Click on Product Data sheet at http://www.hansgrohe-usa.com/productdetail.html?category=C0000000000079&model=04070USA&lang=en_US and you'll see it's all inches. Very good products, but I'd want metric data to buy the stuff.
Check out the same thing on the French website http://www.hansgrohe.fr/productdetail.html?category=C0000000000079&model=26464XXX&lang=fr_FR click on Fiche Technique for the pdf document. Mike Payne On 13/07/2013, at 09:55 , "Kilopascal" <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike, > > Are their products the same in the world as in the US and they just hide the > metric or are the products for the US modified from rounded metric to rounded > USC? > > You are not going to get them to agree to drop the USC for metric no matter > how metric their product is for the US market, in the same way IKEA > accommodates to some degree its descriptions for the US market. > > The best you can do is ask then to include the original metric on their US > site either together with USC or as an alternate link to the metric version. > I can see though where they may be opposed to this if they don't want > Americans to see the metric for fear of a backlash against their company if > Americans realise the products are designed and made in rounded metric and > they want to make Americans feel the products are inches in design and > production. > > I perused one of their documents for the US and the only USC I noticed was > water flow in gpm (eg 16 gpm) and pipe trade size in inches (3/4 "). Can you > provide an example where other dimensions are used? I don't want to read > every document on their site to look for other dimensions that may or may not > exist. > > http://www.hansgrohe-usa.com/assets/us--en/iBox_brochure_2013_c.pdf > > [USMA:53072] Fwd: Hansgrohe US: General Questions ( 07/08/2013 09:09:04 AM) > > Michael Payne Sat, 13 Jul 2013 06:08:59 -0700 > > This is a German company, yet all their documents and specifications for the > US ahve been converted to inches despite the original being millimetres. > > If anyone else wants to write to this guy in a nice tone, ask him to forward > it to US management. Someone over here has obviously said no one in the US > uses millimetres and we need to change all the documents. > > >> Michael Payne, >> >> >> This is Brandon Blake from Hansgrohe Customer Service. >> >> In the US we use the standard measurements for all Hansgrohe USA products. >> You can reference our international website http://www.hansgrohe-int.com for >> some of the specs with metric measurements. Find the appropriate item and >> make sure that the item is sold in the US. Please do keep in mind that some >> of the products on the international webpage are not sold in the US. >> >> If you have any questions please feel free to contact Customer Service at >> 800-334-0455. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> Brandon A. Blake >> >> Inside Sales Specialist >> 1492 Bluegrass Lakes Pkwy >> Alpharetta, GA 30004 >> North America >> email: [email protected] >> >> Celebrating 25 Years in North America and our Passion for Water, Innovation >> and Design >> Join us on Facebook! www.facebook.com/hansgroheusa >> >> >> >> >> General questions and suggestions >> >> I know this is the USA, but there are people who prefer the metric >> system, which I use exclusively as do many millions of other Americans. >> Please >> include this information in your technical specifications and installation >> instructions. >> >> Mr Michael Payne >> 54 Veronese Court >> 32086-7678 St Augustine >> FL >> United States >> >> -no value- >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> >> > <jpgPGqsv28HC0.jpg><giflUAnNMYhsN.gif><gifaT14lZ1GbS.gif>
