One of my favorite little things about the basement renovation is the addition of a hot water faucet outside. Wait, are you looking at me like I have two heads just like our contractor looked at me when I made the request? Well ya'll may think I'm crazy, but Feeney really appreciated his nice hot shower last weekend.
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| Yes, I wear foul weather gear while washing the dog |
And I really appreciated how I didn't have to clean the bathroom afterward. Just 'cause the Feens is a non-shedding dog doesn't mean he doesn't get a bathtub dirty.... Plus the water pressure on the exterior faucet is way more impressive than our shower head, which cut shower time in half, at least. And when you give your dog lavender shampoos every other weekend like I do, cutting down actual washing time is a huge plus. Even the dogs know they smell good.
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| Lexi got outdoor lavender showers during her two week visit from Maine too |
Exterior hot water faucets are also fabulous for things like washing cars in the winter to prevent premature rusting without getting frostbite (a habit picked up from my dad's obsession with keeping his cars salt-free in the winter. Need milk and it's snowing? You're going to be waiting 4 days 'til the roads are dry again.)
Not to gush on about our contractor's attention to detail - but when they drilled through the wall for the new faucet, the only logical placement was to the right of the current cold water faucet. Hot water is supposed to go on the left when you have two faucets; even though these are just outside utility faucets the guys re-routed the water inside to change the existing cold water faucet into a left-hand hot water and made the new right-hand faucet cold. It's our first big contractor experience so maybe everyone would do that, but we're impressed nonetheless.Labels: basement, dogs, outside, plumbing
