Kitchen faucets: quality recommendations plz
Cheryl Hewitt
7 years ago
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herbflavor
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Barber Wilsons faucets for the kitchen, any recommendations?
Comments (3)It's one of the best brands on the market and case of actually getting what you pay for. I have a bathroom faucet of theirs which is superb. It's old fashioned quality, quality, quality....See MoreKitchen faucet recommend for hard water
Comments (15)Here's the thing, rocks911. Water chemistry isn't simple. Softeners use resin beads to exchanged the calcium and magnesium in your water for sodium or potassium. Resin beads are specialized plastics. They work really well under the right conditions, but if you have the wrong conditions, they won't do much for you and you will have wasted your money. Softeners will also collect iron and manganese, but only up to a point, and they resin does not like to let go of them during regeneration. Consequently, every ppm (part per million) of iron or manganese needs to be treated as if it were 4 - 5 grains of hardness. That is 68 - 85 times what we need to do to remove 1 ppm of hardness. It's a big deal, and can make a huge difference in correct softener sizing. Now, I can guess that your iron is exactly what the city report says it is, and assume that the water picks up nothing on its way to your house and size a softener for you and perhaps we will get lucky and you will get the correct softener. What if we're wrong? Then you will have spent money and still have the same problems you have now. You will be unhappy, rightfully so. Go to your yellow pages and look under water treatment. Find a local water treatment company and have them come out to do some testing for you. Tell them to test for iron. Their test will not be very accurate, and I would not size my personal softener based on it, but it's a cheaper alternative for you. Have several companies come out and make recommendations. Things to consider: 1) You don't want to water your lawn with softened water - grass doesn't like the extra sodium. You could use potassium chloride for regeneration, but that may be expensive if you are watering a lot in the Summer. It would be better if lawn water is left unsoftened. 2) You want a gravel underbed in your softener to improve resin life and ensure proper flow distribution. 3) You want a quality American made resin - it will be more uniform and last longer. The resin should be 10% cross-linked to withstand chlorine from city water. 4) You want a system that regenerates on demand, not based on time. 5) You want a bypass so that you won't have to shut off water to the entire house if your softener needs to be worked on. 6) You want to read and learn as much as you can before making a water treatment decision because, sadly, there are lots of snake-oils salesmen out there....See MoreRecommend your kitchen faucet
Comments (33)nosoccermom Joyou AG is indeed bankrupt and has filed for the insolvency in Hamburg as of May 2015 . It will undoubtedly be reorganized minus about $300 million in debt at some time in the future. At about the same time, Grohe closed its Canadian faucet plant and trucked all of its machinery to an abandoned American Standard factory in Monterrey, Mexico where it is setting up shop. American standard pulled out in 2014 and moved that production to China. These two events are probably going to result in a short supply of Grohe mid-price and economy faucets for a time. Portugal does not appear to be a major source for Grohe faucets sold in North America. Grohe's designer faucets and faucets with special finishes are made in Lahr, Germany. Grohe's mid-priced and economy lines for North America are made in Thailand, China and Mexico. Grohe makes the same faucets in several places, so it's a crap shoot where a non-designer Grohe faucet is made. Look for "Made in ???" on the box....See MoreKitchen faucet and filtered water faucet recommendations
Comments (1)Try the Bosch Electric Mini-Tank Water Heater Tronic 3000 T 2.5-Gallon (ES2.5) We used to use InSinkErator, but after replacing six of the units in one year, we gave up on them. Poor quality. You do not need to buy the tank unit and faucet from the same company. The connections are standardized, so you can use most any faucet with any tank....See More
live_wire_oak
7 years agoGrohe is a mid priced well respected manufacturer. The way to get the price of any faucet lower is not to choose a import brand but to pick boring older styles that apartments or builders use. They are stil functional. They just don't have any style cachet at all.
Delta. As reliable as they come. Under $50.
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7 years agoCheryl Hewitt
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jhmarie
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7 years agoAfter reading the Starcraft reviews I posted above and searching obsessively online for a pull out or down faucet that was not high arc, I chose this delta faucet.
Just over $200 in polished chrome. Not dirt cheap, but on the less expensive side for a solid brand and I think it is quite stylish.Cheryl Hewitt
7 years ago
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