On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 14:06:39 -0500, "Dee Randall" > wrote:

>Larry, I've been reading your blog a while. We bought a water-heater from
>Home Depot about 18 months ago and it's been replaced twice. We went
>without a heater about 10-14 days each time.

Wow, that's a long time, especially considering places like Sears that do
next-day replacements. You'd expect HD to be able to match that, especially on
replacements.

>I would say that a lot of that
>down-time was due to their scheduling, which is a term for just about
>everything that will go wrong in getting two things together at one time.

That sounds very similar to the delay factors we're dealing with.

>BTW, I like your countertop choice. Can you tell me what it is?

It's granite, in a color pattern Home Depot calls Dakota Bordeaux (see
http://www.countertopcollections.com/material.html, about a third of the way
down.) Strangely enough, my employer just moved into a new campus, and the
elevator floors and bathroom counters are *extremely* similar to our
countertops. But no, I am not tempted to change ours. 8

>Oh, forgot, I like the handles, too, on your cabinets.

Thanks. They're standard Euro bar pulls, available in a variety of lengths,
thickness, and finish. I chose all stainless ones rather than nickel-plated, and
by far the best prices I found were at coolknobsandpulls.com. The specific link
is:
http://www.coolknobsandpulls.com/cab...bar-pulls.html
(or http://tinyurl.com/f268h).

We used #8000-3 (4-1/2 long) on the small doors, #8000-4 (5-9/16 long) on all
other doors, #8000-192 (10-5/8 long) on 24" drawers, and #8000-448 (20-3/4 long)
on the single 30" drawer. All the bars are 1/2" diameter.

-- Larry