silly you, my dear sir, you are completely wrong. Web search and come back to this thread with more arms. Brass is as you wrote, an alloy mostly of those two metals, and it also (can, may, often does) contain lead too. A small amount of lead. This (even if very small) amount of lead leaches out first. That's what I know or think I know based on reading and learning. When I wrote that "Brass leaches out lead, no matter how little lead is in the brass" I made a real point. It appears that your uninformed comment about zinc being dangerous is just an attempt at denigration and sarcasm. Zinc is not leaching out of brass. Now I'm all for sharing what you know, and vice versa, but I hope you have something significant and factual to add too if you want to jab and barb. Just f.y.i. for the general reader: alloys often contain lots of ingredients other than their two main ingredients. For example, there are many recipes for stainless steel (different types), and these variations have numbers attached to them. Brass never needed to be codified as much as stainless did so it never got that numbering work applied to it. Hth

hi again. rosie... this is neither a want or a need; i would only get it IF it would improve how the kitchen functions. there are no frills in my kitchen. :) davidro1... re: glass filler... do you already have filtered water or are you in an area with good tap water? i don't know if this makes me odd, but i filter water through the brita pitcher before using it to boil pasta, even. dh wasn't sold on the glass filler idea. he thinks the pot filler would be more useful for us, but even then i had to assure him that we'd purchase a two-valve commercial one that would be reliable! thanks, painterly... we will open the walls the first week of May, so about two weeks. i will definitely post an update. no surprises, i hope. :) i should add that dh and i are like a lumbering bear and the tasmanian devil in the kitchen. he drives me nuts when he's in the way! (but i don't say anything.) one thing i have to think on is how often in a day is he in the way when i want to say, fill the brita pitcher? does even once a day justify the liabilities of a pot filler?

nycbluedevil & a2gemini: Hijacking is fine, because I'm going to get the same faucet as you for my main and prep sinks and like to hear good things about it :-) I think I'm going to order the tall one (model 5400?) for the main sink and the normal sized one (5300) for the prep sink. If I can convince myself to stretch the budget that far, anyway. (I can afford them, but the amount of money this remodel is adding up to is starting to feel absurd no matter how much money I have. Today I was out window shopping for appliances and realizing how much the really good ones cost. Ouch! This project is more "build a new house using a little bit of the old house" than it is a "remodel". My financial planner is starting to ask "Are you sure you want to spend that much on a house?" I told her it beats the alternative of leaving the money to my cats when I die. :-) Like Poohpup (which I almost misspelled Poopup :-) I haven't heard a single negative thing about the Waterstones. The guys at the local plumbing store raved about them, and the one they had on display felt really solid. The "positive lock" that attaches the spray head when it's not in use really works well. I just wish they'd had the faucet actually hooked up. The only high-end faucet they had plumbed in was the KWC Eve in their break room. Beautiful faucet, but no sprayer. The two Waterstone pull-downs will probably be more than enough for me. After thinking about it, a pot filler would be silly, especially since I live alone for now and will be the only cook 90% of the time. And the prep and main sinks will be about 6' either side of the stove. On the gpm front... I wonder if the new, lower-flow Waterstone faucets are limited permanently or if there's a flow restrictor in there that can be pulled out with a bit of effort. I did that with a KWC faucet I bought for my current house a year and a half ago and it made a noticeable difference. I think the CA law says the restrictors have to be non-trivial to remove, which the KWC one was, but once I saw where the thing was it was pretty easy to pluck out with a hemostat. Did any of you look closely enough at the Waterstones to notice if there was a flow limiter in there anywhere? Usually it's a little plastic doodad that's jammed into one of the openings to make it a smaller diameter. Removing them from all my fixtures is the first thing I plan to do once the inspector signs off on the house. Laura

Hi there, great find on that range! I wish my kitchen could support a 60” range but I do not have the proportional space unfortunately, not even close. I am in the middle of my own kitchen remodel and opted for a 48” bluestar. I have one pot filler and that’s all you would really need as well. Just slide the pots when full =). I just got the hood and blower installed and figured I would offer a counter opinion to the ones above. I have one of the most powerful blowers on the market for residential ventilation, a Prizer 1400 cfm external unit. The thing is huge, and per the blower curve specifications, outperforms the so called “1500 cfm” offerings from other popular brands I won’t shame here. The thing sounds like a jet engine from out the back side of the house where it’s mounted, but completely silent from the kitchen. All you hear is the woosh of air being sucked up through the baffles. You wouldn’t know there was a motor at all by noise alone. I put a great deal of thought, money, and engineering to make this happen, but the results paid off. Quiet and powerful ventilation is possible.