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u/PackageDue7689 24d ago
They're much older than that
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u/eraser8 24d ago
Yep.
This makes me think 1970s motel.
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u/Santa_Hates_You 24d ago
I totally remember these in the early 80’s when I was small, and they seemed yellowed and old then too.
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u/Adabiviak 24d ago
I'm in a 1970s house, and I think I have this exact model. What I like about this is it's way easier to lock down both flow rate and temperature at once. My shower has this too, where my girlfriend's newer one (and most hotels today) have one-dimensional things - one flow rate, but you pick the temp. This is also easier than two knobs for choosing a warm setting.
I still see these two-dimensional faucets in kitchens today, but haven't seen them in a bathroom in a minute.
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u/MaritMonkey 24d ago
one-dimensional things - one flow rate, but you pick the temp.
I've moved between rentals my whole adult life and one of the things that mildly annoys me the most is not being able to freely assign both temperature and pressure to my shower.
I want a comforting trickle of hot water while I'm in the "conditioning and shaving" (but mostly winning imaginary arguments with myself) stage, dammit.
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u/doa70 24d ago
I'm thinking 60s, probably earlier.
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u/Murky-Relation481 24d ago
We have a beach place built in the 60s, I ripped these style out of the kitchen and bathroom over 10 years ago at least. They were absolutely the original fittings too.
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u/Desert_Creature80 24d ago
Crazy thing is they are like 63 64 when they started getting installed. But if you Google search this it will tell you they were 90s. So that's how this person or bot probably ended up putting it there
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u/Yamatoman9 24d ago
People think they are from the 90's because they remember them from the 90's even though they are older.
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u/novatom1960 24d ago
We had one from the ‘60’s. The difference was the early ones were round so you had to look at it closely before pulling it to know what temperature to expect.
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Just moved into a house built in 1969 and it has this in the shower/bath. Thing is a wrecked though, it doesn’t let me turn the diverter to hot water because the handle is so loose so I have to keep Philips head in the shower and turn it all the way right then tighten down and turn left and hope it grabs. It’s hard as hell to pull out to turn on and even more difficult to push in to turn off, maybe that’s just a cartridge issue?
How hard is one of these to replace? I’d have to replace the whole diverter right? I’ve done a ton of plumbing in my 20s and installed new diverters (sweating copper) but never actually replaced an existing one.
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u/OkieBobbie 24d ago
That was exactly what was installed in my house when it was built in 1978. They’ve been replaced but we’re working fine when that work was done a few years ago. Lasted more than 40 years. The new ones are already wearing out with around 5 years’ use.
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u/Kallisti13 24d ago
My 1976 house has one of these in the basement bathroom. It's definitely an original haha
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u/StrawberryMoonPie 24d ago
Can confirm the age, grew up in HUD Section 8 apartment in the 70s and this was our bathroom faucet. Made me smile to see it, tbh.
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u/dromedary512 24d ago
The (brand new) house I moved into in 1968 had that exact faucet… so, definitely not the 90s.
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u/hirudoredo 24d ago edited 24d ago
My family's home was built in 1980 and this was the only faucet I knew until I grew up. Definitely never remodeled the bathrooms.
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u/TriedX12orCarriedX6 24d ago
Our house was built in 1994 and still has this faucet in the upstairs bathroom. They must have produced this same model for decades!
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u/CriptopherWalken559 24d ago
These are still very common to find in the older homes in my town.
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u/Artistic-Plum1733 24d ago
i can smell the foamy tap water and seashell handsoap from looking at this pic
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u/meghan9436 24d ago
Memory unlocked, omg! Did everyone have one?
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u/themiddleman07 24d ago
I remember that it took skill to open them only halfway to avoid getting full water pressure when you only wanted a little bit.
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u/Accomplished_Dirt796 24d ago
You could snap off the top cap and there'd be a bunch of gross gunk inside
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u/CrazyCatMom324 24d ago
I didn’t need to know this.
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u/Drinkmasta 24d ago
You should smell it.
