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Posted by Kris Krieger on February 18, 2008, 4:41 am
> How are you supposed to match things up if you don't want to buy
> everything from the same manufacturer-series-model?
>
> I am simply confused by the variety of finishes avaialble on something
> like plumbing fixtures you have...chrome, matt chrome, brush nickel
> and these are pretty standard and been around and now they also have
> velour chrome, satin chrome, satin nickel, brush nickel, Satinox,
> platinum, matt platinum, silver, polished silver, high grade matt
> steel, polished steel...
>
> Is this a conspiracy, so you will always buy the entire group from
> them,
***BINGO!!***
((Did you actually have any doubt...?))
> once you buy a matt platinum shower mixer trim, you are stucked,
> you can't buy a matt platimum shower head or a matt platinum diverter
> form another manufacturer, they don't have it or if they do, they
> don't match. Nothing wrong with not matching, but if they are "close
> enough to be slightly different" is the worst!
The only thing that ever matches is shiny chrome. Everythnig else, they
not only make it noticeably differnt from mfgr to mfgr and even line to
line - they can then make it obscenely and unnecessarily expensive, because
once you buy one fixture, they've got their hooks into you.
>
> and merger and acquisition is not "merging".
Right.
> So Kohler takes over
> Porcher and Robern, but their finishes don't even match, did you
> notice that it is possible to have the same manufacturer with two
> different products in a bathroom, both finish = satin nickel and they
> look slightly different because they were different companies but now
> under one name?
>
> At least corrosion is always the same color.
>
> MC
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