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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 4286068, member: 5066&quot;]LOL, OK I&#039;ll bite! since it&#039;s the dog days of summer here and I am hiding from the heat, nothing better to do than argue over junk!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Crane Company entered the plumbing biz in the 1920s and sold their plumbing operation in the 1980s ( I think to American Standard), they have not made any plumbing fixtures or anything else to do with plumbing in over 40 years.</p><p>History of Crane</p><p><a href="https://www.craneco.com/about/history/default.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.craneco.com/about/history/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.craneco.com/about/history/default.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In its day, Crane had very good quality plumbing products but compared with today, it would be considered primitive, very primitive. That would be expected since modern plumbing did not come about until the 1930s. Although plumbing is an ancient profession over 2000 years old, the word plumber comes from the Latin</p><p><i>Plumbarius, </i>and translates into &quot;worker of lead&quot;<i>. </i>2000 years later and we are STILL messing with it, I blame the Romans, they started all this! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":p" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Back to fixtures for a moment, a kitchen faucet recently installed on a 400k kitchen remodel.</p><p>It&#039;s individually machined by hand using the finest materials on the planet &amp; the level of design sophistication is unequaled anywhere on earth. Built-in the USA, prices starting at 5k, this model I think was in the 8k-9k range for ONE FAUCET!</p><p>Waterstone Endeavor</p><p>[ATTACH=full]344557[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I would note, Toto is the big dog in the plumbing fixture industry at the moment, very good stuff.</p><p>I would add, women have VERY LITTLE humor when it comes to plumbing products in both the residential &amp; commercial world. I learned long ago not to mess with them in that area. Plumbers bake the cake (pipe no one can see) for sure but, women pick the icing I can assure you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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