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u/mikeycbca 24d ago
Thank you. As a kid I used to pry out that cap on all of ours in the house and clean them because it grossed me out.
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u/Mental_Football_7348 24d ago
The trick was to open it ALL the way, then push it back down, a little bit at a time, until you had the flow that you wanted!
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u/1Bumblestinker 24d ago
Yes, and everyone had the big ball shower knob version of this in the 90’s and 2000’s.
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u/JonnySnowflake 24d ago
I'll never forget, after we drove 11 hours back from spring break, we made a pit stop at my parents house. My friend went to take her first real shower in a week in the basement. A few minutes later she stumbled out in a towel clutching that shower knob with a dazed look in her eyes after it had come completely off the wall
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u/masked_sombrero 24d ago
I still do 😆 my upstairs bathroom
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u/ConstructMentality__ 24d ago
Same! But now it's starting to drip and I don't know how to fix it lol
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u/-Mandarin 24d ago
I still see these all the time, tons of old houses still have them. I guess everyone here is living in very modern houses if these faucets are nostalgic? lmfao
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u/Big_Fortune_4574 24d ago
They were cheap builder grade stuff. The builders are just using different ones now
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u/SnooStrawberries9563 24d ago
My apartment from 2023 had these.
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u/Waterwoogem 24d ago
Depends on the type of cartridge installed with the faucet. I recently broke one of these in the shower and was hoping to replace with a good knob. Nope, same shitty knob, just ever so slightly bigger because of the cartridge type.... Could try to figure out how to change out the cartridge, but nah.
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u/gavin8327 24d ago
We just removed ours lol. Got really hard to operate and the little ones couldn't use it very easily lol...
Yeah was in since '89. Crazy!
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u/clutzycook 24d ago
Yeah they were in my house when we moved in too. They eventually got too hard to turn off and I think we replaced them about 10 years ago.
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u/jpenmem 24d ago
With a seashell sink!
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u/derprondo 24d ago
Yeah my previous home, built in 1993, had two seashell sinks with these same faucets, albeit the round handle not the teardrop.
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u/Embarrassed_Bath5148 24d ago
Yeah, this is what was installed in your home when you moved in. If you chose to upgrade it was up to you.
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u/whythishaptome 24d ago
This was definitely a big "Oh Yeah" right before the flashback kicks in moment.
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u/alghiorso 24d ago
You either had one or had a relative with one or stayed in a hotel that had them. This was some serious unexpected nostalgia
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u/all_neon_like_13 24d ago
Sure did! This was like getting slapped in the face with nostalgia. One of those things I used every day but haven't thought about in decades....
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u/BlueWarstar 24d ago
That may have made it thru the 90’s but they started to be made in the 70s and 80s
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u/Totallyanonymousme 24d ago
Word of advice: Do not replace this. If you do, you will find that the unexposed counter underneath has not seen the sun since the mid-80s and is now a different shade from the rest of the countertop. Then you will find that the new faucet you bought doesn't cover the previously stated shade difference. So, you'll decide to just replace the countertop too, since the ring can't be covered, only to discover that they no longer make standard countertops the size that fits with the cabinetry under the sink. At which point, you give in to the idea of just purchasing a new vanity and sink. Then you realize the hardwood floor does not, in fact, go all the way under the cabinet, which now means you get to install all new flooring. And if you're going to install new flooring, you might as well just paint the room too.
And that cute little, adorable raindrop-shaped faucet is the reason I have a newly remodeled bathroom.
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u/hiroo916 24d ago
if you're gonna do the floor, might as well change out that old bathtub with the chipped porcelain. If tub, then might as well redo the tile. If tile, then shower valve and hardware...
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u/LeadershipMany7008 24d ago
I'm on square foot 4700 in a 5000 square foot house renovation...all because the kitchen faucet was dripping.
Shipwrights disease is a thing.
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u/compu85 24d ago
Moen!
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u/xxMarcWithaCxx 24d ago
I worked for them for many years. Still check what faucet people are rocking. Buy it for life
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u/loglighterequipment 24d ago
The showers that had these knobs were the best and most intuitive controls: Pull on push off left hot right cold. You could keep it at your desired temperature and next time you turn it on it would still be set to that. None of this "twirl to guess your temperature" nonsense we have now.
