From: clare@snyder.on.ca   
      
   On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 12:10:00 -0500, Maria Sophia   
    wrote:   
      
   >Plumbing. Shutoffs. Inside the house. Even outside actually. Under sink.   
   >   
   >Toilet. Why on earth are they rotate kind. When have you ever in your 100   
   >years life ever regulated the flow from the shutoff? It's either on or off.   
   >   
   >It's binary. Right? So why do they all NOT have quarter-turn ball valves?   
   >   
   >Nobody in the history of indoor plumbing has ever said, 'Let me precisely   
   >throttle my toilet fill valve using this crusty little multi-turn shutoff'.   
   >   
   >So why are they ubiquitous?   
      
      
    Mine ARE all 1/4 turn. MOST installed around here in the last 10   
   years or so are 1/4 turn.   
   Before the Chinafication of the supply chain 1/4 turn valves were   
   significantly more expensive than the standardt type so were seldom   
   used.   
      
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