{"id":370,"date":"2008-10-13T08:51:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T06:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2008-10-13T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T13:45:55","slug":"taps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Taps"},"content":{"rendered":"

(I was in a hurry when I took these photographs so y’all will just hafta live with the autofocus<\/a>, OK?)<\/p>\n

The last five or six times we went to Muizenberg market, I looked for but could not find a prep bowl tap — i.e. a single tap for cold water only, not a mixer.<\/p>\n

On Sunday we saw this one and I snagged it, even though it’s not quite what I wanted (R180).<\/p>\n

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Well, lo and behold, we found the one below at the next table. Exactly what I wanted (Cobra Capstan – R200). So now I have a preb bowl tap spare.<\/p>\n

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While I much prefer the look of the Cobra Capstan range, I want a continuous mixer at the zink<\/a>*. This makes it easier to select the temperature when rinsing, for example. Example above cost R180.<\/p>\n

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Tanya found this shower rose which she quite liked. R375.<\/p>\n

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And somewhere along the line I found some time to cut the holes for the three dominos. We’re still sort of deciding where to put the electric one, but I think I’ve settled on the layout in the picture.<\/p>\n

* While the rest of the (civilised?) world calls ’em “kitchen sinks” or “basins”, in Cape Town we call ’em “zinks”. Much to the chagrin of SWMBO<\/a>.

(I was in a hurry when I took these photographs so y’all will just hafta live with the autofocus, OK?) The last five or six times we went to Muizenberg market, I looked for but could not find a prep bowl tap — i.e. a single tap for cold water only, not a mixer. On Sunday we saw this one and I snagged it, even though it’s not quite what I wanted (R180). Well, lo and behold, we found the one below at the next table. Exactly what I wanted (Cobra Capstan – R200). So now I have a preb...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[89,9,10],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house","tag-diy","tag-kitchen","tag-plumbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}