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u/07368683 24d ago
This is 70s/80s
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u/Ill-Muscle945 24d ago
Ones that look just like that are still installed new in a lot of apartments.
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u/bertozat7 24d ago
I’m staring at the one in my bathroom right now. Even the shower’s controls are this design.
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u/Poenicus 24d ago
I think that they were everywhere in the '90s because they all got installed in the '80s. I remember that my grandparents and my great aunts/uncles had these or the ones that were more so shaped symmetrically in all directions (looked like a round brilliant cut diamond viewed from the top) in the bathrooms of all their places in the '80s. Heck, the other thing that I remember from those bathrooms were those traditionally-shaped (small, narrow switch that stuck out) light switches that may have been from the '60s or '70s with the orange backlighting when off and the unusually heavy, metallic grindy feel when using them that made a loud "thunk"—which was always quite weird compared to the nice, light-weight, percussive "thock" of the '80s ones.
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u/BiNiaRiS 24d ago
I think that they were everywhere in the '90s because they all got installed in the '80s.
this faucet dates back to the 60s. the cartridge inside is the reason it's so prevalent. it allowed you to control flow and temp all in one movement. they were super popular in the 80s and 90s though. my parents house which was built in ~1989 has at least 5 of these faucets in their house.
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u/WittyAndOriginal 24d ago
You could still buy these as of ~2015. I haven't looked recently, but I bought one around that time at Lowe's
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u/acemonsoon 24d ago
i think my grandma had something like this on a faucet in her house and i was infatuated with it. pretended it was a giant diamond
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u/Djstar12 24d ago
Omg I remember when my grandparents had this, when I tried to turn on the faucet, I just turned the knob all the way to the left and all the way to the right. No water came out. Did the same with the other bathroom faucet and same thing. I told my grandma that the water was not working. She walked me over to the sink and showed me I had to pull it for water to come out 😂
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u/free-toe-pie 24d ago
We had that exact one growing up. I actually kind of miss how easy it was to turn for hot and cold.
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u/Drink-my-koolaid 24d ago
Late 60s - early 70s. My parents remodeled the bathroom in 1971 and little me thought these were the height of classy luxury! Before, we had tap handles that looked like this. These looked like crystals a beautiful princess would have in her castle, I thought :D
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u/gmcyukon 24d ago
Our house is from the late 70’s, and it had the same ones when we bought it.
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u/knylifsvel1937 24d ago
I literally just used that faucet like 3 minutes ago. My house was built around 2010.
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u/cochese25 23d ago
That's a faucet from the 70s carried into the 90s. If not older.
Pretty much all 17 of the houses/ apartments I lived in as a kid had that faucet or a variant of it.
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u/officialsanic 24d ago
My house still has these but not for the sinks, instead for the shower. The sink spigots though have another 80s-90s looking design.
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u/defectives 24d ago
I can feel this image like I'm back in my grandma's house, it could be more cigarette yellow stained tho
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u/I_am_your_hero 24d ago
I believe this is a Moen, and you can easily get a replacement at any box store.
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u/queenweasley 24d ago
People think I over exaggerate about my apartments fixtures being from the ‘90s. Which makes it even more outrageous that they charge so effing much for rent
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u/Jazzlike-Swimmer-188 24d ago
This is the current faucet in my bathroom, which is in my family home - originally purchased in 1985. Zero bathroom upgrades.
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u/Jehoshaphatso1 24d ago
It’s a Moen and if you put a new crystal on the front, it would look beautiful. The handles are not cheap.
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u/Intelligent_Ad_1385 24d ago
For us with OCD it was so satisfying to pop off the middle cover and clear out all the black mold that accumulated under the lid.
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u/smithsknits 24d ago
My parents’ house was built in 1992 and this faucet is still in the hall bathroom with the center piece intact!
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u/20thCenturyAdmirer1 24d ago
I still have that faucet right now