We did a mid price range remodel and didn't get a pot filler. I don't miss it. Our stove is about 4 feet from the sink and carrying water in a pan or pot isn't an issue for us.

I haven't understood the point...you still need to haul the pot to the sink to drain it at some point.
I'm opting out.

It totally depends on your set up. As many people will point out, you still have to empty the pot in the sink even if you have a potfiller.

For us, we got one because our main sink is quite far from the stovetop, and across a line of traffic. We have a prep sink very nearby the range. But the prep sink is not big enough to put a pot in to fill. So we would have had to walk all the way across the kitchen to fill pots, which I would have found very annoying. We can dump water in the prep sink just a few steps away, and fill pots with the potfiller. This eliminates the need to carry pots of water across the kitchen. If our main sink had been where our prep sink is, I wouldn't have gotten one.

I love mine. My prep sink is directly across from the cooktop and the main sink is to the right of it. Like the poster above, the prep sink isn't big enough to put a pot in and I don't like the thought of slopping a pot of water from the main sink to the cooktop. I use my pot filler daily... to fill pots, tea pot, add water to things I'm cooking, to soak pans before I get a chance to wash them. It is so convenient. And, yes, I still have to carry a pot of water when done cooking but I only have to carry it once. I imagine as I get older I'll appreciate that facet of it even more.

I'm also thinking about pot filler. My question is do all pot filler plumbing fixtures work the same? I would like to mount mine under cabinet next to stove. The fixture would need to pull over and up. Will any pot filler work?
Or do I need a special one. Thanks.

brigitte, if you look at the finished kitchens gallery and search for pot fillers, you will see that many people have pot fillers mounted just the way you would like. The arms are pretty long on most pot fillers. I would imagine that if you mounted it that way, you might not be able to reach all the burners, but I'm not sure, and I don't think that would be a big deal.

Love mine. It is a Danze, in ORB, and my sink faucet is a Franz Viegener bridge in polished chrome. I like the contrast. I fill large pots quite often and like not having to carry them. If emptying them becomes an issue due to health reasons, you can wait until someone comes home to empty them.

You can spend anything from $200 to $1500 on a pot filler and get a good one. Mine is mounted in a side wall, which won't reach all walls, but will be useful since it's above the soup pot burner. We love the look and can't wait to enjoy the function.

I wanted a pot filler but it was one of the few things my husband felt strongly against. He's a wood flooring guy, and has replaced too many floors damaged by water to install "a faucet without a sink under it" in our kitchen. So, no water in the fridge door and no pot filler. I do like the look, and wouldn't hesitate to get one if I had tile floors in the kitchen.

I'd at least plan to add a pot filler at a later date even if I didn't get one right away. So, I would add the plbg. line & shut off valve, cap the line while the walls are open and keep a record of the line location for future reference.

I went with a Danze pot filler in ss finish, cost low $200, so not cheap, but not a budget buster either. My contractor was like idrive65's husband. But I wanted one and my husband agreed that it would be a cool looking addition to the kitchen. So, I purposely picked a pot filler with double shut off handles and contractor installed a water shut off valve in the lower cabinet next to my rangetop for a quick turn-off is ever necessary.

No pot filler. I really don't like the looks of them behind
the rangetop. I think they really take away from the rangetop
and backsplash. Different strokes for different folks. LOL

Our just finished kitchen has one and we like the looks and the practicality. Not a necessity but very nice to have.

1) We really like ours. It saves a trip at least one way.

2) The expensive ones are the ones with a "joint" in the middle. If you get just a straight arm with one flex point, they tend to be a lot less. (Also, keep an eye out for specials--we nabbed a Grohe from home click for under $400 when it normally goes for $750 or more. Dunno how that happened).

3) You could rough in for later, but if you have a tile backsplash that won't work so well, since you'll have to crack it open. If you can live with the stubout that's probably a better approach.

