plumbing

  • I Can’t Believe I Actually Like the Alexa Shower Speaker

    I Can’t Believe I Actually Like the Alexa Shower Speaker

    I’m well aware that inviting Alexa — and therefore Amazon — into my shower is probably not-so-smart. Nevertheless, I love shower karaoke and my bathroom Bluetooth speakers weren’t cutting it. Some fell down off the tile wall because of their weak suction cups. Others sounded muffled because of the shower curtain. So it was in…


  • Extremely Bad Reasons Why Waterless Urinals Were Illegal

    Extremely Bad Reasons Why Waterless Urinals Were Illegal

    We take it for granted that urinals flush. With each pull of the lever, gallons of clean water come to whisk away a few ounces of pee. If you think about it, it’s actually pretty wasteful, and the current drought is convincing facilities to consider waterless urinals. But these waterless bathroom contraptions have had to…