{"id":327,"date":"2014-07-10T20:19:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T02:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/?p=327"},"modified":"2017-06-13T20:28:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T02:28:58","slug":"friends-dont-let-friends-install-glacier-bay-faucets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Friends Don’t Let Friends Install Glacier Bay Faucets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glacier Bay is the house brand for Home Cheapo’s plumbing fixtures. In other words, it’s just a label they slap onto some disgraceful junk made by Hu Flung Dung far across the ocean.<\/p>\n

Glacier Bay is good at making their stuff look presentable. A hapless shopper wouldn’t know the difference. Six months later it’s gonna look like its been through the war; but on the shelf at Home Cheapo, a Glacier Bay faucet looks pretty good.<\/p>\n

But it isn’t good. It’s bad. Bad, bad, bad!<\/p>\n

I found one on a customer’s sink one day, dripping woefully. Customer said it was installed about a year previously. I took it apart and found that the actual cartridge had broken<\/em>. (The cartridge is the internal part under a hot or cold handle.) I had never before seen a broken cartridge, especially not one that had barely seen one year’s worth of residential use.<\/p>\n

And get this: I took it to Home Cheapo to buy a replacement and was informed that such cartridges were not available any more. The customer had to buy a whole new faucet. You can bet the new one wasn’t a Glacier Bay.<\/p>\n

Tonight I got to a house where a Glacier Bay faucet had been leaking internally for quite a while and dripping into the cabinet below.<\/p>\n

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Don’t you make the same mistake.<\/p>\n

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Glacier Bay is the house brand for Home Cheapo’s plumbing fixtures. In other words, it’s just a label they slap onto some disgraceful junk made by Hu Flung Dung far across the ocean. Glacier Bay is good at making their stuff look presentable. A hapless shopper wouldn’t know the difference. Six months later it’s gonna … Continue reading “Friends Don’t Let Friends Install Glacier Bay Faucets”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45dxY-5h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}