Didn't go with one for several reasons:

1) Budget buster
2) Sink not that far away from stove
3) Use pull out faucet to fill pot set on counter, can slide filled pot over to stove
4) Don't like how the pot filler looks over the stove (IMHO), interferes with any design or clean look

But go with what works best for YOUR kitchen, not ours... Good Luck!

If you do lots of BIG pots of pasta, soup, canning baths, etc., then do it.

If you like the way it looks, then do it.

If you just saw it in a magazine and think you need one, then don't. :)

Totally personal choice. Some people love them, some hate them, and loves and hates usually don't have much to do with whether or not they are practical for those people.

(I saw some cheap ones at overstock.com, but I don't know if they are any good and I suspect it's the plumbing and trimming out that makes them expensive more than the fixture itself...)

We got one, personally I could have done without it- but dh likes it. It does help to fill up extra large pots prior to cooking. I think its a personal preference. We intentionally kept our backsplash simple as we were doing the pot filler.

We have one. We bought a finished new construction house, and the builder put it in. We've lived in this house for 6 months now. Honestly, it's taken some getting used to - I was so accustomed to going to the sink for water. If you do alot of cooking, I think it's a neat gadget. I find myself using it more. The only thing is that I prefer filtered water (our town water taste of chlorine, IMO). We have an undercounter water filter, so if I'm boiling tea bags, etc., I tend to use the filtered water from the kitchen faucet. However, earlier this week I canned some tomatoes, and that pot filler was awesome. I put my big canner on the range and filled it up while doing a few other things around the kitchen. Our previous house had a pull-out faucet, so to fill the canner up, I'd put it on the counter top (b/c it's too big for the sink) and would pull the faucet over and fill it up, then have to lift it to the sink. The pot filler was much, much easier, although, I did still have to lift it when I was done to carry it over to the sink to pour out. Could I live without it? Absolutely, but for some tasks, it's really handy. It's more of a conversation piece than anything because alot of people (at least in our area) have never seen one. BTW, we have a Brizo one that does NOT have the swing joint (looks like all of their current models do). Having a joint would be handy, but I don't think not having is a big deal. We have a 5 burner Thermador cooktop under it, and if I have a big pot on the center burner, then it will swing over that just fine.

My theory: if a kitchen is so big that the sink and stove are too far apart [necessitating a pot filler], its big enough to support the infinetly more practical prep sink.

Full disclosure: I just hate the way pot fillers look. The way the outside arm tends to droop makes them look sloppy and broken to me, even when new. I also have concerns about all those moving bits of pipe with no drain below: its the only piece of plumbing in the house built this way.

I don't recall seeing this reason for a pot filler...
The cold water line at the sink is the only line in the house with unsoftened water, which I use for cooking and drinking. In the remodel, the cooktop is going in where the sink is now. The pot filler would use the existing unsoftened water line. Water at the prep and clean-up sinks would be soft water, and the fixtures would not get clogged with mineral deposits nearly as fast as happens now. Hopefully, only the pot filler would need to be de-mineralized often.

Thanks for all the thoughts. I hadn't thought of possible water leakage and a possible issue with the backsplash. The sink is not that far from the cooktop so I think I will convince hubby to do without! This is a great forum!

I cook pssta often, so I love the idea of a pot filler but I worried about leaking and what about draining the pot? So, I'm planning to do something like this:

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Oh, Erikanh, what a great idea! Although I am not sure I would like space right next to the cooktop to be a sink and not a flat surface. I am a very messy cook, and I like to have usable counter space right there.

Jeannie: my sink may actually end up on the left since I never ever use the counter area to the left of my stove.

Erika

I was just using my potfiller, and thought of something...
Some people stated they were concerned about it potentially leaking. I'm not sure about others (I have a Brizo), but mine has 2 valves. So I can turn it on/off right as it comes out the wall, or turn it on/off at the head of the filler. Am I making sense? One valve is open all of the time, and then I turn the other on/off as I need water. But, if I was concerned about it leaking (I haven't had any trouble, but I can see it being a valid point), I have 2 valves I can turn off, which should ensure against any leakage/drips. Don't know if helps anyone, but thought I'd share...