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Home Depot Expo Sells Grohe

Ken — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:22:04 +0000

I’ve had positive experiences with both Grohe and Hansgrohe plumbing fixtures. Usually, I will order the parts through a local plumbing supply shop. However, last weekend, I stopped off at Home Depot Expo to reconsider my strategy and noticed that the Expo store stocked selected products from Grohe and Hansgrohe. Imagine being able to immediately pick-up your plumbing fixtures off the shelf. No special order and all the hassles that accompany that process.

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Bissell SpotBot Carpet Cleaner

Ken — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:00:55 +0000

The Bissell SpotBot carpet cleaner is awesome. It works best for people who take off their shoes before entering the house and keep their carpet generally clean. And, when the occasional “oops” occurs, you pick up the SpotBot and let it do its job. The SpotBot has two tanks—one for clean water and one for waste water. The clean water tank contains marks on the side that indicate how much water and cleaning solution to add. Each full tank lasts for about 3 cleaning cycles (i.e., 3 spots) and uses up 8 oz. of cleaning solution.

So, why use the SpotBot instead of a standard carpet cleaner? Well, the best analogy would be the SpotBot operates like the Ronco Showtime Rotisserie Platinum Edition. Set it and forget it. Just plug in the SpotBot, fill the water tank, and push either the Surface Stain or Set-In Stain button to start the cleaning cycle. At this point, you can walk away for a few minutes until the cycle ends and the machine starts beeping. No standing in one place pushing the machine back-and-forth for a few minutes. It’s not the ideal tool if you have to clean a lot of carpet. However, for the occasional spill, it works great.

In all seriousness, I think the SpotBot is the ideal baby shower gift. Whenever a baby spits up, and all babies do, sometimes the spit up (or vomit) lands on your pristine carpet instead of the burping cloth. That’s the time to bring out the SpotBot to remove the milk stain from the carpet.

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Think Small

Ken — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:29:57 +0000

Despite their faults, Home Depot and Lowe’s are incredibly convenient. Most of the time, I can find what I want at either of the two stores. But what happens if Home Depot or Lowe’s doesn’t stock an item? Then, instead of heading to the one-stop shop by default, I have to do some detective work.

For example, I had a hard time tracking down all the dimmers and occupancy sensors that I needed. Both Home Depot and Lowe’s had an adequate selection of dimmers. However, if you required something different—say, a 1000 watt dimmer—then the selection was surprisingly non-existent at both stores. Same too with occupancy sensors for the bathroom. At least, ones that didn’t look too bulky and grotesque, or weren’t already obviously returned merchandise. So, I ended up heading out to Galaxy Lighting in San Jose for my dimmers and occupancy sensors. They’re in that part of West San Jose that one may mistaken for Cupertino. And, their prices were surprisingly competitive with a contractor discount. So, if you are a contractor or work with one, let them know.

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Ken — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:15:00 +0000

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