Woe to the world, technology trashes us all, it goes ahead with products and innovations which have clearly never been tested for 1) durability (except maybe for planned obsolescence ha ha) 2) consumer inconvenience (except possibly just to create discord and irritation), 3) ease of installation (while charging more and providing less), and with abandon as applies to any health concerns or inconveniences to the customer.
Case in point: the unfortunate but simple process of changing out a faucet in my kitchen has taken me tens of hours in headache and in research on the internet to find one simple answer. What is making my water taste metallic. So after searching the internet there is not much to learn, after calling the companies who made the flexible supply lines i find that the plastic they used is PVC, which we all know will leach out bisphenol A. Not just the necessary 3 inches of flexible piping, but the coiled way too long excess of 12 inches (what gives). So first on the agenda is to have someone come back to remove the new supply lines and put copper back in (which was there originally)
Next headache is that Moen doesn’t know or can’t tell me what the ** their faucets are made of– some kind of zinc (no doubt containing a considerable amount of contaminating cadmium) mixed with magnesium (i don’t mind that) and the copper is fine but the lead is not OK, Moen did tell me that they have to meet or exceed California requirements for % of the brass that can be lead which (thank you California) is less than many other states. So the valves are brass… but the cheap faucet that I bought is probably mostly cheap zinc, which includes other metals.
What goes into the shut off valves.
How does the regular “joe” take care of all that the world dumps on them without feeling crazy. These things should be part of the conscience of every business, and every person.
A test obtained from the Cincinnati Water Works, takes a week to obtain, and 30 days to get results… ha ha… this is crazy, since after 30 days of drinking water from new faucet, two feet of supply lines and new valves…well, that is just not acceptable.