Feedback: new tap on kitchen sink
 

Just some feedback (and a confession of yet another "doh" moment by me)
regarding a new kitchen-sink tap.

I installed the new kitchen circa 1999, and the tap that came with the
stainless steel sink cost in the region of =A3100 (couldn't believe at
the
time that a tap could cost so much - sigh).

It all looked classy, but the quarter-turn controls on the tap were a
swine
when your hands were wet. As you operated the controls your thumb would
slip off the control and be damned sore.

So with money tight for the last 6 years we tolerated the bad design
until
a couple of months ago when the tether came to an end.

Hubby and Wife traipses into B&Q and stand bewildered at the array of
taps.
Much to the dislike of the other shoppers, we commandeered the floor
space
in front of the taps and then systematically eliminated the ones that
wouldn't do.

My (casting) vote was for a shiny modern tap with old-style "x" ends on
the
hot and cold spindles. Then in a true "Andy" moment I proclaimed "That
One".

Similar money to last time, but no hand slip envisaged on the new tap.

Swapping over the taps isn't instantaneous, but a couple of quiet and
methodical hours later the new tap is in and works fine.

Then it dawns on me: the horizontal distance between the vertical "up"
stem of the tap and over the curve to the "down" bit is much shorter
than
the old tap.
So IF you have the water turned on quite fast it spills directly into
the
sink bowl, but a lesser rate mean that the water dribbles down on to
the edging
of the sink.... aaaaaargh!

Too late to change things; don't want to go back to the old one; mark
it
down to experience.

So if I can alert any others to consider this distance then my own
misfortune might be diluted!

Regards

Mungo :-)