Help me pick out a prep faucet to pair with Blanco Meridian?
Rosie
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Comments (13)Thanks everyone! @sjlhockeyfan - I am stumbling with the terminology here, but basically you understood what I meant - I don't want to have to hold the button to keep the spray flow engaged. @vinudev_liny: I've never heard anything but raves about the Hansgrohe Talis. My only hesitation is that the black buttons seem really prominent, and knowing me that will be the spot I stare at every time I open the front door! But it seems like a great buy and very reliable and functional. I need to get back to a showroom and look harder at the Grohe Concetto as @homepro01 suggested as well as the Delta Trinsic and some others that don't seem too gargantuan. It's hard because the more I look at online reviews, the more confused I am - the Hansgrohe Citterio has reviews that say it doesn't lock in spray mode. I'm oddly drawn to the Kohler Purist in the beautiful, beautiful kitchen of @fouramblues (hope it's okay to repost one of her pictures from another thread here). Although there too, the online reviews are mixed. I gotta stop reading this stuff! I went in wanting to have relatively few upper cabinets, and wound up with a lot, plus there's the whole sink not centered thing, so I wonder if a shorter faucet is better. @kitchen-reno, I'm feel relieved to hear someone else is in a similar boat, and I look forward to seeing your reveal! I'm definitely overthinking all these little decisions because most of the big decisions are already made, and I'm not absolutely certain we've done the right thing (despite years of consideration.) I'm restraining myself from revisiting those decisions by focusing on all the little details, which for better or worse seem ripe for obsession....See MoreWhich Kitchen Faucet Did You Pick?
Comments (136)Hi summery. Well, six years of daily use and no drips or malfunctions of any kind suggest that it will last. (I hope.) So far, so good. My small kitchen is gently contemporary and it's positioned in the middle of open-concept LR, DR, and FR. The ceilings are 14 feet and the south side of the house is basically all windows. The walls are full of eclectic art. The Karbon seems to fit in comfortably with our well-worn mostly contemporary furniture and textiles, a few antiques, tons of plants, and many musical instruments. I can see the Karbon from every room on this level except the bathroom. :) I'd show you a pic but my DH has asked us not to post photos....See MoreBlanco Master Gourmet Faucet - pictures anybody?
Comments (25)First post to GW in the 2+ years since we finished out kitchen. But now, need some help. We did indeed finally go with the Blanco Master Gourmet faucet. We were never enthralled: our biggest complaint has always been low flow rates, and the MG faucet was poor in this regard. There was no obvious way to defeat the flow restrictor that I could figure out. We just lived with it. Now, however, the faucet is malfunctioning. If you squeeze the handle on the pulldown spout, only part of the stream is diverted, with the rest running out the main faucet. Even when not using the pulldown, the flow rate through the main faucet is worse than ever. We could try to get it fixed, but the flow rate was so poor that DW has incentivized me in all kinds of creative ways to get a new one. So, the question is, can anyone recommend a "professional style" pulldown faucet, like the MG, but with a higher flow rate. I had once looked at the KWC Superba. Back then, it listed the flow through main faucet as the usual 2 gpm, but the pulldown was listed as 6 gpm. Now the latest listing does not mention a higher flow rate for the pulldown. I worry that the Feds have somehow forced them to restrict the pulldown as well. Any options? Should we look for a true restaurant grade professional faucet, or will there be installation or usability problems in our residential setting? So, bottom line--we wouldn't recommend the Blanco! Thanks for any help....See MoreHelp with Prep Sink
Comments (4)CT, I have the Precis large bowl sink in cinder, and it is great. The cinder color isn't black, it is a warmish very dark flat gray. Metallic gray is lighter, maybe cooler, and may have looked better with my counters; I went for cinder because I thought it would just fade/disappear, and it does.. Our cleanup sink is the precis cascade in cinder and dh loves it. I like that I can steal the pretty colander basket that came with it and use it at the prep sink. I think your dh is wrong about black: dark floors and cars show dirt, so I imagine even the anthracite (black) silgranit would, too. Our cinder does. I have a separate filtered water faucet at the main sink and was about to do the same at the prep sink, but was worried about how crowded the soap dispenser and air switch would be. So at the last minute I put a filtrete advanced filter on the only prep sink faucet. Our glasses are near the cleanup sink so we naturally go there for drinking water, anyway. My faucet is Grohe concetta in steel, it has a pull down sprayer. I don't think you can out-obsess me on sinks, I spent hours on the Blanco website looking at options and dimensions. Breezy helped by saying she would have gotten the large bowl if she'd had room IRRC, and repac posted a picture.http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0610370017781.html Here is a link that might be useful: water filter at home depot...See MoreRosie
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