some reason they decided this wasn’t good enough. They replaced the plug with a sort of valve yoke in the drainage pipe, so to empty the water you press a knob or turn a lever. I grant that this saves plunging your hand into a hot and probably greasy basin to find the plug but is this sufficient reason to fuck things up?
The problem is that the modern system involves sticking rods and stuff into the drainage pipe. That may be fine in an engineering workshop but in a kitchen it creates a massive problem. Those rods and things block the flow of water and get heavily coated in grease or whatever shit was in the water. And those rods and things are impossible to clean without a major dismantle job. Cleaning them is a fucking messy operation.
Guess what lovely little job I have ahead of me this afternoon?
Ripping out the kitchen sink and replacing it with one of the old units?
That seems a little extreme?. Anyway it does work 99.9% of the time.
My local plumbing firm declined to fit one of those lever jobbies saying that they often failed, and indeed most ones in hotels don’t work. The pop-up plugs usually work well until they stick but are relatively easy to unscrew and replace or clean. But of course the temptation is to let the tap run (while cleaning your teeth for instance) without popping down the plug and having to get your fingers wet to pop it up. Which means you waste water… oh no! we are all going to die!
Perhaps I could invent a finger on a stick?
In fairness, I have three [kitchen and two hand basins. None have actually failed and only the kitchen one gets blocked occasionally.
I clean my teeth by popping them in a glass. Minimal use of water [not that I’m fussy about that].
Didn’t realise Southern Ireland was so tech savvy. See, being in the EU, makes us dummy’s in the UK, yearn for total control again.
We’re very advanced here. We even have inside toilets.
That is modern technology for you. Replacing things that are simple and work with things that are complicated and require training service staff to fix them. Thats the plan baby. Make more money.
I approach my work from a support perspective and stairs don’t break down. Why use technology when you don’t need to?
Pure greed.
I actually used modern technology to fix the problem. I poked a stick down the plughole and that shifted whatever was blocking it.