On 10/15/2010 1:33 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Oct 15, 12:15 pm, wrote:
On Oct 15, 12:34 am, Jeff wrote:





I'm told that there are good faucets of all manufacturers these days.
It's been a while since I bought one, but it's hard to believe that.
I've bought enough crap in the past to be cautious.

I've got a white sink and I'm thinking of getting a white pull down
faucet to go with it, got a mystery chrome one now.

Who makes a decent faucet these days and what should I stay away
from? Delta, Moen?

What about those side handle faucets.

I have been trying to buy Kohler, but I have sticker shock when it
comes to Kitchen Faucets.

Jeff

When Price Pfister started charging shipping for their constantly
problematic
kitchen faucet I had (fairly new, but 2 or 3 defective cartriges and 2
leaky sprayers, total), I decided that if I had one more problem, that
I'd rip the lemon out. My time and inconvenience are worth something.

I now have a Delta. It is a pull down with a magnetic docking. That
part I like. I also like the tall goose neck design.

The part that I don't like as much is the short and awkward lever
control that makes it hard to get precise temperature control. It
looks nice, but that look comes at the price of function. I also
don't like that it has no dead zone at shutoff. If you come .000001
inch short of shutting off the faucet, it doesn't stop the flow. It
does shut off, but that lack of dead zone makes you have to try twice
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"If you come .000001 inch short of shutting off the faucet, it
doesn't stop the flow."

It's not just the fancy "goose neck" Delta's that have this issue. My
Mom's low-end Delta does the same thing and has the added feature that
the handle must be just about dead-nuts centered to stop the flow.

You can close it as hard as you want, but if it's .000001 inch to the
left or right, it drips.

Damn,

So Moen is out, Delta is out. Price Pfister is out.

Don't tell me Glacier Bay!

I did see a Kohler for about $180 that had the pull out faucet. There
is still IKEA...

Jeff